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What’s on my mind: It’s worse than I thought: https://orientalreview.org/2022/01/29/the-1994-rwandan-genocide-and-the-united-states-i/

News:

• Trump Really, Really Wanted the Government to Seize Voting Machines: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pushed-government-seize-voting-machines-1293232/
• Cops suspended over mishandling of the deaths of two Black women: https://www.blackenterprise.com/connecticut-cops-suspended-over-mishandling-of-deaths-of-two-black-women/
• COVID Update, Christian Dr. claims vaccines turn people into “transhumanist cyborgs”: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/01/prominent-christian-doctor-claims-covid-vaccines-will-turn-people-transhumanist-cyborgs/
• Former AME Zion Bishop charged in fraud scheme: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/former-ame-zion-bishop-charged-in-fraud-scheme-targeting-bay-area-congregations/ar-AAT8L8y
• Judge J. Michelle Childs heads list of potential Black women Supreme Court nominees: https://aframnews.com/judge-j-michelle-childs-heads-list-of-potential-black-women-supreme-court-nominees/

This shit is for us: Black Generations: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201602/baby-boomers-generation-z

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Do Martyrs for Islam get to fuck 70 virgins: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/12/books.guardianreview5

Closing: Black Woman to Make Astronaut History: https://www.blackenterprise.com/jessica-watkins-set-to-become-first-black-woman-to-have-an-extended-stay-in-outer-space/

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What’s on my mind: Motivated Blindness, an answer to the question, why are people so dumb: https://www.stevebizblog.com/the-truth-about-how-motivated-blindness-affects-business-decisions/#:~:text=Motivated%20blindness%20is%20a%20type%20of%20confirmation%20bias,blindness%20for%20a%20small%20business%20involves%20money-related%20issues., https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/12/elc-pitfalls

News:

• Mitch McConnell says African Americans are almost like real Americans: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-says-black-americans-vote-just-as-much-as-americans
• Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to democracy? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court
• COVID19 Update, A woman dies after deliberately catching Covid: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60050996
• Black pastor apologizes for rubbing spit on churchgoer’s face: https://thegrio.com/2022/01/19/pastor-mike-todd-apologizes-churchgoers-face-spit/
• Black Pastor and Wife Arrested for Holding 8 People Locked in Basement: https://www.theroot.com/georgia-pastor-and-wife-arrested-for-holding-8-people-l-1848410729

This shit is for us: No matter how hard you try you can’t stop us now: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: To dunk or not to dunk, that is the question: https://www.personalcreations.com/blog/seven-sacraments

Closing: An arbiter of beauty exists the stage: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/style/andre-leon-talley-legacy.html

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What’s on my mind: How to stop the Dem’s plan to lose the House and the Senate this year: https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/joe-biden-gets-f-grade-from-37-of-americans-poll-shows/, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-numbers-are-pointing-midterm-shellacking-democrats-n1287624

News:

• The prayer timeline for Jan 6: https://religionnews.com/2022/01/06/jan-6-a-timeline-in-prayers/
• Most BLM protest were peaceful: https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/black-lives-matter-protesters-were-overwhelmingly-peaceful-our-research-finds
• COVID-19 Update – decades of discovery before miraculous cure: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/01/16/world/science-health-world/miracle-covid-vaccine/
• Pedophile Priest act like mafia: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/24/paedophile-priests-acted-like-mafia-abusing-schoolboys-vatican/
• 74-year-old Black woman spent 27 years in prison for a murder she did not commit: https://getuperica.com/482952/elderly-black-woman-exonerated-after-spending-27-years-in-prison-for-nieces-murder/

This shit is for us: Message to White America, you don’t know Black people: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/books/review/you-dont-know-us-negroes-zora-neale-hurston.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Prayer is the statistical equivalent of not doing a goddam thing: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-prayer-prescription/, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/god-vs-doctor-1-2-say-prayer-saves-dying-flna1c9460561

Closing: Maria Ewing Dead: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/arts/music/maria-ewing-dead.html

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Sorry for the long episode this week, I had a lot to say. In the future, if I have too much content in a given week, I will cut out content and save it for a subsequent week.

