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Ridin' with Biden

One can hear in the symbolic figurative ringing of the Liberty Bell an affirmation of freedom, justice, and truth. Each toll is an invocation of a free nation, born out of resistance to oppression, tempered by the heat of battle, and sanctified by the blood of sacrifice.

We are Black athletes and artists working together. Our priority right now is combating systemic, racist voter suppression by educating, energizing, and protecting our community in 2020.

Legolas:

It is not our fight.

Tauriel:

It is our fight. It will not end here. With every victory, this evil will grow. If your father has his way, we will do nothing. We will hide within our walls, live our lives away from the light, and let darkness descend. Are we not part of this world?

Tell me, Mellon [friend], when did we let evil become stronger than us?

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of the Smaug 2013 movie

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"Freedom Gained is Freedom Lost Without a Free Press"

Yes, we don't forget the hard road we've come, the many trails of tears, the fire hoses, the dogs; the stolen lands, genocide, and deracination from our original homes; the bullets and canon fire that yoked us to reservations and plantations, the whippings and the lynchings; the booby traps, land mines, the loss of limbs and death by mortal combat defending our stake in the American Dream.


We do not forget our earned and legitimate claim to the USA, as our country and future. And we shall not be overcome. Nor shall we reduce ourselves to the same evil and hatred perpetrated against us. For we are people of the Earth, of generosity of spirit, of heart and soul. We are lovers of life and of mystical origin, standing firm and strong. We are the ones we've been waiting for—celebrating our uniqueness and our commonality with all life. We stand grateful and humble before life and the Great Mystery.

We stand as perennial as the mountains and seasons.


We are the People, Standing Strong!


— Carl

REPORTING ~ EDITORIALS ~ CRITIQUES ~ RANTS

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” — President Harry Truman

News

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"It's going to be, how do we think government should work

and who do we think government should work for?" — Elizabeth Warren

TRUMP WORLD: An entrained collective psychosis transmitted by Donald J. Trump, marked by psychobabble and mythomania (an abnormal or pathological tendency to exaggerate or tell lies). The only known cure is time and natural selection. Meanwhile, vote like your life depends on it, because it does.

CHANGE ISN’T MADE BY WATCHING FROM THE SIDELINES


JUSTICE REQUIRES ACTIONABLE PURSUIT


  1. VOTING INITIATIVE

June 19, 1865, enslaved Black communities in Texas finally received the news that they were free — two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation (Sep. 22, 1862) and three months since the end of the Civil War (April 9, 1865).

Juneteenth (June and nineteenth) is a day that honors Black freedom and Black resistance, and centers Black people’s unique contribution to the struggle for justice in the U.S. Juneteenth this year is a rare moment for communities nation-wide to proclaim in one voice that Black Lives Matter, and that "We the People in order to form a more perfect union… and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity" won’t tolerate anything less than the justice of full inclusion for all.

Remembering George Floyd

THE MAD KING TRUMP

… through the prophetic eyes

of George Washington.