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What’s on my mind: The Bad Guys are winning: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/

News:

• All three defendants found guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Abery: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/jury-reaches-verdict-in-ahmaud-arbery-death-case-all-found-guilty-of-murder/ar-AAR5IpG?ocid=msedgntp
• Convicted sex offender working as Birmingham minister of music: https://www.wsfa.com/2021/11/22/convicted-sex-offender-working-birmingham-pastor-captured-after-20-years-run/
• COVID-19 Update, Steve Burton fired from General Hospital for being unvaccinated: https://dlisted.com/2021/11/24/steve-burton-exits-general-hospital-after-refusing-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid-19/
• Black victim of lynching attempt charged in the incident now denied a public defender: https://www.blackenterprise.com/a-judge-ruled-that-a-black-man-charged-in-his-own-attempted-lynching-can-no-longer-have-a-public-defender/
• Mike Lindell blames the GOP for circumventing him from getting Trump reinstated: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-blames-a-vast-gop-conspiracy-for-his-supreme-court-failure
• The Democratic party is already planning to throw Kamala Harris overboard: https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-her-way-becoming-101019123.html

This shit is for us: The headwinds against Black progress: https://news.osu.edu/people-overestimate-black-americans-chances-of-economic-success/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Professional Christianity (What is Systematic Theology?): 

Closing: Memorial for Lois Nelson Andrews: https://lasentinel.net/lois-andrews-a-mainstay-of-new-orleans-music-scene-dies.html

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What’s on my mind: The war on Blackness: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/wake-up-these-woke-distortions/, https://www.epi.org/blog/the-racist-campaign-against-critical-race-theory-threatens-democracy-and-economic-transformation/

News:

• Build ‘BLACK’ Better Agenda: https://aframnews.com/build-black-better-agenda/
• McCarthy isn't the only Republican who's been silent about Gosar: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mccarthy-isn-t-only-republican-who-s-been-silent-about-n1283791
• COVID-19 Update, New book says Trump killed Herman Cain: https://www.theroot.com/we-killed-herman-cain-new-book-explains-how-trump-te-1848045985
• ‘Prophet’ Nathan French Says God Must Restore Trump to Office: https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prophet-nathan-french-says-god-must-restore-trump-to-office-to-silence-those-trying-to-discredit-the-prophetic-community/
• Church leader and female accomplice arrested for human trafficking: https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/two-suspects-arrested-for-human-trafficking-in-the-eastern-cape/
• Kyle Rittenhouse Beat the Murder Charges Against Him Before the Trial Began: https://zora.medium.com/kyle-rittenhouse-beat-the-murder-charges-against-him-before-the-trial-began-and-other-vigilante-b457ae937e09

This shit is for us: The new normal is not normal for Black people: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/03/12/future-forum-remote-work.html, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/support-black-lives-matter-movement-declining-according-new-poll-rcna5746

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Overlapping or non-Overlapping Magisterium: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Non-Overlapping_Magisteria, https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11827823

Closing: Erin Jackson Makes History at Speed Skating World Cup: https://www.binnews.com/content/2021-11-15-erin-jackson-makes-history-at-speed-skating-world-cup/

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What’s on my mind: I’m sorry, I lied, we have already lost:

News:

• After talking about Dr. Suess, and Mr. Potato Head the GOP is now attacking Big Bird: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053548074/big-bird-covid-19-vaccine-conservative-backlash-ted-cruz
• Photos of Mike Pence in Hiding on Jan. 6: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/journalist-describes-wild-unpublished-photos-154149150.html
• COVID-19 Update, Flat-Earther with COVID Symptoms Dies Denying Virus Exists: https://globalnews.ca/news/8351684/bc-covid-denier-mak-parhar-dies-coroner-investigating/
• OK, so now these dumb fucks have gone too far: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2428641205480/qanon-believers-who-flocked-to-dallas-to-see-jfk-jr-reappear-are-refusing-to-leave-saying-they-want-to-set-up-a-permanent-hq-there
• Scientists Fight a New Source of Vaccine Misinformation: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/sports/football/aaron-rodgers-vaccine.html
• Ex-Yorktown school nurse, and Indiana pastor gets 105 years for molesting girls: https://news.yahoo.com/ex-yorktown-school-nurse-pastor-224853085.html

This shit is for us: The problem with Black “firsts”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/world/europe/germany-black-woman-bundestag.html

