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What’s on my mind: Why do the dumbest people think they are smart? (Dunning/Kruger Effect): https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-the-dunning-kruger-effect-4160740
News:

• A Black Officer Came Face to Face With Racism: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/us/politics/capitol-riot-harry-dunn.html
• Cherokee Nation Addresses Bias Against Descendants Slaves: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/politics/cherokee-nation-black-freedmen.html
• Defrocked priest, 85, is charged with raping a nine-year-old boy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9277059/Defrocked-priest-85-charged-raping-nine-year-old-school-Bathurst-1980s.html
• Black Lives Matter opens up about its finances: https://thegrio.com/2021/02/23/black-lives-matter-finances/
• What adopting a white baby taught one Black family: https://www.today.com/parents/african-american-couple-adopt-white-foster-baby-t161976
• US Coronavirus Update: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/obituaries/elizabeth-duff-dead-coronavirus.html
• Winning Documentary Exposing U.S. Government for oppressing Black communities: https://www.blacknews.com/news/brandi-webb-betrayal-of-a-nation-documentary-exposing-us-government-oppressing-black-communities/

This shit is for us: Pan-Africanism vs. Afrocentricity: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/10/287320160/stokely-carmichael-a-philosopher-behind-the-black-power-movement, http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/scarmichael-2.html and http://www.asante.net/articles/1/afrocentricity/#:~:text=Afrocentricity%20is%20a%20paradigm%20based,novel%20ways%20of%20analyzing%20information.
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Closing: Morgan State University recently announced receipt of a $20 million commitment from Black alumnus: https://goodblacknews.org/2021/02/22/calvin-e-tyler-jr-former-ups-driver-and-morgan-state-university-alumnus-endows-the-hbcu-with-20-million/

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What’s on my mind: What does the Republican Party stand for? https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/republican-party, https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020#cite_note-4, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-postcivil-righ_b_10021960, and, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-is-no-trumpism-there-is-only-trump/2021/02/16/87a0ee1e-7095-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html

News:

• Idiot McConnel acquits Trump then says he is guilty as hell: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/us/politics/trump-mitch-mcconnell-republicans.html
• Good News: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9272575/Liberal-trolls-rejoice-Rush-Limbaughs-death-foul-tweets.html
• The battle over redistricting and it’s potential impact: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-redistricting/how-the-battle-over-redistricting-in-2021-could-decide-control-of-the-u-s-congress-idUSKBN2AI1CX
• Religious leader sentenced for 1980s child deaths: https://apnews.com/article/gainesville-florida-crime-ebf04002c04c185001ce865b5a886565
• US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII: https://blacknewschannel.com/us-life-expectancy-drops-a-year-in-pandemic-most-since-wwii/
• US Coronavirus Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
• Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Earns Prestigious Oersted Medal from American Association of Physics Teachers: https://goodblacknews.org/ 

This shit is for us: The Black/White Wealth Gap, how it happened and what we can do about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2020/06/25/five-big-ideas-to-narrow-the-racial-wealth-gap/?sh=4724ad2751ac

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: New Bible Study Next Month

Closing: I Am Black, Disabled And Beautiful: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-disabled-beauty_n_602ab2a9c5b680717ee9adcb 

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What’s on my mind: How religion destroys good and amplifies evil:

News:

• Impeachment 2.0, second try, likely to be the same result: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/feb/12/donald-trump-impeachment-senate-trial-defense-lwayer-republican-senators-coronavirus-covid-live-updates
• Biden’s Stimulus Package: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/02/05/what-is-reconciliation-in-congress/
• Catholic Nuns sold or rented orphaned children to sexual predators: https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/victims-sue-catholic-church-after-proving-nuns-sold-them-sex-slaves
• Baby drowned by Priest during baptism: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/02/05/a-baby-died-because-the-romanian-orthodox-church-has-an-insane-baptism-ritual/
• African American Florida Man Proposes Using Rings Stolen from other Lover: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-man-stolen-wedding-rings-joseph-davis_n_6026d2b5c5b6741597e1d170
• US Coronavirus Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
• Father of Black History: https://aframnews.com/father-of-black-history/

This shit is for us: What do Black people want:

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: “…and Jesus said, let him who is without sin, be the first to stone that bitch”: John Chapter 8 verses 1-11 

Closing: In Memoriam Mary Wilson of the Supremes: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mary-wilson-dead-supremes_n_60223cbec5b6f38d06e6a595 

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What’s on my mind: Weaponized Lies, how to protect yourself:

News:

• House voted to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/03/us/biden-administration
• Microsoft halts donations to Trump supporting politicians: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-donations/microsoft-halts-donations-through-2022-to-lawmakers-who-opposed-biden-certification-idUSKBN2A52IT
• After being called into the office to be fired, Trump says un ah I quit…: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/arts/television/trump-screen-actors-guild.html
• Book review of Black women’s story of being adopted by Whites: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-rep-moving-office-away-marjorie-taylor-greene-my-team-n1256185
• Jamaica is out of weed, that is like KFC being out of chicken: https://blacknewschannel.com/jamaica-faces-marijuana-shortage-as-farmers-struggle/
• Profanity is a sign of intelligence, I’m smart as FUCK!!!: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/health/swearing-benefits-wellness/index.html

