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Way back in the days when I was a wee lil’ undergraduate, I found myself facing 80 credits of coursework meant to ensure that I developed into a well-rounded, moderately well-adjusted adult. I got...
View ArticleNew Video: "God Hates Flags 3.0"
Many of you have seen this video in earlier incarnations, but the track is brand new.When I started the new record this summer, I knew I wanted to include a fresh, acoustipunk version of “God Hates...
View Article"The prejudices of people in favour of Ancient customs and Regulations"
Celebrate the Bicenvicenquinquennial year of the Massachussetts Historical Society by reading this letter from Abigail to John Adams, Nov. 27, 1775. The first Adams family.This Adams should have had...
View ArticleHeckler disrupts Hamilton performance screaming: "We won! You Lost! Get over...
Taking revenge on those who speak out about the predicament our nation is now facing seems to be a top priority for many Trump supporters. This incident occurs with a backdrop of Mr Trump seemingly...
View ArticleGreen Party Jill Stein planning recount request, call DOJ 202-353-1555
An article in The GuardianThe Guardian reports that presidential candidate Jill Stein is organizing efforts to launch a recount of the votes in battleground states. Is a leader actually exercising some...
View ArticleWhat Will You Tell Your Children and Grandchildren?
When I was a teen living in, at the time, West Germany, as a dual national, American/German, I came across photographs of Nazi concentration camps, in a book, in my school library. At the time I...
View ArticleUgly America
This year the United States of America unleashed a vile ugliness into the world rivaling the evils Pandora released from her proverbial box. We have elevated as our leader, a man, to one of the most...
View ArticleA curious case of Archie Bunker Syndrome
On Jan. 12, 1971, the first episode of All in the Family aired on televisions across America. It was the first major American series to be videotaped before a live studio audience, and went on to top...
View ArticleA Rebuke to Donald Trump
I just watched Trump's inauguration speech. It cries out for a strong rebuke, pointing out how Trump's agenda will do great harm to the "forgotten Americans" whose champion he claims to be, and how...
View Article"All Terrorists Are Muslims..."
I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma, and I still have many friends and relatives in the area. It is an impoverished area, but also one of the reddest areas in one of the reddest states in the country....
View ArticleTwo Harvard Students Barred From the Country Despite Court Order
The Harvard Crimson reports.
View ArticleWearing a Yarmulke, I Have Found Anti-Semitism In Progressive Locales..And...
At times throughout the year, i travel the country. As my dog is my co-pilot, it is by car. I facilitate the cleansing..detoxing..of one that is strung out. Be it the toxic drug of choice, alcohol,...
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The Rise of Hatred Continues As Missouri Jewish Graves Vandalized.
Over 100 headstones in Chesed Shel Emeth Society Jewish Cemetery, located in University City, Missouri, were subject to vandalism or property destruction over the past week. The destruction comes as a...
View ArticleIf you don't experience it, then don't trivialize it.
I recently posted a blog, that I will admit was pretty divisive and I actually had people making insinuations about my intelligence in the comments. I did post some things that were my own opinion, and...
View ArticleKansas SoS & Gov. Candidate Kris Kobach issues angry denial: I don't have...
As Democratic and Republican governors alike joined to denounce racial hatred in Virginia, a few names stood silent. Governor Sam Brownback, who has been tapped as ambassador to religious freedom, and...
View ArticleAnother sign of hate and intolerance...I'd like to BURY this guy with love...
Unbelievable. In Mason, Michigan a homeowner has posted a sign saying he will not sell his house to any foreigners. His definition of a foreigner? "Foreigner is not a protected class under the...
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FROM Twitter: MT @AJVicena Been In #SanJuan for a DAY.
MT @AJVicena IN SAN JUAN FOR A DAY posting as an exact copy of his TWEET THREAD for share.xBeen in San Juan for a day and a half. Still can't wrap my mind around the daily life. Let's put this in terms...
View ArticleNo, there is no "war on people of faith"!
One of our local NPR stations aired an interview with a Christian tea party type this evening. While, unlike many of his ilk, he had nothing good to say about Donald Trump, he did repeat the usual...
View ArticleNative American teens profiled by white parent - calls 911 - "two males...
I suppose this is just another story about the rise of public intolerance, privilege, and racial profiling that occurs daily here in America. It’s blatancy speaks for itself. But I am furious.CSU...
View ArticleSoccer player finally admits it: Her Christianity-fueled homophobia made her...
After over a year of speculation as to why a rising star in women’s soccer would suddenly refuse to play for Team USA, North Carolina Courage defender Jaelene Hinkle is finally coming clean:God made...
View ArticleWhy are evangelicals so non-Christian in their actions and statements?
The young transgender woman Jazz Jennings posted a YouTube video on Friday about her feelings as she approaches the date of her gender confirmation surgery. Over the weekend, the comments section to...
View ArticleBeing intolerant of Christian faith isn't really Progressive
This article says it better than I can. And the author is doing it the right way: he’s not blasting everybody on the Left, but just one individual and her specific behavior. Possibly that’s because...
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Just a few nights ago, I was lying in bed reading when a loud commotion outside my house, roused me out of my bed and outside my house, to make sure that what I heard was actually what I feared I was...