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The bible is OK with killing the children of your enemies:

Closing: Bittersweet: https://goodblacknews.org/

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What’s on my mind: We are fucked! (What the elections in VA and NY tell us about our future): https://www.thedailybeast.com/dear-moderates-the-left-isnt-why-terry-mcauliffe-lost-the-virginia-gubernatorial-race-to-glenn-youngkin

News:

• Senate Republicans block John Lewis voting rights bill: https://www.bet.com/article/i8dl0x/john-lewis-voting-righs-act-republican-defeat-democrats-angered
• Rittenhouse shot his victims, but we can't call them that: https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-rittenhouse-shot-victims-cant-130027136.html
• COVID-19 Update, Another contender for the Herman Cain Award: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vaccine-skeptical-actress-kristy-swanson-of-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-note-hospitalized-with-covid-19-11635801592
• Judge declines to change racial makeup of jury in Ahmaud Arbery's death: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ahmaud-arbery-trial-jurors-racial-makeup/
• Virginia Pastor Arrested in Prostitution Sting Appears Onstage at Church 2 Days Later: https://churchleaders.com/news/409451-john-blanchard.html

This shit is for us: Our only hope is Pan-Africanism: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3906920, https://au.int/en

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The fake war on Christmas: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/christmas-religion-covid.html

Closing: Memoriam for Ronnie Wilson: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/ronnie-wilson-founding-member-rb-group-gap-band-dies-73-rcna4439

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What’s on my mind: Does Bounded Reality explain why we make such poor decisions? https://www.ecnmy.org/learn/you/choices-behavior/what-is-bounded-rationality/, https://medium.com/homeland-security/understanding-bounded-rationality-and-satisficing-175e787955d6, https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-961

News:

• Justice Department reaches settlement with families of Charleston church massacre: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/families-charleston-church-shooting-settle-lawsuit-justice-department-n1282635
• She won in June. That should have been the end of it: https://www.mobilize.us/blmpacgotv/event/423927/
• COVID-19 Update, Chicago Anti-Vax Activist and QAnon Supporter, Dies of COVID: https://www.thewrap.com/veronica-wolski-anti-vax-activist-qanon-supporter-dies-of-covid-at-64/
• This QAnon Influencer Accuses Democrats of Being Pedophiles. He’s one: https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/this-qanon-influencer-accuses-democrats-of-being-pedophiles-he-hides-his-own-conviction-with-an-alias/
• Banning Critical Race Theory: What it means for future of Black community: https://aframnews.com/banning-critical-race-theory-what-it-means-for-future-of-black-community/, https://withoutsanctuary.org/

This shit is for us: What should be our political strategy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Are the actions of evangelical Christians aligned with the Bible? https://www.salon.com/2021/03/20/evangelicals-are-teaching-false-doctrine-who-says-so-jesus-christ/

Closing: She Went Out Strong: https://www.theroot.com/she-went-out-strong-dorothy-steel-who-made-her-featur-1847884130

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What’s on my mind: Are you being influenced by Dark Psychology? https://drjasonjones.com/how-to-avoid-being-manipulated/, https://lifeclub.org/books/social-engineering-christopher-hadnagy-review-summary

News:

• Republicans, again, block voting rights bill: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/senate-voting-rights-filibuster.html
• Democrat apologizes after comparing Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton to KKK: https://thegrio.com/2021/10/19/democrat-jacobs-apologizes-comparing-india-walton-kkk-leader/
• COVID-19 Update, Colin Powell’s death distorted by antivaxx idiots: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/politics/colin-powell-dead.html
• Illinois Pastor charged with grooming teen girl for sex: https://julieroys.com/illinois-pastor-krol-charged-grooming-teen-girl/
• Democrats are ready to abandon Black voters, Again! https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-election-shor/

This shit is for us: Time for Afrocentricity 2.0: https://www.britannica.com/event/Afrocentrism

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Irrational Cosmology:

Closing: Black Physicist Targets Cancer With Lasers: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/books/nobel-prize-literature-abdulrazak-gurnah.html

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What’s on my mind: What we can learn from Game Theory: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gametheory.asp, https://www.effectivecommand.org/docs/ReferenceArticles/Decision making using game theory (2003).pdf

News:

