Mark Maynard | violence

Calling the recent child molestation accusations a “desperate political attack,” far-right Christian folk hero Roy Moore assures his supporters that he’ll continue his run for Senate

By Mark | November 14, 2017

Well, it looks like I was right a few days ago, when, channeling my inner Johnnie Cochran, I proclaimed, “Where there are four, you know there are more.” This afternoon, an Alabama woman by the name of Beverly Young-Nelson came forward to announce that she too had been sexually assaulted by Republican Senate candidate Roy […]

Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism, sex, Uncategorized | Also tagged 9/11, abortion, Alabama, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim, attempted rape, Beverly Young-Nelson, Bill Armistead, Breitbart, Breitbart News, child molestation, child molesters, Claire McCaskill, Dinesh D'Souza‏, Dinesh D’Souza, fake news, Gadsden, Gloria Allred, Gloria Thacker Deason, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Jeff Flake, John Cornyn‏, Johnnie Cochran, KKK, Leigh Corfman, malls, Mitch McConnell, Old Hickory House, pedophiles, pedophilia, pizzagate, religious extremism, Roe v. Wade, Roy Moore, sexual assault, sodomy, Susan Collins, Ted Cruz, witch hunts | 64 Comments

How does one celebrate Independence Day in a country where our President has declared all out war on the free and independent press?

By Mark | July 2, 2017

Well, it’s been about three months since Alex Morris’s “Why Trump Is Not Mentally Fit to Be President” ran in Rolling Stone, and I think you’d be hard pressed to find a mental health professional to say that our President, in that time, has shown any signs of improvement. In fact, it would appear that, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 25th Amendment, Alex Morris, Ana Navarro, CNN, deep state, demonization, fake news, freedom of the press, incite violence, incitement, incompetence. Donald Trump, Independence Day, Jamie Raskin, Jerry Falwell Jr., Lügenpresse, lying press, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Pence, NRA, Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity, post-truth, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the future of journalism, threats to journalists, truth, Wayne LaPierre | 15 Comments

Marking the first day of the Trump administration with Debbie Dingell and Gretchen Whitmer, firsthand accounts of the DC, Lansing and Ypsilanti women’s marches, and a discussion about the role of community-based art in improving society… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | January 19, 2017

This weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, our first under the Trump administration, will be told in two parts. First, we will be talking with people on the ground in D.C., and elsewhere, about the response to the Trump inauguration, with special emphasis on how women are standing up and letting it be known […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, anti-immigration, art, Barack Obama, birth control, civil rights, DC, Debbie Dingell, Desirae Simmons, Donald Trump, family planning, Frederick Douglass, gay rights, Gloria Allred, grab them by the pussy, Gretchen Whitmer, healthcare, immigration, inauguration, inauguration day, Lansing, LGBTQ, Lynne Settles, manifesto, marches, Martin Luther King Day, Matt Siegfried, misogyny, Nick Azzaro, old white men making decisions on women's health, Planned Parenthood, pro-life, Rebecca Gregory, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, Roseville, sex education, Summer Zervos, The Apprentice, The Perils of the Republic, The Saturday Six Pack, violence against women, women, women's health, Women's March on Washington, women's rights, workers rights, Ypsi High | 18 Comments

Does this safety pin make you feel unwelcome or unsafe?

By Mark | November 15, 2016

After Trump’s victory of last week, as incidents of racial intimidation started to become more commonplace across the United States, some on the left began wearing safety pins as a sign of solidarity with members of those communities most at risk that. [This practice, for what it’s worth, was borrowed from British progressives, who began […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged #NotMyCampus, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim violence, Brexit, bullying, crime, Donald Trump, England, false equivalence, fascism, hate, hijab, Muslim, Muslim women, racial intimidation, safety pins, slashing, University of Michigan, white nationalism | 107 Comments

Election Day live blog

By Mark | November 8, 2016

8:00 AM… A friend asked what we should tell our children this morning. This was my response. 7:30 AM… Best case scenario. People who have been waiting on the sidelines with information on Trump, thinking that he’d likely lose, now come forward. This results in bipartisan impeachment proceedings. A weakened Pence administration is contained by […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, bullying, Canada, Christmas, community organizing, despair, Detroit Party Marching Band, Donald Trump, D’Real Graham, elections, end times, extinction, Hillary Clinton, impeachment, Jill Stein, Jim Bakker, Katrease Stafford, Make America Great Again, optimism, pessimism, post-truth, Presidential politics, protest vote, reality television, revolution, Ruth Kraut, Sidetrack, the end of the world, truth, voting, WEMU | 468 Comments

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Calling the recent child molestation accusations a “desperate political attack,” far-right Christian folk hero Roy Moore assures his supporters that he’ll continue his run for Senate

How does one celebrate Independence Day in a country where our President has declared all out war on the free and independent press?

Marking the first day of the Trump administration with Debbie Dingell and Gretchen Whitmer, firsthand accounts of the DC, Lansing and Ypsilanti women’s marches, and a discussion about the role of community-based art in improving society… on this weekend’s edition of the Saturday Six Pack

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