My Journal

Protests in Miami

The First Amendment is Under Attack

While most of us are celebrating justice for George Floyd and hope it represents a positive turning point for our country, a sizeable minority on ...
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Justice for Daunte

Modern Day Slave Power

While we can all rejoice in Derek Chauvin being found guilty of all charges in the killing of George Floyd, this humble spirt is running ...
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Sign stating JUSTICE 4 GEORGE FLOYD

George Floyd’s Killing Was Ritualized Murder

The medical experts who testified in the Derek Chauvin trial have established that George Floyd had stopped breathing and lost his pulse long before Chauvin ...
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George Floyd Painting

We See What We Want to See

The killing of George Floyd last spring supposedly opened America’s eyes to racism and sparked a new racial awakening in the country.  But now the ...
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Protester holding sign saying "FUCK KKKEMP"

Support the “For the People Act”

So, what do you think of Georgia Governor Kemp signing a bill to curtail voting rights and suppress the Democratic vote, happily surrounded by a ...
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North Carolina Voters in Line

Stop the Steal – Republicans Want to Suppress the Vote!

Republican legislators in states across the country want to limit early voting and place more restrictions on mail-in voting. They want us to believe the ...
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Ron Johnson

Senator Ron Johnson

Senator Ron Johnson finally spoke the simple truth of why he and other Trump supporters have so little concern about what happened at the Capitol—the ...
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DC Protestors at Capitol on January 6th

And Still More White Trash Privilege

Before I begin, please accept my usual apology for once again using the term “white trash,” an expression that deeply offends my egalitarian grain.  While ...
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Golden Trump and Big Boy

Bob’s Big Boy

So, have you seen the hideous golden statue of former president Trump they wheeled out at CPAC—the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference?  ...
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Wake up Call

Another Wake Up Call

What happened in Texas last week is one more painful, embarrassing disaster for our country, another one of those terrible events that some inevitably refer ...
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Earthworms in Dirt

Profiles in Worm

I hate to bore you by regurgitating the details of Trump’s second impeachment trial or the awful events at the Capitol on January 6th, but ...
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Protestor showing a sign that says "Every Legal vote COUNTED. Every illegal vote removed."

White TRASH Arrogance

Like their hero, Trump, the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol like to portray themselves as society’s victims, but the truth is their white privilege ...
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Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy

A New Republican Party II

The Republican Party has been nothing but a ruse concocted by the corporate power structure using their contrived “culture wars”—God, guns, and gays, etc.— to ...
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Founding Fathers of the United States

The 1776 Project

The report from Trump’s “Advisory 1776 Commission” claims that America’s universities are “hotbeds of Anti-Americanism, libel, and censorship that combine to generate in students and ...
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QAnon Shaman

The Anger is Frightening!

Despite all their raging fury, most of the deluded self-described “patriots” who invaded the U.S. Capitol have very little to be angry about except the ...
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Protestors descend upon Capitol Hill to contest the certification of the Presidential Election

White TRASH Privilege

The horrendous events at the U.S. Capitol last week were a sad reminder that whiteness still bestows privilege on some of the least fortunate in ...
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Blocks implying 2020 turning to 2021

Farewell 2020!

How can Trump’s supporters look at what happened in 2020 and not want him banished from our lives? How is it possible not to see ...
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Sign that says "Remove the TERRORI$T$ from the White House"

Trump Pardons Blackwater Killers

While African Americans in this country are still fighting for recognition that Black Lives matter, Trump’s pardon of the Blackwater killers sends a message that ...
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Tommy Tuberville

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville

Newly elected Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, who may support a Congressional challenge to the Electoral College results, thinks Americans fought World War II to liberate ...
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Steve Scalise

They’ve Shown Us Who They Are (aka Profiles in Schmuckness!)

I’ve quoted Maya Angelou before and, sadly, I’ll probably quote her again: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” The last time I ...
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