Monday, January 27, 2025

Truest statement of the week

Trump also signed an executive order this week to terminate President Joe Biden's successful efforts to lower the prices of many common pharmaceutical drugs. The drug price move ties off the thread that ties Kennedy and Trump's views together: health care should be a privilege of the wealthy, and not a basic human right. Kennedy's vague words about healthy eating might sound good on paper. In practice, he's setting up a pretext to deny healthcare access to lower-income people, by saying they deserve to be sick because they supposedly didn't take care of themselves. It's why Kennedy is so hostile not just to vaccines, but any acknowledgement of infectious disease. It's a lot harder to blame the victim when the illness is caused by a virus. If he's confirmed to HHS, this attitude will prevail. The talk about healthy eating will almost certainly not translate into helping people access better food. It'll just be an excuse to blame people's "lifestyles" when public health declines on Kennedy's watch.

-- Amanda Marcotte, "Donald Trump is not waiting for RFK Jr. — he has already started his war on public health"  (SALON). 





A note to our readers

Hey --

Sunday.



Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:


The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen, 
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.

 

And what did we come up with? 

 

Amanda gets a truest.  
Ava and C.I. serve up another hard hitting piece.  Imagine, as bounty hunters and the government go after immigrants (and Americans mistaken for immigrants) how differently it could be right now if Amy Goodman and other Gaza Freaks hadn't thought the most important issue in a US election was the fate of Gaza.  They sold us out and we should never forget that.
Ava and C.I. talk books with Rebecca and Marcia.
Short feature.
2 notable deaths this year so far.
Community book reviews.
What we listened to while working on this edition.
Repost.

Mike and the gang wrote this and we thank them for it.


Peace.

 

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.

 






Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump

 

That's USA TODAY's video report entitled "President Trump's radical immigration agenda takes shape | The Excerpt."  And indeed it has.  What Donald Chump promised repeatedly on the campaign trail has come to pass.  Week one.  


 At the end of last week, Janna Brancolini (THE DAILY BEAST) reported:


Just three days into President Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation operation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have already arrested a U.S. citizen who served in the military.

About 10 or 12 ICE agents raided a Newark, New Jersey, seafood wholesaler and restaurant on Thursday and arrested three people, including the Puerto Rican warehouse manager, Ocean Food Depot owner Luis Janota told PIX11 news. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

“I asked [the agents] what documentation they were looking for, and they said it was a license or a passport. I thought, who walks around with a passport?” Janota told PIX11, noting that the agents didn’t ask him for his white workers’ documentation.

“One of the guys was a military veteran, and the way he looked to me was because he was Hispanic. He is Puerto Rican and the manager of our warehouse,” he said. “It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people—not every kind, because they did not ask me for documentation or my American workers, Portuguese workers, or white workers.”

The ICE officers also didn’t have a warrant, in “plain violation” of the Fourth Amendment, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement.

“One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned,” he said. “Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized.”


We told you this would happen.  We called out Chump's immigration attacks for a number of reasons but one, as we covered, was that Americans would be swept up in these arrests


And that's not us being Debra Messing's Grace and about to do the I-told-you-so dance.  We're tell things many times that aren't listened to.  But this is a little different.


Keith Edwards does strong YOUTUBE content like this video noting a Latina American who voted for Chump and now regrets it as she sees people afraid to go to work because of these raids.




"I hate that I voted for him," the Latina American in Tik-Tok says.  "Now I'm so scared for my family."


And Keith notes, "That's really hard to hear for multiple reasons.  one, My heart really does go out to her.  But also, I'm just going to put it bluntly, but who -- like did -- what -- Maybe you in the comments can help me with this because I am a loss for words. I know it's my job to have the words bug I just feel like Were you not paying attention?  He said everything he wants to do and he's starting to do it.  Gosh darn it and doing it he is because he started, he is raiding cities right now." 


We agree with Keith one hundred percent that people should have been paying attention.


But unlike Keith we were following garbage media during the campaign.  You know garbage media, don't you?  The people who don't follow it wrongly think that DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, COMMON DREAMS, IN THESE TIMES, et al are our friends.


They are not.  They demonstrated that as they worked to attack Kamala Harris and advance Donald Chump.


The Latina might not watch, for example, DEMOCRACY NOW! but let's not pretend for one moment that the anti-Kamala propaganda they served up daily was intended to tank Kamala Harris' campaign, to sew distrust against her and to make her lose the race.