• Neo Nazis are training for combat:    https://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/neo-nazis-train-for-combat-in-growing-active-club-movement/
• Black republican’s comments prove they are just as disgusting as we thought: https://www.theroot.com/n-c-lawmakers-call-for-lt-gov-mark-robinsons-job-aft-1847838131
• COVID-19 Update, Black race traitor rails against vaccines from his hospital bed: https://news.yahoo.com/republican-running-governor-texas-hospital-152014770.html, https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/10/right-wing-activist-who-said-he-was-vaccinated-in-christ-dies-of-covid/
• Senate report details Trump's efforts to use DOJ to overturn election results: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1044015379/senate-report-details-trumps-efforts-to-use-doj-to-overturn-election-results
• Outrage Grows Over Jailing of Black Children: https://www.propublica.org/article/outrage-grows-over-jailing-of-children-as-tennessee-university-cuts-ties-with-judge-involved, https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist

This shit is for us: Are our Black organizations in tune with the Black community? https://naacp.org/articles/black-america-policy-recommendations-biden-administration

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: God don’t like stepping in shit:

Closing: Uncompromising Nobel Winner: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/books/nobel-prize-literature-abdulrazak-gurnah.html

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What’s on my mind: The Evil History of the Filibuster: https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/04/history-filibuster-jim-crow-relic/

News:

• Over 200,000 children abused by the Catholic Church in France: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/report-finds-216000-children-were-victims-french-clergy-sex-abuse-since-1950-2021-10-05/
• Bill Cosby thinks R Kelly is innocent and will soon walk free: https://thegrio.com/2021/09/30/bill-cosby-andrew-wyatt-r-kelly-railroaded/
• COVID-19 Update, Covid denier fell to his death after mum, dad and pet dog died: https://worldnewsera.com/news/uk/covid-denier-fell-to-his-death-after-mum-dad-and-pet-dog-died/
• Lindsey Graham booed in home state: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/05/lindsey-graham-booed-covid-vaccine-republicans
• Ozy Media’s Carlos Watson, a Black role model or scam artist? https://thehill.com/homenews/media/575132-ozy-media-ceo-says-decision-to-close-has-been-reversed and https://www.theroot.com/the-ozy-finesse-explained-1847811155

This shit is for us: How to prepare for the coming civil war:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The Sacrament in different faiths: https://www.themountaineer.com/life/religion/communion-ceremonies-vary-among-denominations/article_8238073e-4554-11e7-a300-7b6575cc0a69.html

Closing: Black 6-Year-Old Girl Becomes Georgia’s Youngest Certified Farmer: https://www.theroot.com/black-6-year-old-girl-becomes-georgia-s-youngest-certif-1847812245

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What’s on my mind: The Gamification of Social Change: https://www.gamify.com/what-is-gamification and https://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/octalysis-complete-gamification-framework/

News:

• Gabby Petito case raises question: Why don't missing people of color get attention? https://www.today.com/news/gabby-petito-case-raises-question-dont-missing-people-color-get-attent-rcna2247 and https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040391878/jelani-day-identified-missing-bloomington
• R Kelly found guilty: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/jurors-resume-deliberations-r-kelly-trial-2021-09-27/
• Woman’s Last Words to Mom Before Being Intubated 'I Don’t Want to Die' of COVID, plus unvaccinated pregnant woman says she is “praying for a miracle” before she dies: https://people.com/health/unvaccinated-pregnant-nurse-who-died-of-covid-final-post/ and https://people.com/health/woman-uses-last-words-before-being-intubated-to-tell-mom-she-doesnt-want-to-die-of-covid/
• A ‘Sovereign Citizen’ claimed her home as his own: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/nyregion/moors-newark.html
• Oklahoma minister tackled by man who allegedly caught him fondling boy: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-michael-coghill-oklahoma-minister-arrested-touching-boy-tackled-father-lewd-20210928-7rr7zj3aljh5jlu24irwwl5s6e-story.html
• Trump claims that Arizona audit shows he won…it didn’t: https://abq.news/2021/09/fact-check-pro-trump-cyber-ninjas-election-audit-comes-up-short/
• Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'good Christian' abortion meltdown: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-s-good-christian-abortion-meltdown-ncna1280110

This shit is for us: Nation Building: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-29621219 and https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1934-w-e-b-du-bois-negro-nation-within-nation/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: What do Christians think God is? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095990/

Closing: Memoriam for Barbara Campbell Cooke: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/arts/music/barbara-campbell-cooke-dead.html

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