The Irony Around Judge Recusals

This morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a little side story to the recent court cases around water pollution resulting from factory farming, particularly large dairy farms housing thousands of cows. It seems one of the judges who recently ruled against big farming has in the past, donated to one of…

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“Independent” Media Trackers requests Rep. Pocan’s travel records after Pocan campaign requests Gov. Walker travel records

On September 9, the blog on Congressman Marc Pocan’s campaign website posted an entry noting the Pocan for Congress campaign put in a request to the Wisconsin Department of Administration for records pertaining to Gov. Scott Walker’s air travel from June 4, 2014 to September 5, 2014. Just hours after…

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Understanding Brian Sikma

Before the Wisconsin State Journal could get the story out about the DNR report warning of the health and water quality hazards of an open pit iron mine in the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin, Media Trackers was all over it, publishing a piece about how the DNR report was…

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Looks like MediaTrackers’ “scoop” is nothing more than a pile of po….well, you get the idea

“COMPROMISED INTEL: Secret Democratic Political Research Files for Twelve 2012 Match-Ups Found via Google” says the title of an “article” posted yesterday on Media Trackers’ website by Brian Sikma. With a headline like that, you’d like the hacks at Media Trackers had uncovered some juicy bit of top-secret intel the…

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Perfunctory Kris Barrett Email Scandal Post from your Friendly Neighborhood MPS Teacher

I don’t know if I should be relieved or offended that (so far, at least) my inbox and twittums haven’t filled up with demands for me to BYGAWDSAYSOMETHING about the BIGHUGESCANDALERIUM about Kris Barrett, wife of Milwaukee Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett, having written I guess four emails of…

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Wisconsin Club for Growth Red-Baits, Names Names

Some smart-ass must have signed me up for the Wisconsin Club for Growth email list, as once a week I get the pleasure of their idiocy in my inbox.  To return the favor, every once in a while I lay into them on the internets, such as when they repeatedly…

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Media Trackers smears Sen. Lena Taylor, refuses to apologize

Why am I not shocked by this?!?!? Media Trackers had suggested Taylor and her mother might have been “accessories” to voter fraud for their role in helping a felon named Russell Collins vote illegally in the April election. In reality, Collins had been released from custody weeks before the election….

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Media Trackers? More like miserable hacks.

Over the past few years, a number of pseudo (read, fake) “news” websites have sprung up here in Wisconsin, and many of those sites purport to be “non-partisan” in nature. One such site is Media Trackers, aptly referred to as “miserable hacks” by capper of Cognitive Dissidence. According to its…

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