Lol. That tweeter’s uncannily right too.
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Very revealing thread on the changes that were made to Lewis' speech at the March on Washington
https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1284472208006545408
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There is a campaign to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Lewis but it is not universally supported by civil rights veterans
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com...on/5465094002/
The above link also states Alabama predictably has a law prohibiting the renaming of monuments.
Lewis started out in the Nashville sit-ins of 1960, which he discusses here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzp7GOcIMfI
From 'Eyes on the Prize' episode 3
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aXG9lqr6qk4
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John Yoo Fascist Fantasies
Meanwhile, this is real
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1285299379746811915
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While ABC News and the New York Times try to spin a newly humbled and serious Trump, David Roth remains the one who understands and explains Trump the best:
https://newrepublic.com/article/1585...ouring-country
This is what it means to elect an absolutely finished man—someone who cannot grow or care or even reconcile himself to any new thing—to a job like the presidency. Everything Trump does sounds the same, because whether it happens on Twitter or in the quintuple-byline newspaper stories about bleary behind-the-scenes White House upbraidings, it fundamentally is the same. Trump will always and only be upset about the same things in the same stupid way; he will stay mad about them even as the country shudders and cracks around him. It will never be any way but this for him, because Donald Trump will never be any way but this.
Every day unfolds in the shadow of this sour and soggy fact—that recursive and stubborn idiocy is at the heart of why the federal government has effectively and intentionally abandoned the management of a (still) rampaging pandemic because the president thinks it’s both boring and a loser of a campaign issue. This blank, militant incomprehension of the world at large is also the chief explanation for the new battalions of uniformed state agents loyal only to the president who’ve been dispatched to kidnap and gas protesters in American cities because the president saw statues being toppled on the news. Living with the knowledge that we’re being governed by a bottomly malicious dope who actively and openly wishes much of the country ill is unsettling. There is a basic presumption of good faith built into the broader American project: Presidents might be right or wrong, but they are at least supposed to try. But that is not where we are, because that is not the kind of president we have. And so all of this is still very much being worked out from one moment to the next, as Americans try to figure out how to live in a country so manifestly abandoned.
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Michael Cohen alleges that Trump racially abused Nelson Mandela. Of course, Trump apologists will point out that Cohen is a proven liar, which is not exactly slanderous. But even a liar somedtr8inmes tells the truth. The question is: Is it plausible that Trump would racially abuse Mandela. Well, to my mind is is almost implausible that the racist president wouldn't.
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Cohen has made similar allegations before, eliciting the same shrug
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018...-shithole.html
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Very much so
Just look at birtherism, particularly in comparison to John McCain (born in the Canal Zone) and Ted Cruz (born in Canada). Or the hysterical reaction to his comments about Henry Louis Gates' arrest or Trayvon Martin's murder.
Too much of the focus has always been on whether Trump has used the n word. There is no question in my mind that he has (and does), but that is a symptom of his racism rather than its cause.
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- Mar 2008
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- The House with the Golden Windows
- Fast falling out of love for football.
- WasPlain Hobnobs
Trump's pick for UK ambassador
- didn't make racist comments
- didn't make sexist comments
- didn't lobby for Trump Turnberry to host the Open
So that's ok then
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53509482
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostVery much so
Just look at birtherism, particularly in comparison to John McCain (born in the Canal Zone) and Ted Cruz (born in Canada). Or the hysterical reaction to his comments about Henry Louis Gates' arrest or Trayvon Martin's murder.
Too much of the focus has always been on whether Trump has used the n word. There is no question in my mind that he has (and does), but that is a symptom of his racism rather than its cause.
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Just watching a segment on CNN regarding Trump's use of federal law enforcement officers in Portland and who should pop up but John Dean. He's only 81 and, I assume, regularly seen on US screens, but for me it's a piece of not-that-recent history come to life.
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We also get Woodward and Bernstein, but separately (not sure if they are CNN or MSNBC as I no longer watch). I initially got confused between John Dean and Howard Dean, who is far more recent.
John Dean claims Nixon did not directly order the Watergate break-in (Ehrlichman did it on his behalf) but I'm not sure if that matters except as a detail.
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