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What’s on my mind: The speaker is responsible for the message:

https://pressbooks.nscc.ca/nscccommtrades/chapter/1-3-the-communication-process/#:~:text=Feedback%20occurs%20the%20sender%20and,be%20verbal%20or%20non%2Dverbal.

News:

• Why Lori Lightfoot lost and what it means: 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/how-mayor-lori-lightfoot-lost-chicago.html

• So “now” we know Fox News lies?

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/27/rupert-murdoch-admits-fox-news-hosts-peddled-election-lies

• This year’s Republican clown show has Pennywise as a keynote:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/cpac-2023-preview-pitchforks-and-propaganda/

• The church says, “come as you are”, perhaps they should rethink that:

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/pompano-beach-pastor-accused-of-defrauding-church-to-support-drug-habit/2983940/

• Dilbert is a racist and so is Elon Musk:

https://newsone.com/4525111/dilbert-scott-adams-aol-acount/

This shit is for us: Demystifying Racism:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Santa Claus and Catfish:

Closing: 8-Year-old mogul:

https://blacknews.com/news/skye-8-year-old-black-entrepreneur-partners-cheryl-brown-grandmother-launch-skincare-brand-kids-tweens-teens/

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What’s on my mind: What’s Love got to do with it:

https://www.impactfund.org/social-justice-blog/loveinactivism

News:

• Cruel and Unusual: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/federal-prisons-inmate-abuse.html

• No question of allegiance:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-tapes

• Just like shit race traitors float:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michigan-gop-elects-trumpist-conspiracy-theorist-kristina-karamo-party-chair/

• It’s in his DNA:

https://jocoreport.com/convicted-sex-offender-former-pastor-facing-new-charges/

• To be young gifted and Black:

https://thegrio.com/2023/02/23/black-twin-sisters-valedictorian-salutatorian-new-york-high-school/

This shit is for us: Uncle Tom 2.0:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/uncle-tom-obstructionism_b_57a11b77e4b004301c52207a

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-conservatism-gop-stars/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Is Scientology a Religion:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/kent/religion.html

Closing: Birds flying high, You know how I feel:

https://www.blackenterprise.com/ghanaian-ceo-secures-13m-from-investors-for-startup/

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What’s on my mind: How to think like a Quant, and why you should:

https://calvinrosser.com/notes/thinking-in-bets-annie-duke/#:~:text=Professional%20poker%20player%20Annie%20Duke,outcomes%20and%20a%20better%20life.

News:

• When the police are the government: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/police-violence-democracy.html

• Evidently, the truth is relative:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/nyregion/nj-ap-african-american-studies-high-schools.html

• The GOP actively subverts the separation of Church and State:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/we-are-babylon-dozens-of-members-of-congress-join-religious-right-prayer-service-to-repent-for-the-united-states/

• Nonreligion is sticky:

https://onlysky.media/afiala/non-religion-is-sticky-and-contagious/

• A primary police tactic is torture:

https://www.theskanner.com/news/usa/34202-biden-s-plan-for-ending-the-emergency-declaration-for-covid-19-signals-a-pivotal-point-in-the-pandemic

This shit is for us: The American Caste System:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/magazine/isabel-wilkerson-caste.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The efficacy of prayer versus Synchronicity:

https://secularhumanism.org/1997/06/can-science-prove-that-prayer-works/

Closing: Real “seed” money: 

https://www.blackenterprise.com/ghanaian-ceo-secures-13m-from-investors-for-startup/

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What’s on my mind: A human response to AI:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/opinion/ai-human-education.html

News:

• The Scorpions Rolled Through Memphis: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/memphis-police-scorpion.html

• State of the Union…Fucked up:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/politics/biden-state-of-the-union-takeaways.html

• Lunatic food fight:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/spiritual-warfare-breaks-out-among-the-trump-loving-prophetic-community/

• There is no “our side”:

https://religionnews.com/2023/02/01/american-atheists-board-members-exit-dogged-by-misconduct-allegations/

• Biden’s blunder:

https://www.theskanner.com/news/usa/34202-biden-s-plan-for-ending-the-emergency-declaration-for-covid-19-signals-a-pivotal-point-in-the-pandemic

This shit is for us: The decomposition of anti-Black backlash:

https://www.naacpldf.org/woke-black-bad/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Religion’s psychological torture:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-mind/202109/shunning-the-trauma-being-cut

Closing: Black business has a greater mission than making money: 

https://thegrio.com/2023/02/09/chris-montana-on-du-nord-social-spirits-and-making-an-impact-in-communities-blackmade/

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What’s on my mind: How to live like a Human-ist:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/gaia-hypothesis

News:

• It is the color and the badge: 

https://news.yahoo.com/memphis-pd-disciplines-sixth-cop-165643918.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma

• Republicans are anti-Black, including the Black ones:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/02/house-republicans-vote-out-ilhan-omar-foreign-affairs-committee

• Peddling shit as a pastor not enough for some pastors:

https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/arlington-pastor-addiction-arrested-drug-trafficking/281-06791dcf-8d9c-4595-90ca-cfc2ec7b7e31

• Bullshit anti-CRT:

https://thegrio.com/2023/02/01/college-board-revises-ap-black-history-class-after-criticism/

• Good news update:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/nyregion/bobbi-wilson-lanternfly-yale.html

