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November 12, 2025February 16, 2026

The New Art Critic – Conform or Go Away

The upcoming scrotum exhibition will probably be cancelled as well.

“School Nixes Exhibition Criticized by Turning Point USA,” by Isa Farfan, Hyperallergic, October 16, 2025.

The Fletcher Exhibit of political art was hosted at East Tennessee State University for 11 years until it came under attack from right-wing figures.

A long-running art exhibition of political artwork at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) was not invited to return to the school this year after a wave of right-wing backlash, including from a Tennessee chapter of Turning Point USA.

The Fletcher Exhibit of Social and Politically Engaged Art, held annually at ETSU’s Reece Museum since 2013, came under intense scrutiny from conservatives during and after the November 2024 presidential election. The show has been organized by the family of Fletcher Dyer, who was an art student at ETSU when he died in a tragic accident in 2009, for over a decade.

Read the whole article here.

October 6, 2025

Trump Promotes a Revolutionary Cure-all

Your cure is just a dream away. Dream on.

“Trump shares apparent AI video promoting ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory,” by Kevin Liptak, Donie O’Sullivan, CNN, September 28, 2025.

President Donald Trump on Saturday shared an apparently artificially created video of himself promoting a cure-all bed with origins in conspiratorial corners of the internet.

The video, which has since been deleted, was intended to resemble a Fox News segment on the show hosted by the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, featured an AI version of Trump promising access to new medical technology. This segment has never aired on the network.

“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” said the false rendering of Trump. “With it, you’ll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.”

Read the whole article here.

September 19, 2025September 19, 2025

Investigating the Investigators of the Watergate Scandal

Uncovering the truth sometimes takes a while…

“Woodward and Bernstein didn’t bring down Nixon – but the myth that they did lives on,” by The Conversation, (on AlterNet), September 16, 2025.

In their dogged reporting of the Watergate scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered the crimes that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in August 1974.

That version of Watergate has long dominated popular understanding of the scandal, which unfolded over 26 months beginning in June 1972.

It is, however, a simplistic trope that not even Watergate-era principals at the Post embraced.

Read the whole article here.

February 8, 2025

February 2025 Film Festival Screenings for Joey Skaggs Oral History Films

Check out these upcoming film festival screenings in February 2025.
More information is here

Dam Short Film Festival
“Joey Skaggs: Stop BioPEEP” (20:20)
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 10:00 am
Boulder City, NV
Documentary B Section
Tickets: https://bit.ly/DamFilmFest
&
New Delhi Film Festival
“Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project” (16:22)
Saturday, February 22, 2025 from 2:00pm – 9:00 pm
New Delhi, India
India International Centre
Tickets: TBA

December 4, 2024December 4, 2024

The Great White Hoax, by Philip Kadish

Heads up! The Great White Hoax, Frauds, Forgeries, and 200 Years of Selling Racism in America, a new book by Philip Kadish, is available for pre-order and will be out in June here, here, and more.

Blurb:

“Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are nothing new. The Great White Hoax, a masterpiece of history and literary sleuthing, reveals that the era of Fox News and Donald Trump is simply a return to form. We have been here before.”