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What’s on my mind: Midterms, an exercise in probabilities:

https://about.bgov.com/brief/balance-of-power-the-house-seats-up-for-grabs/
https://about.bgov.com/brief/balance-of-power-a-partisan-convergence-in-the-senate/

News:

• Jan 6 Committee Public Hearing:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/13/us/jan-6-hearing-trump

• Alex Jones just got FUCKED!!!:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/jury-begins-third-day-deliberations-alex-jones-sandy-hook-defamation-trial-2022-10-12/

• The link between religion and insurrection:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-pastor-arrested-in-capitol-riot-accused-pushing-fence-police-2022-10

• I hope this is not true:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/black-men-are-showing-tepid-enthusiasm-for-stacey-abrams-in-georgia-race

• Reparations, of a sort:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/us-museums-return-african-bronzes-stolen-19th-century-rcna52138

This shit is for us: Is Nation Building still relevant:

https://patch.com/new-jersey/newarknj/afrikan-centricity-building-blocks-nation-building
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/what-if-black-america-were-a-country/380953/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Forever, forever, ever:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/eternity/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/infinity/

Closing: I’m jealous of me says Thasunda Brown Duckett: 

https://fortune.com/2022/10/11/tiaa-ceo-thasunda-brown-duckett-retirement-savings-mpw-summit/

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What’s on my mind: Lessons from the Children’s story, The Giving Tree:

News:

• Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mitch-mcconnell-death-wish-racist-1234603518/

• Why we still got apes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/us/politics/herschel-walker-abortion-allegation-georgia-senate.html

• The downhill slide has started:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-poised-hear-alabama-voting-rights-fight-2022-10-04/

• F#ck Yeezy in his goddamn azz:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/style/yeezy-kanye-west-paris-fashion-week.html

• Racists lose their sh*t because Lizzo played a flute:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/09/29/lizzo-flute-james-madison-racist-history-huppke/8125708001/

This shit is for us: Even peaceful protests are war:

https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/waging-good-war-thomas-ricks-book-review/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/books/review/rules-of-engagement.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Pascal’s Wager Reprised:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/#ArguVali

Closing: Countering the attack on CRT: 

https://goodblacknews.org/2022/09/10/advanced-placement-african-american-studies-classes-debut-at-60-u-s-high-schools/

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What’s on my mind: Everything in America has been tainted by Trump:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2021.1980114

News:

• Supreme Court to hear 2 cases that will likely dilute the Black vote:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/supreme-court-2024-election-cases-00059380

• Girl kicked out of Christian school after refusing participate in child porn:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/girl-kicked-out-of-victory-christian-academy-bathtub-homework/

• Better that 10 guilty go free than to convict 1 innocent…unless you are Black:

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125265844/black-prison-exonerees-outpace-white-counterparts-study-says

• How Christian Nationalism Threatens Democracy:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/how-christian-nationalism-fueled-the-insurrection-and-threatens-democracy/

• Another failure from the Church of England:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/uk/desmond-tutu-daughter-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

This shit is for us: Banned Books Reading List:

https://www.theroot.com/15-beloved-black-banned-books-you-must-read-now-update-1849406126

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Cosmogonic Myths:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/creation-myth/Types-of-cosmogonic-myths

Closing: Travel to the center of the earth:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dawn-wright-challenger-deep/

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Feedback: Marcia and Keith

What’s on my mind: The gutting of the American judiciary:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/everything-wrong-judge-cannons-ruling

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/the-supreme-courts-wrong-turn-on-constitutional-rights

News:

• Tish James Smacks that ass! Files lawsuit against Trump:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/21/nyregion/trump-fraud-lawsuit-ny-james

• MTG, childish fucking bully, caught on video kicking a teen:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/unhinged-marjorie-taylor-greene-caught-on-video-kicking-a-teen-activist/ar-AA11Ufxz?cvid=9fb09c9ecc1d437d8d93c8812aa867a8&ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbar

• Once Q adjacent, Trump is now Q embracing:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-is-trump-openly-embracing-qanon-now

• Justice in America depends on the color of your skin:

https://www.theroot.com/how-memphis-police-failed-a-black-woman-and-thus-all-w-1849565117

