Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:50:45 pm
Many people have now joined the effort to inform major companies about the racist and misogynist nature of Breitbart "News" and urge them not to advertise at this "alt-right" hate site, and this ad hoc campaign is getting serious results. The number of companies that have now pulled their ads from ...

Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:30:30 pm
This Washington Post headline is truly chilling: Trump to inherit more than 100 court vacancies, plans to reshape judiciary. In addition to the open Supreme Court position, Trump is going to have an opportunity to appoint an appalling number of federal judges. Confirmation of Obama’s judicial nominees slowed to a crawl ...

Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:02:32 pm
.@oreillyfactor: “The left wants power taken away from the white establishment and they want a profound change in the way America is run.” pic.twitter.com/EggkBz7kvZ — Fox News (@FoxNews) December 21, 2016 ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage It's really out in the open now. Fox News tweeted this white supremacist sentiment from their leading gasbag ...

Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:16:20 pm
YouTube This speech by California Governor Jerry Brown is simply incredible, and I mean that in the best way. Brown makes a passionate case for continued action on climate change, in a major push-back against the dismaying election of a virulent climate change denier, Donald Trump. Along the way, Brown calls ...

Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:21:00 am
We're coming down to the wire, folks; the Electoral College meets on Monday to decide whether this country will put its fate in the hands of a thin-skinned pathologically dishonest narcissist with fascist tendencies and ties to white supremacists, and his cabinet of billionaires, generals and creationists. A full-page ad ...

Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 11:38:21 am
Yesterday I came across this tweet by science journalist Kelsey Kennedy: This is an actual headline on Breitbart. Apparently peer-reviewed science is so threatening, you should arm yourself. pic.twitter.com/1nwAYy6iqR — Kelsey Kennedy (@kelseyrkennedy) December 12, 2016 ReplyReply w/ QuoteImage The article is by Breitbart's resident climate change denying clown, James Delingpole, one of ...

Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:07:49 am
The incoming Trump administration is apparently planning to implement a purge of any Energy Department officials who have worked on issues related to climate change. According to Bloomberg, the Trump transition team has presented the DOE with a 74-point questionnaire that asks for the names of employees and contractors who worked ...

Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:48:14 am
The news from the Donald Trump Horror just keeps getting worse, every day. Today Trump announced his pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Would it surprise you to learn that he's a far right climate change denier in the pocket of the fossil fuel industries? Scott Pruitt, a Republican, has ...

Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:36:49 pm
This image shows the winds and warm mass of air associated with a large cyclone that swept the Arctic in late December 2015-early January 2016, thinning and shrinking the sea ice cover. Credit: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/Alex Kekesi, data visualizer. Climate change is one of the issues in which the ...

Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:25:10 am
This is an interesting and disturbing piece by Washington Post reporter Ben Terris, who witnessed Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski roughly grab and shove Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields after a speech by Trump, back near the start of all this madness. The Trump campaign's insidious, relentless denial of reality even ...

Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:44:06 pm
YouTube Regina Spektor's video for her song "Small Bill$" from the new album Remember Us To Life is a surreal masterpiece, packed with Soviet kitsch and musical surprises. Director: Steven Mertens On tour this spring! Dates at http://reginaspektor.com Regina Spektor’s new album Remember Us To Life is out now! iTunes: http://smarturl.it/rutl_dlxit Spotify: http://smarturl.it/rutl_sp Google Play: http://smarturl.it/rutl_gp Vinyl/Onlin e ...

Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 2:46:25 pm
It was a bit more surprising, however, that Team Trump decided to use the opportunity to criticize the nation's scientists. "Mr. Trump and Gov. Pence appreciate that many scientists are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions," said the statement. It then added, "We need America's scientists to continue studying the ...

Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:29:24 pm
By all accounts Hurricane Matthew is going to be a monster storm with winds up to 140 mph, and the governor of Florida is strongly urging people to evacuate coastal regions as soon as possible. More than 100 people have already been killed by the storm in Haiti, and warnings ...

Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:57:09 pm
YouTube September 26, 2016 by BOB BOILEN • They came, they measured, and they returned to perform a show like no other. It was the great NPR Tiny Desk Takeover by Blue Man Group. If you've not seen this performance ensemble and their production in New York, Las Vegas, Orlando, Boston, ...

Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:52:31 pm
Kirk Douglas will soon be 100 years old, believe it or not. And he's disturbed to the bone by what he sees in this election: The Road Ahead. A few weeks ago we heard words spoken in Arizona that my wife, Anne, who grew up in Germany, said chilled her ...

Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:54:04 am
Donald Trump Jr. seems to have taken over the "white supremacist outreach" position in the Trump campaign, and today he follows up his ugly "Skittles" tweet with one of the most common white supremacist tropes of all time: that immigrants are responsible for a "rape epidemic," targeted against Western women. ...

Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:42:18 am
Trump campaign CEO/Breitbart "News" owner Stephen Bannon At Breitbart "News," the website run by Donald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon, commenters instantly launched an orgy of hate speech and genocidal rhetoric targeting all Muslims following the arrest of Ahmad Khan Rahami. Here's a small selection of the huge number of hateful comments ...

Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:33:53 am
A naturalized US citizen of Afghan descent, Ahmad Khan Rahami, has been arrested in New Jersey after a shootout with police. He was identified on surveillance video placing the bombs in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and his fingerprints were found on the pressure cooker bomb that did not explode. ...

Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:04:45 pm
Donald Trump's poll numbers have ticked upward, and he's getting cocky again. Today in Ohio, he signaled a return to the disgusting racist conspiracy theory that made him a right wing star: Trump defiant as polls rise, won’t say Obama was born in United States. In the interview, conducted late ...

Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:22:33 am
The big political news of the weekend that has conservatives and a lot of the media all worked up, as if there was something controversial about saying it: Hillary Clinton: Half of Donald Trump supporters are in 'basket of deplorables'. Here are the quotes they're freaking out about. "If I were ...

Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 5:02:12 pm
DERP Yes, Jim Hoft truly is the Stupidest Man on the Internet. There's really no one else even close in the crowded field of dim-witted right wing derpitude. And today he proves it yet again with another BREAKING! post that's going to blow the "Hillary's Health" story wide open! BREAKING: 71% of ...

Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 7:19:34 pm
Iframe Soledad O'Brien has been missed, and in this segment of Brian Stelter's Reliable Sources CNN show, she lays down some serious truth about the media's "normalization" of the awful racist components of the Donald Trump campaign, calling out the "contortions" that create a deceptive "both sides are equal" narrative. CNN has ...

Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:22:00 am
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/082316 /BCS_082316.mp3 Today's program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob & Chez Show: Very Very Tremendous Pants: More Bad News About the Climate Crisis; Hillary was Hilarious on Jimmy Kimmel; Rudy Giuliani and the Stupid Hillary Health Rumors; Trump's Black Outreach Isn't an Outreach After All; Trump's Rallies Are Being Routinely Canceled; ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:27:25 pm
One of Donald Trump's five foreign policy advisers, Joseph Schmitz, is being accused by senior intelligence and Pentagon officials of antisemitic comments and Holocaust denial. And the hits just keep on comin'. The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump’s credibility: That he is ...

Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:08:33 pm
New Hampshire Representative Al Baldasaro is the co-chair of veterans' issues for the Trump campaign, and he's now the latest Trump surrogate to push the far right conspiracy theory that gold star father Khizr Khan is a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Reached by phone in New Hampshire, Baldasaro ...