Equality – The Politicus

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‘Scratching where they didn’t itch….’

On the evening of April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last speech. The world remembers his speech in Memphis, Tennessee, as the Mountaintop Speech. Most famously, the closing few paragraphs live in the hearts and minds of Americans for its soaring rhetoric and sheer mouth-opening awe....

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January 16, 2023

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It Seems We Have Been Here Before

The last piece I contributed to this forum was last Wednesday, November 16, 2022. It was entitled Mass Shootings: An American Institution. Admittedly it was a retelling—in part—of the mass shooting at the University of Virginia. Their football coach Tony Elliot said about the three young men who died in...

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November 21, 2022

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Yeah, I’m Pro-Life. Quote Me.

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Repost: Fordham Political Review. No one issue in politics today causes greater polarization than the issue of abortion. I remember sitting down with my mother in high school, nerves fluttering in my stomach as I asked her, “What do you think about abortion?” I was thinking about the fact that...

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May 22, 2021

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What Irony: a Cheney being punished for the truth

The Republican members of the House of Representatives convened their star chamber this morning and ousted the most conservative member of their caucus. GOP House conference chair Liz Cheney is under fire for breaking one of their sacred tenets—not embracing duplicity and hypocrisy. The vote was held in secret because...

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May 12, 2021

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This statement punishes Republicans, Progressive response, TrustWomen founder on attack on choice

We give a more progressive response to Biden's speech. TrustWomen founder Julie Burkhart discusses choice. Biden made an important statement that punishes the GOP. Welcome Julie Burkhart, founder of TrustWomen x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799...

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April 29, 2021

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PA-Sen: Let's Celebrate 420 By Electing A Longtime Advocate For Legalizing Marijuana To The Senate

420 should be an official national holiday. Also, here’s the latest news out of Pennsylvania: The suit means business. Revenue. Jobs. Justice. Freedom. Legal Weed ✅ for PA. pic.twitter.com/0qEHxolMNh — John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) April 20, 2021 People who want lawmakers to legalize recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania rallied Tuesday at the...

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April 20, 2021

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Minerva at Midnight: better sex under (democratic) socialism

“As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the results of studies conducted in Germany from the mid-nineteen-eighties onward, which reported, among other intriguing findings, that eighty per cent of East German women always experienced orgasm during sex, compared to sixty-three per cent of...

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April 8, 2021

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Hank Aaron's grandson to Kelly Loeffler: 'Keep my grandfather's name out of your mouth'

Hank Aaron was a giant of a man, not just a legendary baseball player. Not only did he break Babe Ruth’s “unbreakable” home run record, he was also a civil rights hero who never missed a chance to fight for equality. Eventually his efforts led to a Presidential Medal of Freedom...

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April 3, 2021

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Speech rights for me but not for she, because there'll be no wedding pizzas in that classroom

The 6th Circuit rules that Shawnee State University violated a professor’s free speech and free expression rights by punishing him for refusing to use a trans student’s preferred pronouns. More lawfare ahead. Apparently a professor’s socratic method (and his religious beliefs) trumps gender expression and public accommodation keeps bigotry in a bathroom...

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March 26, 2021

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Joe Biden questions whether there would even be a Republican Party to run against

President Joe Biden said something shocking in his press conference today. He said he has no idea if there would be a Republican Party at election time. Is Biden questioning Republican Party viability? See full episodes here. President Joe Biden has always tended to jump the gun, speak off the...

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March 25, 2021

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M T Greene is Seriously in Trouble – with Republicans

Marjorie Taylor Greene (I refuse to dignify her with an affectionate abbreviation) has not exactly followed Speaker Sam Rayburn’s classic advice: “to get along, go along.” (To be fair, that maxim died quite a while ago.) But she has been truly and uniquely obnoxious in her insistence on being as...

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March 7, 2021

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Boebert alarmed that gays, lesbians and sweet transvestites will reign supreme with the equality act

“There is nothing about equality in that act! If anything, it’s, the, uh, it’s supremacy of gays, lesbians, and transvestites. This is what this is about, it’s about putting them higher than anyone else!” Lauren Boebert Trumpanzee Representative Lauren Boebert (QAnon CO) does what she does best while speaking with disgraced traitor...