Let's just focus on one garbage outlet:


Democracy Now! is broadcast daily across the United States and Canada as well as in countries around the world. Our program is on Pacifica, NPR, community, college and satellite radio stations; on PBS, public, community and satellite TV; and viewed by millions of people online each day.


That awful program has a larger audience than THE NATION -- even including the paltry number of issues the print magazine sells -- or any other left outlet.


And how did the program  handle immigration from August through the end of October?  That would be the general election campaign.  How did they handle it?


In August, they did three stories on immigration policy.  Two attacked Kamala Harris and the third one attacked Kamala and attacked Chump stressing that they were no different.  In September they did no segments on immigration policy.  In October?  


Two.


They did two stories on immigration policies.  One stressed that Kamala was competing with Chump for who could be the worst on immigration.  The other was showing some of the documentary SEPARATED -- about what Donald did his first term as president.  Neither Amy nor her two guests brought up what Donald was saying he would do if re-elected.


There was no noting, for example, that he was saying he would deport immigrants, round them up and deport them, that he would deport American citizens with them (to keep families together, you understand), that he would end birthright citizenship.  


As DEMOCRACY NOW! and Amy Goodman ignored these stated plants, these threats, the ACLU pointed out:

It is tempting to regard these threats as overblown and calculated merely for political campaign purposes. But in recent months, Trump has repeatedly sought to rationalize his plans for mass deportation, blending military and national security rhetoric with xenophobia. When asked about the legality of using the military against civilians, Trump retorted that, in his view, "these aren’t civilians."


Still Amy Goodman ignored the topic. 

She and her enablers might try to insist there was a third segment in October: Tim Walz's debate.  No, that's not true.  First, as we've noted the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) had claimed Tim as their own and their own victory to the press and on their official Twitter feed.  That's why they treated Tim Walz's bug-eyed, flop sweat performance as a victory.  And second, the footage from the debate and the segment itself focused on the lie that Haitians in the US were eating cats and dogs.  This was not about the actual policies Chump was proposing.


The Latina American voter on Tik-Tok got fed a bunch of nonsense by the media.  She regrets her vote.  She and others should regret the media they consumed.


It's worth noting that while Amy Goodman could only do five segments on immigration policy (again, two slamming Kamala, two saying Kamala and Chump were the same and one focusing on what Chump did in his first term), she had plenty of time for other topics during that same three month  period.


105.


That's the number of segments she did on Gaza during the same three month period, 105.  Many of those trashed Kamala.  In fact, those same three months featured at least 33 segment with Uncommitted (at least 33, many of her guest didn't disclose on air that they were part of the Uncommitted 'movement' that urged people not to vote for Kamala).  


So now Chump's been president for a week.  And the biggest issue right now?  His attacks on immigrants.  Again, in the three month lead up to the election, Amy Goodman did 105 segments on Gaza.  She only did five segments on the immigration policies of the two candidates -- four of the five slammed Kamala.  


Is it really the Tik-Tok voter's fault?


Or is it the crap ass, beggar (send money, send money!) media?


At what point, on the left, will we see others writing about this?


We're tired of always being the ones who have to go out on the limb while the rest of you -- in private -- e-mail us to tell us good job or to give us information we didn't know about pro-Kamala stories that got killed.  At what point are you chicken s**ts going to stop applauding us in private and start using your own forums to address how our 'left' media worked overtime to defeat Kamala?


If you're a Democrat, you damn well should be speaking out because they will do this again.  


The damage they did is very real and has harmed this country irreparably.  If you're still not getting it, try imagine how different the vote could have been had Amy Goodman not acted as the p.r. agent for Rashida's Uncommitted 'movement' long enough to do actual segments regarding Chump's immigration policies.


 

Books (Rebecca, Marcia, Ava and C.I.)

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As we did in 2021 and 2023 and 2024, we're attempting to again increase book coverage in the community. This go round, we're talking to Rebecca about her "bob hope should be a lesson" and to Marcia about her "Shattered Love: A Memoir."  Rebecca, you reviewed two weeks ago so let's start with you. 


