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But yeah, let's all give credit today to some stale saltine who is mad about confederate monuments being taken down. 😂
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Abolitionists were rad.
But we wouldn't have needed them in the first damn place if chattel slavery wasn't a building block of this country.
And no one in Africa would have been selling anyone into slavery if there hadn't been buyers waiting.
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"eXcEpT fOr tHe BiBLe 🥴"
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Biden and Obama walked into states where governors were openly hostile to them, hand outstretched, ready to help.
That's the gig.
Or, it's supposed to be.
But the bar is in hell, and far too many Republicans are excited to surpass it.
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One was on vacation and another apparently had police presence outside.
And Trump, who never shuts up about literally anything, is silent about it outside of criticizing Tim Walz. @governorwalz.mn.gov
Never, in a million years, would any previous president have done something like this.
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We now know that right-wing nutbar evangelical-preaching security consultant who assassinated a Minnesota legislator and her husband and shot another lawmaker and his wife a total of seventeen times (which they somehow survived) also stopped at the houses of two other lawmakers.
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"The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
-John Adams
Not that we should expect Mary Miller to know a literal thing about our country's history. Or anything, really.
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As I said, she doesn't really know what the difference is. She's just mad about the brown man. That's a common theme for her.
Meanwhile, the entire premise of Miller's racist tirade is garbage. The founders of this country were very clear about there not being a founding or official religion.
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Miller is also blindly stupid enough to not know the difference. Or, really, care. But those differences are myriad and huge.
She deleted the post when it was pointed out, and literally re-posted it with "Sikh" subbed in for "Muslim."
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(A lot happens when you're literally the least effective member of the chamber, who pays no attention to any of its happenings.)
But her outrage was doubly misplaced. The man was Sikh. He is Giani Surinder Singh of the Gurdwara South Jersey Sikh Society.
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Because "America was founded as a Christian nation." (It wasn't.)
Faith leaders from all backgrounds--including Muslim--have been doing this for decades. She's enough of an idiot to not know this, and to somehow have missed all of the times it has happened while she's been in Congress.
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-can properly locate their own district
Last week, she saw a brown man with something on his head giving the invocation on the House floor and she was thrown into a rage, assuming he was Muslim (he's not) and posting to social media how "troubling" it was.
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Mary Miller, whose lesson-teaching three ghosts certainly gave up on her long ago, has always occupied a space at the bottom of the rankings of congresspersons who:
-can put together a cogent argument
-can do tip math
-can get through a speech w/o"accidentally" saying anything white supremacist
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My band New Souls probably wouldn't exist without Sly.
Certainly we wouldn't have so many great songs to cover.
Rest easy.
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In 2025 people are still copying his looks and his riffs.
When I was asked to create a podcast theme song a few years back, I noodled on something and we called it good, and on playback I realized that it was 100% Sly influenced.
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When you consider that he could have joined the 27 club in 1970 right alongside the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones and others, and STILL left us all of the music that is considered to be his master work, the fact that he live to the age of 82 is somewhat refreshing.
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Indeed, stories of drug use and eccentricities take away much of the narrative of the last several decades of his life--not atypical of the geniuses who create world-changing art and then have to navigate the sea of expectations and onslaught of fans.
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While inducting Sly into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, George Clinton said "Sly was like all the Beatles and all of Motown in one."
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Questlove, who has given us the gift of not only a recent--incredible--documentary called 'Sly Lives!', but who also shepherded Sly's memoir. (He also produced the 'Summer of Soul' documentary that sparked a lot of fresh interest in the band.)
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Listening to those records, you'll hear what ended up being a sneak preview of what several of the world's biggest artists would sound like in the next 10-20yrs. Prince. Michael Jackson. D'Angelo. George Clinton. Pharrell.
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If you are sitting there right now and can't name at least five of their songs, you should fire up your preferred listening contraption and dive in. If it's your first time experiencing songs like "If You Want Me To Stay" and "I Want To Take You Higher," I'm actually rather envious.
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Between 1967 and 1971 they released five certified classic albums and a greatest hits package that featured one of the most covered and sampled songs of all time. ["Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"] Much of their early catalog has been copied, covered, sampled and outright stolen.
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The band expanded sonic and social horizons with songs and albums that could get both the bodies and the minds moving, and their legendary live shows wowed Woodstock and the Newport Jazz Festival.
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Bursting forth onto the scene just as the Summer of Love ended, Sly & the Family Stone was an integrated, gender-mixed group at a time when Jim Crow was still infecting the South.
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CBS reported Tuesday that the Navy is also considering renaming other John Lewis-class oilers including the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and USNS Harriet Tubman
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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A defense official confirmed that the Navy was making preparations to strip the ship of its name but noted that Navy Secretary John Phelan was ordered to do so by Hegseth. The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional.