Category Archives: United States

In Memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Posted on September 19, 2020 by

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second woman on the U.S. Supreme Court on August 10, 1993. From the ACLU tribute to “the Notorious RBG” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice and co-founder of the Women’s Rights … Continue reading →

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A Poem for This Fourth of July

Posted on July 4, 2020 by

This 4th of July I don’t feel much like celebrating. The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is in trouble, more divided, more unequal, and certainly less free, than ever. In November, I do believe we … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: DREAM

Posted on January 31, 2020 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading →

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TCS: An Oh-So-Ironic Women’s Equality Day – 2019

Posted on August 26, 2019 by

. . Good Morning! ______________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to … Continue reading →

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TCS: A Very Long Journey – Remaking Detroit

Posted on February 4, 2019 by

Good Morning! ___________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading →

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Trump’s total commitment to whole cloth

Posted on November 4, 2018 by

  By ann summers Trump continues to claim that the media covered protests of his Pittsburgh visit as riots. Nobody covered the protests as riots. The reality is that Trump deliberately tried to incite violence in Pittsburgh on Tuesday by forcing … Continue reading →

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“…one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups” This is a job for Sideshow Ed Whelan!

Posted on October 23, 2018 by

By ann summers   Trump knows from cover-ups. Because “fudged” interviews, “enemies of the state”, and SCOTUS nominees, Sideshow Ed should have run this assassination. “They had a very bad original concept. It was carried out poorly and the cover-up … Continue reading →

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Apparently “no public evidence has emerged showing that Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia” -yet(i pubes)

Posted on September 20, 2018 by

By ann summers Today’s long-form NY Times story by Shane and Mazzetti is worth reading if only to remind oneself about the relentless work of rigged Russian witches, and that there’s a viable timeline for #TrumpRussia. One can only hope … Continue reading →

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The only thing we have to trump is fear itself

Posted on September 12, 2018 by

By ann summers Only the blind led the blind in Trump Tower, especially in June 2016. But more interesting is Barbara Res telling stories about her former boss, challenging the notion of the “adults in the room” and their agendas. … Continue reading →

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“Let’s hope to God we don’t have a crisis” … too late

Posted on September 9, 2018 by

By ann summers High Holy Days, Batman. 9/11 is the release day for Bob Woodward’s book, Fear and the Trump regime is scrambling. It now seems more obvious the anonymous Op-Ed in the NY Times was designed to offset Woodward’s … Continue reading →

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