Dave the Tenor

How racist is BOAN? It's so racist that even in an era in which Minstrel shows and "coon songs" were at the center of American entertainment, it stood out as especially racist. That's how bad. (btw, if you haven't studied Minstrelsy, it's so much worse than you probably think. So bad.)

I need to be able to tell my children I did not stay silent.

Sign of the day…

I had a deeper point with this but it was too hard. The point is these folks respect one thing, power. When power was woke they adopted woke, when power is fascist, they're fascist.

Some say they're showing they're true colors, but perhaps they're showing they have no colors, just a vacuum, a void.

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

From ‘Gomer Pyle’ to ‘Boots,' and the long, stagnant march of acceptance for the gay Marine Opinion: 60 years after the gay actor Jim Nabors played a straight Marine, gay actor Miles Heizer plays a gay one, while being a gay Marine still demands a cover story, writes John Casey.

Opinion: 60 years after the gay actor Jim Nabors played a straight Marine, gay actor Miles Heizer plays a gay one, while being a gay Marine still demands a cover story, writes John Casey.

I’ve spoken to people young and old who’ve told me they simply won’t be able to afford health care if premiums double. That’s a reality millions of Americans are facing unless Republicans work with us to prevent health care costs from rising and end this shutdown.

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Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

Paxton Targets Trans Groups in ‘Undercover’ Investigations Texas AG Ken Paxton sets sights on transgender and left-wing groups as part of a broader right-wing push to brand them violent extremists.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’ll launch “undercover” investigations targeting transgender and left-wing groups — echoing a broader right-wing effort to portray them as violent extremists.

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RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development.
Get your vaccines NOW
Because from this day forward
We ARE ON OUR OWN.
The Fascist Trump regime has taken over our healthcare.
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The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

The Republican healthcare plan is to let the poor and sick die.

Trumpism 101:

Do a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with the Trump organization, gift its head a luxury jet, and you can build a military airbase anywhere in the USA you want.

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

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Who’s up?

At the start of Trump’s first term in office he tore up the pandemic preparedness plan by the Obama administration.

Now his administration is burning the US pandemic preparedness infrastructure to the ground.

When, not if, the next pandemic comes the US will not able to protect public health..

🧪

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

Stop reading the NYT like it was the old NYT. Read it like it's the old Pravda.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

The press is terrified!! Full stop 🛑
1/ If the press thinks they won’t end up like the rest of us peasants in the country that he’s trying to erase, think again. You are not immune. Eventually he will turn on you also and the only difference will be that you will be in the history books as

Trump told AG Pam Bondi to prosecute Letitia James-calling her “guilty as hell”

When the US Attorney wouldn’t do it, he replaced that lawyer with his personal attorney

And despite the fact that career prosecutors refused go forward

The DOJ got an indictment anyway

THIS
IS
VINDICTIVE
PROSECUTION

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

More details about Rutgers prof Mark Bray. He wrote a book about Antifa that roundly demonstrates that Trump's claims about the organization, a relic of 1920s Weimar, are false. So MAGA world direly wants him dead. America in 2025. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show Jim Acosta: Corporate media is paralyzed with fear to report on Trump’s cognitive decline

Jim Acosta spoke to me about Donald Trump's cognitive decline: “We’re listening right now to the rantings of somebody who is just not all there.” But the reason this issue is not getting coverage is because "the corporate media in this country are paralyzed with fear.” youtu.be/_6k_8t26-RA?...

Trump’s gonna have a meltdown when he finds out that the Nobel Peace Prize when to a Latino woman who fights against vicious dictators, and promotes democracy.

Congratulations María Corina Machado!

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

I think they've been sending us that message for decades.