Kentucky Bluegrass Politics
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Views from across the spectrum, with a focus on KY; the impacts our legislators have had on the nation and the KY press apparatus' abject failure to adequately inform their readers on critical issues. We stand at the precipice they helped create.
From the senators to the candidates being confirmed, there certainly isn't a shortage of ppl that seem more than happy to debase themselves for money. And that certainly says a lot about their (lack of) morals, character and judgement. Impeachment worthy individuals all.
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Here’s a Ray Bradbury tale from The Martian Chronicles that HASN’T been in most editions published since the 1990s! Why? You tell me! Note: 2-page spread & text Best viewed on tablet/laptop/desktop #PopSky atocom.blogspot.com/2026/07/wedn...
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder DUKE Ray Bradbury's "The Day Negroes Left Earth!"
Daily blog about comics and sci-fi / fantasy
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Atomic Kommie Comics@atomickommiecomics.bsky.social · last wk.If MAGAmorons whining about the labor shortage THEY caused had read this 1950s Ray Bradbury story (usually titled “The Other Foot”), they might not have been so quick to pass laws repressing non-whites & immigrants! 2-page spread Use tablet/laptop/desktop #PopSky atocom.blogspot.com/2026/07/wedn...
This is so on brand for the Right. Villainize the pursuit of knowledge and the arts while championing violence in the form of gov't approved, highly armed death squads.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Head Start, established in the 1960s to help fight poverty, has long been considered by experts to be a gold standard early learning program. https://to.pbs.org/457Vzdx
Trump administration weighs proposal to gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules
Two people familiar with the deliberations tell The Associated Press the Republican administration's proposed changes could significantly reduce the preschool program's quality standards.
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"Beyond disputing the facts, Capital One has reiterated in the new court filing it had the right to close any account "at any time, for any or no reason and without notice" — language the Trump companies do not dispute." For those who missed it:
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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"It doesn't help that we're talking about a man who spent 40 years being one of the most calculating, cold-blooded operators in American political history. This is the man who rammed three Supreme Court justices through for Donald Trump."
The latest Mitch McConnell rumor is just too wacko to be believed
I'll admit for a few days last week, I started to believe it too.Today is Aug. 3, the deadline for Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to call a special election to fill Mitch McConnell's Senate seat if it...
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“Lack of transparency is a symptom, but the disease is really impunity. The question really is: Is he serving his constituents, or is he treating his office as something that he's owed? And I think that's a broader question that applies beyond Sen. McConnell.”
Crucial deadline in Mitch McConnell saga set to trigger never-before-tested law
Under a never-before-tested Kentucky law, Monday could be the last chance to call a special election before the midterms to fill the seat widely believed to have been effectively left vacant by Sen. M...
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The “anti-vaxx” movement is insane. It posits that illness is preferable to health, that death is better than life. It’s like favoring cancer over surgery to remove it. See also KY senator Rand Paul.
Rand Paul Is Linked to Doctors’ Group That Supports Vaccination Challenges (Gift Article)
The senator, who adjusted course Tuesday and said vaccines were not harmful, was a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
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Ohio's senator Bernie Moreno famously went off on Dr. Fauci last week. Afterwards someone confronted the senator and asked why he wasn't displaying the same "outrage" at the man accused of assaulting Moreno's daughter. The senator had nothing to say. This piece (2024) may help explain a few things.
Trump-backed Senate candidate faces GOP worries that he could be linked to adult website profile
For Republicans eager to regain the Senate majority this year, Ohio offers a prime opportunity to pick up a critical seat.
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From our "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face" department comes this shocking news:
Trump voter angry as ICE take nanny—‘I thought we were targeting criminals’
"I don't think this is really what I voted for if I was voting for immigration reform," Maureen Mendrek-Laske told Newsweek.
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We're on the brink because Mitch McConnell (the longest-serving Republican Senate Leader in history) paved the road that lead us here. He has served in the Senate since 1985 and has held tremendous influence over the course of several presidential administrations.
How Did Mitch McConnell Shape the Federal Judiciary?
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, this report examines how Sen. McConnell reshaped our judiciary into a conservative majority.
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Politicians work for ALL of us. Our press here in KY doesn't seem to comprehend that basic tenet when covering politics and our politicians. As a result, readers are misinformed and making decisions based on false assumptions.
Blue Kentucky Gal@bluekentuckygal.bsky.social · 4d agoPublic officials are supposed to represent the interests of ALL their constituents, not just the ones who share their religious beliefs. Republicans do not believe that. I believe they should not be elected.
My FAVORITE gift from Canada are these guys...
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Moreno was only there to display faux outrage and generate a soundbite for the social media cult. It seems to have worked.
I still recall, as COVID landed on our shores in 2020, the first response from Trump and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was to weaponize it to score political points and further divide Americans. The press here never touched the subject. Today they're leading the fight to whitewash Mitch's legacy.
It's nice to see journalists finally catch on to what some of us have been saying for years now.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 6d ago"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Please. Read and share. "Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Riddle me this, Batman... Why in the wide, wide world of fuck is Anthony Fauci being eviscerated while testifying before Congress, while Donald Trump is held to absolutely no accountability for his far, far more egregious and real crimes? Bizarro World...
Remember when: every time a Democrat was elected president the Right would scream about FEMA camps and how the "government" would round them all up? Now they're the ones kidnapping innocent ppl off the streets while their president empties our prisons by pardoning convicted criminals for $$$.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last wk.ICE has awarded an additional $776 million to Texas' largest detention facility despite calls to close it over violence against detainees.
Okay MAGA, here’s your chance! You wept and wailed about immigrants taking YOUR jobs. So Trump’s sending the ones who change adult diapers and clean up after elderly dementia patients “back to where they came from!” Avoid the rush: Apply for their jobs now!
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Anti-vaxxer Rand Paul is yet another KY politician enabled by this state's already worthless corporate press establishment. His rants have undoubtedly helped to cause needless suffering and death but it's a topic our "journalists" here won't even breech.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Fauci invokes fifth amendment and declines to testify in Senate Covid hearing
I was fixing to post this exact reminder yesterday. Glad to see that some folks still remember their history.
Yeah. About last night's White House Correspondents Dinner? I'd never dine or even shake the hands of someone like #Felon47. These ppl are also on that list:
10 Cruelest Dictators
Who are the top ten cruelest dictators in modern history? See who made the list.
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Unions. Immigrant labor. Poor wages, no benefits, no job security. All play a role. This deserves to be read.
Where Did All the American-Born Roofers Go? (Gift Article)
The real story of how immigrant labor came to define the construction industry.
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whet moser@whetmoser.com · 2w agothe piece is about how the collapse of unionized labor in the construction industry has affected wages and working conditions, it took 60 interviews to do. pretty burned out on people just glancing at a headline and giving the most snide possible reaction
