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What’s on my mind: We need to get our shit together:

News:

• January  6th Select Committee Final Meeting: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144303656/5-takeaways-from-the-final-jan-6-committee-hearing
• Trump’s taxes given to the public: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-tax-return-related-documents-released-congressional-committee/story?id=95599017
• I have no regrets: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/mandisa-thomas-atheist-groups-reviewing-ethics-complaints/
• Religious Leader Caught with a Trailer of Girls: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/07/arizona-polygamous-cult-leader-child-abuse-samuel-bateman
• Update, Bishop of Bling arrested: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/nyregion/bling-bishop-arrested-fraud-lamor-whitehead.html

This shit is for us: Black and Secular in White Christian Nationalist America: https://www.atheists.org/2021/10/black-nonreligious-americans-report/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Reason for the Season: https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/reproduction-procreation

Closing: A dance that was the music: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/arts/dance/twitch-stephen-boss-dancer.html

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What’s on my mind: The cuckoo caucus:

https://www.motherjones.com/mag/2023/01/toc/

News:

• Another one bites the dust: 

https://apnews.com/article/texas-b9b084e154c07237c9bc3c46da4de202

• Trump Emigrates to Clown World:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/arts/television/jimmy-kimmel-trump-trading-cards.html

• The Republicans are out of their fucking minds:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/from-ostracized-to-mar-a-lago-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-liz-crokin-marvels-at-how-far-shes-come/

• Pastor rips off the Covid Relief Fund, surprise, surprise:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/feds-arrest-florida-pastor-son-8-million-covid-scam-rcna38754

• WTF!:

https://newsone.com/4465118/shanquella-robinson-whats-happening-with-the-arrest/

This shit is for us: Black Freethinkers:

https://blacknonbelievers.org/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Looking for solace and never heard from again:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/27/us/set-adrift.html

Closing: Black President:

https://apnews.com/article/education-penny-pritzker-08ae6297a31f4f42b85a2813336b33e2?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_08

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What’s on my mind: Understanding Leading vs. Lagging Indicators:

https://www.economist.com/media/pdf/democracy_index_2007_v3.pdf
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world

News:

• Trump’s really bad month: 

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/07/trump-2024-scandals-poll-court-tax-fraud

• Death by a thousand slights:

https://blacknews.com/news/police-confront-bobbi-wilson-9-year-old-black-girl-spraying-lanternflies-white-neighbor-scared/

• Results of the GA runoff:

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1141162415/democratic-sen-raphael-warnock-defeats-republican-herschel-walker-in-georgia-run

• Alito shows his “true” colors, white supremacy:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-alito-jokes-black-santa-ashley-madison-supreme-court-arguments-rcna60168

• Brittney Griner is Free!:

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141503355/brittney-griner-freed

This shit is for us: Black Skin White Masks:

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/black-skin-white-masks/themes/self-image-and-self-hatred

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Heavenly Bodies:

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/how-angels-really-look-like-according-to-the-bible-d4d339112619

Closing: Future Time: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/fashion/watches-amandine-geneva.html

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What’s on my mind: We need a manifesto:

https://dschool.stanford.edu/book-collections/you-need-a-manifesto

News:

• A Black antisemite, a white supremacist and a failed ex-president are having dinner…:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/25/trump-white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-kanye-00070825

• Oath Keepers convicted of Sedition:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-verdict-00071248

• Buddhist priests, worshiping on high:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monks-meth-temple-thailand/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

• The Democrats have a new leader, he’s Black:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/us/politics/house-democrats-hakeem-jeffries.html

• A Candance Owens endorsed Bank crashes and burns:

https://www.theroot.com/candace-owens-endorsed-anti-woke-bank-dies-a-hilariou-1849813190

This shit is for us: Too Black too strong:

https://research.aimultiple.com/artificial-general-intelligence-singularity-timing/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Is this in the Bible, bible trivia:

https://www.ranker.com/list/common-beliefs-that-arent-actually-in-the-bible/ashley-reign

Closing: Black enrollment in top universities is up: 

https://aframnews.com/african-american-enrollment-at-highly-ranked-american-universities-increasing/

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What’s on my mind: How to care, without losing your mind:

https://time.com/4886913/how-to-take-care-of-others-without-burning-out/

News:

• More hypocrisy from the Republicans:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/politics/herschel-walker-taxes-georgia-texas.html

• Make America Great Again?

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lauren-witzke-says-giving-women-the-right-to-vote-was-the-worst-thing-that-ever-happened-to-america/

• Another Christian Pastor screws their flock:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/miracle-mansion-a-christian-theme-park-convicted-of-fraud/

• Can Black people be antisemitic:

https://thegrio.com/2022/11/21/kanye-kyrie-and-the-root-of-antisemitism-in-the-black-community-explained/

• They want to break up our families

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/nyregion/nyc-acs-racism-abuse-neglect.html

This shit is for us: Monuments to the unthinkable:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/%E2%80%9Cmonuments-to-the-unthinkable%E2%80%9D%E2%80%93%E2%80%93in-cover-story-clint-smith-reports-from-germany-on-what-the-us-can-learn-about-atonement/ar-AA145u24

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Thanksgiving myth:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thanksgiving-myth-and-what-we-should-be-teaching-kids-180973655/

Closing: There are no obstacles that cannot be overcome:

https://blacknews.com/news/josiah-johnson-black-student-without-legs-middle-school-basketball-team/

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What’s on my mind: Can we change the world:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/how-anger-can-build-better-world/615625/

News:

• Update on the midterms:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1133125177/republicans-control-house-of-representatives

• My thoughts about Manchester confirmed:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/world/europe/uk-criminal-justice.html