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March 3, 2021

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Is GOP Senator implying a large number of Republican COVID Relief Bill supporters are freeloaders?

Indiana Republican Senator Rob Portman in a short clip illustrates the selfish and unempathetic pathology endemic to GOP politicians. Senator further exposes Republican pathology See full episodes here. This short clip, while for many, is just GOP noise, is the perfect encapsulation of the current Republican orthodoxy. Rob Portman is...

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March 1, 2021

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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology

The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show how there are several interlocking problems addressing the climate crisis that must be included in future environmental policy. More specifically...

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February 28, 2021

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A 'second gilded age'? Maybe, but only because recycling ideas is an academic genre

Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse by all those folks who knew they were in that Gilded Age. “If the future of the Democratic Party is in the rich suburbs, the future of American politics is another long Gilded Age.” Matt...

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February 28, 2021

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GOP Rep: Equality Act 'goes directly against … scripture.' Good thing we're not a theocracy then

Republicans continued to invoke the Bible in their speeches in support of discrimination against the LGBTQ community Thursday. When I hear people make appeals to scripture to justify their deep-seated bigotry, I often think of Patton Oswalt’s great bit about opposition to homosexuality based on biblical teaching. “These lunatics always go, ‘Well, ‘cause it...

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February 26, 2021

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Equality or Equity

Equality for a lot of white Americans means acknowledging that black people are human. The difficulty comes when applying equity because that paradigm strikes at the heart of privilege. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) made that abundantly clear with the questions he put to the Biden administration’s nominee for Attorney General,...

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February 24, 2021

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STRIKE 3: Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, failed Texas Electric grid Nail in coffin for Texas CONSERVATISM.

The combination of Cancun Ted Cruz, lying Greg Abbott, and Texas Electric Collapse will be Strike 3 for Texas Conservatism if we make the case. Is Texas conservatism dead? See full episodes here. The misery that Texans are feeling right now is widespread. Both the rich and poor are stressed...

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February 19, 2021

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GA-Sen: After Losing To Jon Ossoff (D), David Perdue (R) Now Wants To Lose To Raphael Warnock (D)

Oh barf: Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue took the first steps toward a potential comeback bid by filing campaign paperwork on Monday to explore a challenge against Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock. The Republican’s aides say he still hasn’t decided whether to challenge Warnock next year, though the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported...

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February 16, 2021

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Moon Shot and Flag.1969..Trump hate and Flag weaponized 2021. How far we have fallen is unspeakable

1969 1969, a day of pride and glory 2021, a day of shame and hate 1964 displaying gallows for hanging It is unbelievable how far we have fallen instead of moving forward. The first still picture is gallows being erected for the hanging of Mike Pence. The picture below is gallows...

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February 15, 2021

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PA-Lt. Gov: LGBTQ Champion State Rep. Brian Sims (D) Officially Jumps Into The Race For Lt. Governor

Big news today out of Pennsylvania: x After 10 years in the State House, I’ve taken the lessons that my parents taught me & reinforced them in my work as a legislator: to take responsibility, commit to service, be courageous, & push for fairness. I’m ready to take these values...

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February 15, 2021

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Krugman: stagflation as ambitious macroeconomic policies and conservative ideas was wrong?

Let real wages (of $15+/hour) grow faster than labor productivity for some years, undoing the wage repression of the last decades. We have been misled by neoliberal economics for now many decades, it’s time to turn many things around in what is becoming a second-rated US economy, recently crippled by the...

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February 9, 2021

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PA-Sen: He's In! Let's Give John Fetterman's (D) U.S. Senate Campaign Momentum A Huge Boost!

Big news today out of Pennsylvania: x YouTube Video Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman formally announced Monday what has been evident since his unsuccessful first campaign for U.S. Senate: He’s taking another shot at it. Fetterman, who launched his campaign with a video for supporters, is the first officially declared...

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February 8, 2021

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GA-Gov: Brian Kemp (R) & GA GOP Are Already Running Scared Of A Stacey Abrams (D) Rematch

Yep, he’s running scared: Republican strategists aligned with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Monday launched an outside group aimed at hitting Democrat Stacey Abrams over her possible 2022 gubernatorial run. The independent group, dubbed “Stop Stacey,” says it will work to uncover what it called the former gubernatorial candidate's “shady voter groups that...

