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WITHOUT CULTURAL APPROPRIATION (COLLABORATION), THERE’D BE NO “STRANGE FRUIT”
A friend called to remind me that epochal and timeless “Strange Fruit,” immortalized by Irish Catholic African-American Billie Holiday, was based on a poem by white Jew Abel Meeropol.
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TRUMP ADMITS HE’S A DRUG ADDICT
It was only a matter of time before Trump tried to deflect from his Adderall addiction by accusing-Biden-in-a-mirror of being coked up.
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HOW MUCH MORE VOTER SUPRESSION WOULD BRIAN KEMP ENGAGE IN TO WIN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?
His two gubernatorial wins were powered by massive voter disenfranchisement.
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MILESTONE (& counting)
Steve Willis and I have talked to 80 first-handers for our biography of Diana Sands! Diana herself would be 89 in August, and it’s good to be reminded of how cogent witnesses of 80 plus can be. And how important … Continue reading
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RON DeSANITIZE
That’s how my friend Danny Kessler thinks DeSantis should be tagged, after he was notoriously filmed wiping snot on a wheelchair-bound supporter.
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TRUMP INCITES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST OBAMA
and still the Department of Justice allows him to remain at large.
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IN SPITE OF THE GOP, PRO-DEMOCRACY DALE HO WON HIS JUDGESHIP
The anti-democracy Trump Fascist Party of America does not like Judge Ho’s commitment to American enfranchisement one little bit. Judge Ho was incredible at his confirmation hearing, remaining even-tempered and respectful to the GOP’s defamations and tendentious insinuations way past … Continue reading
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BIDEN IS DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO ENSURE HIS DEFEAT
He could cancel debt relief immediately, but he won’t; instead he’s opting for a half-assed plan that will take months to kind of implement. There goes the student vote–and here comes a recession when borrowers default once payments resume.
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VOTE FOR ALLIE RYAN JUNE 27 IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
Incumbent Carlina Rivera has, as Ryan writes accurately in the West View News, “been a Yes-person to the Mayor while catering to multi-millionaire real estate developers.”
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DeSANTIS DARES TO REFERENCE JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES
Can anyone cite a single incident that shows Ron DeSantis upholding the teachings of Jesus Christ?
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