Though he has been out of office for 17 months now, Donald Trump lives on, rent-free, in the skulls of the left. Four of the lovely Amanda Marcotte’s last five Salon articles are all about Trump, Trump, Trump!,, and, as always, the editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer feel Mr Trump knocking on the inside of […]
We noted on Saturday, April 9th, that Ellen Pao, a tech investor and advocate, the resigned-before-she-could-be-fired CEO of Reddit, and a cofounder and CEO of the diversity and inclusion nonprofit Project Include, and someone who uses her freedom of speech and of the press to maintain her own website, used her freedom of speech and […]
I suppose that I shouldn’t really be surprised. Not everybody reads the newspaper, or, in my case, the digital newspaper, in the morning of New Year’s Day, and, when it comes to The Philadelphia Inquirer, some of the stories the editors think less important disappear quickly. Oh, they don’t disappear forever, but unless you know […]
Twitter was full of stuff on this march held by the Patriot Front. I see @ProjectLincoln had a field trip this weekend pic.twitter.com/TlWSJAdvjf — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 5, 2021 Much was made of the marchers being masked, masked to conceal their identities rather than any submission to COVID-19 masking requirements, and it looked so […]
On March 11, 2021, Kenneth Harrelson, 41, allegedly a member of the Oath Keepers, was arrested for his part in the January 6th Capitol kerfuffle. Federal agents arrested an Army veteran with ties to the far-right Oath Keepers paramilitary group on Thursday on conspiracy and other charges connected to the violent storming of the U.S. […]
The Lexington Herald-Leader adheres to the McClatchy Mugshot Policy, which begins: Publishing mugshots of arrestees has been shown to have lasting effects on both the people photographed and marginalized communities. The permanence of the internet can mean those arrested but not convicted of a crime have the photograph attached to their names forever. Beyond the […]
We have spent a fair amount of bandwidth on the January 6th “insurrection,” an event that I have called the Capitol kerfuffle, because it was really no more serious than a fraternity keg party gone a bit out of control. And we have said that U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan needs to be removed […]
Another of the Capitol kerfufflers has been sentenced, and Federal Judge Thomas Hogan said that he hoped the sentence would send a message: Judge: Sentence in Capitol riot case should send message By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press | Friday, October 8, 2021 A federal judge said Friday he hopes a three-month sentence behind bars in […]
We noted on Sunday that the Lexington Herald-Leader declined to post the mugshot of Brent Dyer Kelty, a man previously convicted of “several prior felonies in Fayette County since 2010,” in their story about him being indicted for the murder of an infant. In that, the newspaper followed the McClatchy Mugshot Policy, despite the fact […]