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Everybody loved Molly Ivins, but few remember her without some prodding. Here’s your prod on the anniversary of her death. The vacuum she left has never been filled. Ye Olde Blogge misses her greatly.
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The events of Ye Olde Blogge’s week have been eventful! Incredible visits to places around Phnom Penh, with pictures. Forgetting a patron saints holy day. Out of #COVID19 quarantine. None of that is mentioning the blogs and news I’ve read this week. It’s top stuff.
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The coming #GOPDystopia will be small subtle shifts in the way we do things for white people. Small enough for them to convince themselves nothing has changed. For PoC’s and progressives, though, life will be much harder immediately.
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Feeling frustrated? Fatigued? Exhausted? Being more sarcastic, cynical, or negative? Is it impossible to achieve your goals? Well, then, bucko, you might could be burned out! How can you take care of yourself so you can #SaveOurDemocracy?
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It’s been an eventful week with appearances from both snails and #COVID19 at Ye Olde Blogge. Stories no one wants to miss as well as links to interesting reading in the media and blogosphere that you might’ve missed.
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Forewarned is forearmed. Planning ahead on what you’ll do when the GQP refuses to seat Democratic winners and ties the 2022 election up in court will help ensure you do it. Starting to organize and train now for the mass peaceful protests that will be necessary to #SaveOurDemocracy is imperative.
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Our democracy died when we started electing politicians who thought it was more important that they get re-elected than representing their constituents or political positions.
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Take a moment to remember MLK, his legacy, and what he fought for as we head into one of the darkest chapters of America’s history.
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Join Ye Olde Blogge in remembering Betty White on her 100th birthday.
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We’ve got a bit of everything happening this week at Ye Olde Blogge from adventures with tissue to poking eyes out to fun and sad animal news to catalogues of food, statehood anniversaires, and questions better asked than answered.
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Our democracy rides on the 2022 election. The GOP has passed numerous voter suppression and nullification laws in many of the states. The Senate is a stalemate. How likely is it that MAGA Nation is going to accept Democratic winners in 2022?
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Given the accepting attitudes towards political violence by those polled and the amount of violence in general in our country, we’re likely to see substantial political violence surrounding the 2022 election.
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It was a real week what with the anniversary of the 6 January Insurrection and the Cambodian Genocide and two major speeches and back spasms plus all the Internet blog reading that you could want to to do. You’ll not want to miss a moment!
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Join Ye Olde Blogge in commemorating the Cambodian Genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge. Commemorate this day to remind yourself that it could be happening very soon in the US.
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It is increasingly seeming like it is too late to save our democracy or avoid much of the hardship of restoring it, especially since one side isn’t willing to participate in democracy any more. Polarization is the demise of democracy. Conclusion: be ready for a real fight.
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Are we becoming less racist? There’s good news and bad news! Good news until 2016, we were becoming less. After 2016, we don’t know, but you know, don’t you?
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2021 went out like it came: giving us its best shot. But, we’re still standing. Most of us, anyway. We cover it all from hockey year end blog posts, to grieving those we lost, to the cartoons and comics. 2021 isn’t done until you’ve seen its snarky, sarcasticky, profaney end!
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