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February 1, 2021

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Harriet Tubman $20 bill fast-tracked by Biden following Trump administration delay

Donald Trump tried his best to erase Barack Obama’s legacy, but Joe Biden is president now, and it falls to him to scrub the ocher shite stains out of America’s Underoos. One largely symbolic—but nevertheless important—step is to get the Harriet Tubman $20 bill back on track so Frederick Douglass can see...

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January 25, 2021

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Biden signs the most extensive and substantive EO on LGBT equality ever by a US President.

From the Human Rights Campaign, “Biden’s Executive Order is the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order concerning sexual orientation and gender identity ever issued by a United States president. Today, millions of Americans can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that their President and their government believe discrimination based on sexual...

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January 21, 2021

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Trump more concerned with the optics of being convicted by the Senate, as he cuts bait on pardons

No doubt there are Trump pardons, but the cluster falls close to the _____. Apparently Trump has been advised that the optics of guilt are greater exposure to his soon to be mounting legal woes. This includes even the Trumpian small insults, a hastily assembled 1776 position paper to prescribe...

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January 19, 2021

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GA-Sen B: Kelly Loeffler (R) Becomes The 12th GOP Traitor In The Senate To Vote Against Democracy

From The Huffington Post: Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, one day before her closely watched Georgia Senate runoff, announced Monday she’s joining the coalition of GOP senators objecting to this week’s tally of the Electoral College results in Congress. “The American people deserve a platform in Congress, permitted under the Constitution,...

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January 5, 2021

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GA-Sen A & B: NYT, “Native Americans Helped Flip Arizona. Can They Mobilize in Georgia?”

I know this New York Times article is a month old but I wanted to reference it for the purposes of this diary: More than 180 years ago, as part of the Trail of Tears, the United States military drove thousands of Cherokee and Muscogee people off the land they...

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January 4, 2021

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GA-Sen A & B: Jordan Peele & Bradley Whitford Launch “Get Out” The Vote Event

Received this e-mail today from actor Bradley Whitford on behalf of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) Hey there. Happy New Year! Bradley Whitford here — the monster from Jordan Peele’s film Get Out who's not unlike the two GOP Georgia Senators we're...

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January 3, 2021

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GA-Sen A & B: Looks Like Moscow Mitch Just F***ed Up Perdue (R) & Loeffler's (R) Runoff Bids

From The Huffington Post: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday punted on a House-passed bill to increase coronavirus relief payments to $2,000 despite mounting bipartisan support for the checks, including from President Donald Trump. McConnell acknowledged that Trump, as he signed on Sunday the most recent COVID-19 relief...

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December 29, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Singer-Songwriter James Taylor Has Joe Biden & Georgia On His Mind

Received this e-mail today from singer-songwriter James Taylor in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) This year, I went all-in on helping elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the most...

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December 28, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Don't Forget To Sign Up For Beto O'Rourke's Virtual GOTV Phone Banks This Week

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People, in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) This is not a fundraising email. Instead,...

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December 28, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Eric Holder Makes The Georgia Runoff Elections A Referendum On Voting Rights

Received this e-mail today from former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on behalf of his organization, All On The Line: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) The 2021 redistricting process will be the first-ever with a nationwide grassroots movement to hold map manipulators accountable. But the truth is,...

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December 21, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Rashida Tlaib (D. MI) & AOC Help Boost GOTV Efforts To Flip The Senate Blue

Received two e-mails today from two members from The Squad in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns. The first one is from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D. MI-13): Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) Tonight at 6pm ET...

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December 17, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Beto O'Rourke Hits Back At Texas GOP's Idiotic Secession Threats

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People, in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) Yesterday, members of the Electoral College officially...

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December 15, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Is Determined To Win A Dem Senate Majority

Received this e-mail today from Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) Joe and I both know firsthand the power of the U.S. Senate to make people’s...

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December 14, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: These Grassroots Groups Need Help Boosting Black & Latino Voter Turnout

Received a few e-mails for upcoming GOTV event to help Jon Ossoff (D. GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) win their runoff elections. Received this e-mail last night from Senate Circle: Thank You Going into the holiday season, we give thanks for you: for joining this team and bringing...

