Kentucky Bluegrass Politics
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Views from across the spectrum, with a focus on KY; the impacts our legislators have had on the nation and the KY press apparatus' abject failure to adequately inform their readers on critical issues. We stand at the precipice they helped create.
Pinned
It never stopped. Some places around here ppl still boast of only serving Blacks from the back door of restaurants as recently as the 1970s. More recently "concerned" religious ppl and their paranoia drove a nearby bookstore to close. These same ppl now support a convicted sex predator as president.
Kentuckians feared the post-war world. So they burned their kids’ comic books
A new online history project shows how anxious Americans in the 1940s and ‘50s blamed comics for juvenile delinquency and other social ills.
www.kentucky.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It never stopped. Some places around here ppl still boast of only serving Blacks from the back door of restaurants as recently as the 1970s. More recently "concerned" religious ppl and their paranoia drove a nearby bookstore to close. These same ppl now support a convicted sex predator as president.
Touché
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Touché
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Whats good for the goose.......
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Whats good for the goose.......
"Health hoax websites and prominent anti-vaxxers..."
Like Kentucky's Rand Paul, whose own efforts (disguised as a "personal liberty" stance) go back at least 10 years and have been totally ignored by the corporate press establishment here. Q: How many lives have been lost as a result?
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Like Kentucky's Rand Paul, whose own efforts (disguised as a "personal liberty" stance) go back at least 10 years and have been totally ignored by the corporate press establishment here. Q: How many lives have been lost as a result?
More here:
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Health hoax websites and prominent anti-vaxxers..."
Like Kentucky's Rand Paul, whose own efforts (disguised as a "personal liberty" stance) go back at least 10 years and have been totally ignored by the corporate press establishment here. Q: How many lives have been lost as a result?
More here:
Like Kentucky's Rand Paul, whose own efforts (disguised as a "personal liberty" stance) go back at least 10 years and have been totally ignored by the corporate press establishment here. Q: How many lives have been lost as a result?
More here:
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Auditor Ball is a Republican.
Governor Beshear is a Democrat.
Auditor Ball is a Republican.
Governor Beshear is a Democrat.
KY Auditor: Beshear’s new juvenile justice isolation rules don’t solve problems
State Auditor Allison Ball says the state’s troubled juvenile detention facilities need a better fix than governor’s proposed regulations.
www.kentucky.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Auditor Ball is a Republican.
Governor Beshear is a Democrat.
Auditor Ball is a Republican.
Governor Beshear is a Democrat.
And we didn't even have to blow anyone up...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
And we didn't even have to blow anyone up...
While we're blowing up civilians:
"The Sackler family is one of the richest families in America, with an estimated $13 billion fortune. Once thought of as a philanthropic family, the reputation of the Sackler’s has been impacted since the majority of their wealth has come from OxyContin sales."
"The Sackler family is one of the richest families in America, with an estimated $13 billion fortune. Once thought of as a philanthropic family, the reputation of the Sackler’s has been impacted since the majority of their wealth has come from OxyContin sales."
How Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family Perpetrated the Opioid Crisis
To understand Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family's impact on the opioid crisis, you have to look back to the beginning.
www.addictioncenter.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
While we're blowing up civilians:
"The Sackler family is one of the richest families in America, with an estimated $13 billion fortune. Once thought of as a philanthropic family, the reputation of the Sackler’s has been impacted since the majority of their wealth has come from OxyContin sales."
"The Sackler family is one of the richest families in America, with an estimated $13 billion fortune. Once thought of as a philanthropic family, the reputation of the Sackler’s has been impacted since the majority of their wealth has come from OxyContin sales."
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If you needed one more reason to compare the US to Germany, consider this. After Germany lost WWI, bad actors used resentment about the loss to take over the government in the inter-war period.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you needed one more reason to compare the US to Germany, consider this. After Germany lost WWI, bad actors used resentment about the loss to take over the government in the inter-war period.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
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The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
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Congratulations to Justin Crosby (D) on his election victory in Mississippi CD22 — he flipped the newly redrawn seat by defeating the incumbent with approximately 53 % of the vote.
This win is part of a broader shift after court-ordered map revisions aimed at increasing majority-Black districts.
This win is part of a broader shift after court-ordered map revisions aimed at increasing majority-Black districts.
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Congratulations to Justin Crosby (D) on his election victory in Mississippi CD22 — he flipped the newly redrawn seat by defeating the incumbent with approximately 53 % of the vote.
This win is part of a broader shift after court-ordered map revisions aimed at increasing majority-Black districts.
This win is part of a broader shift after court-ordered map revisions aimed at increasing majority-Black districts.
Not much more I can say, this response sums it up perfectly.
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Not much more I can say, this response sums it up perfectly.
