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'You've done nothing wrong': Virginia cop canned after donating to Kyle Rittenhouse defense fund

You know, I’m happy they were able to take Kyle Rittenhouse into custody after he allegedly shot and killed two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. That’s the way these things are supposed to go. I just wish conservatives didn’t feel the need to turn him into a...

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  • April 21, 2021
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Minerva @ Midnight: “it works” a pragmatics of lived experience

We remain weary about the callow stupidity of the GOP/GQP but we must not patronize or condescend about how superfluous their grievances have been and continue to be. Now that we know more about Trump’s sexual practices, fascist fantasizing seems altogether rote and boring, but certainly redolent of a banality...

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  • March 25, 2021
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The words Biden’s Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman used in Lester Holt interview even more insightful

Biden's inauguration poet, Amanda Gorman, is one of the most insightful persons I have listened to. This Lester Holt interview shows her depth. Her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” is a masterpiece. Amanda Gorman, insightful beyond her years x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. I was listening to...

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  • January 22, 2021
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: Forward to the Past

x “It's called a merge commit, Marty! It's a directed acyclic graph! We need to bisect and revert, and then use interactive rebasing possibly with a cherry-pick. What aren't you getting about this!?” pic.twitter.com/zahjHhiB33 — Gabriel Lebec (@g_lebec) October 2, 2020 Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those...

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  • October 10, 2020
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Here's the anti-Trump coronavirus ad we were all eager to see

This is a colossal kick to POTUS’ empty head. Enjoy: x #BREAKING New ad going after Trump on lying about #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/WatgoXqqW3— Biden_Brigade (@biden_brigade) March 14, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> Donald Trump’s biggest coronavirus lies, instantly followed up with the truth. Pure poetry. Is Trump still chafing your arse-cheeks? Then Dear Fcking...

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  • March 15, 2020
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The Nation's small, bad take on intersectionality

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A short-sighted framing of Elizabeth Warren as the “first” intersectional presidential candidate speaks to some problematic fervor, particularly for a tenured feminist professor. Intersectional critique is, after all, “the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.”. Emphasis on the...

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  • February 24, 2020
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Top 5 Political Books Of October 2019

Here is The Politicus Top 5 Political Books of October 2019: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation’s capital. In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow...

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  • October 29, 2019
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Ain't a Sin to Thank God You're Alive.

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Prostate Cancer struck me where I’m blind Festered deep up my behind Four good doctors couldn’t tell Cancer was dragging me down to hell. For years it grew on my prostate gland and ate away what makes me a man By feasting on my testosterone ‘Till I couldn’t pee, or make...

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  • October 17, 2019
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Not Without my Children

< p style=”text-align:justify”>The first two lines of the opening stanza of my favorite poem read, “If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…” –Rudyard Kipling.   One of the gifts of literature and poetry is confirming that you are not alone...

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  • August 9, 2019
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'Twas The Fight Before Christmas

'Twas the fight before Christmas, and in the White House, The dotard was pissed off, and starting to grouse; “I want Wall” he pouted, then reached for his phone, And tweeted his Twit-sters, misspelling “unnown”. Chuck and Nancy were nestled, all snug in their beds; While dreams of majorities danced...

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  • December 23, 2018
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Unwrapping Bethlehem

If you like short diaries because they get the message across without much fuss, here's one for you. In London – central London, not some out-of-the-way little suburb – St James Church near Piccadilly Circus has given a bit of its churchyard for use as the site of an artwork...

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  • December 27, 2013
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