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What’s on my mind: How to get shit done: https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/, https://www.wrike.com/blog/complete-guide-personal-kanban/

News:

• Cyber Ninjas going out of business: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/us/cyber-ninjas-arizona-vote-review.html
• Ted Cruz shows the entire world he is a spineless piece of shit: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/politics/ted-cruz-jan-6-terrorist-attack-capitol/index.html
• Woman billionaire tries to fight racism in Brazil: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/world/americas/luiza-trajano-brazil-magalu-racism.html
• COVID-19 Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#graph-cases-daily
• Pastor Facing Multiple Sexual Assault Charges: https://legalherald.com/big-rock-il-mark-rivera-a-former-acna-lay-pastor-at-christ-our-light-anglican-facing-multiple-felony-sexual-assault-charges/
• 23-year-old Black man arrested on warrant for a white man with bushy white beard: https://newsone.com/4275119/las-vegas-black-man-arrested-for-warrant-on-white-man-twice-his-age/

This shit is for us: Effective education in the Black community: https://asalh.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/final-woodson-mis-education-study-guide-2008.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: How do you “know” that god exist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202008/how-do-we-know-what-is-real

Closing: In Memoriam: James Mtume: https://goodblacknews.org/2022/01/11/r-i-p-jazz-and-rb-artist-musician-and-producer-james-mtume-76/

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Feedback: Conversation with Kenneth: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abb7498

What’s on my mind: When our democracy falls, who will be to blame? https://www.ft.com/content/85ff09bc-eb08-4d99-b7d5-57e07b191dd1

News:

• Breaking News:
• New wave of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories: https://www.axios.com/january-6-capitol-conspiracy-theories-conservative-social-media-f216bf07-6f11-4578-85db-bf6a8a616bd3.html
• Update: former Indiana youth pastor sentenced to 20 years in prison: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-indiana-youth-pastor-sentenced-20-years-prison-molesting-boys-rcna11202
• COVID-19 Update, Anti-Vax Podcaster Got COVID at a Conspiracy Conf. and Died: https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvkjk/anti-vax-podcaster-doug-kuzma-dies-from-covid
• Employee Beat a Black Man Having a Seizure: https://news.yahoo.com/employee-beat-black-man-having-003700310.html
• Black man released from prison after 37 years due to false testimony: https://thegrio.com/2022/01/06/stokes-released-prison-37-years-false-testimony/

This shit is for us: Traits of the ideal Black man: https://thepowermoves.com/high-quality-men/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Arguments against god: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sanjacinto-philosophy/chapter/arguments-against-the-existence-of-god-overview/

God Vs. Science: What are bats? https://www.batconservationireland.org/irish-bats/what-is-a-bat

Closing: In Memoriam: Lawrence Brooks: https://www.theroot.com/lawrence-brooks-oldest-wwii-veteran-dies-at-112-1848313283

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What’s on my mind: People have crossed over to the Twilight Zone: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html

News:

• Court rules New York Times can temporarily keep Project Veritas documents: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/appeals-court-says-new-york-times-can-temporarily-keep-project-veritas-documents-526229
• Florida Youth Pastor Charged With 408 Counts of Child Porn: https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-youth-pastor-shawn-fitzgerald-charged-with-408-counts-of-child-porn
• COVID-19 Update, The U.S. hits a record number of new COVID cases: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068802576/us-record-new-covid-cases
• High Unemployment Rates for Black Men Cost Communities $50 Billion A Year: https://www.binnews.com/content/2021-12-29-high-unemployment-rates-for-black-men-cost-communities-50-billion-a-year/
• Man arrested on his way to DC with a “Hit List”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/us/white-house-hit-list-kuachua-brillion-xiong.html

This shit is for us: The History of Black atheism: https://religionnews.com/2012/02/22/blacks-say-atheists-were-unseen-civil-rights-heroes/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: What, exactly, is Faith? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/episteme/article/faith-and-epistemology/B1B65CA54F07B3767BCC3D9029D1D946

God Vs. Science: How Old is the Universe? https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-webb-telescope-launches-to-see-first-galaxies-distant-worlds

Closing: Memoriam: Bishop Desmond Tutu: https://goodblacknews.org/

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What’s on my mind: How it all ends: https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/worldwide, https://www.cgdev.org/blog/the-next-pandemic-could-come-soon-and-be-deadlier, https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/climate-change-frequently-asked-questions/

News:

• Joe Manchin goes on Fox News to tell the Democrats to go Fuck themselves: https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-manchin-kills-bidens-build-back-better-bill-on-fox-news
• The correlation between antisemitism and white supremacy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/19/holocaust-reenactment-watkins-school-dc/
• COVID-19 Update, This one’s really personal:
• Guilty verdict in trial of Kim Potter: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/kim-potter-trial-daunte-wright-killing-verdict-2021-12-23/
• America, the next autocracy in the making: http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/opinion/columns/article_6af65f6c-6368-11ec-be5d-3fa6461db7e1.html
• James Brown’s estate is finally settled, almost: https://newsone.com/4261093/james-brown-estate-sale-scholarship-fund/

