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#RacistAttacksProtesters #MarvinScottIII #JusticeForMarvin During a peaceful protest and demonstration at the intersection between the cities of Plano and Frisco in North Texas, a racist white man runs up screaming, cursing and swinging at Kamona Young, a black woman and others as we blocked traffic. We block traffic for Marvin Scott...

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  • May 10, 2021

The gendarmes are still rounding up the Trumpaloompas who tried to steal our democracy on Jan. 6, and by now it’s clear that these Fisher Price militiamen have lost much of their revolutionary fervor after being placed under the klieg lights of the criminal justice system lo these many months. So you...

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  • May 6, 2021

GOP strategist has filibuster advice for Democrats. This police brutality case needs visibility. The mainstream media is at it again. Fauci v, Paul. GOP Strategist: Kill the filibuster Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 On a scale...

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  • March 22, 2021

These kinds of stories drive me up the wall. There’s nothing heartwarming or cute about this, but it’s the kind of thing people in this country slurp up like syrup. Nothing against the journalist who brought this grotesquerie to light, but my takeaway from this tragic tale is that we...

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  • March 1, 2021

With a Biden lead of nearly 15,000 ballots, 180 have been challenged in Arizona and a claim of postal interference in Pennsylvania debunked as an employee recants. x Postal worker featured by Republicans as evidence of vote tampering admits he made it up; GOP donors gave him $130,000 https://t.co/UlOqChJN5j— Timothy Burke...

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  • November 11, 2020

Crowdfunding campaign grift about a southern border wall financing scheme of $25 million has now generated an indictment of Steve Bannon and others. SDNY is in charge. Wire fraud and money laundering are among the counts. Leaders of ‘We Build The Wall’ online fundraising campaign charged with defrauding hundreds of...

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  • August 20, 2020

It’s especially hard to organize folks these days. You can’t call a meeting.   It’s tough to talk and listen with masks on. Yet suburban folks west of Portland Oregon are organizing against a  developer’s plans to build a Chevron gas station/mini-mart adjacent to wetlands, big trees, and a Park Greenway....

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  • August 2, 2020

“We tell people to wash their hands, but a study showed that 30 percent of homes on Navajo Nation don’t have running water, so how are we going to do that? Let me be crystal clear, we don’t think people of color are biologically or genetically predisposed to get COVID-19....

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  • April 13, 2020

What follows are excerpts from four report backs by Andrea Henson, of Where Do We Go Berkeley, (@WhereDoWeGoBerk, Facebook) whom I first spotlighted in October, 2019. She has been on the front lines, fighting for and with local homeless people to create conditions where they can live in peace, in sanitary...

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  • March 30, 2020

Unapologetic democratic socialism will survive 2020, but if Trump wins, there could be no democracy by the 2024 election. Trumpists have been strangely obsessed with ignorant nonsense against a “radical left” Democratic party. x Omaha World-Herald: “Ben Sasse announces reelection campaign, says 2020 is 'choice between civics and socialism'“ https://t.co/SG1tkzyhlH —...

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  • January 27, 2020

Nov 20, 2019 'Everyone Was in the Loop' Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified that President Trump ordered a pressure campaign on Ukraine and that senior-most administration officials knew about it. “It doesn't matter whether you like him. It doesn't matter if you dislike him,” Adam Schiff said. “What matters is whether...

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  • January 27, 2020

Trump’s attempt to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s case fails. Her defamation case moves forward. Trump probably should have “moved” to Florida even earlier. Should there be a GoFundMe to DNA test E. Jean Carroll’s dress. Maybe Mike Bloomberg can check his couch cushions for change. Trump asks a New...

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  • January 9, 2020

Anyone who believes this crap will in any way defray even one dollar of taxpayer expense is an idiot. x A reminder: House Democrats can and should make Trump's spectacularly corrupt G-7/Doral decision part of the impeachment inquiry and possibly part of an article of impeachment. Here's @RepRaskin laying out...

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  • October 19, 2019

Oh, schadenfreude, you are my very favorite of all the freudes. So you may have heard that those guys who raised money on GoFundMe for a small chunk of easily passable wall actually started building said chunk on Memorial Day weekend. Thing is, they didn’t get the permits they needed...

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  • June 26, 2019

So, yeah, Oregon. Where there’s an increasing chance of an armed standoff between the government and… the government. First, a little background. As of the last election, the Democrats enjoy full control of the Oregon government, including a supermajority in both the House and Senate. But not, as we’ll see, a...

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  • June 21, 2019

At this point, Trump and his cultists might as well wait for continental drift to separate the U.S. from Mexico. ‘Cause that wall ain’t getting built anytime soon. Now, the group that famously raised $20 million to build a tiny portion of Trump’s giant border wall has run into more...