This shit is for us: Black organization structures: https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/twa and https://aalbc.com/content.php?title=Nguzo+Saba%3A+The+Seven+Principles+of+Kwanzaa

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Next week “…and Jesus said, let him who is without sin, be the first to stone that bitch”:

Closing: ACLU, for first time, elects Black person as its president: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/aclu-first-time-elects-black-person-its-president-n1256466

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What’s on my mind: The Big Part 2, the original Big Lie.

News:

• Update from Trump: 
• The Republican Party caves to Trump’s pressure: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump-republicans.html?auth=login-email&login=email and https://www.npr.org/2021/01/26/960774352/early-procedural-test-shows-where-senate-gop-may-stand-on-convicting-trump
• Republicans tied to White Racist groups: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/republicans-trump-capitol-riot.html
• Rep. Cori Bush has to move offices to protect her team from racist GOP Rep. (redundant) Marjorie Greene: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-rep-moving-office-away-marjorie-taylor-greene-my-team-n1256185
• Christian Terrorist in Capitol Siege Said It Was “God’s Will”: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/22/christian-terrorist-in-capitol-siege-said-it-was-gods-will-to-kill-millions/
• US Coronavirus Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
• Square Shit: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-do-wombats-poop-cubes-scientists-get-bottom-mystery

This shit is for us: We need to do more than “speak” Truth to Power

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Next month, no text as of yet

Closing: Memoriam for Cicely Tyson: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/621638033/cicely-tyson-commanding-actress-has-died-at-age-96 

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What’s on my mind: The Big lie, how to build a fascist state: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html

News:

• The 2020 Election update the (inauguration of Joe Biden & Kamila Harris): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/biden-president.html
• The weak ass end to a destructive presidency: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/trump-presidency.html
• Prophecies gone wrong: https://www.icirnigeria.org/prophecies-gone-wrong-men-of-god-falsely-predicted-trump-second-term-win/
• The last gasps of the religion of Christian America: https://www.icirnigeria.org/prophecies-gone-wrong-men-of-god-falsely-predicted-trump-second-term-win/
• 30 executive orders and actions Biden signed in his first three days: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/politics/joe-biden-executive-orders-first-week/index.html
• US Coronavirus Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
• Lloyd Austin Confirmed As Defense Secretary, Becomes 1st Black Pentagon Chief: https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/22/959581977/lloyd-austin-confirmed-as-secretary-of-defense-becomes-first-black-pentagon-chie
• Black doctor who didn't trust the Covid vaccine, changed her mind: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/i-m-black-doctor-who-didn-t-trust-covid-vaccine-ncna1255085

This shit is for us: What does it mean to be a US citizen when you are black? https://squareonejustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/roundtable-oct2018-History-and-Progress-of-Black-Citizenship-by-Leah-Wright-Rigueur.pdf

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Next month, no text as of yet

Closing: Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman: https://whyy.org/articles/inaugural-poet-amanda-gorman-even-as-we-grieved-we-grew/ 

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What’s on my mind: We are at an Infection Point and poised for accelerated success or substantial long-term failure.

News:

• The 2020 Election update (inauguration): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/lawsuit-aims-to-thwart-trump-legacy-of-vote-meddling and https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/exit-polls
• What we now know abut the attempted coup d'é·tat: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20210115-fbi-tracking-significant-threats-to-d-c-state-capitals-ahead-of-biden-inauguration  
• Trump makes history by being the only president to be impeached twice!: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956375897/4-ways-president-trumps-2nd-impeachment-will-change-washington
• Trump Is Stiffing Giuliani: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-is-stiffing-giuliani-report/
• House republicans should be charged with attempted murder: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/adriano-espaillat-coronavirus-congress.html
• Black Woman Appointed as Acting Chief of U.S. Capitol Police: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/red-sox-hire-bianca-smith-minor-league-team-first-black-n1252868
• US Coronavirus Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
• Innocent Black man released after 26 years on death row: https://www.blackenterprise.com/eddie-lee-howard-wrongfully-imprisoned-for-killing-a-white-woman-is-exonerated-after-serving-26-years-on-death-row/

This shit is for us: Black Unity

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Next month, no text as of yet

Closing: Memorial for Barbara Hillary: First black woman to reach the North and South Poles: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/barbara-hillary-death-explorer-north-south-poles-african-american-a9230581.html 

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What’s on my mind: Changing the future requires us to change how we see the world

News:

