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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 34m

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Pop Quiz!

Every American should know the basics of our Founding, don’t you agree?

The history, and the Constitution itself?

Well, to make sure you know it, and as part of my virtual Democracy Academy, let me give you a quick pop quiz.

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 14h

The King Records building still exists and needs to made into a museum. There's also a new show on WAIF 88.3 in Cincinnati that is only King Records. It's brand new and not listed on the program guide yet. I believe Tuesday's at 8pm. www.waifradio.org

Home | WAIF 88.3FM

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 1d

One indicator you’re not Nobel Peace Prize material is if the country which hosts the totally independent Nobel committee believes you’re gonna retaliate against them because you didn’t win.

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Cincinnati CityBeat @citybeatcincy.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers used ancient DNA and a collection of letters, photographs and auction records to determine the museum is in possession of the last-surviving female great auk.

Cincinnati Museum Center Bird Specimen Helps Solve 180-Year-Old Extinction Mystery

A great auk specimen owned by the Cincinnati Museum Center recently helped solve a nearly 200-year-old mystery of the bird's extinction.

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 4d

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 5d

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 6d

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
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Stand with Dan.

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."
My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.
He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor.
"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.
That was last week.
This week changed everything.
This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.
He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.
Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.
The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."
As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.
The president who would be king.
Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York.
A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.
Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.
You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.
Nothing excuses this. Nothing.
Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.
The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.
We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.
Here, ready to rumble.
Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.
Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.
Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.
What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.
You're right, Dad. I know.
I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.
(Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 6d

TODAY'S feature on Punks in the Garage is the great Belfast band Rudi. Listen from 2-3PM ET on WAIF-FM 88.3 in #Cincinnati or worldwide www.waifradio.org/listen
It's also the Fall Pledge Drive. If you like our show please consider donating and showing your support. $25 gets you a WAIF membership.

Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 7d

Just a reminder that this is happening tomorrow in Cincinnati! There will be food vendors, Bridges Nepali, Gomez Salsa, Fireside Pizza among others.

Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 15d

If you're in the Cincinnati area, make plans to attend WAIF's 50th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday October 4th! Wussy Duo, Lisa and Chuck from @wussymusic.bsky.social, will be performing and others!
More info here www.waifradio.org

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

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EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 11d

The Gazabots were too busy protesting Kamala Harris' book tour and hating on Democrats to get around to protesting the war criminal Netanyahu. Fakest people on Earth!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11d

Cowards.

YouTube pays $24.5mn to settle Trump censorship lawsuit

US president sued Google’s video platform after it blocked him from posting following the 2021 attack on the US Capitol

www.ft.com

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Esquire Theatre @esquiretheatre.com · 11d

We've sold nearly half of our seats for our single Thursday screening at 7:30. Get your tickets now #Cincinnati before it's too late! Link: www.esquiretheatre.com/movie/the-on...

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 12d

Now available on Mixcloud
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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 12d

Sucks to be a Mets fan in Cincinnati right now. #Mets

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13d

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 13d

On Punks in the Garage TODAY from 2-3PM ET on WAIF-FM 88.3 in #Cincinnati or worldwide at www.waifradio.org/listen
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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 15d

If you're in the Cincinnati area, make plans to attend WAIF's 50th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday October 4th! Wussy Duo, Lisa and Chuck from @wussymusic.bsky.social, will be performing and others!
More info here www.waifradio.org

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 19d

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkeybirds at MOTR #Cincinnati

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 19d

Motorbike at MOTR!

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 19d

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 19d

The Dems never had a majority in the senate. Him and Krysten Sinema.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19d

Manchin is a joke. He blames Dems for the mess we’re in while dodging his own role. He propped up Trump and helped the GOP shred guardrails

• He blocked the Build Back Better plan, killing major climate and social reforms

• He opposed filibuster reform, sinking voting-rights protections
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 20d

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

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Cincinnati CityBeat @citybeatcincy.bsky.social · 20d

Compiled by musician and writer Peter Aaron, the new collection captures Cincinnati’s raw and inventive underground from 1982–1988.

New Compilation Documents Cincinnati’s Punk and Underground Sound

Compiled by musician and writer Peter Aaron, the new collection captures Cincinnati’s raw and inventive underground from 1982–1988.

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Rock'n'Roll Lisa @lmrose.bsky.social · 20d

Punks in the Garage is coming on soon, 2-3PM ET on WAIF-FM 88.3 in #Cincinnati and worldwide www.waifradio.org/listen
Today's feature is the great band Wire!
Trash Flow Radio follows from 3-5
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