• The queen’s dead, long live the king, but not his Black daughter-in-law:

https://thegrio.com/2022/09/15/meghan-markle-is-still-taking-racist-punches-but-she-is-living-her-best-life/

This shit is for us: Working on the Chain Gang:

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/walter-mosley/working-on-chain-gang.htm

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The problem of evil:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/

Closing: Black woman breaks multiple glass ceilings:

https://www.theroot.com/serial-entrepreneur-dawn-dickson-embraces-her-multitude-1849479746

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What’s on my mind: Conversation with Mandisa Thomas:

https://blacknonbelievers.org/
https://wocbeyondbelief.com/

News:

• Republican States treat people like pawns in a game:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/desantis-florida-migrants-marthas-vineyard.html

• Birds of a racist feather, flock together:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mike-lindell-is-bankrolling-white-nationalist-christian-fascist-vincent-james/

• Catholic apologist Bill Donohue, says that priest rapped adolescents not children:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/catholic-league-relax-priests-victims-are-adolescents-not-children/

• Christian family values:

https://www.christianpost.com/us/pastor-arrested-for-threatening-to-kill-wife-in-him.html

• Shucking and jiving for votes:

https://newsone.com/4408183/herschel-walker-wants-to-save-white-children-from-raphael-warnocks-wokeness/

Closing: A life well lived, in memoriam to Ramsey Lewis: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/arts/music/ramsey-lewis-dead.html

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Feedback: Marcia: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bill-of-rights-for-voting-equality

What’s on my mind: La Femme Fétal:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/01/prosecutions-drugs-miscarriages-meth-stillbirths/

https://letsbreakthrough.org/how-to-effect-change-through-the-political-system/?gclid=CjwKCAjwvNaYBhA3EiwACgndggOEQ8mzOVZJZJ65TwLpxqi_NxE3QghNNdoJxJZT46POx7JumWiZrxoCK7wQAvD_BwE

News:

• Trump wins, the country loses:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/us/politics/special-master-trump-cannon.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/06/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-nuclear-weapons-report

• Republican election official caught on tape committing crimes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/us/fake-electors-video-georgia-trump.html

• Satan runs America, so why don’t all you Christians leave:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/this-is-an-evil-country-christian-fascist-nick-fuentes-fumes-over-biden-speech/

• He took my ability to trust in the Church,” said a victim:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/prison-chaplain-james-highhouse-sentenced-for-sexually-abusing-inmates/

• Racists in NC town, threatened all of the Black residents:

https://blackamericaweb.com/2022/09/06/white-supremacists-target-black-residents-after-confederate-monument-removed-nc-mayor-says/

This shit is for us: Black Girls Rock:

https://equitablegrowth.org/addressing-the-double-gap-faced-by-black-women-in-the-u-s-economy/#:~:text=Black%20Men%3A%20%24828%20weekly%2C%20%2443%2C000,Women%3A%20%24779%20weekly%2C%20%2440%2C500%20annuallyThere

https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2197&context=utk_chanhonoproj

https://blackgirlsrock.com/about/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Natural Atheism:

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/disbelieve-it-or-not-ancient-history-suggests-that-atheism-is-as-natural-to-humans-as-religion

Closing: Black teen partners with retailer to help teen entrepreneurs:

https://thegrio.com/2022/07/07/marsai-martin-partners-with-retailer-hollister-to-hel

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What’s on my mind: The civil war in your rearview mirror may be closer than it appears:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/23/questions-we-must-be-asking-about-second-american-civil-war

News:

• The fallacy of the need to listen to the other side:
• More signs of hope for the Democrats:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120327126/palin-peltola-begich-alaska-special-house-election-results

• Avowed white nationalist says that After School Satan clubs are an ‘act of terrorism’:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/white-nationalist-after-school-satan-clubs-are-an-act-of-terrorism/

• Youth pastor arrest, you already know why:

https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/youth-pastor-arrest-sheds-light-on-child-abuse-in-our-community/