Rebecca:   My book was Richard Zoglin's HOPE.  It's a book about comedian and actor Bob Hope.  Who started out in the theater and became a radio and movie star.  Then he moved on to TV.  He had a long term contract with NBC that saw a special of him turning 80.  He was beloved for his road movies with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.  His film career gets little attention from Zoglin and when he does give it attention, he often gets it wrong.  A popular film is either rendered as a box office disappointment or a bad film that was somehow popular.  He's not qualified to write on film -- especially when he thinks he's putting Bob Hope's films in some sort of context.  He's a film idiot.  Bob's MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, for example, has impact not just on film noir -- it was a film noir parody -- and it also had impact on Hitchcock films that followed and on later films like the 70s THE CHEAP DETECTIVE.  On that film, MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, he does an especially poor job because it remains one of Bob Hope's most popular films, it is a film Bob also produced for his own company.  And?  For a book interested in Bob's business abilities, how do you not note that Bob was still alive when the film entered the public domain -- meaning cheap and stingy Bob Hope let the profits slide away on that one?  A very disappointing book. 

Marcia: Mine was disappointing as well.  SHATTERED LOVE: A MEMOIR was supposedly written by the actor Richard Chamberlain.  As I noted in my review, he worked with everyone -- Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Barbara Stanwyck, Charleton Heston, Raquel Welch, Katharine Hepburn, etc, etc and he has no interesting stories to share.  None.  He didn't work with Robert Redford but they competed for at least two roles and you get the sense that Chamberlain doesn't like Redford. It's a very dull book.  And nothing to recommend about it as I'll go into in a moment.  Rebecca and I talked about our books ahead of time and agreed to provide an overview and then do whether we recommend the books or not.


Okay.  Rebecca?


Rebecca: I can recommend my book.  It's a poorly written book; however, it does capture Bob's politics and refusal to grow.  He killed his own career.  As Connie Stevens notes, from one of his Vietnam tours, Bob's getting boos on stage in Vietnam from US troops as early as 1968.  Bob can't buy a clue.  He just moves further and further to the right.  Certain idiot male celebrities should buy a clue and do so quickly.  If you thought defending Nixon was indefensible, imagine trying to have a career in four years after Trump's out of office.  This book needs to be sent to Mel Gibson especially.  


Marcia?


Marcia:  I can't recommend this 2003 book in any way.  When it came out, it was sold and marketed as Richard Chamberlain's coming out story.  It's not.  He does acknowledge that he's gay.  But he spends all the pages on insane therapy sessions -- that had nothing to do with being gay -- and supposed help gurus and life coaches.  All those people?  You would have thought at least one of them would have told him he can't write about his life without writing about his life.  Meaning if you had a 33 year old relationship with another man at some point we at least want to hear about a dinner the two of you had.  He says he's gay in the book.  But he's obviously still in the closet in that he can't write about his affairs, the men he loved or why he loved them.  Grandpa wrote this at 69.  What a coward.


Alright thank you both and this kicks off the 2025 book discussios. 



 

What are they smoking in the halls of Congress?

  




US House Rep Andy Ogles (TN) wants Trump to have a third term and is pushing a bill for that while claiming Chump "has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation's decay and restoring America to greatness."





File it under: How to come out without saying "I'm gay."  See Jodie Foster's 2007 speech at The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment" breakfast. 

2025 passings

In 2025, we'll continue to note passings that we see as significant -- as we did previously "2024 passings" and  "2023 passings."



"David Lynch" -- Stan notes the passing of a director.

"Joan Plowright" -- Marcia notes the passing of an actress 

Book List

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Book coverage continues in this community.  For earlier lists of books covered see 2021's  "Books," 2023's "Books" and 2024 "Book List"


Books reviewed in the community this year.


1) "bob hope should be a lesson" -- Rebecca reviews Richard Zoglin.  

2) "Shattered Love: A Memoir" -- Marcia reviews Richard Chamberlain's insipid autobiography.




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This edition's playlist

 

 

 1) Harry Styles' HARRY'S HOUSE.

 

2)  Diana Ross' THANK YOU

 

3) Fiona Apple's FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS.


4) The Mamas and the Papas' THE PAPAS & THE MAMAS.


5) Diana RossSUPERTONIC MIXES.


6) Chase Rice's THE ALBUM.

 

7)  Adele's 30.  

 

8) Billy Joel's  LIVE AT YANKEE STADIUM.

 

9) Laura Nyro's CHRISTMAS AND THE BEADS OF SWEAT


10) Aretha Franklin's A ROSE IS STILL A ROSE.



