Lunatic fringe In the twilight’s last gleaming This is open season But you won’t get too far Because you gotta blame someone For your own confusion We’re on guard this time Against your final solution –Red Rider, “Lunatic Fringe,” 1981 If they think we’re going to let Heather Heyer’s death be in vain, they’re out […]
Martin Luther King Jr.
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There Is No Such Thing as Us vs Them. We’re All in This Together
That is a foundational difference between liberals and conservatives today.
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Another Brick in the Wall: The End of Black and Latino Republicanism
Remember Marco Gutierrez, the right-wing hack who hitched his sorry star to Donald Trump last year? Gutierrez gained infamy when he told MSNBC’s Joy Reid: My culture is a very dominant culture. It is imposing and it’s causing problems. If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner. […]
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We Must Guard Against Normalizing Trump
His administration’s racism can’t ever become routine.
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Coretta Scott King Opposed Jeff Sessions, and Still Would
Her letter is the clearest rebuke of the Alabama senator.
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We Won’t Normalize
We’re horrified too. Not just by the ascension of the most unqualified individual ever to capture a major American party’s nomination to the White House. Not just by the Confederate coalition that will comprise his Cabinet. Not just by the hate crimes that have occurred nationwide since November 8. We’re horrified by the mainstream media […]
