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Retired professor of literature & writing and critical thinking, Yale and USC. Also 10 years’ teaching high school English. NYC native, now in CT. New Deal Democrat, like my parents before me.
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Pro-democracy billionaires—there are a number of them—could combine and pledge to use wealth to protect Republicans who vote their consciences from MAGA primary challenges. That’s what they’re most afraid of, and why no one is stopping Trump’s destruction. Remove the fear, save democracy. Please!

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Has anyone started calculating whether we hit that critical mass of 3.5% of the population protesting? (About 11.5 million people…) Seems like a job for a major news organization with major resources – if they actually cared to know…

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Only the vilest white supremacists would dare to slander a man as great as Jackie Robinson.

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The Greatest Generation would like a word… This film gets some of its power from the fact that it’s**official**… Straight from FDR‘s War Department. That won’t happen now, obviously, but couldn’t Blue State governors make short films and PSAs like this? We badly need compelling counter-narratives.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

People are dying—why won’t President Bush speak up? PEPFAR is his great achievement, and he could make a difference!

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