This shit is for us: The Black Population in the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The fallacy of a causal explanation for a belief in god: https://philarchive.org/archive/OPPAAF

Closing: Megan Thee Stallion graduates from Texas HBCU: https://newsone.com/4259554/megan-thee-stallion-graduates-texas-southern-university/

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What’s on my mind: Increasing our Return on Failure: https://www.luxoft-training.com/news/agile-life-planning-managing-personal-goals-with-agile/, https://www.collectivecampus.io/blog/how-to-optimise-your-return-on-failure-rof

News:

• Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/trump-meadows-republicans-congress-jan-6.html
• Update, Josh Duggar convicted: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/josh-duggar-guilty.html
• COVID-19 Update, another winner: https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-scott-palmer-capitol-rioter-who-attacked-cops-with-fire-extinguisher-gets-63-months-in-prison
• Transgender people in 'survival mode' as violence rises: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/transgender-people-survival-mode-violence-rises-anti-trans-bills-becom-rcna6053
• Civil Rights Trailblazer Claudette Colvin Has Juvenile Record Expunged: https://thegrio.com/2021/12/09/father-glenn-foster-mental-distress-police-custody/
• Mega-church founder who called himself ‘son of God’ was leader of criminal enterprise: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/11/18/philippines-mega-church-founder-with-ties-hawaii-charged-massive-sex-trafficking-case/

This shit is for us: The dynamics of Black Power: https://mygaryislike.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/black-power-kwame-ture-and-charles-hamilton.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Problem of Magical Thinking: https://undark.org/2021/08/19/perils-of-magical-thinking/

Closing: In Memoriam; Bell Hooks: https://goodblacknews.org/category/news/

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What’s on my mind: How to Correct Cognitive Distortions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion, https://positivepsychology.com/cbt-cognitive-restructuring-cognitive-distortions/

News:

• Biden treated worse than Trump by the media: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/
• Democrats shoot themselves in their own dick: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-republican-push-block-bidens-vaccine-mandate-secures-democratic-support-2021-12-08/
• COVID-19 Update, another winner: https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-covid-marcus-lamb-founder-daystar-christian-evangelical-dead-64-anti-vaccine-20211201-w33t24p7hner7mmze2af3nk3vy-story.html
• You are invited to a racist, rightwing hate party: https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/turning-point-usas-america-fest-aims-to-reach-gen-z-with-christian-nationalists-conspiracy-theorists-and-country/
• Black athlete dies in police custody: https://thegrio.com/2021/12/09/father-glenn-foster-mental-distress-police-custody/
• Police in Torrance CA, show their true colors: 

This shit is for us: The persistent lie of Black genetic inferiority: https://thegrio.com/2021/12/08/torrance-police-texting-scandal-probe/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Really, what the hell is the trinity? https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/512492

Closing: This time it’s personal: 

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What’s on my mind: Modern Monetary Theory and Build Back Better: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-economist-who-believes-the-government-should-just-print-more-money

News:

• Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/01/us/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court
• Trump Tested Positive for Virus Days Before Debate with Biden: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/politics/trump-virus-positive.html
• COVID-19 Update, Prominent Evangelical Christian Antivaxxer has died of COVID: https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-covid-marcus-lamb-founder-daystar-christian-evangelical-dead-64-anti-vaccine-20211201-w33t24p7hner7mmze2af3nk3vy-story.html
• Faithful Christian and Child Molester Josh Duggar’s Child Pornography Trial Update: https://toofab.com/2021/11/30/josh-duggar-admitted-to-molesting-young-girls-as-early-as-age-12-court-hears/
• Update: Mike Lindell did Release a Copy of his Batshit Crazy Lawsuit to the Public: https://www.businessinsider.com/5-things-you-missed-mike-lindell-96-hour-live-stream-2021-11
• The Republicans Show Their Ass…Again: https://www.theroot.com/rep-ilhan-omar-plays-disturbing-voicemail-death-threat-1848144865

This shit is for us: What Black People are Owed: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/pay-check-podcast-episode-2-how-much-did-slavery-in-u-s-cost-black-wealth, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/business/economy/reparations-slavery.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Birth of Christ (Even biblical authors did not agree): https://www.patheos.com/blogs/messyinspirations/2019/12/history-discrepancies-jesus-birth/

Closing: Dawn Staley’s Historic Contract: https://bnc.tv/dawn-staleys-historic-contract-glimpse-of-hope-for-women/

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