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America Needs Your ATTENTION: Please Donate NOW
If I start a go fund me for a friend’s medical bill or a beloved pet’s operation, chances are enough people will be moved to help. If my goal is reasonable, my ask is clear, the helpers will appear. My friend will get through a difficult time. Mr. Whiskers will get through his bladder stone…
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Fairytales and Cable News: Thoughts about Braving the Wilderness
I love lots of people. Not all of them watch the same cable news. I have this fantasy that people I love will stop watching Fox News. That one day they will wake up and understand that realizing democracy is a collective and lifelong endeavor. I imagine there will be a day when they connect…
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Love Letter to Democracy
Election day- November 7, 2023. I vote and then head to the diner. Settled in my booth- French toast, bacon, coffee and Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson- I stare at the screen. What can I say to you? The Merriam Webster Dictionary calls you a “government by the…
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Let’s Talk About the Supreme Court
During three days in June 2022, U.S. supreme court rulings on reproductive rights, gun safety laws, and environmental protection gutted social norms. They stripped individuals of protections and sent lawmakers back to the drawing board with tied hands. How did we get here? Michael Waldman’s The Supermajority How the Supreme Court Divided America offers a…