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Ronny and Casey have turned the Sunshine  state into the Pariah state.

I kept experiencing that kind of double internal vision as I wrote “Growing Up Basquiat” for Air Mail, inspired by fellow former City-as-School students Al Diaz and Danny Kessler reminiscing with me about our mutual friend and classmate Jean.

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.

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.

His two gubernatorial wins were powered by massive voter disenfranchisement.

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 her story is, and how it intersects with other important stories.

And how extraordinary she was.

That’s how my friend Danny Kessler thinks DeSantis should be tagged, after he was notoriously filmed wiping snot on a wheelchair-bound supporter.

and still the Department of Justice allows him to remain at large.

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 the point where I would have thrown something.

I mean, Sen. Mike Lee, who started posting anti-democracy screeds right before the 2020 election, was up there accusing Judge Ho of not honoring the Constitution. Swine.

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.