It’s now been a few days since a white nationalist gunman took the lives of 22 people in El Paso and there are any number of things that we could discuss. I’m inclined to focus on Mitch McConnell’s continued refusal to bring House Resolution 8 to a vote in the Senate, but I really don’t […]
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As some Republicans begin to stand up against Trump and McConnell on white nationalism and gun control, the fight shifts to Walmart and the corporations underwriting Trumpism
Yet another young white male with a gun goes on a killing rampage citing the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory
Yesterday morning, at approximately 11:00 AM, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white male wth a history of racist views, walked into the Walmart next to El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall with an AK-47-style assault rifle, and proceeded to take the lives of 20 human beings. While some on the right, like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, are […]
The uberization of the American workforce
A few weeks ago, as a part of Ann Arbor’s annual, multi-day A2Tech360 event, there was a session called “2029: What the Future Holds,” during which a number of folks from both the University of Michigan and industry speculated as to how technology may evolve and change our lives over the coming decade. Of the […]
Might Obama have plans to “jade helm” Ypsilanti as well as well as Texas?
Does anyone else find it odd that, after sitting vacant for over a dozen years, we now, almost overnight, have a new dollar store on Water Street? I know the government’s secret, troop-moving tunnel infrastructure is just supposed to connect Walmarts in the southwest, but might it not be possible that the recently-discovered Jade Helm […]