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By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Friday, as there often isn’t. Mostly that’s because it’s podcast day.
I don’t care about the weather. Just go about your lives, what does the weather have to do with anything?!
Posted on April 28, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
The autocracy is here. It happened. In America.
No more press briefings; media “enemy of the people”; obstruction of justice; refusing legislative oversight; rallies led by Orwellian lies; travel bans; children in cages; delegitimizing judiciary; incitements to violence. When do we officially declare America an autocracy? https://t.co/pgdbczBLSo
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 24, 2019
Posted on April 25, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Tuesday. Also, just for the record, there was no column on Friday, nor a Weekend Desk Report.
“Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, his wife and his brother-in-law are under federal criminal investigation for a dubious residential property tax appeal that dogged him during his gubernatorial campaign last year, WBEZ has learned,” the station reports.
Posted on April 24, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
“A bribes-for-jobs scheme allegedly being run out of Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown’s office will be at the center this week of a federal trial involving one of Brown’s top former aides,” the Tribune reports.
“But when Beena Patel faces a jury Tuesday at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on charges that she lied to a grand jury investigating the pay-to-play allegations, one figure will be noticeably absent from the proceedings: Brown herself.”
I’m not sure which literary character to liken Brown to, but there must be one. As the Trib notes, Brown has been under federal investigation for five years. Click through to find out why.
Posted on April 22, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
Toronto Star hero reporter Daniel Dale on the Trump Is A Pathological Liar Beat:
“It started very accidentally. It was September 2016, late in the campaign, and I was just frustrated that it seemed like Trump’s incessant dishonesty wasn’t being treated as a central story. Reporters would sometimes fact-check him on Twitter, but if you were to read the next day’s paper, or watch cable news or network news, the dishonesty just wasn’t being discussed as a story in and of itself.”
As I wrote so many times during the campaign, you could follow Dale – and others – on Twitter and track just how dishonest Trump was night after night, and just how racist his rallies were night after night, and see nothing about either the next day (or even that night!) in mainstream newspapers.
Posted on April 18, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
34 years ago, the Replacements signed to Sire & Warner Bros. Just as they inked the deal they played a chaotic gig in Warner’s homebase of LA. Here’s an internal WB report on the gig & more from my book “Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.” https://t.co/OYgDA3quMZ pic.twitter.com/Uli8chDtrF
— Bob Mehr (@BobMehr) April 15, 2019
Posted on April 17, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
This is almost too easy, but I suppose somebody has to do it. John Kass retweeted this:
This sums up the decolonize movement well. It’s not about education but revenge. https://t.co/5Ez1GCjUzz #NotreDame #Paris pic.twitter.com/DvEqVnuKOK
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 15, 2019
Posted on April 16, 2019
By Steve Rhodes
Reminder: I’ll be on Hitting Left on Friday at 11 a.m., along with Ra Joy of the Lightfoot transition team. Listen at 105.5 FM or stream it at Lumpen Radio.
Posted on April 11, 2019
