I've seen quite a bit of music this month. Some I will talk about this week, some in the next couple of these posts. The biggest thing I did was go down to Athens, Georgia to see the Drive By Truckers annual homecoming shows. This...
Author: Erik Loomis
Last May, I discussed this ridiculous Trump Burger restaurant in Texas, owned by a Lebanese immigrant of course, where everything was branded TRUMP, including the buns. What I did not.
This is the grave of Mordecai Johnson. Born in 1890 in Paris, Tennessee, Johnson grew up reasonably well of for his time and place and race, which still wasn't much..
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles's 2019 film Bacurau is an absolutely brilliant horror-western that is a very lightly disguised allegory for life under Bolsonaro. Set in the "very near future," it is about a town way out in the sertão, the Brazilian outback. The...
Back in the 90s, it was a favorite unionbusting tactic of meatpacking companies to hire all the undocumented immigrants they could, then when they went out on strike, they'd call.
If you remember back to ye olde days of a decade ago, Kristi Noem was a regular Republican politician. Sure, her positions were evil. But she just looked like a.
While we can't assume that people involved in the tourist industry voted for Trump at higher rates than the rest of the population, we can definition use the context of class and place to surmise that a whole lot of people involved in executive positions...
How many ICE deaths are we going to discover? I just assume that every ICE agent is trained to kill and given permission to do so. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
On February 21, 1824, Native Americans at three California missions revolted after a Mexican soldier beat the living heck out of a Native boy with a whip. The Chumash Revolt.
Rare good news for the labor movement. In spite of Trump's attacks on unions, or perhaps because of them, for the first time in years, labor union membership ticked up last year. The share of American workers in unions edged up in 2025, the first...
This is the kind of bullshit that fascist governments do: It’s been almost a week since the federal government announced that officials planned to “draw down” the number of federal.
If you watched basketball in the 80s, no coach was like Doug Moe. In an era of big personalities as coaches--Pat Riley, Jack Ramsay, Chuck Daly--Moe was one of a.