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[If you appreciate my writing you can join my Substack where i am several articles ahead, but it has a free tier. Subscribe now Thanks.] I watched the Elon Musk interview so the rest of you don’t have to. You’re welcome. It was a chore. And I have...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Anyone who has shown concern for the age of our presidential candidates should get a grip! Age = Wisdom! Elders have been revered and thought of as leaders throughout the history of the world! Am I missing something?? Moses was 80 when he confronted...
by FPproud
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 03:24 AM PST
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The 8th Circuit Court allows a lower court’s elimination of citizens’ right to sue for discrimination; an appeal to the conservative Supreme Court is the only recourse, and it’s a trap This ruling in the case AR State Conference NAACP v. AR Board of...
by stlmoz
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 05:10 PM PST
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Via Rollingstone. Former South Carolina Governor and current presidential candidate Nikki Haley insisted on Tuesday that America has “never been a racist country,” before claiming she had experienced racism in her own life. Speaking to Fox News the...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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This last Christmas day, it was Bishop William Barber plan to attend a showing of the Color Purple at his local AMC theater. With his disability with a rare form of arthritis, he has to have a special chair to sit in. His hips and part of neck and...
by jwgarman
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 09:10 AM PST
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The $215 million deal made headlines, but the industry pay gap persists, along with new cases of sexual harassment. By� Susan Antilla �for Capital & Main Seven months ...
by Capital and Main
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
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Yes, White people, allies and friends of White people and other people of every color, and all people who will likely become part of a marginalized group sooner or later — this constitutes a very real threat to your children and their future. No more...
by rflctammt
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 10:56 AM PST
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I was commenting on another article and realized that one of the two trends that I think are the most danger didn’t actually fit as a response to that post so I decided to split it of. That separate issue is POPULISM. In 2017 or 2018, I was involved in...
by jwgarman
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 06:37 PM PST
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Sometimes I honestly wonder, wouldn’t it be nice to be a white guy? Wouldn’t it be nice to be considered “normal”, “average”, and a “true American?” Wouldn’t it be nice to have straight hair? To be able to just flip my head and have it fall just right?...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sat Oct 28, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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UPDATE We have a new leader in the clubhouse for most antisemitic comment I mean legitimate criticism of the Israeli government: I feel like I’m in Orwell’s 1984, can’t talk about the bad guys ever or I get sent to Room 101 where Israeli rats eat my...
by hp68
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 10:33 AM PDT
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Excellent Libraries at Home and in the World Commentary by Chitown Kev As a person who has read books, magazines, newspapers, comic books,�and even matchbook covers for as long as I can remember, ...
by Black Kos
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on Tue Oct 03, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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by Chines57
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on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 04:31 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 · 6:31:35 PM +00:00 · Dem Raptavio's Rule strikes again - Everything after the but is going to be morally wrong and nothing that precedes it justifies what follows the but. There is NO CONTEXT that can justify victim...
by Dem
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 05:54 PM PDT
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University of Houston students brace for LGBTQ Resource Center closure in response to Texas’ DEI ban By Monique Welch Houston Landing Jamie Gonzales, a former program coordinator at the University of Houston’s LGBTQ Resource Center, hasn’t slept well ever since she heard that the center will be disbanded in accordance with Senate Bill 17, a law...
by Texas Tribune
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 12:00 PM PDT
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By William Melhado The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief , The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S ...
by Texas Tribune
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on Mon Aug 14, 2023 at 08:26 AM PDT
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photo source On the 75th anniversary of the executive order prohibiting segregation in the U.S. armed forces, Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash., on Wednesday introduced a bill to ban discrimination in the U.S. military. On July 26, 1948 former President...
by cfordlaw
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 10:30 AM PDT
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We are all aware of the many horrendous laws passed in the past few years by Florida’s GOP-controlled legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis: new laws to ban drag shows, deny gender-affirming care, outlaw abortions after six weeks, the stop-WOKE law, the...
by davidkc
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on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 06:19 AM PDT
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed new legislation Monday which marked the final step in outlawing gender-affirming procedures, a crippling blow to Russia’s already embattled LGBTQ+ community. The bill, which was approved unanimously by both...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Jul 24, 2023 at 12:12 PM PDT
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Sometimes there is a slippery slope. My friends Eva Fogelman and Menachem Z. Rosensaft are children of Holocaust survivors. They just published The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination is protected speech. As the children of Holocaust survivors, we...
by Bethesda 1971
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on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 10:18 AM PDT
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So you’re a Conservative Republican and you’re against DEI. I wonder why. Many Republicans have passed laws or forwarded bills against DEI initiatives in state universities. Also, some companies have terminated their DEI initiatives, along with their...
by Zeke Springer
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on Sat Jul 15, 2023 at 05:09 PM PDT
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