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December 10, 2020

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“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 6

This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx. Not quite this type of commodity, but more like a pork barrel. x “Ah, pork bellies, I knew it.” ~Louis Winthorpe @dan_aykroyd https://t.co/yeVcYIYtqF— Stephen Bates (@batess) December 3, 2020 M. Proudhon has the misfortune of...

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December 4, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: President Obama Finally Gets His Revenge On Moscow Mitch

Received two e-mails from former President Barack Obama. The first one is in support of Jon Ossoff’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Raphael Warnock (D. GA) If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to deliver the change we need to get this pandemic under...

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December 1, 2020

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Trump tweets fade into the delusion of a 'Lost Cause' presidency

The post-presidential Trumpian revisionist history continues because the grift continues, portending an attempt to attach itself to other pseudo-grievances that have persisted because of cultural and regional divisions. Trump will fundraise off a 2024 reelection myth the instant he concedes(sic), with the goal of establishing some permanent media presence. Check-out this...

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November 16, 2020

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POTUS* does a drive-by waving for the teeming thousand(s) because Joe Biden flipped 5 Trump states

Lemmings, with the Secret Service locked and loaded. Was this also a protest of DC gyms’ occupancy limits? x This loser parade must’ve left their self respect at home. https://t.co/ztC8SLOMUC— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 14, 2020 x MOMENTS AGO: Trump supporters rush to see the president's motorcade driving by. pic.twitter.com/h0brs4gfC0...

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November 14, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Rep. Adam Schiff (D. CA) Helps Kick Out Two Trump Enablers From The U.S. Senate

Received this e-mail from House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D. CA-28), in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Rev. Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) Now that we’ve decidedly rejected another four years of Donald Trump...

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November 12, 2020

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“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them? 2

This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 11-14. Today’s supporting summary is at the very bottom, below the fold. Set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry, Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley caused a sensation when it...

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November 1, 2020

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Obergefell and Hodges Agree: Vote for Biden

Five years ago (was it only five years ago?) the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Obergefell v Hodges that same-sex couples were entitled to the same marriage rights as opposite-sex couples. Jim Obergefell was the named plaintiff, and Richard Hodges the defendant in his capacity as director of the Ohio...

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October 31, 2020

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“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part deux

This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. This covers chapters 11-14. Set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry, Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley caused a sensation when it was published in 1849 – under the pseudonym ‘Currer Bell’. Robert Moore is...

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October 28, 2020

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10 to 0… Basic medical care . Not exactly equal justice or humanity.

A Covid-19 patient lies in the isolation ward at Israel's Barzilai Medical Centre in the southern city of Ashkelon on September 22, 2020. - Israel has registered more than 172,000 coronavirus cases with 1,163 deaths, out of a population of nine million. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Saturday as I watched 10 white coats appear in front of a mic looking professional I began thinking about equal justice as I thought this. How can anyone vote for a 10 to 0 medical care in America and feel any moral pride or anything but selfish and ashamed? As those doctors...

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October 4, 2020

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GA-Sen A & B: Quinnipiac Poll Has Ossoff (D), Warnock (D) & Biden Leading In Georgia

Some very good news today out of Georgia courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll. First, the Senate races: x GEORGIABiden 50% (+3)Trump 47%.#GAsen:Ossoff (D) 49% (+1)Perdue (R-inc) 48%@QuinnipiacPoll, LV, 9/23-27https://t.co/T6wmSEbxXO— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) September 29, 2020 SENATE RACE: PERDUE VS. OSSOFF Republican incumbent Senator David Perdue, who is seeking a...

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September 29, 2020

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KY-Sen: Amy McGrath (D) Calls On KY AG To Release Grand Jury Report On Breonna Taylor Case

This needs attention: Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath on Thursday called on state Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) to release the grand jury report in the killing of Breonna Taylor. “Breonna's family and Kentucky deserve to know what happened the night she was killed. The fact that the grand...

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September 26, 2020

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The woman he may pick could paint the SC orange to hide the work of RBG. It must be stopped.

My sympathies to the family of Justice Gingsburg’s family. My further sympathies for our daughters and granddaughters, POC and the disabled. Meet Barbara Lagoa: He and DeSantis working hand in hand on this one. She is a real piece of work regarding voting rights. slate.com/… One of Trump’s Top SCOTUS...

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September 22, 2020