Back in 2016, a new politics podcast, Keepin’ It 1600, appeared on Bill Simmons’s website, The Ringer, and it was nothing like anything I had heard before. Then current White House aides Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor talked about the presidential campaign in a way that made you feel like you’d stumbled into …
No American candidate since Teddy Roosevelt, when he got shot during a speech on the campaign trail, has taken an otherwise knock out punch like Bernie Sanders. It was just a heart attack. Teddy got shot in the chest by an Italian anarchist, when such a thing was all the rage. Teddy spoke for another …
Hello East Portland: Possible EPB post… (Thanks in advance…do not know if you can get that “contribute” tab out of the post) This is obviously not something I wrote; however, since Bernie Sanders actually recently criticized the Freedom Dividend, which is good pub(!), I want to remind voters that Andrew Yang qualified yet again for …
On Sunday August 25 democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren made a stop in Seattle. The event was originally planned to be held at the WAMU Theater (capacity 7000) but RSVPs indicated that venue was not going to be big enough so it was moved outdoors to the Seattle Center under the shadow of the Space Needle …
This is not the typical fundraising letter. Check it out. – Mark Erickson Portland Yang Gang Facebook Group Oregon Yang Gang Facebook Group Hello Yang Gang – thank you for your support! It’s been a little over a week since the debate in Detroit, and we’ve already qualified for the next round in September and October. …
I made a millennial’s head explode when I explained to her that even Youtube stars are slaves to Google. They are floating a multi-billion dollar platform, self producing their own shows they give to a platform that pays them what they could make on salary for Amazon. Oh Momma’…sweet Freedom. This is a scam. These …
PUSSY RIOT – BLACK SNOW: http://xxpussyriotxx.com 1. MUSIC VIDEO 2. SERIES of ACTIONS 3. OPEN LETTER TO PUTIN AND HIS CRONIES + SOLD OUT LIVE SHOW IN ALABAMA ON JULY 11TH TO BENEFIT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND YELLOWHAMMER FUND SHOW VIDEO FLYER HERE MORE PHOTOS here + VIDEO CLIPS here (all free to use with credit) 1. PUSSY RIOT – ЧЁРНЫЕ СНЕЖКИ …
On a drizzly lunch hour in Bothell, WA I joined a little more than 100 other people to stand on a busy corner to protest Trump’s policy of putting refugee children and adults in separate concentration camps. I learned after the fact that a much larger protest formed in downtown Seattle in front of the …
Tomorrow, June 13th, Chicago White Sox will “commemorate” the 40th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night with a free T-shirt promotion. The announcement – during Pride month no less – has re-opened the discussion around the destruction of a Gay, Black, and Latinx art form at the hands of a primarily white mob led by white …
LIVE SHOW AT BIRMINGHAM’S SATURN ON JULY 11TH TO BENEFIT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND YELLOWHAMMER FUND WATCH: “I MADE AN ABORTION” HERE (99 jakes track “225” + zeitguised’s textures + edited by nadya pussy riot) ALABAMA SHOW VIDEO FLYER HERE Photo credit: Andrew Boyle – hi-res HERE Pussy Riot announce that they’ll bring their digital protest punk to Birmingham, Alabama’s Saturn on July 11th to protest …
On Tuesday afternoon May 21 approximately a thousand people gathered in front of Seattle’s City Hall to protest the unconstitutional attacks on women’s reproductive rights that have been recently signed into law in several states. Currently eight states have passed blatantly unconstitutional laws restricting when a woman can have an abortion. Some states are imprisoning …
I have been an employee of the Federal government for over 25 years and never planted my arse in a Federally-owned building. Since that arrangement will change in a couple of weeks I have been purging my 10’x10′ cubicle of “institutional knowledge,” various reports, and documents I have not perused in over 15 years. Basically, …
This culture of reporting each other on social media over supposed Community Standards will bleed over into real life. In some countries where this platform that is the status quo. And people go to jail and caned because they are reported. Ask NBA player Enes Kanter. This platform is breeding behaviors that people clung to …
The Eurovision Song Contest (Eurovision) started in 1956. Eurovision is an international song competition held primarily among the member countries of the “European Broadcasting Union.” Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, then votes are cast for the other countries’ songs to determine the winner. At least …
