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Published 1 hour agoFirst Great Sorrow: My Years With Robert F. Kennedy by Donna Chaffee
It was the last week of my sixth grade year when Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. It was just two months earlier that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been murdered, and I remember all the magazines my mother got– Life, Look, Ebony, Jet –and reading about both assassinations…
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Published 4 hours agoAI Rats Stealing the 2026 Election, a Human Future, & the Devastating Mis-Hap at Michigan’s Palisades Nuke
We open our latest GREEP Zoom gathering with a poem and a report from MIMI GERMAN in the deep desert of Eastern Oregon. From ALAN MINSKY of Progressive Democrats of America we get crucial warnings on how to protect your vote. Forever activist MYLA RESON makes it clear that the…
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Published 16 hours agoTrump PSA
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Published 19 hours agoWe Want You Sick Say Health Corporations
Many realize that health corporations make money when you are sick--or you are afraid you're sick--but some are blissfully ignorant of the dual and hypocritical messaging. Industry's "hypochondria sell," of course, is the basis of Ask Your Doctor advertising but it also fuels the…
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Published 20 hours agoColumbus City Schools successfully manipulates local legacy media
This article first appeared here What’s happening right now with Columbus City Schools (CCS), the media, and the Columbus Education Association (teacher’s union) is exactly how the state of public schools perpetuates in Ohio’s largest district.
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Published September 29Black Policy Matters
Every major election cycle, millions of dollars in civic funding flow into get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organizations, voter mobilization drives, and community outreach coalitions. Yet, despite this massive influx of resources, the numbers on the ground tell a starkly different story:…
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Published September 29Empire Psychosis
More and more humans are suffering from empire psychosis. People who can’t go ten minutes without checking their phones, losing hours a day to social media and mindless scrolling. People talking to chatbots, learning about the world from them, learning about life from them,…
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Published September 29Furryphobia
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Published September 28How Paxton Will Steal Texas
In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because on the Steve Bannon podcast, Ken Paxton proudly crowed about his felonious attack on Black voters. It’s unbelievable, but if you watch…
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Published September 27Shooting from the Lipp: Bibi out of NY
Watch video here Following the arrest of 100 anti-genociders in the morning, everyone remaining (and arrestees too) march to the UN to protest WarCrim Netanyahu’s address there, which in any case was delivered to the backs of delegates also marching: out.
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Published September 27I'll Be Back
Jeremiah Smith ties Ohio State record with 4 TD catches as No. 7 Buckeyes beat Illinois 42-19
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jeremiah Smith tied an Ohio State record with four touchdown catches and also had career highs with 12 receptions for 217 yards as the seventh-ranked Buckeyes beat Illinois 42-19 on Saturday. According to Sportradar, it is the…