• Herschel Walker is completely detached from reality:

https://newsone.com/4399811/herschel-walker-cobb-county-police-controversy/

This shit is for us: Is it time to leave:

https://africandiasporagroup.org/plans/membership/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-americans-leave-racism-in-us-to-reclaim-destiny-in-ghana/
https://newsone.com/4325756/countries-black-americans-relocate-abroad/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Kalam cosmological argument:

https://www.scientificexploration.org/forum/the-kalam-cosmological-argument-debunked

Closing: Black power couple, give back to the community: 

https://aframnews.com/jay-z-and-beyonce-continue-adding-to-their-legacy-of-giving-back/

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What’s on my mind: I’m Going Rouge:

https://www.iamgoingrogue.com/

News:

• The Republicans are fucking crazy! Part II:

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-and-eric-metaxas-call-for-retaliatory-raids-on-liberal-groups/

• An asshole in the news:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson-kids-shouldnt-learn-science-or-history-in-school/

• Dumbass Djokovic will miss U.S. Open:

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/djokovic-says-he-is-unable-travel-new-york-us-open-2022-08-25/

• Former Louisville Cop Pleads Guilty in Breonna Taylor Case:

https://newsone.com/4385198/breonna-taylor-doj-charges-4-lmpd-officers/

• Black August uplifted as alternative Black History Month:

https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-treatment-of-prisoners-government-politics-4d6f77081272a8133f658b2764d35873

This shit is for us: What does freedom mean to you, Lessons from the Past:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/ecommerce-prod.mheducation.com/unitas/school/program/ap/franklin-from-slavery-to-freedom-10e/sample-chapter.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The truth about heaven and hell:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heaven-hell/
https://baptistnews.com/article/heaven-or-hell-theology-may-be-simple-but-it-is-neither-biblical-nor-morally-defensible-whats-the-alternative/#.YwfdoS7MKrw

Closing: Financial Literacy Lab for Black Girls: 

https://newsone.com/4394561/goldman-sachs-youth-financial-literacy-initiative/

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What’s on my mind: How to manage the nonstop flow of bullshit:

News:

• The Republicans are fucking crazy:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-message-ag-merrick-garland-was-provocative-rcna43131

• Liz Cheney out, another Republican killed off by DJT:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/16/wyoming-republican-primary-liz-cheney-donald-trump-harriet-hageman

• Pastor calls congregation ‘broke, busted, and disgusted’:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/pastor-goes-viral-for-calling-congregation-broke-busted-and-disgusted-for-failing-to-buy-him-a-new-watch/ar-AA10LOi1?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f4eb5e2325894f5dc662b75afd10c45

• Black Menaces plan takeover of white institutions:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-menaces-detail-plan-to-take-over-predominantly-white-institutions-across-the-country/ar-AA10HnHl?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=aa88442942a14b05a4b41b50139bd6db

• Victims of 'Marikana massacre' are left with no answers:

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/after-10-years-widows-victims-marikana-massacre-left-with-no-answers-2022-08-16/

This shit is for us: How to become Unfuckwithable:

https://fs.blog/antifragile-a-definition/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The bible, impossible to believe, on purpose:

Closing: Schools banned books about Black life. Black kids are reading anyway: 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/schools-banned-books-black-life-black-kids-are-reading-anyway-rcna13702

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What’s on my mind: We already live in Gilead:

https://eand.co/this-is-how-america-keeps-collapsing-912ed8b4f847

News:

·   The FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid

·   Entire white police force quits, after Black woman hired as Town Manager:

https://sdvoice.info/all-white-police-force-quits-after-black-woman-named-town-manager/

·   Trump says that he is the target of a “Witch Hunt”, and I agree:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-signals-he-will-testify-new-york-probe-into-business-practices-2022-08-10/

·   How can you think you are on the right side, when your side is banning fucking books:

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/public-libraries-face-new-attacks-from-conservative-christians/

·   Black Women are making HERstory in elections for Minnesota State Senate:

https://newsone.com/4387803/black-women-minnesota-senate/

This shit is for us: Hieroglyphic Thinking:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Comparative Theology:

https://www.patheos.com/library/islam/ethics-morality-community/vision-for-society

Closing: Black businesswoman to give away $25,000 in grants to Black entrepreneurs:

https://www.blackenterprise.com/27-year-old-quits-corporate-job-builds-her-own-empire-now-giving-25k-in-funding-to-black-entrepreneurs/

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