Category Archives: Fire This Time

Say What You Will, Bernie’s Still My Guy

— He’s still in the Senate, with much higher visibility;

— He campaigned fair, and most of his main rivals self-destructed;

— His integrity is intact: (Tax returns? Naddadamthing; he & Jane are comfy, but not millionaires. He kept his word: & supported HRC after the primaries; he works nonstop.)

— His message of fighting oligarchy to save democracy is not only consistent, but it’s also reinforced daily by every billionaire appointment & crazy tweet from On High . . .

Catching Up With The Saga of TigerSwan, Standing Rock & My Blog

One of the points of the blog post, which I hope will not be lost in the euphoria after the Standing Rock victory, is that TigerSwan exemplifies a state-of-the-art approach to technological control and suppression of organized dissent which has been taking form and growing under the radar over the past fifteen years. (Some details are in the disappeared post.)

It is one I believe we will see more of. And one which will get, I strongly expect, much more support from the new occupant of the White House than the current one.

Messages for The Day After

#1 Paid a call on Ms. Hazel next door. She grew up here when it was segregated, She and her people couldn’t vote,

Vote Suppression for Lunch: North Carolina, Part Two

Another part of the Republican vote suppression scheme is aimed right at my old home turf, Cumberland County, a heavily nonwhite area which includes Fayetteville & Fort Bragg. And part of the plan is probably going to work. And this is important. To see why, a bit of background: in 2004, George W. Bush beat … Continue reading Vote Suppression for Lunch: North Carolina, Part Two →

Vote Suppression for Breakfast: North Carolina

Durham, which is a city and a county. It’s a largish county, with about 300,00 population. It’s the most heavily Democratic of NC’s 100 counties. In 2012 its citizens cast 109,000 votes for Barack Obama, about a 75% margin. (Romney won NC by 97000 votes)

I already voted, on the first day of early voting, October 20. (Early voting was one of the targets of vote suppression, which the courts largely restored.) So did many others.