Friday Open Thread [6.26.15]

Friday Open Thread [6.26.15]

President Obama delivered an emotional and powerful eulogy at the funeral service for Reverend Clementa Pinckney this afternoon. If you haven't had the chance to see this magnificent and compassionate eulogy, sit down and see it now and see it until the end:
Thursday Open Thread [6.25.15]

Thursday Open Thread [6.25.15]

The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is one of America’s greatest wilderness. This area is the birthing and nursing ground for the Porcupine Caribou Herd,…
Monday Open Thread [6.22.15]

Monday Open Thread [6.22.15]

Can we please stop pretending that the modern GOP isn't a racist organization?
The leader of a white nationalist group cited in a chilling manifesto apparently written by the suspect in last week's massacre at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina donated thousands of dollars to Republican presidential candidates, campaign finance records show. The Guardian late Sunday first reported that Earl Holt III, the president of the Council of Concerned Citizens, donated to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). The Council of Concerned Citizens is a white nationalist group based in St. Louis, Missouri
This current southern iteration of the Republican party is racist. Period. It is the Nixonian/Lee Atwater/southern strategy/ party of white grievances BY DESIGN. It doesn't try to conceal or deny it, so why does the media pretend it isn't?
Saturday Open Thread [6.20.15]

Saturday Open Thread [6.20.15]

The news is full of stories of how people who should be the most concerned for justice for the 9 people killed by the terrorist Dylann Roof are working overtime to minimize his crime and to minimize the magnitude of his acts. This would be, of course, white privilege on display, still trying to minimize the value of black lives and minimize the crimes committed by white terrorists. So take a good look: