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22/12/2024

What an insecure little man vice-president-elect Trump is.

25/09/2020

Conservative journalists, who have apparently not read a newspaper or watched TV for the past six months are shocked to find that police are attacking and arresting journalists.
https://www.redflagpublishing.com/2020/09/25/reality-has-to-smack-conservatives-in-the-face-like-a-dead-fish-before-they-see-it/

Read the replies: The Daily Caller has led the fight to shine a light on the riots in America. and saw somebody shot right in front of them in WI.Now, Louisville pol…

19/09/2020

A Colorado school called police on a Black boy for bringing a toy gun to school. Except he never left his couch. In his home.
https://www.redflagpublishing.com/2020/09/19/this-is-why-we-have-black-lives-matter/

A school district in Colorado called the police on a Black boy for bringing a toy gun to school. Except he never left his home. He was sitting on his couch. This is the “School to Prison Pipe…

18/09/2020

Well, that's a memorable wedding day.

https://www.redflagpublishing.com/2020/09/18/seven-dead-dozens-infected-from-wedding/

Well, every bride wants her wedding day to memorable. I don’t think she’ll forget this. Or her family. Or her friends. Or any of the other innocent people her selfishness killed. Welcom…

01/09/2020

The biggest rant yet:
https://www.redflagpublishing.com/todays-rant/todays-rant-the-week-they-finally-said-it-out-loud/

Today’s Rant: The Week They Finally Said It Out Loud In a week where a US president refused to condemn right-wing protesters who sprayed a crowd in Portland with paint balls and pepper spray, and a another who shot three people in Kenosha, killing two, I believe that this will instead be the week ...

28/08/2020

The future is an unstoppable train, and Republicans are screaming “Run! For God’s sake, RUN!”
https://www.redflagpublishing.com/todays-rant/todays-rant-the-march-into-the-future-is-inexorable-and-white-folk-are-scared-exactly-how-oligarchs-want-them-to-be/

Today’s Rant: The March into the Future is Inexorable, and White Folk are Scared – Exactly How Oligarchs Want Them to be “Tonight’s event at the White House demonstrated that we are in another great crisis in American history. A reactionary group of older white men look at a global future in...

20/08/2020

Republican-led Senatorial committee issues a report that is the legal equivalent to “knifing the president in the back,” then immediately say they found “absolutely no evidence.”

“What Senate Republicans are saying about their own report comes perilously close to simple lying.”
~ Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution

https://www.redflagpublishing.com/2020/08/20/perilously-close-to-lying-translated-from-lawyer-speak-to-english-is-theyre-goddamned-liars/

Republican-led Senatorial committee issues a report that is the legal equivalent to “knifing the president in the back,” then immediately say they found “absolutely no evidence.& #…

16/08/2020

https://www.redflagpublishing.com/todays-rant/todays-rant-cannon-hinnant-trope-institutional-racism-in-a-nutshell/

By now you have probably seen memes asking why a white child killed by a black man hasn’t brought people out in the streets. “Why does George Floyd’s life matter, but not Cannon Hinnant’s?& #8…

16/08/2020

Defeat voter suppression: Drop your ballot off at the county clerk's office.

Roscoe Woods, president of American Postal Workers Union Local 480-481 in the Detroit-metro area, said he didn’t initially think the policy changes were about the election. But after what he’s seen and heard from his members, he says he’s now “a firm believer that it’s a fundamental effort to undermine people’s confidence in this agency and make it harder to vote by mail…There’s no other explanation.”

https://www.redflagpublishing.com/2020/08/16/defeat-voter-suppression-drop-your-ballots-off-at-the-county-clerk/

As Trump's postmaster general pushes cuts, union leaders warn "there's no other explanation" aside from vote suppression.

15/08/2020

After tremendous pushback, including from it's staff, Newsweek uses the "I'm sorry you misunderstood what I said" non-apology

https://www.redflagpublishing.com/2020/08/15/newsweek-tries-to-apologise-not-apologize-over-birther-bu****it/

So, after running an opinion piece questioning Kamala Harris’s citizenship using the exact same Birther bu****it used against Barack Obama, and then arguing in an editorial note it was comple…

13/08/2020

After admitting the law has been settled, law professor argues born-in- California Kamala Harris doesn't deserve citizenship because we were still pretty racist when she was born:
https://www.redflagpublishing.com/todays-rant/todays-rant-and-the-racist-birtherism-begins/

John C. Eastman professor of law at Chapman University has already jumped on the birther bandwagon against Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris. And Newsweek magazine has decided th…

21/07/2020

The Civil Rights Movement is back in the streets of America. And it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same.
https://www.redflagpublishing.com/todays-rant/todays-rant-civil-rights-movement-2-0/

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s never ended, it just moved into the mainstream. When viewers of national newscasts watched mounted sheriffs truncheon activists, release dogs on them, and use…

16/07/2020

Today's Rant: America, prepare for the next stage of gaslighting

If you are unfamiliar with the term “gaslighting,” becoming acquainted with it should be your highest priority. Because it is being used against you on a national scale. And it’s …

28/06/2020

Just when you think it can't get any worse.

Choose:A. Trump’s a goddamned lying cowardB. Trump’s cabinet is incompetentC. Trump’s a traitorD. All of the above. “Facing strong criticism from Democrats, Trump said on Tw…

26/06/2020

When did we forget that we didn’t need debate to understand some things are just wrong?

Read an opinion piece on the concept of journalists working from a position of moral clarity rather than just stenographers giving you two sides of a story as if they are equal here: https://www.redflagpublishing.com/todays-rant/todays-rant-on-moral-clarity-in-journalism/

There was a great piece in the New Yorker by staff writer Masha Gessen on June 24 titled Why Are Some Journalists Afraid of “Moral Clarity”? In the piece, the writer discusses the concept and some …