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Larry J. Simon
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Historian, teacher, editor; Antifascist, book lover, 3-chord strummer; Fan of Americana, Blues, Country, Dylan, Earle, FCBarcelona; UCLA Ph.D.; Southwesterner in Midwestern Exile. Not here for day job or to promote career. Opinions mine; not my employer’s.
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I’ve acquired these six volumes (of 7 published to date), formerly owned by Harry Belafonte, of The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. As racist resegregationists have captured the White House we need now more than ever the astonishing courage, public moral vision, and works of MLK Jr.
#booksky
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It’s not a mistake when you have no process.
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A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.
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For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity?

There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.

It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.
O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?

TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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So they edited out the part where he said 60 Minutes had to pay him for editing things out???!?!?!?

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!
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Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?

I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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Having slept on it, it’s really set in that the Blue Jays loss last night was one of the most gutting pro sports losses I can remember. Absolutely brutal. My heart goes out to 🇨🇦
Any Christians to be found in Ukraine? The vast majority of the descendants of Ukrainian Jews who survived the Shoah are no longer in Ukraine, or no longer identify as Jews. I suspect 85% or more of Ukrainians identify as Christians.
Trump says US troops could be on the ground in Nigeria and says, "they're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not gonna allow that"
Wtf happened to ending this atrocity on day one of his presidency? So he’s acquiesced to innocent women and children in Ukraine being killed?
Trump: "Sometimes you have to let it fight out. And they're fighting. And they're fighting it out. And it's been a tough war for Putin. And it's been tough for Ukraine. It's been tough for both. Sometimes you have to let it, you know, just get fought out. I've settled eight wars."
There has never, ever, ever been a Trump plan on health care. Liar.

There has not in over two decades been any sort Republican plan except a “catastrophic health plan” that may have been viable 75 years ago when office visits, prescription drugs, and emergency room visits would not bankrupt you.
O'DONNELL: You'll put forward a healthcare plan?

TRUMP: No

O'DONNELL: Since 2015 you've said you've said you fixed it

TRUMP: We almost did it
Less than 60% of American adults have some form of individual retirement accounts. A very high percentage of those are abysmally modest.
Trump is 100% clueless.
Trump has no idea of the enormous damage he is doing to economic growth and inflation by his crackdown on the undocumented.
O'DONNELL: The stock market doesn't affect everybody. Not everybody is invested in the stock market

TRUMP: It does

O'DONNELL: But grocery prices are up

TRUMP: No. 401ks. People have 401ks.
Trump is a monster and a liar.
They’ve:
1) reduced legal immigration;
2) ignored international law on refugees;
3) violated constitutional right to due process;
4) revoked visas of people here legally;
5) profiled POC and brutalized US citizens;
6) lied about criminal records of the undocumented.
O'DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?

TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
When all you got is Mamdani is a communist (lmfao), I Trumpus am better looking (laugh harder still), and a vague threat to cut off federal funds for NYC, you’ve got nothing. Beyond childish and pathetic.
Trump on Mamdani: "I think I'm a much better looking person than him, right? It's gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you're doing is wasting the money you're sending there."
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On Oct. 28, Forbes reported that only ten months into his second term, Trump has nearly tripled his net worth, from $2.5 billion in 2020 to $7.1 billion today, largely from crypto schemes and pay-to-play federal transactions.
Trump’s right eye barely opens.
He thinks he solves wars through tariffs. Asked how that has worked with Putin he lies.
He says Maduro’s days are numbered.
He threatens Hamas.
He says Netanyahu is fine and avoids question about BN ever recognizing a Palestinian state.
Trump refuses to state publicly that the US will defend Taiwan against China because he “does not want to give away secrets.”
Non-existent plans are the very easiest to keep secret and the hardest to cough up when called upon to do so. Who does this clown think he’s fooling?
I was waiting for him to claim his dog ate the plan.
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
This man is a monster and a liar.
They’ve:
1) reduced legal immigration;
2) ignored international law on refugees;
3) violated constitutional right to due process;
4) revoked visas of people here legally;
5) profiled POC and brutalized US citizens;
6) lied about criminal records of undocumented.
Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"

Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
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America in 2025: Latinos are being detained by ICE and other federal law enforcement agencies. Many are now carrying proof of status; just like free Black once people did.

"The past is prologue"~ William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was right.

Never dismiss history.

#KeepItWoke
#DedicatedToTam✡️🕊