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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 17
A month-by-month look at the year in review (and it was a bad one for Kentucky). Among the topics discussed: WalletHub lists the best states for retirement. Kentucky is the worst. Looking back at the No Kings demonstrations across America. The Democrats who backed Republican shutdown deal – and why How the White House and…
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RFK Jr. is murdering Kentucky children
Just when you think the Trump administration has sunk to its lowest degree of depravity, someone in it says, you think that’s bad? Hold my beer! Three Kentucky babies are dead from whooping cough, a disease we know how to prevent. What kind of society lets children die from a solved problem? Their deaths were…
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Let’s put billionaire political donations in perspective
We’re in the season for huge political donations by oligarchs. Which means it’s again time to see what it would cost a regular Kentuckian to make a proportionately equal campaign donation. From Kentucky Lantern: A super PAC supporting U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie has won crucial backing from one of the biggest Republican mega-donors — a…
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Local news bombards us with BS
Looking through various local news feeds this past weekend, we came across this steaming pile of BS from WDRB: Hundreds of Indiana National Guard members arrived in Washington, D.C. The planned deployment of 300 soldiers was part of President Trump’s Safe and Beautiful mission aimed at offering security to select cities. Hoosier Guardsmen will assist…
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Who goes MAGA?
This is from The New Republic: I knew the Orange Menace’s administration was filled with miscreants, but the fact that the current health secretary used to put baby chicks and mice in a blender to show how fucked up he was stuns me. It seemed impossible that this was real. Then I found this (from…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 16
Our Thanksgiving holiday tempered by ICE appeasement (the reason we can’t trust our elected officials), political candidates don’t understand what offices they should seek, dealing with wealth and affordability, a pitch for college sports and how to show support for mutual aid. Information sources for this week’s podcast include: Paul Krugman explains the affordability crisis…
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Sundown, you better take care
I’m visiting part of the Acela corridor this Thanksgiving week, seeing relatives between the nation’s capital and the Big Apple. During one visit, a discussion on Sundown Towns was an eye opener. What’s a Sundown Town? The History and Social Justice website says: A sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened. It is…
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Why do people vote against their own interests? Racism.
Here’s a Bluesky post from Mr. Spock. It’s logical. We’ve been on Bluesky as an antidote to Elon Musk’s (you know, the centibillionaire whose net worth rose $15 billion today to $475.5 billion) garbage dump, X. Anyone who has been on X knows it’s a MAGA cesspool filled with far-right feces. And the Guardian tells…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 15
Traveling abroad and domestically, the effect of the UPS plane crash on the Derby City, the political impact of Mamdani and MTG, shortcomings of the Louisville education system and making a difference in the Bluegrass State. Full List of Democrats Voting to Condemn Socialism as Mamdani Comes to Town Roll Call 305 | Bill Number: H.…
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Massie gets final vote to release Epstein files
I’m not sure if this is the right interpretation for this, but this is the way the CJ presents it: Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s charge to release the Epstein files is making significant movement. A discharge petition spearheaded by Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, secured its 218th signature on Nov. 12, a crucial step to force…