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  • May 29, 2019

Remember that GoFundMe page to raise money to build Trump his wall? Well, this just got interesting: x Trump supporters are stupid  #MAGAmorons https://t.co/IjhLFRaJ5K — TheSeminoleDemocrat (@TheSemDem) May 13, 2019 Brian Kolfage is supposed to be helping Donald Trump build a wall with the 22 million raised. No construction has begun, even after multiple promises...

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  • May 14, 2019

You know you’ve arrived when people start contacting you out of the blue with breaking (wind) stories. Don Lessem is a renowned dinosaur expert and author, and a somewhat less renowned Trump hater. But he’s hoping to up his Trump-hectoring game with the upcoming international unveiling of a giant, robotic,...

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  • April 30, 2019

Callie June was adopted by two loving parents, who immediately had to put her in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to deal with her stage four cancer. Her parents, already working multiple jobs, did what most Americans are forced to do when confronted with high medical bills: They set up a GoFundMe page.  ...

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  • April 19, 2019

Why does this remind me of every Trump supporter I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet? WOIO TV: A vigil organized by Christians, Jews and Muslims at Cleveland City Hall to remember the 49 killed in Christchurch, New Zealand was interrupted Friday by a President Donald Trump supporter driving a “BUILD THE...

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  • March 16, 2019

x Done. Solved. Cool.. you guys just stay there forever… thanks… let us know if you see anything 😂 https://t.co/lU9tfvLO5K — Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) February 11, 2019 x When do you think they’ll start a GoFundMe for snacks? — Ms. Defy (@Dubalicious1971) February 11, 2019 x I thought Chick Fil...

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  • February 12, 2019

Schaden-fantastic! From the Lexington Herald-Leader: Citing “conduct that violates civil rights,” lawyers for Gov. Matt Bevin say former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be held responsible for nearly $225,000 in legal fees and court costs incurred by couples who sued her in 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses because of her...

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  • January 31, 2019

A drive-by murder.  Now a manhunt. The father of a 7-year-old girl killed in a drive-by shooting pleaded with the public to help authorities in the manhunt for a gunman who opened fire on a mother and children in a car near a Houston-area Walmart. “I just want anybody, whoever,...

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  • January 2, 2019

Well, this is disgusting.  A viral video making the rounds on Twitter captures a horrifying act of violence against a young Syrian refugee, Jamal, who already has a broken arm, perpetrated by a fellow student half again his size.  x This boy is Syrian refugee who attends a school in...

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  • November 28, 2018

Heidi Feldman is the real deal you can read about her here. She has opened a GoFundMe page to help Dr. Blasey Ford cover her expenses incurred from fleeing from RWNJ’s. You can help here. “Due to death threats, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford (who uses “Dr. Blasey” professionally)  and her family have...

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  • September 19, 2018
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A must read from the New York Times: President Trump’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, expressed confidence to Republican donors on Saturday that the party would overcome a Democratic “movement of hate” in November, but he acknowledged Republicans could lose races where they have nominated candidates who are not seen as...

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  • September 8, 2018

Here’s the summary: Jeffrey Winder was recently fined $1 for punching white supremacist Jason Kessler, who organized the racist 2017 Unite the Right rally that led to the death of activist Heather Heyer. I'd like to raise money to help him defray the costs of this outrageously excessive fine at...

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  • September 7, 2018

I can’t think of a way to sum up everything wrong with our country right now than this one story.  Cynthia Tisdale’s husband lost the healthcare lottery: he was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. He is housebound.  Therefore, although retirement age, she was forced to work two jobs, both as a...

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  • May 24, 2018

Crossposted from Eclectablog.com. In April of 2012, control over Muskegon Heights schools was handed over to an un-elected Emergency Manager, appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. By July, Emergency Manager Donald Weatherspoon had signed a contract to turn the entire public school system over to the for-profit charter school operator...

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  • April 3, 2018

I’ve been wracking my brain. Has this ever happened before? A false alarm nuclear attack.  I may be wrong but I can’t remember such an incident.  I am close to sixty.  I called other relatives who lived through the heart of the Cold War.  They can’t remember. May we are...

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  • January 14, 2018

Originally posted at Eclectablog. After the owner of Indiana pizzeria Memories publicly declared she wouldn't make her pies for same-sex weddings, she raked in well over $800,000 from a GoFundMe.com fundraiser. Eager to get in on the action, or at least to share the limelight and maybe be interviewed on...

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  • April 21, 2015

Originally posted at Eclectablog. When the owner of Memories Pizza in Indiana recently told reporters that she would refuse to bake pies for wedding receptions if the couple were gay or lesbian, the story went viral. Lawrence Billy Jones III set up a GoFundMe page to “relieve the financial loss...

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  • April 7, 2015