Sure, Louisville will settle with Breonna Taylor’s family for $12 million — and bury that ugly gentrification story

Using police to Bogart Black folks out of homes for condo projects? Let that play in a courtroom … There was a moment in early July when I knew there wasn’t going to be a Breonna Taylor civil lawsuit against the City of Louisville over her death by police bullets. “Hellll-nah. Ain’t gonna happen,” is […]

Attention: the Trump-Biden election will be tight

who thought conquering White supremacy would be easy? National election polls show Vice President Joe Biden holds a 10-point lead over President Donald Trump and CNN calls Biden’s position the steadiest on record — but I don’t yet see a landslide. I quickly crunched polling data in nine battleground states where I compared the 2016 […]

Military Times survey: US soldiers want a new President

Waiting for Trump’s reaction … Four years, three months, and 26 days ago, three pieces of interesting news arrived with a Military Times survey of active American military personnel. First, the soldiers preferred — by a 2-to-1 margin — Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton to be the next US President. Second, 20 percent of the […]

The City of Rochester failed Daniel Prude and allowed predator cops to fail harder

Bank robbers and mental health patients receive the same police solutions: violence. Daniel Prude’s 157-days old death at the hands of Rochester police officers, and the subsequent overdue and — for the moment — relatively lenient suspensions given to the cops involved, make me think about another way cities continue to set up Black folks […]

Why did President Trump tell Americans to vote by mail, and in person?

If your chances of winning are slim, cause chaos to even the odds — my guess. I can only see two reasons for President Donald Trump suggesting that people mail in their votes and then vote in person. I’ll get to those later. While I’m not fully confident in polls, they show that Trump will […]

The second half of 2020 feels like an Avengers movie

And the story will not end by 2021. I feel like we’re fighting Thanos. End Game style. Round one found much of the team far away from thinking we need to fight as a unit to save the planet. For this battle, we established a fragile coalition of cobalts, turquoises, royals, tiffanys and midnights, and […]

To avoid a ‘small group’ writing the GOP platform, a small group decided no platform is needed

Fake-Christian death cults tend to do this sort of thing — for the good of the people, of course. Remember when I rapped about the Republican Party’s transformation to a fake-Christian death cult? Meet the party’s triple-down commitment on that bet: There will be no GOP platform this year. Instead, and with no hint of […]

This moment, Kamala Harris, and women all over

It’s not lost on us that a woman has been summoned to face the biggest MAN-MADE, modern-day threat to PUBLIC HEALTH AND democracy. I’m thinking about a very smart woman I know who works in the restaurant industry, and is so intelligent that she has to appear dumb among her bosses and colleagues to keep […]

The Republican Party has become a fake-Christian death cult

and Donald Trump is its current leader. Government policies enable citizens to either live better, or die sooner — a reality that is hidden by the mist of feverish political debates on television and social media. Your response to this reality shows the world what your moral wiring looks like. Poverty in America means people […]

Passionate-lover-of-God Rep. Ted Yoho showed he picks ‘passion’ over his God when he called AOC a ‘Fkg B*tch’

We know the Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL 03) story by now — he called Rep Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY 14) a “Fucking bitch” over her thoughts about the connection between poverty and crime, subsequently offered a non-apology of an apology to Rep. AOC. And then AOC’s provided an elegant response to that non-apology. But here’s what […]