Mark Maynard | Kentucky

Our racist president, being a racist, says something racist

By Mark | July 28, 2019

I didn’t want to write about Donald Trump’s most recent racist statements, as, to be honest, I didn’t see as how any good would come of it. It was just a week or so ago that we were talking about how he’d told four freshman Congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “crime infested” […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Baltimore, Baltimore Sun, Barack Obama, Charlottesville, crime, Cris Wallace, detention, Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, Francisco Galicia, go back to where you came from, infested, Jared Kusher, Johns Hopkins, mice, Mick Mulvaney, Mitch McConnell, racism, rats, rodents, slumlord, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, vermin, Victor Blackwell, white nationalism | 92 Comments

My great-grandfather’s story of theft aboard The Robert E. Lee

By Mark | July 23, 2019

The family and I have spent the last four days in the Maine woods, where my aunt and her husband had rented a cabin so that our extended family could celebrate my father’s 75th birthday together. Aside from falling in Maine’s largest lake while completely clothed, having to scrub vomit from the upholstery of a […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1870, 1918 flu, Arlo, birthday presents, birthdays, Cairo, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, catsup, Charles Maynard, Civil War, clocks, Curtis Florian, dogs playing poker, Doug Skinner, drinking, falling in water, family history, family values, farming, fire, Frankfort, gambling, Georgetown, guns, hidden guns, horses, Illinois, John W. Cannon, legends, Little Mister Frankfort, lobster, lobster rolls, Louisville, Maine, Mark's ancestors, Mark's aunt Betsy, Mark's lips, Mark's relatives, Maynard-Lao Archive, Minnie Florian, Mississippi River, Natchez, New Hampshire, Ohio River, paddle boats, pandemic, Piggy Wiggly, poker, Pony Express, Rabbit Hash, Robert E. Lee, Sebago Lake, speed, statues, steamships, sunburn, The Robert E. Lee, theft, Thomas P. Leathers, tobacco, tuberculosis, vacations, vomit, White Sulfur, Wild Bill Cody, William Zanzinger, Woodlake | 10 Comments

Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti is mocked by young Trump supporters in Washington, DC

By Mark | January 19, 2019

If you’ve been on social media today, you’ve likely seen footage of a smirking, young Trump supporter appearing to mock a Native American drummer in Washington, DC during yesterday’s Indigenous Peoples March. If the Native American man in the video looks familiar to those of you who, like me, live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, it’s because […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Photographs, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-abortion, Black Hebrew Israelites, border wall, Catholic, Chris Stranad, Covington, Donald Trump, Doug Coombe, Eastern Michigan University, Huron, Indigenous Peoples March, Little Rock Nine, MAGA, March for our Lives, Nathan Phillips, native american, Nick Sandmann, racism, Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, veterans, Vietnam War, xenophobia | 536 Comments

2018 Election Day open thread

By Mark | November 6, 2018

9:00 AM I’m home with a sick kid, so thing may not go as planned, but I’m hoping to vote soon, and then head back home to do some remote phone banking through Swing Left for Amy McGrath, the Democratic candidate for Kentucky’s 6th district, which covers Frankfort, where I lived as a baby, Georgetown, […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACA, Adam Schiff, Amy McGrath, Andy LaBarre, Arlo, Atlanta, Bill Schuette, Black Panther Party, bowling, Brian Kemp, Clementine, Congress, Dave Trott, Debbie Stabenow, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Election Day, election interference, election reform, election results, elections, Elissa Slotkin, fake news, Georgia, get out the vote, Gretchen Driskell, Haley Stevens, health care, House Intelligence Committee, Jeff Irwin, Kansas, Kris Kobach, Landline, Lena Epstein, Michigan's 11th congressional district, Michigan's 7th Congressional District, Michigan's 8th Congressional District, midterm elections, Mike Bishop, Pennsylvania, Peter Larson, phone banking, Piss Alley Rollers, Pita Pita, play structure, Pod Save America, political violence, racism, Riverside Park, Rust Belt, Sidetrack, Snellville, Stacey Abrams, Swing Left, Ted Cruz, Tim Walberg, voter fraud, voter suppression, voting, Wisconsin | 216 Comments

Secret Societies inside the FBI

By Mark | January 25, 2018

This is United States Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, in what should be a career ending move, warning the nation of a “secret society” within the FBI working behind the scenes to bring down Donald Trump. Sen Ron Johnson claims "informant" who has news about the FBI "Secret Society" working to overthrow President Trump. pic.twitter.com/QzGhXBEUYD […]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Jones, Bill Kristol, birther, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, fake news, FBI, Fox and Friends, FOX News, Lisa Page, Morning Joe, Peter Strzok, post-truth, Robert Mueller, Roger Ailes, Ron Johnson, Russia, Russiagate, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Sean Hannity, secret society, speaking truth to lunacy, Steve Bannon, Wisconsin | 160 Comments

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Our racist president, being a racist, says something racist

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