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Louisvillians protest ICE murder in Minneapolis
About 1,000 Louisvillians got together last night to protest the murder in Minneapolis of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by the Orange Menace’s ICE stooges. In addition to shooting an innocent person in the face, the administration’s secret police have run rampant across the nation, breaking up families, terrorizing children and illegally shipping American citizens out…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 18
Thoughts for the New Year, what we did for the holidays, how to join the resistance in the Bluegrass and how war, abortion and healthcare affect Kentuckians. Our discussion included: This Kentucky General Assembly is going to be very different for the public Ky.’s draconian abortion law leads to murder charge Kentucky politicians discuss U.S. strike…
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Ky.’s draconian abortion law leads to murder charge
A woman ended her pregnancy in Kentucky. The aftermath was inevitable, because MAGAts say women have no rights (from the Guardian): A Kentucky woman is facing multiple criminal charges after she allegedly induced her own abortion using medication. Kentucky state police arrested the woman, Melinda S Spencer, 35, on charges of fetal homicide in the first degree,…
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MAGA Republicans plan to steal votes. Here’s how
This is troubling news, from Kentucky Lantern: The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls. The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU —…
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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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This is reassuring, but no surprise
That Kentucky state senate election featuring a human leech is over. The open Kentucky Senate seat in Louisville will stay blue in 2026. Gary Clemons is set to head to Frankfort during the upcoming legislative session, as the South End Democrat won a special election Dec. 16 for the chamber’s vacant District 37 seat. Clemons, a labor union…
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Rand Paul on redistricting and the art of gerrymandering
This was an interesting take from Kentucky’s junior senator (soon to be senior senator) on state Republican musings on eradicating Democrats from the U.S. Congress: Contrary to what Rand Paul says, the issue isn’t “both sides,” which plays well in the corporate media. Republicans started this in Texas. The Orange Menace demanded it, and when…
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GOP health care bill is great for billionaires, bad for sick people
After the Republicans in the Senate blocked Democratic efforts to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, ensuring an increase of thousands of dollars a year for all of those who rely on Obamacare to stay alive, House GOP members have decided to do the MAGAts in the upper chamber one better by introducing a bill…
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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…
