Tag Archives: Doug Jones

Spreading the gospel of white nationalism, alienating allies, and attacking a woman who isn’t Theresa May… just another day with Trump

By Mark | November 29, 2017

This morning, our President, Donal Trump, shared three videos by way of social media that had originally been posted to Twitter by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, an anti-Muslim extremist political organization. The three videos appear to show a Muslim man destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, an “Islamist mob” shoving […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged emotional truth, England, far-right, fascism, fear mongering, hate crime, Jayda Fransen, Joe Scarborough, lies, murder, offending allies, Paul Golding, Republican lies, Russia, Russiagate, Sam Coates, Sam Harris, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Scott Adams, tax reform, Theresa May, United Kingdom, Vladimir Putin, white nationalism | 15 Comments

Five simple things you can do to stop Trump’s Tax Scam

By Mark | November 28, 2017

If you read this site, you know the Republican tax bill is shortsighted, cruel and stupid. You know that, even though it was sold to us as a middle class tax cut, the truth is, tax cuts for the middle class are small and temporary, while the tax cuts for billionaires and corporations are large […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alabama, America Cares Act, American aristocracy, Arizona, Bob Corker, Donald Trump, estate tax, higher education, Jeff Flake, John McCain, national debt, redistribution of wealth, Resistbot, Roy Moore, scientific research, Senate, Senate Budget Committee, Steve Daines, tax reform, tax scam, taxes, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, withholding consent | 22 Comments

Ypsi Immigration Interview: Lynne Settles

By Mark | January 22, 2016

While I’d talked with Ypsi High art teacher Lynne Settles a few times over this past year, about the HP Jacobs mural that she and her students had created on the side of Currie’s barbershop, and other community art related things, I didn’t realize until a few weeks ago that she was actually a relatively […]

Posted in History, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Ypsilanti | Also tagged African American history, art, black lives matter, Currie's barbershop, diversity, Great Migration, Howard University, HP Jacobs, Imani, Kate de Fuccio, Kwanzaa, Laura Bien, Lynne Settles, Matt Siegfried, Maulana Karenga, murals, Nia, public art, race, racism, teaching, teaching in public school, Westland, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Ypsilanti high school, Ypsilanti Township | 12 Comments

HP Jacobs, runaway slave turned state senator, doctor and university founder, recognized in Ypsilanti

By Mark | October 18, 2015

Earlier this year, in the second installment of our interview with local historian Matt Siegfried on slavery, the fight for emancipation, and the role played by Ypsilantians in that struggle, we heard the story of a man named HP Jacobs, a runaway slave from Alabama who made his way to Ypsilanti, became a janitor at […]