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Veteran & Methodist (he): Pro-choice; pro-dismantling racism; anti-fascism and anti-totalitarian rule; anti-releasing CO₂ to the air (I'm fine with renewable fuels & sequestration); and pro-human & LBGTQ rights. If God is Love (She is), then ACT LIKE IT.
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Bonus Army of 1932. What do you know of the 43,000 people (17,000 were veterans) who marched in Washington, DC in the Great Depression's Bonus Army to ask for early cash redemption of their WWI service bonus certificates and how Hoover sicced the U.S. Army on them? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_A...

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America, Violence, and Skin Color. What do you know of the Red Summer of 1919; the East St. Louis massacre of 1917; the Tulsa race massacre of 1921; the Rosewood massacre of 1923; and so many other atrocities? Mass racial violence in the United States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_ra...

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Battle of Blair Mountain. What do you know of the Coal Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921? 10,000 striking workers; 3,000 thugs and strikebreakers; and President Harding finally sending in the U.S. Army (many striking workers were veterans, and wouldn't shoot soldiers).

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I consider Representative AOC to be hero stuff. I am glad that we elected officials like her.

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Aha! Seen via one of my favorite authors: what positions have been cut (illegally).

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Sharing-- Some info on what's been illegally cut.

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Of note! My own problem with Dudek is that he knows DOGE's illegal intent -- as shown by his insistence that he personally did not reveal privacy information -- but aided and abetted the illegal operation of the unelected billionaire co-President. Rogue presidency, what can I say?

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A half-dozen years ago I was irate that non-Hispanic anglo historians like Trevor Burnard could talk about American Planters' worry over Lord Mansfield's anti-slavery decision in the 1772 Somerset case, but rejected two dozen Black artists in the NYT 1619 Project. www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/m...

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Black history IS American history. U.S. Census Bureau -- From December 2024, for Black History Month 2025. www.census.gov/newsroom/fac...

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Don't USUALLY reshare on command... but yeah. ;)

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NSFW Language. I am no lawyer, but this National Lawyers Guild video makes sense to me? I am sure that this varies by state (but is still a 5th amendment right). So, yes, talk ONLY to your attorney in most cases. NLG (2022) "Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f▪︎▪︎▪︎ up!" youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs?...

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This is VERY bad. We don't need this crook anywhere near our Social Security or Medicare data. wapo.st/4k4k69G

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Mary McLeod Bethune -- Good share, that I now re-share.

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Sharing. (I do not like the transphobia and homophobia I see today; nor the rise in antisemitism, Islamophobia; nor the denial of rights of people in churches like mine that believe that separation of church and state should be honored.)

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Accurate. I hope those conservatives who feel betrayed by our GOP leadership protest, demonstrate, fill the "switchboards," post about it, elect new people, strike and engage in collective bargaining, and otherwise choose America over the billionaires' coup and hijacking of our government.

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Abe 1/6 This is a neat introduction to President Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value. I like it. I also like rights & private property (unlike our kleptocratic oligarchs). Gershon, Livia. “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value.” JSTOR Daily, 20 July 2024. daily.jstor.org/abraham-linc....

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You DO know "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" statements are evil, yes? (Yes, yes, that's Dodsley; Edward Grim said it was "What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and promoted in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born clerk!")

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This is not good, if you want fair elections. (I do.)

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I am going to agree with NdGT here: real bad timing. I am also hoping that ESA and Europe's Spaceport in French Guinea can pick up the slack as we see engineers leave the U.S. I think that we sometimes forget that it's been there since 1968. The Ariane 6 is sweeeet. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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WHO -- Vaccines Potentially of interest, as the U.S. becomes pro-disease. (I suspect that all of the CDC ACIP vaccine recommendations might have disappeared come morning.) www.who.int/health-topic...

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