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Morals. Judgement. Character. Integrity.
All traits that are so important in public serice and yet our press back in Kentucky won't touch that shit with a ten foot pole and just pretend it's all just a horse race.
#WorseThanUseless #StenographyIsNotJournalism
All traits that are so important in public serice and yet our press back in Kentucky won't touch that shit with a ten foot pole and just pretend it's all just a horse race.
#WorseThanUseless #StenographyIsNotJournalism
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Morals. Judgement. Character. Integrity.
All traits that are so important in public serice and yet our press back in Kentucky won't touch that shit with a ten foot pole and just pretend it's all just a horse race.
#WorseThanUseless #StenographyIsNotJournalism
All traits that are so important in public serice and yet our press back in Kentucky won't touch that shit with a ten foot pole and just pretend it's all just a horse race.
#WorseThanUseless #StenographyIsNotJournalism
Reminder: Trump has pardoned drug dealers (and violent felons). Google the list.
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reminder: Trump has pardoned drug dealers (and violent felons). Google the list.
What's criminally unbelievable is that KY's Rand Paul has for years been allowed to spread anti-vax hysteria with almost ZERO notice from the state's corporate press establishment or talking heads.
Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What's criminally unbelievable is that KY's Rand Paul has for years been allowed to spread anti-vax hysteria with almost ZERO notice from the state's corporate press establishment or talking heads.
From our "no shit" department:
‘Gut punch’: Jan 6 cop slams Trump as ICE agents echo Capitol mob
First, President Donald Trump issued pardons and other acts of clemency for 1,500 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, leaving police officers like Aquilino Gonell bloodied, many with...
www.rawstory.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From our "no shit" department:
"All members of the military have the right, and in some cases have the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Your oath is to the Constitution (which incorporates international treaties ratified by the U.S. on human rights and the law of war), not to the Commander-In-Chief..."
FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders - Military Law Task Force
This FAQ (drafted by members of the MLTF) can also be found in printable PDF format here: Illegal Orders FAQ – 11NOV2025 DoD Instruction 1325.06 permits a servicemember to possess a single copy of th...
nlgmltf.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"All members of the military have the right, and in some cases have the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Your oath is to the Constitution (which incorporates international treaties ratified by the U.S. on human rights and the law of war), not to the Commander-In-Chief..."
If Cronkite had covered Watergate and Vietnam the way today's talking heads (@nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @ABCNEWS) cover Trump, Epstein and Ukraine?
Nixon would probably still be in office and we'd still be fighting in Vietnam.
#TVNews #journalism
Nixon would probably still be in office and we'd still be fighting in Vietnam.
#TVNews #journalism
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
If Cronkite had covered Watergate and Vietnam the way today's talking heads (@nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @ABCNEWS) cover Trump, Epstein and Ukraine?
Nixon would probably still be in office and we'd still be fighting in Vietnam.
#TVNews #journalism
Nixon would probably still be in office and we'd still be fighting in Vietnam.
#TVNews #journalism
In case you're wondering where our money is going as Dopey47 starves kids and seniors, takes away their healthcare and sends US citizens to concentration camps.
Trump officials give $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island
The plan to reopen Three Mile Island to supply Microsoft with power wins a federal loan guarantee, shifting some of the risk onto taxpayers.
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In case you're wondering where our money is going as Dopey47 starves kids and seniors, takes away their healthcare and sends US citizens to concentration camps.
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After this administration is gone, there will be stronger guardrails if we're going to survive as a democracy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
After this administration is gone, there will be stronger guardrails if we're going to survive as a democracy.
Oops. My bad. That's it? Are you serious?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oops. My bad. That's it? Are you serious?
In 2008 candidate Obama went through hell over words his pastor had said regarding 9/11 and race after the Republicans and press decided to make it an issue.
Today, the Republicans defend a president who for DECADES was close friends with a known pedophile while the press is ded silent on the fact.
Today, the Republicans defend a president who for DECADES was close friends with a known pedophile while the press is ded silent on the fact.
Jeremiah Wright controversy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In 2008 candidate Obama went through hell over words his pastor had said regarding 9/11 and race after the Republicans and press decided to make it an issue.
Today, the Republicans defend a president who for DECADES was close friends with a known pedophile while the press is ded silent on the fact.
Today, the Republicans defend a president who for DECADES was close friends with a known pedophile while the press is ded silent on the fact.
Trump knows. They all know the truth. From 2018.
Gifted. Free to read
Gifted. Free to read
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump knows. They all know the truth. From 2018.
Gifted. Free to read
Gifted. Free to read
DJT using his office to protect paedophiles and sex predators? Yeah, that tracks.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
DJT using his office to protect paedophiles and sex predators? Yeah, that tracks.