Total: 12 posts
Posts in: Media
Media
Transgender
LGBTQ
SocialMedia
Still the Same, Thirteen Years Later
Media
SocialMedia
USPolitics
Fediverse
SelfHosting
Who Owns Bluesky and Why it Matters
My initial reservations about Bluesky were that it is algorithm-based, it is a closed platform (you can’t run your own Bluesky server), and it was first created by Twitter’s founder Jack Dorsey.
Reading Cory Doctorow’s Bluesky and …
Media
Podcast
SocialMedia
USPolitics
Books
The Deprogram: S1 E2
I just started listening to a podcast called The Deprogram. You can find them on Twitter too. This episode of the podcast is about American Exceptionalism.
American Exceptionalism
Many Americans have never travelled outside of the United States …
Media
Podcast
Elections
UKPolitics
USPolitics
War
James O'Brien on Jeremy Corbyn:
Listening to the podcast of the Thursday edition of LBC's James O'Brien's radio show, I was surprised that he'd admit that he might be wrong about The Labour Party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Previously, he'd said that Corbyn supporters were akin to …
Media
SocialMedia
UKPolitics
Why I'm Angry at Conservative, Corporate Media
In a Twitter discussion with LBC radio presenter, Julia Hartley-Brewer asked me:
@Martiabernathey that's a LOT of money and a BIG %. What are you so angry about? — Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) October 29, 2014I AM angry. I'm angry because …
Media
Elections
SocialMedia
UKPolitics
Healthcare
Scroungers, Benefit Cuts, and the Tory Media
This morning I was listening to LBC radio and the radio presenter, John Stapleton (who was sitting in for James O’Brien), took a call from someone that said the Tories don’t care about benefit cuts and people in poverty: [soundcloud …
Media
Religion
Meet The Press Christians
Talk of Jefferson and the seperation of church and state dominated this weekend’s “Meet The Press.” I have to laugh about their talk of the founders. If you dig into Jefferson, you cannot deny the seperation of church and state. …
Media
USPolitics
Freedom Is On the March For Crackers
Watching President Bush on CNN this morning talk about the “war on terror” something hit me. How can we be in “a global war on terror” as President Bush calls it, yet we don’t call the “detainees” down at …
Media
USPolitics
Healthcare
Terri Schiavo
I told you so….
From the Florida’s medical examiner’s office:
"'She was incapable of surviving without her feeding tube,' Mr Throgmartin said, adding that she was blind and incapable of thinking, feeling or …
Activism
Indiana
Media
MyStory
LGBTQ
USPolitics
Midwest
Nervous....
Well, I went in the Indiana Statehouse for the first time in my life. And who stepped through those doors? Marti. It’s wierd to be in a space as a female that I have never been in as a male.
I was nervous as hell at first because it was a press …
Media
Elections
USPolitics
Decisive Victory
The Bush website proclaims a decisive victory! You be the judge….
CNN: Kerry: 87% Bush: 21% Tie 2%
CBS: Kerry: 87% Bush: 22% Tie: less than 1%
and that bastion of liberalism…
Fox News Kerry 51% Bush 48% Tie: less than 1% …
Media
USPolitics
CNN's Decision
I sent this e-mail to CNN:
http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=918062
I learned from the above URL that you refuse to run a commercial (a very tame commercial that I watched at their website) from the Log Cabin …
