Just saw the news directly (or indirectly with a buried lede) from a AETN/ArkansasPBS FB post. Pissing away 60 years of Educational/Public TV legacy to bend the knee to Trump and Governess SHS. Pathetic

The Starner-Trump presser has been one craptastic fuqup. As expected.

Just an observation…

BBC World Service radio reports that a ban on Fiber-based Internet service is being enforced in Afghanistan. The same theocracy where women and girls cannot be educated.

Fun Facts: Nexstar owns outright or through a shell company "Mission Broadcasting" 2 of the 4 major network affiliates in the Little Rock AR TV market. If the Nexstar-Tegna merger goes through, then Nexstar will own the market's CBS affiliate. (Little Rock's ABC affiliate is owned by Sinclair).

What does it say about FBI Director that he doesn't know who Dylan Roof is? Is it that he really didn't pay attention when it happened? [damning] Or is it that he thinks it's unimportant an un-apologetic White Supremacist murdered in cold blood an entire bible class of black people? [DAMNING]

Does it seem to you that Nexstar's NewsNation (dn: WGN America) is a sort of Fox Lite?

Giving the stream of Zoomer Radio from Toronto a listen this morning, and the morning hosts report Breaking News of the death of Robert Redford around 1236UTC. I was hearing Zoomer earlier this morning (pre-dawn in AR) OTA on AM 740 mixing with Con-Talkers KRMG 740 Tulsa (OK) and KTRH 740 Houston.

Giving BBC World Service radio, the old fashioned way--via shortwave, a listen. The 12095KHz transmission via Madagascar is listenable on a home SDR connected to a large magnetic loop receive-only antenna at 0457UTC 16 September 2025 (11:57pm CDT 15 Sept. 2025 Arkansas time).

Not 2 minutes into monitoring "AM Radio", stumbled across anti-trans banter from Michael Berry at KTRH 740KHz Houston TX. Mixing with another reichwing station, KRMG 740 Tulsa OK.

Almost forgot tonight, that "Transgender Underground" live radio show is on tonight 6pm-7pm Central time on KABF 88.3FM, and live stream @ kabf.org

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Say it louder for those in the very back, and the conservative/evangelical lurkers.

To borrow a phrase from ham radio, it's sometimes best to not key up and just listen.

Say it louder for those in the back.

The word "excelerationist" comes to mind regarding recent violence.

A Thursday Reader for 9/11/2025.

The right wing has all but forgotten about 4/19 (1995), and legally purged by Presidential pardon 1/9 (2021), but still wants to wag on about 9/11 (2001). 4/19 was of course the OKC Bombing. 1/9 the terrorist attack of the US Capitol by a far-right mob of thugs. #NeverForget

Amen

You people trying to rewrite the history of who Charlie Kirk was are pathetic. He used his organization to bully, dox and attack people he didn't agree with. Free speech my ass. He was one of the worst aspects of American politics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.

A story that was buried in the Kirk shooting lede, yesterday.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I have a feeling that the Patel-led FBI and other agencies will prioritize pastel unicorn hunting in regards to the Kirk assassination manhunt. That said, there are maga types still upset about lack of action concerning the Epstein Files. This will not end well, I'm afraid. Watch this space.

Amateur radio's Hurricane Watch net's FB page posted about CK & 9/11 this morning, then removed comments critical of Charlie Kirk. I had an opportunity to attend a hamfest last Saturday but didn't. My disdain for what has become of ham radio's love affair for right wing politics is partly why.

This was one of the stories on BBC World Service radio this morning on "Newshour". Listened to stream this morning, while monitoring and recording the weak 21MHz shortwave signal in Arkansas.

Podcast of live program 10 September 2025.

I watched the "bothsiderism" on CNN rise to nauseating levels last night. Only a few days ago DJT posted a shitty meme about Chicago, and now Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants to "turn the (discourse) temperature down?"

Transphobic millennial podcaster/Christian Nationalist Charlie Kirk is dead.

The Dirty South....being the dirty south but without the greyscale film footage of reactionaries in crew cuts and smoking unfiltered Pall Malls

I’ve seen enough. Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Yet more GOP hypocrisy on display today. Braying about "Freedom"-- but only for cishet whyte xtians. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

The very *first time* I spoke in a Arkansas Legislative committee hearing (2023), was to oppose one of State Sen Gary Stubblefield's anti-trans bills. He said that trans youth were "in bondage". I gave a rebuttal. arkansasadvocate.com/2023/02/13/a...

In the guise of "protecting kids", lawmakers with the literal brains of potatoes have made it all but impossible for those U18 to access the Idaho Suicide Hotline.

Sure. Trust the former heroine addict who had a brain worm eat what was still left in there.

RFK Jr. has desecrated federal vaccine policy, putting Americans' public health at severe risk. He has upended CDC vaccine guidance and given authority to unqualified, anti-science quacks. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

Transphobic Arkansas State Senator Gary Stubblefield (R-Branch) won't be seeking reelection. He has died at the age of 74. Story from KFSM-TV in NWA. www.5newsonline.com/article/news...

A Rock radio station in Monroe LA was sold along with it's sister stations and format swaps occurred this weekend. The former Rock station is on the smaller signal and the Classic Hip Hop station is on the big stick. I got angry posts on my FB DX page after posting about this.

My voice may be a small one but I’m calling on my fellow physicians to demand the firing of RFK Jr. We can’t entrust our nations health to pseudoscience and political conjecture. Science is apolitical but RGK Jr has tainted it. Don’t let politics get you killed.

Rotten eggs can be very toxic in their own right.

Whalehead Deadbear Brainworm-Lamprey gets called out by multiple former CDC Directors for the dangerous psychopath he is. He, meanwhile, is mad at . . . Denmark. 01 September 2025, Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid www.podbean.com/eas/pb-eqzbn...

pse read, y'all.

I can count dark blue states (For youths) on one hand... I just said this one my own but I'll say it again too, It's really concerning that Gavin Newsoms PR team can hit "send" on a few zingers on twitter and suddenly trans rights are negotiable. CA should be blue for trans youth..

Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.

TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...

Observations on Week One of CFB.

Texas(s) outdoes itself again in doubling down on state sponsored transmisia. This POS bill passed the TX House with a provision EVEN WORSE than the original bill. www.them.us/story/texas-...