It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is perhaps one of the greatest cult classic TV shows in recent history. Rob McElhenney, the show’s creator, combines the lovable absurdity of the show’s main characters with subtle but cutting social commentary. In fact, I’d go so far as to argue that no TV show has ever so faithfully,…
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VisuNews Podcast – COVID Disaster Response
Chicago and NY are dealing with COVID-19 vaccine rollout in varying degrees of terrible. Aaron and Zach discuss.
Terms and Conditions DO Apply – Instagram for Photojournalists
Become a Patron! Award-winning photographer Yunghi Kim has been warning photographers of posting on Instagram for about a decade now. We should have listened to her. Over the years the photo-sharing site’s terms and conditions have evolved as corporate expectations change. Several years ago, the Facebook-owned Instagram changed their terms and conditions to include specifics…
A Pandemic Might’ve Been Inevitable. How We Respond Can Help Ameliorate Future Crises
Monday night I peered out my window at the little Mexican restaurant across the street as the sunset in Chicago. There were a couple of kids hanging out on the corner in front of the place, but not a single soul inside. Like every other restaurant across Illinois, they shut the lights out later that…
Learn. Fight. Win.
A woefully incomplete guide to the people, books, and sites that you should be following to keep ahead of the rise of white extremists. Every time there is another white extremist-related incident or arrest I am reminded that the major news publications and cable networks are out of their depth. CNN just weeks ago had…
How JFK Saved MLK Jr’s Life & Won the Presidency
It was a Republican, Martin Luther King Sr., who made John Kennedy president of the United States — for JFK’s saving Daddy King’s son, Martin Jr., from lynching. This harrowing and little known drama of terror and courage, confirmed for me by Martin Luther King III, changed American politics — and America — forever. On…
New York Times Puff Piece on White Supremacist is Dangerous
Support Visu.News Become a Patron! by Zach D Roberts This weekend the New York Times published a profile of a white supremacist named Tony Hovater. Mr. Hovater is the co-founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, one of the hate groups that jackbooted into Charlottesville in August of 2017, they also stomped into Shelbyville, TN. The Visu.News crew…
STFU About Brazile’s Book And Get to Work
Editor’s rant: This is Zach D Roberts’ opinion and in no way should be representative of the others that work for this site. It’s very likely that at least one of the contributors are really pissed that I wrote this. And if you are, please submit a response. This is a team effort. Become a…
From the Editor: A Thoughtful Take On The News Of The Week
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Trump Climbs the Mountain of Conflict at the UNGA
text by Sarah Kay It is the first time I am not attending the United Nations’ General Assembly in 12 years or more. It seems what I am missing is a memorable circus of incompetence and a nightmare of public relations. Or was it? Trump addressing the annual gathering of international diplomats and experts in their opening…