Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin appealed his second degree murder conviction last year to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Chauvin appealed claiming that due to media coverage, he was unable to receive a fair trial. Today they refused his appeal. Chauvin will serve an over 22-year sentence – 15 years behind bars and 7.5 on…
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Here’s to the State of Alabama: Interview with Robin Marty of West Alabama Women Center
Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) This week on the VisuNews podcast I speak with Robin Marty, author of “A Handbook for a Post-Roe America” and operations director of the West Alabama’s Women’s Center. I called her to talk about the state of abortion access in Alabama and the recent announcement from the…
Nobody Is Protected – Interview with author Dr. Reece Jones
Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Become a Patron! This episode of the Visu.News podcast – I speak with author Dr. Reece Jones who has a new book out this week, titled Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States. Nobody is Protected is a book that…
VIDEO: The Hercules of Cancel Culture – Kevin Sorbo at CPAC
Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Become a Patron! Star of TV and screen actor Kevin Sorbo was at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month in Orlando, Florida speaking about being canceled and about building his own uncancellable studio. I was there for Visu.News and took the opportunity to ask him the only thing I…
CPAC 2022—no war, but the culture war
Originally published at NationofChange.org Orlando, Florida Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Every year the who’s who of the “real” conservative America meets at the Conservative Political Action Conference organized by the American Conservative Union. Over the Trump administration, the faces of CPAC have changed from a more traditional conservative (tax cuts, pro-corporation)…
Republicans at CPAC Say ‘Drill Dummy Drill’ in Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Originally published at DeSmog.com on March 3, 2022 Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) As the Russian invasion of Ukraine began last week, American conservatives descending on Florida for 2022’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) delivering a confusing message about the invasion. Many speakers seemed undecided on whether…
The Time I Went to Jail (Occupy Wall Street)
Become a Patron! It’s been ten years since I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street while working as a journalist. I wasn’t by far the only person to be arrested that day… not even the only journalist to be arrested. The piece below was originally published by Suicide Girls, yes the same site that published…
Isolated Incidents Ep 1: Alex Jones is F*cked.
Become a Patron! This is the first-ever episode of the Isolated Incidents podcast. A monthly dive into the stories that journalists have put out covering the world of far-right and the grifters that inhabit it. When I first came up with the idea it was before the pandemic so I didn’t think to necessarily cover…
Alex Jones and Roger Stone Subpoenaed by Jan 6th Commission
Become a Patron! Support our work via PayPal Right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones (who believes that he is in a fight with the literal Devil) is once again, in legal trouble. Today, the January 6th Commission has issued Jones a subpoena. A letter from the Commission, signed by Congressman Bennie Thompson has called on Jones to…
US Media Cowers not Covers Chevron’s Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger
Greg Palast and Zach D Roberts for Buzzflash Famed indigenous human rights lawyer Steven Donziger had already been under house arrest for over 800 days when he reported to prison on October 27 to begin a six-month sentence. His crime: winning the largest single pollution judgment in history, $9.5 billion, for the Cofan people of…