I had a post the other day on Trump destroying jobs for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which is the longshoremen's union on the west coast. As I noted in that post, the ILWU has a long history of left activism AND union...
Author: Erik Loomis
Look, if you are trying to get rid of all the immigrants, obviously since they are all brown and none are first ladies from Slovenia or anything, you might just.
Outside of Maine, where Chuck Schumer recruited a candidate older than than the state, you do have to give ol'Chuck credit on his candidate recruitment for 2026. Sherrod Brown gives.
What do you even say about a person like this? The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown over the last year has gone from uncomfortable to untenable for Ileana Garcia, a Republican state senator in Florida. A Transportation Security Administration officer at the Tallahassee airport overheard her...
This is the grave of J.M.W. Turner. One of the most universally popular painters of the early nineteenth century, Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. The.
This is the grave of Diahann Carroll. Born in 1935 in The Bronx, Carol Diann Johnson was the daughter of a subway worker and a nurse, so pretty firmly in.
This is the grave of Earle Wheeler. Born in 1908 in Washington, D.C., Earle didn't grow up super wealthy or anything. His father abandoned the family. His mother's second husband officially adopted the boy. He joined the military at the age of 16, enlisting as...
I hadn't seen Tim Burton's (I realize Henry Selick is the actual director) The Nightmare Before Christmas in many years. But a 14 hour flight from Singapore to Vancouver and.
ICE killing people is exactly what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want. They can't wait to shoot more lefties. Two ex-ICE workers I spoke with described an agency that, in.
This is the grave of Bobby Dodd. Born in 1908 in Galax, Virginia (a town I know for its outsized role in early country music history, including being the hometown of the great Ernest Stoneman), Robert Lee Dodd (yep, named for the traitor, welcome to...
Criterion has had a Maurice Pialat series. I had never seen any of his films, so I checked out 1972 film We Won't Grow Old Together. It's an autobiographical film.
The British crown, as it turns out: The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the.