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Created
Wed, 04/01/2023 - 05:39

            Well, Mr. and Mrs. Biden, the holidays are over. You know, the holidays during which you were going to decide whether or not to run for reelection. So, what did you decide?             This being a democracy, we hope that you came down on the side of the 70% of voters who don’t want...

The post Say Another Go Ain’t So, Joe first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.
Created
Fri, 06/01/2023 - 01:24

Big issues face our award-winning editorial cartoonists here on the DMZ podcast. Ted Rall and Scott Stantis analyze the deadlock in the race to choose the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. They beg President Biden not to run for reelection. Lastly, Scott and Ted debate whether football should be banned following the near-fatal...

The post DMZ America Podcast #82: McCarthy Loses Again, “Don’t Run, Joe!” and Is It Time to Ban Football? first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.
Created
Thu, 05/01/2023 - 04:30

Here is a clip song from a live stream show we did on our YouTube Channel.

Variation witch (Live in studio)

This is one of the songs from an hour-long set list we played showcasing songs from our Rom-Comm Mixtape, Spaghetti Mid-Western EP, and some of our recent singles.

One of the singles we played was this one here called "Variation witch".

You can watch the full video of the show here - LORENZO'S MUSIC LIVE IN STUDIO PERFORMANCE - DEC 14, 2022

Created
Tue, 22/11/2022 - 06:00

Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but a ‘socially created category derived from labor relations, a product of the exploitative economic structure of capitalist society’. Disabled bodies are useful only to the extent that they create value. Capitalist social norms both demarcate who is and is not disabled in contemporary society, and at the same time oppress the disabled body. It is productivity and profits that dictate restrictions on the disabled, as well as what limited adjustments may be facilitated for the disabled to better ‘fit’ social structures. Disabled bodies are viewed as a problem. In relation to work, Connor and Coughlin argue that they are often an ‘inevitable part of the “surplus” population, not quite fully human, unable to participate in society, at best a burden and at worst a drain’.

Created
Tue, 29/11/2022 - 06:00

One of the many things we can learn from the recent elections in the United States is that the socialist revival which began there a few years ago, spearheaded first by Bernie Sanders in the Senate and then by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in the House, has by no means run out of steam. The small but energetic Democratic Socialists of America contingent within the House Democrats, and in roles within the states and communities, has not gone away. Sanders and AOC continue to be very vocal and visible in political debate and action from their socialist perspectives. The widely anticipated Republican wave not only failed to sweep away mainstream Democrats; it also failed to dislodge the socialists.

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