• NFAC is dead:

https://www.complex.com/life/grandmaster-jay-sentenced-prison-breonna-taylor-protest

• Another reason the Republicans did not have a “Red Wave:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vjx8/almost-twice-as-many-republicans-died-from-covid-before-the-midterms-than-democrats

• Black live do not matter to racists:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lamar-and-zy-aire-mitchell-died-in-flint-fire-and-their-dad-says-cops-took-his-blood

This shit is for us: 12 Steps to recover from racism:

https://www.saberesafricanos.net/phocadownloadpap/libros/Lets_Make_A_Slave_The_Making_Of_A_Slave.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: There is no placebo effect and prayer doesn’t work either:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-placebo-myth/

Closing: This is not compassion: 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tears-joy-tupac-shakurs-stepfather-freed-prison-35-years-rcna41216

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What’s on my mind: The problem with Marjorie Taylor Green:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/09/uncalled-races-senate-control-hangs-in-balance-as-arizona-nevada-counts-continue-00065905

News:

• Will the midterm results finish off Trump:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/politics/trump-republicans-midterms.html

• Americans are fucking stupid:

https://www.prri.org/research/competing-visions-of-america-an-evolving-identity-or-a-culture-under-attack/

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/10/27/45-of-americans-say-u-s-should-be-a-christian-nation/

• Fuck Ron DeSantis:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-aaron-retica.html?showTranscript=1

• Church leader and her parents charged in child’s death:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/10/california-church-leader-charged-murder-daughter-death/8322404001/

• 2022 Midterm Election Black Winners and Losers:

https://www.theroot.com/2022-midterm-election-winners-and-losers-1849762000

This shit is for us: How to make Black Lives Matter:

https://cognella.app.box.com/s/lhmem5oi07zw0k9tg7jwmswijmva7zyn

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Is there a benefit to being an Atheist:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luke-Galen/publication/280495325_Atheism_Wellbeing_and_the_Wager_Why_Not_Believing_in_God_With_Others_is_Good_for_You/links/55b6ce3e08aec0e5f437f8de/Atheism-Wellbeing-and-the-Wager-Why-Not-Believing-in-God-With-Others-is-Good-for-You.pdf

Closing: No you won't be name'n no buildings after me: 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/lena-horne-becomes-first-black-woman-broadway-theater-named-honor-rcna55497

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What’s on my mind: QED and the myth of enlighten compassion to idiots:

https://qedcon.org/

News:

• Justice Thomas a key to overturning the will of the people:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/us/politics/oath-keepers-trump-jan-6.html

• Republicans take voter suppression to the streets:

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-canvassers/republican-door-knockers-intimidate-voters-while-hunting-for-voter-fraud-say-officials-idUSKBN2RT0NX

• Holy Alliance of destruction:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/conspiracy-theorists-with-badges-and-guns-pro-trump-sheriffs-vow-to-police-elections/

• Perhaps a church will have to pay for the actions of its pedophile pastor:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/methodist-lawsuit-youth-pastor-sexual-assault-ryan-walsh/

• World’s dirtiest man killed by a bath:

https://people.com/human-interest/amou-haji-known-as-worlds-dirtiest-man-dead-at-94-not-long-after-first-bath-in-60-years/

This shit is for us: Composite Nation:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/us/frederick-douglass-speech-blake-cec/index.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Does it take faith to be an atheist:

https://study.com/academy/lesson/caodaism-beliefs-rituals.html

Closing: Against all odds: 

https://aframnews.com/against-all-odds/

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What’s on my mind: Dealing with the fallout of other people’s mistakes:

https://havanatimes.org/opinion/six-rules-to-survive-an-autocracy-with-dignity/

News:

• Bannon’s going to jail…maybe:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/21/steve-bannon-sentencing-00062904

• Trump subpoenaed but will it matter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/us/politics/trump-subpoena-jan-6.html

• Drapetomania revised:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/us/maryland-autopsy-medical-examiner-review.html

• Let’s give the man a chance, the dumbest phrase every uttered:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/us/detroit-congress-black-thanedar.html

• Pastors, if they are not literally raping, they are figuratively doing so:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-pastor-admits-defrauding-church-school-nearly-900000-rcna53451

This shit is for us: The murder of innocence:

https://www.famous-trials.com/celia

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Was Simon Magus a real magician, where did they all go:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/strange-life-simon-magus-christian-pagan-magician-and-sorcerer-003218

Closing: New Black Freedom Riders:

https://aframnews.com/working-to-fight-voter-suppression/

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What’s on my mind: It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/words-matter/201810/why-people-ignore-facts

News:

• What happens if Trump runs and wins in 2024:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/

• Herschel Walker says he’s cured of mental illness, yeah right:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/us/politics/herschel-walker-mental-illness.html

• Just like Michael Myers, COVID seems to never die:

https://onlysky.media/mclark/whats-driving-panic-around-bq-1-and-bq-1-1/

• Pastor headed to prison for forcing teen to strip for photos:

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article267321502.html#storylink=cpy

• Morehouse College Takes Top Prize at HBCU Hackathon:

https://inside.morehouse.edu/features/features-inside/morehouse-college-takes-top-prize-at-black-enterprises-hbcu-hackathon.html

This shit is for us: Are Black Americans a community, were we ever:

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/stages-of-community-building/
https://positivepsychology.com/10-traits-positive-community/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Was Melchizedek greater than Jesus:

https://people.howstuffworks.com/melchizedek.htm

Closing: Sarah Douglas is sailing away to adventure: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/sports/sailing/sailgp-sarah-douglas-olympics.html

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