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Marc Elias of Democracy Docket noted today that states and local governments have regular programs to keep voter registration accurate, while right-wing activists are operating on a different agenda. In one 70,000-person town in Michigan, a single activist challenged more than a thousand voters, Elias reported, and in Allegheny
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Brinkley’s activities inspired the film industry term 'goat gland’—the grafting of talkie sequences onto silent films to make them marketable.[28] John R. Brinkley - Wikipedia
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The two grandmothers, best friends, who originally confronted Blevins also pushed for the recall vote. One of them, Nancy Presnall, said about Tuesday’s vote, “This isn’t a Republican-Democrat thing. It’s a Nazi and not-Nazi thing.” The Week Ahead - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
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Hesher can be generally described as a grungy, long-haired person with a “still stuck in the '80s” image. Usually seen wearing leather motorcycle or denim jacket full of band patches, torn acid-washed jeans and an '80s rock t-shirt. Likes to listen to some heavy metal tunes while riding
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My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since,
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Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! The Voiceless by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Daily Poetry
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The workers who died in the bridge collapse on Tuesday “were not ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’” Will Bunch wrote, quoting Trump; “they were replenishing it…. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters on Tuesday, they died as Americans.
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This trope often intertwines with the "white man's burden," seen in stories where white people “end racism” with the help of the black community without facing accountability for their actions. "The Help" is a film that gets a lot of flack for doing just
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I mean, that’s part of it. The question I’m really interested in is what you do when you’re a member of a group that has been (a). given a whole bunch of power and (b). taught that we really only need to take care of ourselves. How
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Oh my goodness, I’m so hopeful! Because I’m just so alive to the fact that we can’t declare failure yet because we (and here I mean White people) have never really tried to dismantle White supremacy. Men have never really tried to dismantle patriarchy. Americans have never
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Now, I could have written a book that just tsk-tsked other White liberals for what they’re doing wrong. But that would have been dishonest. I spent a lifetime believing that, as a well-meaning White liberal, if I just read the right books and yelled loudly and had enough Black
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The moral of this story is clear: your life is your own, and don’t let anyone else rule it. Mister Dog belongs to himself. The boy belongs to himself. They both act on free will. DadReads: Mister Dog by Margaret Wise Brown