Trump’s Bullying Backfires - NFL To Take Up Protestor’s Cause
Donald Trump epitomizes incompetence that he attempts to conceal with his big mouth as if bloviating nonstop lies and absurdities will convince Americans he is anything other than a monumental...
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Sgt. La David Johnson, Colin Kaepernick & Millions Fought against this...
SGT. La DAVID JOHNSON IS BEING LAID TO REST TODAY — LET US REMEMBER HIM AND HIS FAMILY — AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF ALL OF THEM!I am the “thug” that president tramp, the king of the toxic dump, told a...
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'People think we’re the lowest:’ Puerto Rico drug users get less help. HIV...
The below clip is jaw dropping. HT to Grist for finding it. It shows damaged wind turbines as well as island wide destruction. EOS had reported, prior to the storm, that wind turbines are unable to...
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'Black Marxism': To fight economic inequality, fight systemic economic racism...
This diary is, in a sense, a continuation of a process of educating myself, a process that began in the aftermath of the 2016 election, which exposed my wishful thinking and assumptions about what...
View ArticleLEFTOVER JUSTICE II
LEFTOVER JUSTICE IIEdward HarrisIntroductionIn Buffalo NY, just like in many other places, People of Color (POC) are victims of racial disparity, police misconduct, and racism. People, groups,...
View ArticleIsaiah 10:1-3
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,making widows their prey and...
View ArticleIs this us? “rounding them all up and sending them to camps.”"red state...
Intolerance and tribalism has been increasing on Dailykos for several years but I never thought we would descend to eliminationist rhetoric. Resisting Trump and his white nationalist Republican base...
View ArticleWhy I am Running For the Virginia House of Delegates Pt. 3 SOCIAL EQUALITY!
I’ve been writing a series on my inspiration to run for the Virginia House of Delegates. So far I’ve covered the environment and public education, but I wanted to save the biggest issue for last in...
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Alterative Voices Roundup: Other voices from around the net. Nov. 19, 2017.
Latina Lista tells us about the invaluable work of a new collaboration to publish the work of journalists who have been murdered around the world for simply committing acts of journalism: The lucky...
View ArticleTax-exempt white "Christian" supremacy embedded in GOP agenda
This 81% figure has been reported from a range of publications: Eighty-one percent of evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016 and have arguably become his most ardent supporters. They have one of their...
View ArticleWhat Judicial Fascism in America Looks Like
Due to recent events and a sense of obligation to my conscience, I write this open letter to all people. You all inhabit the community that I love.I recently discovered that a relative of mine began a...
View ArticleNext time you hear someone using "SJW" as a pejorative... remember this.
"Social Justice Warrior". Karl Rove didn't come up with it, but he might as well have.Because no phrase seeks to turn one of our greatest strengths against us, more than this one.It turns our concern...
View ArticleIt's time to end the federal prohibition on marijuana
It is time to end the federal prohibition on marijuana, a move that will yield medical, social justice and economic benefits for the entire country. The scientific and medical evidence supports such a...
View ArticleEvil or Stupid?
The passage of the tax “reform”legislation by the Senate would seem to confirm that we are at high risk of becoming an Oligarchy, if not already in that state. It isalso cause to wonder, as George...
View ArticleSex and the Senate - Moving Forward with Dignity
I am struck by the degree to which public frenzy over the important issue of sexual harassment and assault in our society has moved public response in a direction that is not productive. Making matters...
View ArticleData for Black Lives: How to Design Justice
Data for Black Lives is a new group of “activists, organizers, and mathematicians” co-founded by Yeshimabeit Milner and Lucas Mason-Brown, with the mission of “using data science to create concrete and...
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Dvar Torah: Parashat Va'era - the first plague: 'blood in the water.'
“Cochito” by Todros Geller, in FROM LAND TO LAND (Yiddish) published 1937 by L. M. Shteyn/Labor World Press, from the Yiddish Book Center's Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library.This article is revised...
View ArticleMLK: Greater Than A Dream
One of the greatest human beings America has ever produced is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Few people ever demonstrate that higher potential in humanity. Beaten and jailed. Yet, still practiced the...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Hut! Hut! Hut!
xxYouTube Video“Hut” was a later introduction, although by the 1950s it was commonly in use in football. Linguists trace its origins back to military cadence, particularly of World War II, when drill...
View ArticleWalking & Chewing Gum at the Same Time: Dems must Expand Map While...
In 2006, Thomas Schaller wrote about the emerging Democratic majorities in the West. States like CO, NM, and NV, once deeply Republican Red were turning Blue or at least purple, and states like AZ, MT,...
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