Garth Brooks will be performing at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Wednesday. The country star held a press conference on Monday to announce the news, Entertainment Tonight reports. “This is not a political statement, this is a statement of unity,” Brooks said. “This …
Read More »DOJ Probe: Sessions Separated Immigrant Families With No Plans in Place to Reunite
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and high-ranking Justice Department officials were the “driving force” behind separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border and were unprepared to house migrant children or reunite them with their parents, according to a recently released review by the DOJ inspector general. In the spring of 2018, …
Read More »Patreon Claimed They Kicked Conspiracy Theorists Off. QAnon Still Flourishes
Both aspiring and well-established QAnon influencers are directly profiting off the paid subscription service platform Patreon, despite the website publicly cracking down on accounts pushing the conspiracy theory last winter. Rolling Stonefound nearly a dozen examples of creators on the platform using language that identifies them as followers of QAnon, …
Read More »Democrats Introduce Article of Impeachment Against President Trump
House Democrats introduced a single article of impeachment charging President Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for his role encouraging the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last week, resulting in five deaths. Hours after its release the article reportedly has the support of more than 218 members of Congress, the …
Read More »Twitter Permanently Suspends Donald Trump's Account to Prevent 'Further Incitement of Violence'
@RealDonaldTrump has gone dark. President Trump has been permanently banned from his favored social media platform. For years, as he rose to political prominence and through is presidency, Trump has used Twitter as his personal bully pulpit. Until Friday evening, he enjoyed unfiltered access to more than 88 million supporters …
Read More »Biden: 'Democracy Is Under Unprecedented Assault'
As D.C. police worked to clear a pro-Trump mob that had stormed Capitol Hill as Congress was certifying the results of the 2020 election, President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation from Wilmington, Delaware. “At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times,” Biden …
Read More »With All Eyes on Georgia, Atlanta Rappers Reignite Role as Political Kingmakers
W hen Joe Biden held a drive-in rally in an amphitheater parking lot in Atlanta on October 27th — one week before the election — he made sure to welcome hip-hop culture. Election Day was near, and he was on the south side of the city, in an area that …
Read More »6 Paths Through Jazz in 2020
Jazz is a web. Because of the genre’s inherently collaborative, often mix-and-match nature, singling out a supporting player we like on a given record might lead us to dozens of other sessions featuring that same artist in various contexts. Or we might pick up a certain current in the music …
Read More »What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?
Promises to dismantle the police department, root-and-branch, have come to little in Minneapolis. In the immediate wake of the homicide of George Floyd under the knee of a city cop, a veto-proof majority of the city council vowed to disband the Minneapolis PD and to replace it with new systems …
Read More »Armed Protesters Gathered Outside Michigan Secretary of State's Home
Dozens of armed reality deniers gathered outside Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home over the weekend, making “threats of violence, intimidation, and bullying” in support of the president’s false claims of election fraud. Benson released a statement describing the “threatening” scene in front of her house. “As my four-year-old …
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