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Monthly Archives: December 2016
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Maniac Sheriff Insults DAPL Veterans with an Absurd Lie” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮
North Dakota’s Morton County Sheriff Paul D Laney announced he had received “intel” that veterans with PTSD were being manipulated by DAPL protesters.
CANNABIS: “The Truth About Marijuana” / The Humanist Report / The Weekly Dose / Mike Figueredo ☮
Many talking heads have made strong assertions about the dangers of marijuana. In this short satirical mini-documentary, we pay homage to these people by highlighting their stupidity.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Two Time Obama Voters Explain Why They Voted Trump” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
CNN’s Van Jones kicked off his primetime special The Messy Truth tonight by talking to a family that supported President Obama twice, but went for Donald Trump this year.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Hillary Clinton Throwing Thank You Party for Big Money Donors” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are planning a thank-you party next week for those who donated millions to their presidential campaign.
The party at the Plaza Hotel’s Grand Ballroom on Dec. 15 is expected to feature fashion icon Anna Wintour, investor Alan Patricof, hedge fund manager Marc Lasry and more, according to the New York Post’s Page Six.
“Hopefully there’s no balconies so nobody can jump,” an insider told Page Six.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Eroding Electoral Confidence” / Full Frontal with Samantha Bee ☮
The government is good except for when the old men don’t get the things they want. Then it’s bigly bad.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Fake News, Real Consequences” / Full Frontal with Samantha Bee ☮
This is a very real segment about very fake news.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES: “The Infancy Gospel of Thomas Explained” / ReligionForBreakfast / Andrew Henry ☮
Stories about Jesus’ birth are famous. But what about stories about Jesus’ childhood? One early Christian text, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, invents some pretty crazy stories about the schoolboy Jesus. But what did this text mean for an ancient audience?
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Break Free and Lead, or Resign: A Letter to Bernie Sanders” / truthdig / Yoav Litvin ☮
Dear Bernie Sanders,
In our times of fear, growing bigotry and uncertainty, I feel obligated to appeal to you. As a former campaigner of yours, I write this letter with sadness, rage, disappointment, fatigue and fear, but also a hopeful look toward the future.
Disillusioned with Barack Obama, I supported Jill Stein for President in 2012. However, when this election cycle came along, I, like many others, decided to change my registration from “Independent” to “Democratic” in order to vote for you in the primaries. Fortified by knowledge of the dangers of a Clinton candidacy, I strongly felt you were our best hope for meaningful change and warding off the Republicans.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Trump Picks Benighted Ben Carson for His Administration” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Donald Trump has nominated former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson to serve as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Carson has been a vocal critic of HUD’s fair housing rule, which requires local communities to assess patterns of income and racial discrimination in housing. Carson has described the rule as a “mandated social-engineering scheme.” He said, “This is just an example of what happens when we allow the government to infiltrate every part of our lives. This is what you see in communist countries.”
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