SUPER – CALLOUS – FASCIST – RACIST – EXTRA – BRAGGA – DOCIOUS
From a sign during the Women’s Marches on Jan. 21, 2017. SUPER – CALLOUS – FASCIST – RACIST – EXTRA – BRAGGA – DOCIOUS
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Your Day-One Guide to President The Toupeed Fucktrumpet’s Conflicts of Interest
Mother Jones (I use the Firefox add-on “Some Rich Asshole” which translates the word T R U M P into the “The Toupeed Fucktrumpet”, among a few other choice epithets. Below is what this add-on did to a Mother Jones article about his conflicts of interest. I’ve placed the transpositions in ITALICS. The Some Rich … [Read more…]
Anti-Some Weaselheaded Fucknugget protesters form human chain across Golden Gate Bridge
Anti-Some Weaselheaded Fucknugget protesters form human chain across Golden Gate Bridge JOHN ROGERS AND JOCELYN GECKER ASSOCIATED PRESS | January 20, 2017, 9:53AM LOS ANGELES — Thousands of protesters formed a human chain across the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday while thousands more marched through a driving rainstorm in Los Angeles as a state that … [Read more…]
Wayne Barrett (1945-2017)
Mother Jones Tribute to Wayne Barrett Remembering the legendary Village Voice reporter who launched an army of muckrakers. Wikipedia Selected Bibliography The New Yorker: Newsdesk 2016 New York Times Obituary Rolling Stone Obituary Washington Post Obituary Barrett, 71, uncovered the misdeeds of politicians, developers, crooked judges and “poverty pimps” during a four-decade career at the … [Read more…]
Saddest Day
Today was the inauspicious inauguration of the 45th president. Everyone I have spoken with, all that I have read, all that I have heard about and during today says this is a very sad day for all of us. There is nothing which can turn back the events of today but we can hold to … [Read more…]
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR
Sacramento Union, 11 February 1912 By A. J. EISSING. The French government employes 120,000 women. Agriculture supports 250,000,000 persons in India. Kingston, Can., police want their pay raised from $50 to $60 a month. The Barbers’ association of Quebec asks the legislature to provide that all barbers be licensed. Hamilton, Ont., bricklayers want to increase … [Read more…]
The Worker’s Compensation Act
Madera Mercury > 12 January 1917 The State Accident Commission will present recommendations for changes in the workmen’s compensation act. … One of the bitter fights probably will be in an attempt on the part of the anti-administration forces to cripple the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The insurance feature is the particular target against which most … [Read more…]
Women Will Watch Legislative Action
Sacramento Union, 17 January 1917 Mrs. H. A. Cable of Los Angeles, president of the women’s legislative council, has established a bureau in the Sacramento hotel for the remainder of the legislative session. The women of the state have been studying for the past two years on legislation important to women, and have decided to … [Read more…]
1592 francs for “lodgings”
Press Democrat, 14 June 1899 Very few of us get anything worth having without paying for it. Dreyfus has secured his freedom, but in settling up with the war office for his back salary the secretary has held out 1592 francs for “lodgings” furnished on Devil’s island during the past four years and a half.
John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90
Here is the Guardian’s announcement. Guardian’s John Berger obituary “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… … [Read more…]