Mike Klonsky's Blog

CNN anchor, Jim Acosta calls "BS" on Fox "That tale from the border didn't just border on BS, this was USDA Grade-A bulls...

Weaponized gossip. It's designed to undermine the credibility and marginalize the person who is the target. It often has no basis in rea...

Time Magazine There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in the past year. A torrent of hate and violence against p...

  “If [a metal shredder] is not good enough for the North Side,” said Gina Ramirez, referring to the area where RMG previously operated Gene...

  Debra Haaland, the next Sec. of the Interior “I’ll be fierce for all of us, for our planet, and all of our protected land,” said Haaland i...

Biggest climate protests in history.  Climate activist Greta Thunberg  "We are not just some young people skipping school,’ sh...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot greets supporters Saturday ahead of the Southeast Side Labor Day parade. Don Villar, Chicago Federation of Labo...

"His goal – to keep a catastrophic hurricane from hitting the mainland – is not bad. His objective is not bad." -- Unnamed off...

A pallet of bottled water is delivered to a recreation center, Tuesday in Newark.  Former Newark Mayor and presidential candidate, Sen....

We are the people,” Gearah Goldstein said as she opened Sunday’s program in Chicago.  “As we stand here together, we must hold love and li...

Susan Bro, Heather Heyer's mother Susan Bro Bro told reporters to “please remember not to think of Heather, but why she was here....

Ocassio-Cortez at Netroots : “Our swing voter is not red to blue. It's non-voter to voter."  Anoa Changa at Netroots “I t...

Police Chief Art Acevedo of Houston, center, walking with demonstrators during a “March for Our Lives” protest in March. After a school s...

Azalia Martinez NEIU student Azalia Martinez  I’m not scared anymore. I’m not accepting it. I’m ready to fight, because you know, co...

Art by: Furia ACK, a street artist from Portugal living in London. Betsy DeVos When reporters kept asking her about her own climate-ch...

Yesterday's protest in Chicago against Trump's Paris pull-out.  (M. Klonsky pic) AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka, responding, I su...

Sunday morning news panel. (Fred Klonsky) Barbara Byrd-Bennett "I ought to be punished." -- Sun-Times Donald Trump “I ...

Back from Standing Rock and already thinking about returning. There was some great news out of Morton County yesterday. A judge t ossed...

Rev. Barber, now on a 22-state speaking tour, will be main speaker at the July 8th Save Our Schools March in D.C.  Rev. Dr. William Ba...

UNO's Rangel with Rahm Emanuel UNO leader Juan Rangel  ...said in a written statement that the spending “must be put in the right...