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What’s on my Mind: Uninformed Citizenry:

•  https://aeon.co/ideas/the-right-to-vote-should-be-restricted-to-those-with-knowledge
• https://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/political-science/politics-and-political-science/summary/

News:

• Democracy on Trial: 
  • https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-order-redux-00153015
  • https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-hush-money-trial-witness-testimony-takeaways-rcna149542
  • https://apnews.com/article/fake-electors-trump-2020-arizona-indictments-059a719514b0c6cb56f7d7339e87d0d5

Conversations with an Atheist: Our Post Apocalyptic Future:

• https://www.neh.gov/article/rise-rapture-horror-culture
• https://www.gcrr.org/post/rapture-anxiety

Closing: Start Early: 

• https://www.blackbusiness.com/2024/04/tatiyana-danyelle-jyniah-smith-black-siblings-make-history-youngest-ceos-maryland.html

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What’s on my Mind: Living Outside the Box:

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chaotic-cognition/202006/the-truth-about-the-box-in-outside-the-box-thinking 

News: 

• The Boy who Cried Wolf: 
  • https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-order-redux-00153015
  • https://www.thedailybeast.com/details-of-how-trump-scored-dollar175m-bond-revealed-in-court-filings
  • https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-18-24/h_765e8b1de153c160143b222aa9bac66f

Conversations with an Atheist: Biblical interpretation by Race:

• https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Social_Justice_Studies/Race_and_Ethnic_Relations_in_the_U.S.%3A_An_Intersectional_Approach/01%3A_Introduction_to_Race_and_Ethnic_Relations/1.03%3A_Ethnicity_and_Religion
• https://www.pewresearch.org/short-read/2018/05/07/blacks-more-likely-than-others-in-u-s-to-read-the-bible-regularly-see-it-as-gods-word/#:~:text=Black%20people%20overall%20are%20also,whites%20and%2038%25%20of%20Hispanics.
• https://ms.fortresspress.com/downloads/9781506400174Chapter1.pdf

Closing: It is okay to give something back: 

• https://aframnews.com/rihannas-global-impact-transforming-lives-through-philanthropy/

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What’s on my Mind: How and Why We Lose:

• https://www.270towin.com/ 

News: 

• Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die: 
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629
  • https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/arizona-gop-lawmaker-lashes-out-at

Conversations with an Atheist:  thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

• https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-evangelical-supporters-political-violence-poll-rcna122023
• https://www.prri.org/research/threats-to-american-democracy-ahead-of-an-unprecedented-presidential-election/

Closing: We need to protect our treasures: 

• https://slingshot.news/iconic-black-american-singer-dies-in-nursing-home/

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What’s on my Mind: By their fruits…:

• https://books.google.com/books/about/Be_You.html?id=my1GEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q&f=false 

News:

• There Aren’t Two Sides to the Facts:
  •  https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html
  • https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-sick-immigrants-musk-pseudoscience-rcna146301
  • https://apnews.com/article/former-trump-officials-criticize-2024-e202861911ab37cadfcf058b5b163fb9
  • https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/easter-shooting-heated-argument-between-pastors-son-youth-minister-turns-deadly-in-dallas/3504539/

Conversations with an Atheist: Zero Proof:

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/existence-of-God

Closing: Safety First: 

• https://www.blackenterprise.com/heride-hartsfield-jackson-airport-atlanta/

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What’s on my Mind: Existence Beyond Time:

• https://www.space.com/time-how-it-works 

News: 

• The Last Congress: 
  • https://www.ft.com/content/86ee5942-2ff5-47a6-a509-b74b854b0477
  • https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/03/20/a-deeply-divided-congress-took-no-major-action-on-civil-rights-in-2023-report-finds/
  • https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/22/congress/gallagher-leaving-early-00148586
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-republican-official-and-outspoken-election-denier-caught-voting-illegally-9-times/ar-BB1kIwxq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=cd77e83b2cfa48c78c04dca5128da655&ei=15
  • https://thewartburgwatch.com/2024/03/20/sovereign-grace-pastor-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-13-year-old-girl/