A stitch in time. A report on the crimes of a sitting President, with tales of Porn stars, Russian spies, bribes, and lies, from a time CNN said he would only win if Pigs could fly. An Attorney General “read it” and said he saw nothin’. …I also wrote a really darn cool song before …
Pussy Riot’s member Nika Nikulshina is arrested in Moscow – for no reason – and this is the second time in one month she’s been detained. This time it’s even worse: being detained already for 7 hours, she’s going to spend the night at the police department. Tomorrow starts a period of days-off in Russia, …
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018 Amazon not only had all those benefits, it had the benefit of securing a market, building a business for years by not charging sales tax – a huge advantage over the brick and mortar stores it damaged or put out of business. People …
If automation is so inevitable that we are just going to bend over and take it lying down without a fight, we have zero chance in hell of saving our environment. Zero. Chance. In Hell. We are so weak and lazy we have zero faith in our collective ability to organize to stop using self …
A couple of weeks ago I attended a rally for Andrew Yang who is a 2020 Presidential candidate, a respectable, intelligent man with insightful ideas regarding the fast-approaching tech revolution that I have previously written about on this blog. The crowd was youthful and enthusiastic! Andrew Yang will appear on CNN THIS SUNDAY at 7:00pm …
Christopher Hitchens was a man of staggering genius. One of the bright spots of the blood sucking nature of the interweb wasteland is getting to watch this man work and evolve. You change, the world changes, but History never changes, only the calculation in which we gaze back upon it with prejudice. But whether or …
This was on KEXP two years ago, but it’s even more crucial now.
This is a protest song. I’ve seen this collection of musicians, separately in various bands, more than 50 times over the years. I couldn’t be more proud of Northwest Rockers than I am right now. When the chips were down, this group stood up for something. Give it a listen… Filthy Friends are Corin Tucker, …
I am not mad at the Mueller Report. Manafort didn’t FLIP. If he had flipped there would have been a case of collusion. Manafort was a good Russian agent and he did his job. He might survive. R Kelly peed on a kid on tape and got away with it and his fans are his …
Is it a coincidence that Europe is fracturing as the generation of WW2 is fading into graves, burying their hallow points of truth into the boneyards of history? I speak of these times, only months before my father was born in the beginning of the Boom, and young adults look at me like I am …
Americans Will Have to Get Visas to Visit Europe, Starting in 2021 – ESQUIRE This is because of Trump. We are losing Visa-less travel in Europe as Americans. Such freedoms was our reward for liberating Europe. Sure it seems simple now, but Europe can easily move to make it more and more complicated. This would …
Colleges and cities have been wrestling as they consider monuments and buildings named on behalf of men who supported and profited from slavery or outwardly displayed racist tendencies in the earlier half of the 19th century and beyond. Tensions and protests have recently intensified across the country. On one side, people do not want to …
Here is an American thought experiment: I hate the N word. I can list the reasons until the end of time why non non African peoples should never say that word. But can any African Americans list of reasons why they should use it? I mean just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I …
This is a photo of what used to be called an Orphanage. Short hand in this case for orphan asylum. One of the most telling things about American society is that those that claim they are so adamant about the well being of unborn children, in truth show little support for the social programs that …
Just have a good clean primary. Don’t let the Russian trolls and bots trigger you. They should be more obvious by now, unless you’re a dumb ass. Don’t be afraid of Bernie Sanders. Nobody is too old. Biden could wrestle a bear. Ignore the nonesense about Warren and that Pocahontas bullsh☆t. I found out in …
Paul Manafort knows that spending the rest of his life in prison is much better than what will happen to him and his family if he rats on his Russian handlers, I mean business partners, I mean the Mob, I mean the GOP…sorry I mean Vladamir Putin. Maybe he’ll get a pardon, but I think …