 

A doctor who violates HIPAA can be sued in civil court

Dr Eithan Haim?  A supposed 'whistleblower' who broke the confidentiality of patient care -- and they weren't his patients, he illegally accessed their confidential files is saved from criminal charges by Donald Chump.  Patients and families whose medical privacy was violated should immediately file civil charges and take him for every penny he has.  This is covered in the community humor post that went up tonight:



  •  BULLY BOY PRESS CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB  & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS  -- THE KOOL AID TABLE  

    "DONALD'S BALLS SMELL SO BAD," DR. EITHAN HAIM REVEALED TO THESE REPORTERS IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT -- CONDUCTED -- AT THE DOCTOR'S REQUEST -- AT CONDOM SENSE IN MCKINNEY TEXAS. 


    "BUT I'M NOT COMPLAINING," THE DOCTOR EXPLAINED, "I COULD GOON ON THAT STINK FOR HOURS.  I'M A SLAVE TO MUSK -- THE SMELLIER THE BETTER."


    AS HE BROWSED THROUGH THE DILDO SECTION -- "TOO MUCH?" HE ASKED HOLDING A LARGE BLACK DEVICE LABELED "EL TORRO"? -- HE EXPLAINED HOW HE WAS A HERO FOR THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE HE EXPOSED PATIENTS HAVING HEALTH CARE FOR BEING TRANSGENDER.

     WHILE HE LOOKED FOR LUBE -- AFTER TRYING TO DO IT ON THE CHEAP AND JUST GO WITH VASOLINE BEFORE THE STORE CLERK TOLD HIM THAT WOULD DEGRADE THE DILDO OVER TIME -- HE EXPLAINED THAT FEDERAL CHARGES HAD BEEN DROPPED AGAINST HIM FOR SNOOPING INTO MEDICAL RECORDS -- THE MEDICAL RECORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT HIS PATIENTS -- AND THEN RELEASING THAT INFORMATION TO 'ACTIVISTS,' AND THAT HE HAD ALREADY CELEBRATED WITH DONALD CHUMP THE EMBARRASSMENT IN CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES.


    "I LOOKED AT HIM," EITHAN EXPLAINED TUGGING REPEATEDLY AND FURIOUSLY ON THE CROTCH OF HIS PANTS, "AND HE TOOK A DUMP SO I TOOK A DUMP AND THEN WE SAT DOWN AND JUST RUBBED THE FECES IN OUR SHORTS AGAINST OUR BUTTS AS WE KEPT SCOOTING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE CHAIRS.  IT FELT WARM AND SQUISHY AND IT JUST MADE ME FEEL SAFE."


    SAFE?


    THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WRONGLY DROPPED THE CASE. 

    BUT THE HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT -- HIPAA -- DOESN'T MEAN THE GOVERNMENT BACKING DOWN ENDS ANYTHING.  FIRST OFF, HE COULD BE DISBARRED AND SECONDLY THE PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES CAN -- AND SHOULD -- BRING CIVIL CHARGES AGAINST HIM.


    "CIVIL CHARGES?"  EITHAN ASKED DROPPING HIS DILDO.


    "YEAH, CIVIL CHARGES, THEY CAN TAKE YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'RE WORTH AND THEY SHOULD."


    EITHAN FELL TO HIS KNEES GROANING -- A NOT UNUSUAL OCCURENCE AT AN ADULT STORE. 

     

    FROM THE TCI WIRE:




    Now lets take a break to talk about some Texas Trash.  USA TODAY has a lying piece of garbage that almost makes the snapshot every week but usually gets cut for space and I carry her over to POLLY'S BREW.  So to catch everyone up, she's a general studies major posing as a journalist but struggling so hard with everything -- that even includes writing.  She can't turn a phrase, she can't coin anything.  She just writes in a plodding manner that even renders her best attempts at bitchy yawn inducing.  It doesn't help that she's got a ton of wrinkles no one that young should have (White, apparently, doesn't just crack, it craters) or that she has a misshapen head that she wrongly believes head tilting can disguise.  Let's hope her four children don't favor her or she'd have to tie them up on a leash in the backyard.  

    If I'm remembering correctly from a community member (and you know I am), the woman's a nightmare as a neighbor and even more repugnant in person than online.

    So this week, Texas Trash offers more garbage that proves what I said last week in POLLY'S BREW -- she's nothing but a damn liar.



    And, sorry, I've forgotten to note her real name: Nicole Russell.  In the community newsletters, we just call her Texas Trash. 