Conversations with an Atheist: Escaping Karma:

• https://www.hinduamerican.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/KarmaMokshaandSamsara2.0_0.pdf

Closing:  Growing Success: 

• https://www.blackenterprise.com/minnesota-first-black-owned-freight-farm/

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What’s on my Mind: The weaponization of colorblindness:
 
News: 

• Like Lemmings to the Sea: 
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/11/2222787/-A-tidal-wave-of-stupid
  • https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4545008-parnas-calls-out-gop-rep-hearing-doing-bidding-russia/
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/california-pastor-arrested.html
  • https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-label-no-labels-vote-trump-opinion-1881492

Conversations with an Atheist: On the Road to Nowhere:

• https://www.learnreligions.com/comparing-christian-denominations-beliefs-part-1-700537

Closing:  Don’t Talk about it be about it: 

• https://www.blackenterprise.com/gun-violence-quavo-spark-grants/

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 What’s on my Mind: Zombies vs. Humans:

• https://secularhumanism.org/what-is-secular-humanism/ 
• https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2002/10/22160056/p35.pdf

News: 

• Round Two: Joe vs. The Shit Show – Democracy's 2nd Last Stand!
  • https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/13/never-trumpers-gop-2024-elections-00146726

Conversations with an Atheist: Heaven and Hell Explorations of the Afterlife:

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/how-major-religions-view-afterlife

Closing:  Reciprocity matters: 

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-chinese-family-coronado-california-rcna140717

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What’s on my Mind: Master Manipulator:

• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/snl-donald-trump-republican-bootlickers/ 

News:

• They all float down here. You’ll float too: 
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/super-tuesday-2024-coverage/
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/nikki-haley-drops-out
  • https://apnews.com/article/state-of-union-biden-gaza-ukraine-israel-1a42ff9d4ef3e0f2753e43ac8d39fc18
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/katie-britt-sotu-reaction

Conversations with an Atheist: Cosmology versus Mythology:

• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/creationism/

Closing: Black women and femmes getting sh*t done!: 

• https://actionnetwork.org/forms/2403_bcf_blmgnf_whm/?source=email_bcf_240301_whm&link_id=2&can_id=9809681e5aa78d0da2d25cb9fe381420&email_referrer=email_2227338&email_subject=black-women-and-femmes-get-sht-done

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What’s on my Mind: Project Autocracy:

• https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAivGuBhBEEiwAWiFmYfquX2cMaOcVIwikRLPkQqTvRx31J8eJEXxMq0ZDHWI8UpsIxqtDEBoC-PwQAvD_BwE 

News: 

• Black Rats: 
  • https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-conservative-south-carolina-primary-aa1155c31bfc3b397a32b33eff04ada8
  • https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4337579-dont-be-duped-by-trumps-claims-to-black-support/
  • https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2023-10/black-republicans-dramatic-shift

Conversations with an Atheist: Seven Mountains Fallacy for World Domination:

• https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/the-seven-mountains-revelation/news-story/be825c6262f5e764a3c2cbd385442702
• https://www.newsweek.com/civil-war-donald-trump-worth-it-andrew-wommack-1868670#:~:text=Evangelical%20preacher%20Andrew%20Wommack%20said,back%20into%20the%20White%20House.

Closing:   Don’t Celebrate: 

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2024/02/29/toni-townes-whitley-woman-of-the-year/72595713007/

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What’s on my Mind: America without democracy:

• https://www.dw.com/en/as-autocrats-ascend-gloomy-data-on-democracies-decline/a-62674756 
• https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2022/01/09/what-authoritarianism-would-look-like-america/9088584002/

News: 

• Rats f*cking Suckers: 
  • https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/dossier-not-what-started-all-of-this/
  • https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a46883184/fbi-informant-alexander-smirnov-biden-false-claims-russian-intel/

Conversations with an Atheist: Faith vs. Proof:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/t-m-luhrmann-faith-vs-facts.html
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244019898849

Closing:   Flying High: 

• https://blacknews.com/news/zoey-williams-27-year-old-first-black-female-pilot-fly-boeing-777-air-canada/

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