This shit is for us: Three Points for Black Power, a white perspective:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Deep-a-dee-doo-dah , deep-a-dee-ay:

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/06/john-in-the-beginning-was-the-word-with-god-analysis-meaning/

Closing: Black news celebrates 28 years: 

https://aframnews.com/afram-news-celebrates-28-years/

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What’s on my mind: Africa shows us how to see one another:

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ubuntu_(philosophy)#Ubuntu_and_Western_Humanism

News:

• So, Justice Kavanaugh is a rapist: 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations-in-secret-sundance-doc-justice

• Faith is the evidence of dead kids:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/idaho-faith-healing-exemption-senseless-child-deaths/

• Strangely, sometimes the right thing happens:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/flo-rida-wins-dollar826m-in-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-against-celsius-energy-drinks

• Now the Big Lie includes shooting at people:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/solomon-pena-new-mexico-shootings.html

• It’s not the color, it’s the badge:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/tyre-nichols-timeline.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap

This shit is for us: Black focus:

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2022/08/30/black-americans-have-a-clear-vision-for-reducing-racism-but-little-hope-it-will-happen/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Are prosperity gospels based on the bible:

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-you-should-know-about-the-prosperity-gospel/

https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/files/file/brad_koch_final_dissertation.pdf

Closing: Help save our Black press: 

https://www.theroot.com/third-world-press-the-oldest-black-publisher-was-near-1850040628

https://www.gofundme.com/f/flood-fund-for-third-world-press-foundation?qid=0ae317e70c5732fe89180f5e60982c7a

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What’s on my mind: What does it mean to be human:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/philosophy-dispatches/201205/what-does-it-mean-be-human

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/14/can-artificial-intelligence-ever-be-sentient-googles-new-ai-program-is-raising-questions

News:

• George Santos is exactly what America deserves: 

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/01/17/george-santos-is-the-congressman-america-deserves

• The complicity of false equivalency:

https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/these-are-the-false-equivalencies-of-the-biden-documents-case-dick-polman/

• Age is just a number, whether it is high or low:

https://thewestsidegazette.com/the-youngest-judge-in-texas/#:~:text=Knowledge%2C%20accountability%2C%20and,was%20given%2024

• A Fake ass Diamond cracked:

https://www.newsweek.com/lynette-hardaway-cause-cause-death-diamond-silk-covid-1772613

• Another criminal pastor gets off Scott free:

https://julieroys.com/police-chief-blasts-prosecutor-for-dropping-sex-crime-charges-against-megachurch-pastor/

This shit is for us: The consumption of self-destruction:

https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/unpacking-how-media-influences-our-views-racism

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: All religious thought is dogma:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201412/dogmatic-and-spiritual-religion

https://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/liberation-of-the-mind-ze0z1303zsau/

Closing: At least some of them give back: 

https://blacknews.com/news/robert-f-smith-billionaire-robert-f-smith-position-hbcu-msi-students-greater-generational-wealth/

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• Kevin McCarthy’s House is fucked up: 

• Andrew Tate is arrested…it’s about time:

• Democrats are fucking stupid:

• Brazil is no USA:

• A pastor’s wife gets time served after being convicted of slavery:

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What’s on my mind: How to be happy in hell:

News:

• Kevin McCarthy’s lifelong dream crushed: 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-two-days-failure-us-house-republicans-try-again-pick-leader-2023-01-05/

• Fuck 12:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/nyregion/nypd-officer-suspended.html

• Fuck 12 again:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/watch-cops-cuffed-black-wsj-reporter-doing-interviews-at-bank-threatened-this-could-get-bad-for-you-if-you-don-t-comply/ar-AA160IRN?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=375f5b29bc92458ea98a555c979accd3

• Is apartheid over:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/world/africa/south-africa-black-teenagers-pool.html

• Conservative leader says he is a time traveler:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stop-the-steal-activist-ali-alexander-says-hes-a-time-traveler-the-father-of-dragons-and-a-lot-like-jesus/

This shit is for us: Don’t shit in the well you drink from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFmUvElTeU

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: 1984 as a religious metaphor:

https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/fypapers?utm_source=digitalrepository.trincoll.edu%2Ffypapers%2F72&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages

Closing: Retribution vs. Rehabilitation:

https://blacknews.com/news/100-inmates-wisconsin-prison-graduate-second-chance-program-milwaukee-technical-college/

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What’s on my mind: Year in Review 2022:

https://aframnews.com/2022-in-review/

News:

• Fake Republican, is anybody surprised?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-officials-probe-george-santos-congressman-elect-with-fabricated-resume-2022-12-28/

• Well of course…:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/michael-capps-kansas-lawmaker-god-guilty-covid-relief-fraud/

• Is this what we are concerned about?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/arts/music/tory-lanez-megan-thee-stallion-verdict.html

• Black pastor seeks nude photos from a child:

https://ministrywatch.com/delaware-pastor-charged-with-soliciting-nude-pictures-of-runaway-child/

• Giving back:

https://www.blackenterprise.com/how-olympic-gold-medallist-sanya-richards-ross-is-helping-black-moms/

This shit is for us: Black antisemitism:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Contradiction:

https://moreesemadu.com/contradiction-movie-review/

Closing: A legend dies: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/sports/soccer/pele-dead.html

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