    In this week's rage a thon from the right-winger (she sometimes tries to pretend she's not, but she is) she's mocking MSNBC and people concerned with what Chump's done.  You know, those who are opposed to the pardoning of treasonous people who used violence against the police as they attempted to overthrow an election.  


    She serves up lies like this:


    Does anyone else feel like progressives have had a sudden conversion experience about holding the commander in chief accountable? For four years, the left was relatively quiet when it came to criticizing the Biden administration, or heck, even just being honest about what they observed with his physical and mental health decline.



    You can picture her, with that misshapen chin and five dollar hair cut, tossing her head to the side thinking she's been clever but all it did was draw attention to her mannish ways. 

    She loves to insist that 77 million Americans voted for Chump. She does so this week.  77.3 million last week. She justdoesn't feel the need to note that Kamala Harris got 75 million because that doesn't fit with the lie that he had a landslide and now has a mandate.  He has no such thing -- that's a lie just like her claim that from 2021 through 2025 there was no calls for accountability.  See, sadly, the ugliest thing about Nicole Russell is not her face.  Don't get me wrong, she's butt ugly.  Her face alone can terrorize small children and cause dogs to howl.  But it's her ugly, lying spirit that's her most off putting quality.  

    Genocide Joe.

    Nicole wants to pretend that never happened.

    The same way she wants to pretend that Donald Chump's 49% of the vote is close to 70% and that Kamala didn't get 48% of the vote.  

    The dirty liar loves to serve up junk like this, "Progressives have responded in extraordinary ways since Donald Trump secured a whopping 312 Electoral College votes to win the presidency for a second time."  

    312 electoral college votes?  It lets her pretend that there isn't less than 2% difference between how many votes Kamala got and how many votes Chump got.  



    From week to week, Nicole Russell veers all over the map.  Sometimes, it was just about economics.  Sometimes the win was about Chump's great brilliance.  (She writes like she has a serious drug problem but her neighbor swears there are not even any rumors of that.)  Sometimes it was economics and "No president is entirely responsible for the success or failure of the U.S. economy."

    She writes garbage like this, "Now that a Republican is president, they have no problem not only smearing him but also those Americans who don't share their ideology. The left's demagoguery seems boundless." Saltine, it's not your rights that he's focused on overturning.  

    And the demagoguery's coming from your side with Charlie Kirk attacking MLK this week and Elon Musk doing his Nazi salute and Chump using "DEI" as the faux thinking person's n-word.  

    You might fool some of the backward treasonous creatures you embrace, but we see you and we know what you are. Baby Trifles, unlike USA TODAY, we won't pretend like you make coherent or constient arguments.


    And, Baby Trifles, it takes a real fool not to grasp that Kamala losing by less than 2% of the popular vote is something amazing when she only had three months to campaign in.  Your false god Donald Chump couldn't even handle a second debate with her because she cleaned his clock in the first one. 


    Nicole's a liar who worships a liar: Donald Chump.  Like Nicole, he also finds thinking difficult and mumbles that "it hurts my head."  Janna Brancolini (THE DAILY BEAST) reports:


    Another day, another call from President Donald Trump to tear down the stalls he doesn’t like in the marketplace of ideas.

    Reacting to reports that CNN is planning to lay off hundreds of employees amidst a ratings crisis, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social: “MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t have a right to broadcast — Only in America!”

    It was a clear shot at MSNBC, with “MSDNC” being a portmanteau of the Democratic National Convention’s DNC and the left-leaning broadcast network. The “Only in America” part was a reference to… it’s not clear. Probably not Don King.

    After an initial ratings dip following Trump’s re-election victory in November, MSNBC clawed its way back in early January to become the third most-watched basic cable network during primetime, Adweek reported. Many of its hosts have been frequent critics of Trump’s.


    His war on the press continues.  As does his war on the American people.  Gerren Keith Gaynor (THE GRIO) notes:


    “These are all things meant to put Black people and other people of color back into a racial caste system where discrimination against them was legal,” Dr. Alvin Tillery tells theGrio.

    Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to eliminate DEI federal programs and decades-old enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Advocates and legal experts say one order, which revokes the enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, also known as Title VII under the Civil Rights Act, will have a chilling effect.

    “We got a lot of people who are going to lose their jobs,” said Dr. Mary Frances Berry, a former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, appointed by President Bill Clinton, and professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.

