CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN INTOLERANCE: “Triggered Christians Need a Safe Space from Atheist Billboard” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

A billboard promoting atheism during the holiday season has been run out of town by Christians in Monroe, Louisiana, who deemed it too offensive for their community’s religious sensibilities to tolerate.

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: “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: “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.”

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Trump on the Couch with Dr. Justin Frank, MD” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Big Picture Interview: Dr. Justin Frank, MD,, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science-George Washington University/Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Is Donald Trump crazy or craxy like a fox?

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Pro-Hillary Hypocrite Barney Frank Blasts Trump’s Wall Street Corruption” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮

The former Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, blasted Donald Trump’s decision to tap former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary, and stated, “Trump is Wall Street’s best gift in many, many years.” He’s 100% correct, so what’s the problem? Well, Barney Frank is a hypocrite. Not only is he a Wall Street sellout himself, but the candidate he endorsed for president (Hillary Clinton) would have been an even BIGGER gift to Wall Street.