As an aging man, one has experiences. However, there are some things that man should not know and one of them is three feet of snow in front of your house. I went to bed last night about 11. It was snowing a little bit....
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Robert Rossen. Born in 1908 in New York, Robert Rosen grew up in the Jewish immigrant center of the Lower East Side. I am not.
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.
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 know until today is that the owner of Trump Burger was arrested by ICE in...
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.
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 INS and have all their workers arrested. Great labor policy. The terrible PR this caused...
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.
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) has told Newsweek that a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent fired "defensive shots" at a driver after he "intentionally...
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.