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Photo gallery: Louisville protests Trump’s L.A. action
Kentuckians staged protests in Louisville in response to the flatulent Orange TACO’s effort to escalate violence in Los Angeles. (This update on California from CNN): Things remained relatively quiet in the Los Angeles area this morning with authorities observing a handful of peaceful demonstrations, a law enforcement source involved in monitoring the situation told CNN.…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 5
A wide-ranging discussion on the Big Beautiful Batch of Bulls— Bill, the billionaire catfight (i.e. Republicans in disarray), University of Louisville sports and Kentuckiana’s ties to the Underground Railroad (through song). Contains a few swear words, so hide the kiddies!
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This Ky. legislator decided to join the clown show!
Paraphrasing “The A-Team,” I love it when a plan falls apart. From CBS: The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk broke down in dramatic and public fashion on Thursday, with the president threatening to cancel Musk’s lucrative government contracts and Musk claiming that Mr. Trump could not have won the presidency without him, fueling…
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Homeland Security targets Louisville
Don’t be surprised if you see a bunch of masked federal goons in black terrorizing people in the Derby City. From the Courier-Journal: Louisville is one of more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the U.S. being accused of obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws by the Trump administration. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a list of…
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Let them eat cake? Don’t let them eat at all!
The Herald Leader has a story with this headline: One in five Kentucky kids faces hunger. Congress should not make that worse. A complaint about the headline will follow soon, but the top of the opinion piece by Melissa McDonald, Executive Director of Feeding Kentucky, says: In Kentucky more than 753,000 residents, or one-in-six, face…
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You MAGAts happy, now?
The Big Beautiful Bill is looking pretty ugly. From the Courier Journal: In Kentucky, more than 11,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic development hang in the balance as Congress considers axing clean energy tax credits approved in the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, according to an analysis from Rhodium Group and MIT — threatening a key…
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What drives MAGA? No surprise here.
From the San Francisco Chronicle: In January, (political sociologist David N.) Smith and his University of Kansas colleague, associate sociology professor Eric A. Hanley, published a 47-page paper deconstructing the Republican president’s appeal. Building on decades of scholarship about the lure of authoritarianism and their own analysis of American voting psychology in 2012 and 2016,…
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You be the judge
From the Courier Journal: They only need to arrest one judge. They only need to fire one professor. They only need to kidnap one person to a foreign prison without due process. They only need to prosecute one journalist. They only need to convince one university to agree to surrender its students and its soul. They only need to ignore one…
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Winners and losers? More like losers and losers.
The most important paragraph in this story is the last one: The state’s Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Wednesday took another step in its investigation into whether Cameron committed an ethics violation by allegedly soliciting certain campaign donations for his 2023 run for governor. An administrative law judge will be assigned to review the case…