• The 2020 Election, where we stand: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-07/biden-win-confirmed-after-pro-trump-mob-storms-us-capitol
• GA Runoff election update: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/upshot/warnock-ossoff-georgia-victories.html?auth=login-email&login=email
• California Woman Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Threatening to Bomb Catholic School:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-woman-pleads-guilty-hate-crime-threatening-bomb-catholic-prep-school
• A Former Christian Nationalist Lawmaker is Part of the Attempted Capitol Coup: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/06/a-former-christian-nationalist-lawmaker-is-part-of-the-attempted-capitol-coup/
• No charges filed against Kenosha officers in Jacob Blake shooting: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-charges-filed-against-kenosha-officers-jacob-blake-shooting-n1252739 
• Capitol police treatment of Trump rioters underscores America's racist reality: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/capitol-police-treatment-trump-rioters-underscores-america-s-racist-reality-ncna1253293
• Coronavirus Update: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ 
• Angry Squirrel Aggressively Attacking Residents of Queens Neighborhood 

This shit is for us: Lessons from Reconstruction: https://www.salon.com/2021/01/07/ted-cruz-tried-to-defend-trumps-coup-he-then-called-for-a-return-to-a-white-supremacist-comprise/ and https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/compromise-of-1877

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The story of god the pimp, “bitch better have my money” (Malachi 3:8 and Acts 5:1-11)

Closing: Red Sox hire Bianca Smith as first Black woman to coach in pro baseball: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/red-sox-hire-bianca-smith-minor-league-team-first-black-n1252868 

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What’s on my mind: Changing the future requires us to change how we see the world

News:

• The 2020 Election, where we stand: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/31/elections-protest-dc-police-brace-donald-trump-demonstrators/4097472001/
• GA Runoff election update: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/politics/georgia-senate-runoff-early-vote/index.html
• The top 10 richest pastors in 2020: https://thedailysblog.com/richest-pastors-in-the-world/#:~:text=%20The%20top%2010%20rich%20pastors%20in%202020,T.B.%20Joshua%2010%20Pastor%20Joseph%20Prince%20More%20
• On first day of 2021, US records its 20 millionth case: https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-live-updates-quiet-goodbye-122415439.html
• DOJ Whistleblowers Call for Investigation into Canceled Diversity Programs: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949384358/doj-whistleblowers-call-for-investigation-into-canceled-diversity-programs
• Top 20 most dramatic research findings — our political and social world in 2020: https://www.nkytribune.com/2021/01/jan-hillard-top-20-most-dramatic-research-findings-our-political-and-social-world-in-2020/
• Cop Implicated in Black Man’s Murder Used Faith to Justify “Righteous Release”: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/12/29/cop-implicated-in-black-mans-murder-used-faith-to-justify-righteous-release/
• E.W. Jackson: Joe Biden Cursed Our Nation: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/12/27/e-w-jackson-joe-biden-cursed-our-nation-by-saying-covid-is-still-dangerous/
• Marietta 12-Year-Old College Student Accepted Into Georgia Tech: https://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2020/12/31/marietta-12-year-old-college-student-accepted-into-georgia-tech/ 

This shit is for us: Update of police murders of Black people

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Next week the story of god the pimp, “bitch better have my money” (Malachi 3:8 and Acts 5:1-11)

Closing: Meet the first Black woman to found a political party in Europe: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/meet-first-black-woman-found-political-party-europe/ 

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What’s on my mind: The past is prologue, what I learned in 2020 and what it means for 2021?

News:

• Donald Dick's last ditch attempts to subvert the election: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-bonkers-oval-office-meeting-with-sidney-powell-was-even-too-much-for-rudy
• GA Runoff election update
• Trump pardons criminals and murderers: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949679837/shock-and-dismay-after-trump-pardons-blackwater-guards-who-killed-14-iraqi-civil
• Update on Ahmaud Abery case: https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/12/17/ahmaud-arbery-new-body-cam-footage.html
• DOJ Whistleblowers Call For Investigation Into Canceled Diversity Programs: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949384358/doj-whistleblowers-call-for-investigation-into-canceled-diversity-programs
• Federal Judge to Pro-COVID Christians: “The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact”: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/12/23/federal-judge-to-pro-covid-christians-the-constitution-is-not-a-suicide-pact/ 
• Chicago police video of Anjanette Young should shock America: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/chicago-police-video-anjanette-young-should-shock-america-it-doesn-ncna1252123 
• Dr. Susan Moore — Black Indiana Doctor Dies of COVID-19 : https://www.theroot.com/a-black-doctor-dies-of-coronavirus-complications-just-w-1845948619
• Ohio Police Leave Bodycams Off and Kill Unarmed Black Man: https://www.theroot.com/ohio-police-leave-bodycams-off-and-kill-unarmed-black-m-1845940271 

This shit is for us: Quick review of “Blueprint for Black Power”: https://www.african-warrior-scholars.com/dr-amos-wilson-biography/

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: Next month the story of god the pimp, “bitch better have my money” (Malachi 3:8 and Acts 5:1-11)

Closing: Assembly woman Shirley Weber to succeed Padilla as California secretary of state 

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