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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 7
A recent hospital stay, the attack on Medicaid and a list of our favorite podcasts. And here are our recommended podcasts and Substacks: PODCASTS: Professional Left Podcast: https://professionalleft.blogspot.com/ Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes In Defense of Plants: https://www.indefenseofplants.com/ Bugs Need Heroes: https://www.bugsneedheroes.com/ Just the Zoo of Us: https://www.justthezooofus.com/ SUBSTACKS: Paul Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/ Robert Reich: https://robertreich.substack.com/ Mark Jacobs: https://www.stopthepresses.news/…
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This is your life (and the GOP is planning to take it away)
From ActionNetwork.org: All across Kentucky, families are doing what it takes to care for loved ones and keep food on the table. But even as our communities take on new challenges to keep up with the high cost of living, many lawmakers in Washington are pushing dangerous policies that take direct aim at our wallets.…
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History repeats itself. Rerun is worse than the original.
Years ago, in another life, I referred to the attached cartoon to make this point about the Republican Party: I once asked if the worst case scenario was “Will they charge ahead full speed and drive that bus off the cliff and into a river of hungry crocodiles.” Then I modified that to: “Will they…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 6
Let’s talk about the importance of community, how Kentucky is affected by the bombing of Iran and finding solace in the arts.
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Will Foghorn Comer chicken out? Probably.
Republican congressmen are consistently avoiding town hall meetings because they’re afraid of their constituents. Or maybe, with the exception of Thomas Massie in the 4th congressional district, they’re too busy kissing the ass of the senile, incontinent orange TACO. Which is illustrated in the following story from the CJ: Tona Barkley and the group she…
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We’re No. 2. That isn’t good
Big Global Travel ranked the states in America from worst to best, and why Americans don’t want to live in them. The second worse place to live in the United States was: Kentucky Kentucky is the bluegrass state and it’s full of sweeping fields and, well, the home of bluegrass! Yet, it’s a lack of…
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‘No Kings’ rally in the Ville
People are out in the streets, showing that Americans from coast to coast are fed up with the oligarchal MAGAt clown circus currently infesting the center ring in the White House. From the CJ: Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Louisville on June 14, joining about 2,000 “No Kings” demonstrations coordinated nationally in what organizers called a…
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What you don’t know will hurt you
Here’s another MAGA effort to keep Kentuckians uninformed. That should surprise to no one. From the Herald Leader: Kentucky’s public radio and television networks say their future is in doubt after the U.S. House voted Thursday to cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to public television and public radio. Kentucky…
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Advice to Democrats planning to run for president in 2028
Word is that Andy Beshear is going to pass up running for Mitch McConnell’s U.S. Senate seat and will instead pursue a presidential campaign. So, he should listen to Scott Galloway here at the 14:03 mark: There’s your platform, Andy. Run with it!
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We said this would happen: MAGA cuts Ky. funding
If you heard our last podcast, you knew this was going to happen. From the CJ: The U.S. Department of Energy canceled tens of millions of dollars in funding for two Kentucky-based pilot projects intended to reduce carbon emissions, marking another wave of the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and decarbonization initiatives. One $72 million…