    On Tuesday, President Trump signed an order revoking decades-old executive orders signed by Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon that established enforcement of anti-bias measures in federal employment and contracting related to race, sex, religion, and national origin under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Trump order also revokes orders signed by President Barack Obama enforcing diversity promotion in the national security workforce and the overall federal workforce. Trump also directed all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion staff to be put on paid leave by the end of the day and eventually be laid off.

    Dr. Berry points out that the need for anti-bias and diversity mechanisms for employment in the federal workforce has always existed, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, because workers who were not white were simply overlooked. “It was the culture,” she told theGro. “Taxpayers pay for contracts, and everybody has the right — any kind of taxpayer — to see to it that they … get a fair look.”

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established by Congress to enforce the anti-bias employment measures of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For years, the agency has been tasked with investigating and prosecuting cases of workplace discrimination. It also requires employers to report data on their employees, including their race or ethnicity.


    When you're a racist like Texas Trash Nicole, you just see that as an over-reaction.  For those of us not destined for a mental institution, we clearly see it for what it is: An attack on freedom and our basic rights.


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    Highlights

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    This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights. 


    2024 end of the year pieces:  Rebecca's "sexiest men of 2024," Ann's "2024 in film (Ann and Stan)" and Stan's "2024 in film (Ann & Stan),"  Mike's "Idiot of the Year,"  Ruth's "Ruth's Media Report 2024."  "2024 in books (Martha & Shirley)," Kat's "Kat's Korner: 2024 in music"  and C.I.'s "2024: The Year of Betrayal From Inside The Left."

    "DNC chair, Chump targeting immigrants and American...," -- most requested highlight by readers of this site. 


    "The snapshot,"  "The Snapshot," "The Snapshot," "The snapshot,"  "The snapshot,"  "One horror after another," "Tommy Tuberville - the Senate's biggest idiot," "The cultural appropriator gets in trouble,"  "I could scream all night,"  "The bathroom monitors,"  "Smart people broke with BREAKING POINTS long ago,"  "If you see something good, share it," "1 Tweet nails it," "Rashida Tlaib achieved what she set out to do,"  "Junior's a threat to science and health,"  "Racist Donald Chump and those who enable him,"  "I don't need AMAZON in my life -- someone clue Bezos on that reality,"  "Get the message," "Oh, Rahsida, you're not fooling anyone," "Elon thinks he's over pardons now,"  "Elon's the bitch," "When Donald Chump needs to crime, who he gonna cal...,"   "Idiot of the Week (but also praise for someone who got it right on Trump & immigrants),"  "Chump and the closet case,"  "Ari breaks it down while Marco Rubio gets Idiot of the Week,"  "Is it time for Fetty Wap to go back into the institution?," "Chump kicks off the net four years -- thanks, Rashida,"  "Gerald Posner -- plastic surgery addict and plagiarist,"  "The whole world laughs at Donald Chump,"  "We need to learn from our mistakes (and stop being so trusting of 'helpers'),"  "Neither Musk nor the ADL is a friend to American Jews," "Chump, the little weakling who isn't getting any,"  "ugly freaks megyn kelly and cheryl hines," "those pardons,"  "put him in prison," "Pull Dr. Eithan Haim's medical license," "Run Dr. Eithan Haim out of the medical profession for violating patient privacy," "HIPAA allows for civil litigation as well as criminal," "Sue Dr. Eithan Haim for every cent he has," "THIST JUST IN! CIVIL LAWSUITS AGAINST DR EITHAN HAIM!"  and "The very sick doctor" -- news coverage in the community. 



    "Losers of the music world" "Green Day mocks Elon,"  "MAGA Billy Ray Cyrus is losing it and concerning his family,"  "Tina Turner and the Oscars,"  "AP goes sexist, Hayley Hynes goes historical," "Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande" and "Someone forgot to tell them that their careers were over" -- music coverage in the community.



     "grease is the word,"  "will trent," "Reviewing the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nominees," "Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress,"  "Guess who bombed on TV,"  "Another X-Men, Another Storm,"  "Weekend box office" and "Mateo and Gabi do a pizza tour" -- movie, TV and video coverage in the community. 


    "Shattered Love: A Memoir" -- book review by Marcia


    "Black-eyed Pea Dip in the Kitchen," "Winter recipes in the Kitchen,"  "2-Ingredient Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken in the Kitchen" and "Loaded Scrambled Eggs in the Kitchen" -- Trina serves up some recipes. 








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