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A campaign to make us feel safe again: Safety Pin USA #SafetyPinUSA #StDD
The great Maya Angelou once said, “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”Women, Muslims, Black folks,...
View ArticleLet's fight for the ACA! Lives are at stake #StDD
Six years to create a plan to replace the ACA and the Republicans have nothing, yet they are intent on repealing the program which though imperfect has been a lifesaver for so many. I have yet to...
View ArticleJustice for Keith Lamont Scott and Walter Scott #BLM #StDD
Someone very close to me said that her Psychology and Law professor made this statement in one of her classes:If you want to get away with murder your best bet is to murder a black man.Chilling, isn’t...
View ArticleA Lake for Lin: The Warrior Fights On
I first thought Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse was a news outlet. Really, I did. And then for a long time after it became obvious that this was not a group of men with nicotine-stained nails, tired...
View ArticleEt tu, Jim Brown?
I don’t know how one describes the sense of betrayal, the feeling of being punched in the gut, the nausea one feels at seeing one’s hero groveling at the gold-plated feet of Donald J. Trump. What the...
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Still so much work to do #BLM #StDDs
Rev. Barber gave a powerful speech to a Bible study at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. He outlined the winning strategy for the way forward. It's worth a read. We must build...
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Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country...and...
These are extraordinary times. You thought it could never happen here, didn’t you? Since the Tiny-fingered Groper-in-Chief swore to uphold the constitution, he has gone on a tear to undo everything the...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Bob! Songs for the resistance
Bob Marley sits at number 19 on Billboard’s 100 Greatest Singers of all time. Now I don’t want to start a full-blown war over Bob’s placement, but for the record, I would like to register my...
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At what cost the revolution? #StDD #Resist #NotMyPresident
Last Wednesday night I watched as Susan Sarandon tried mightily to disentangle herself from her stated fantasy of getting her revolution on through the election of a Reality TV Star."Some people feel...
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The Attacks on Black Bodies Continue #BLM #Resist
Witnesses thought that 16-year-old Alonzo Cox was in danger and so they called 911. The teenager was being threatened by a 14-year-old armed with a “large” knife. I imagine that they — the onlookers —...
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TrumpCare is no laughing matter #Resist!
I guess the One Percenters and their minions have much to laugh about. Their plan to destroy Obama’s legacy by dismantling the ACA seems to be finally coming together. Three years ago, we [Support the...
View ArticleI agree with Chris Matthews: "It's not Gorsuch's turn"
I have a love-hate relationship with Chris Matthews. As everyone knows by now, when Chris is bad — as he often is — he’s unbearably bad, but when he’s good there’s nobody better. Tonight he was...
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View Article(Only) White Lives Matter #StDD #BLM(too)
On November 3, 2015, 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis went for a ride with his father from which he’d not return. Little Jeremy was on the spectrum and his teacher would later tell us of his love for puzzles...
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Cops kill young black engineer. #JusticeforZelalem #BLM #StDD
Since the beginning of the year, police have killed 343 people. That’s 343 people in 110 days. Among the 37 people killed so far this month is 28-year-old Ethiopian immigrant, Zelalem Eshetu Ewnetu. I...
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Watch as two grown men explain why they pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old...
It’s been two and a half years since Officers Loehmann and Garmback pulled a drive by on a 12-year-old boy playing with a plastic toy gun in a park in Ohio. How could they have done this? Why would...
View ArticleGood News! Lawrence O'Donnell holds on to his job!
I know that good news have been in short supply of late, so it gives me great pleasure to be the bearer of glad tidings: Lawrence O’Donnell will be on MSNBC tonight!xPhil has always been fully...
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15-yr-old Jayson Negron shot and left exposed for 6 hours in the street #BLM...
By all accounts, Jayson Negron was one of those bright shining lights who had that rare ability to bring joy and laughter wherever he went. Along with his bubbly personality and his infectious smile,...
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Sandra Bland ... Cheated of life ... And cheated in death #BLM #StDD
Sandra Bland was on her way to her new job at her alma mater in Texas when she was racially profiled, brutalized, and then thrown in jail. This was the stop where the cop threatened to “light you up”...
View ArticleBeing Black in America #JusticeForPhilando
(Written by someone who’s most dear to me.)Being Black in America is consuming public murder after disgraced death after character assassination live, on a loop, in real time, all the time. Being Black...
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