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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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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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