View ArticleThis video shows how hatred and intolerance begins
As published on the rec list by NextConservatism, and documented in detail by Mark Sumner here, this is the video of MAGA-hatted Kentucky Catholic school students mocking Nathan Phillips, a Native...
View ArticleChristian author: Atheists are 'pompous prigs’& ‘loud, nasty,...
Most atheists were raised in religious families. And they paid attention. The evidence indicates atheists know more than believers about religion. And they are often the most questioning of and curious...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: While We Mourn
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico,...
View ArticleFirst Muslim Woman Sworn Into Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Opening...
Today Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell was sworn as the first Muslim woman in the House of Representatives. She represents Philadelphia which has 40 mosques serving some 200,000 Muslims.She was greeted by...
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'Trump's 'Go home' invective echoes Nazi incitement against Jews:' Chemi...
Now that Republican voters have embraced Donald Trump’s declaration that elected women of color who criticize his policies should “go back to where they came from,” this seems like the perfect...
View ArticleOkay That's It! THAT'S NOT HOW TOLERANCE WORKS!
After this recent string of mass murders, it has gotten to the point where I am tired of having to argue with those who call themselves “free speech absolutists”. (or near absolutists to make...
View ArticleKnife attack in NY synagogue during Hanukkah
www.cbsnews.com/…Multiple people stabbed at synagogue in Rockland Countywww.nytimes.com/…The attack happened during a Hanukkah party around 10 p.m., when a man entered the home and stabbed the five...
View ArticleLong Islanders Join Forces to Stand Against Anti-Semitism
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.comI thought it impressive when a couple of dozen elected officials from state, county and local government came to a Shabbat service at Temple Beth-el of Great...
View ArticleTwo Solutions to "Cancel Culture"
The other day, following Bari Weiss’s appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, I posted a diary asking two questions about “cancel culture”: (1) Why is “cancel culture” a good reason to vote...
View ArticleGay inclusive Catholic school? Woman decides its a good idea to call in bomb...
Let me preface this by stating that I am Jewish, not Catholic. Although some of my good friends are Catholic (Current and former) I am ignorant of the Catholic theology….so if I make an error please...
View ArticleFundamentalist Intolerance
Fundamentalist Intolerance(Daylight Atheism – 1/25/21)By James A. HaughtAcross America, right-wing politicians pass “religious freedom” laws that have a single purpose: to let narrow-minded believers...
View ArticleKarma? #KarmaIsReal
Karma seems to have interceded on the Eastern side of my state in Moses Lake, Washington on Memorial Day.xAnd we're back at it again! We will not hide our #pridepic.twitter.com/Fp9rbCNVmy—🏳️⚧️ℂ𝕠𝕤𝕞𝕚𝕔...
View ArticleVaccines Hesitancy: Gay Pride
When I read Kos community and staff ridiculing Republicans I hear enraged screamers at Gay Pride marches in the ‘80s and 90’s. Read on.
View ArticlePlease help out those among us who may not move as quickly as you might like...
I recently received a change.org petition from someone who attends Berklee College of Music who felt slighted because their professors could not keep their pronouns straight in identifying the person...
View ArticleWoman who cursed and spat on Jewish kids in Brooklyn is arrested
Anti-Semitism thrives in the US. Sometimes it results in synagogue massacres. Sometimes it results in synagogue kidnappings. But most Jews will experience anti-Semitism In the form of harassment and...
View ArticleFirefighters suspended after racist remarks caught on recording.
As reported on Raw Story"The original call was to discuss the consolidation of services between the Briarcliffe, Goodwill, and Darby fire companies," Channel 6 reported. "When county and state...
View ArticleI went to Scranton Pennsylvania to fight racism, but became a target of it
This past weekend a group of storytelling friends flew from different parts of the country to join me at Scranton Pennsylvania to participate in an 80 Minutes Around The World Immigration Storytelling...
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A Tale of Two Billboards
A small business owner near where I live in rural, deep red Pennsylvania recently spent $150K to put up an electronic billboard with rotating messages of hate. The billboard was placed on a busy road...
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Let's thank Drag Queen Harpy Daniels for helping the USS Reagan get 2022...
Minorities were the object of scorn and the military was desegregated and Eisenhower took Truman’s order and made it happen. And there were those that were violently opposed. But Eisenhower was no...
View ArticleTexas, God, Medicine, Gender affirming care, Knowledge, and Error
We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one.In that regard, the state of Texas is...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom....
View ArticleAnswering intolerance with intolerance doesn’t work.
Before I start, I want to be clear — I am not talking about mockery or even being insulting. Schadenfreude is a legitimate thing people feel, and when someone in a position of power does something...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on America Today
Sunday in Maryland. We are apparently approaching what the forecasters say will be the hottest week of the year. In September. Wow. In the meantime, insurance companies are reworking their risk...
View ArticleThe Ku Klux Klan monstrosity continues trying to destroy America
www.theguardian.com/…After reading this article, please read Timothy Egan’s seering “Fire in the Heartland: the Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the Woman who stopped them.” It’s the tale...
View ArticlePalestinian Feminist Collective?
I just received a solicitation from the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) in regards to the violence in Gaza. I share the concern over the horrible conditions & events in Gaza & Israel but...
View ArticleIt's the Racism and Misogyny, Stupid
Am I the only one getting tired of the endless amount of punditry speculating about why the Presidential race is so close? Why is Trump so darned popular with a certain group of people, who absolutely...
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