Not well, it seems. This is false. People are moving away from the suburbs and back to the city. This is a trend that’s continued post the first wave of #BLM protests. It’s killing them that a plurality of people support the protests. These people all remind me of some deranged rando on twitter screaming […]
Month: June 2020
Like so many authoritarian bullies, Bob Kroll is a cowering chickenshit when he doesn’t have overwhelming power on his side: Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis police union, has not respond
The political scientist Jenn Jackson has an excellent piece in Teen Vogue on the centrality of white women to the maintenance of white supremacy, as true in 2020 as in 1860 or 1935. But women and whit
THIS is where all the mewling about “political correctness” ends up: That “stupid little fucker” happens to be one of the most powerful people in the USA, whose speech is automatically granted a metaphorical megaphone as big as the Ritz by the fact that he’s a US senator (And also a realistic aspirant for the […]
The issues around police unions are more complicated than those who call to abolish them want to believe. But that doesn’t mean that other unions have to have any respect for them or defend them
The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has no
This is the grave of Frank Kellogg. Born in Potsdam, New York in 1856, Kellogg spent the first part of his childhood there before his family moved to Minnesota in 1865. He grew up pretty poor, as his parents were not overly prosperous farmers. He had to drop out of school in 1870, when his […]
New York City’s finest fascists keeping it real: Meanwhile in Buffalo: At the beginning of the Trump regime a lot of people noted that one thing America lacked compared to the classic fascist re
It will not surprise you, even if it will surprise James Bennet, that journalists of color don’t like fascism to be Both Sidesed: Staffers at The New York Times are in open revolt Wednesday afte
Tonight’s film is the 1935 Duke Ellington vehicle Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. Directed by Fred Waller, who was a director of short films, it highlights Ellington’s new composition and is also the screen debut of Billie Holiday. It was Ellington’s intention to capture parts of black life in this composition and […]
Ralph Northam’s past may be, uh, racially problematic, but he’s certainly making up for it now. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of an ico
Some folks who have remained conspicuously quiet about the Trump administration are beginning to open up. James Mattis: I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “