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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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What’s on my mind: Republicans have tried to overthrow the government, what should happen? https://theweek.com/articles/954673/constitution-answer-seditious-members-congress

News:

• How Congress will count Electoral College votes: https://apnews.com/article/congress-count-electoral-college-vote-5605532631a251ac8f902d1d1ca55428
• GA Runoff election update: https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-senate-poll-loeffler-perdue-lead-1555499
• Anti-vaccination groups target local media after social media crackdowns: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anti-vaccination-groups-target-local-media-after-social-media-crackdowns-n1251485
• Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind COVID-19 vaccine: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/kizzmekia-corbett-african-american-woman-praised-key-scientist/story?id=74679965
• A COVID-Denying Tennessee GOP Lawmaker Caught COVID and is Now on a Ventilator: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/12/16/a-covid-denying-tennessee-gop-lawmaker-caught-covid-and-is-now-on-a-ventilator/
• Black man imprisoned for nearly 4 decades exonerated after witness admits to lying: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/14/jackson-michigan-walter-forbes-exonerated-4-decades-prison/6537810002/
• A Man Whose Parents Threw Out His Porn Collection Wins Lawsuit Against Them: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-werking-wins-porn-lawsuit_n_5fdb989ac5b650b99adad633

This shit is for us: How to identify and deal with a “Race Traitor”

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: MSNBC Names Rashida Jones President: https://blacknewschannel.com/msnbc-names-rashida-jones-president-first-african-american-to-lead-cable-news-network/ 

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What’s on my mind: This would be funny if it weren’t so serious: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2020/election-integrity/ and https://scroll.in/article/979997/trumps-lies-about-fraud-in-the-us-election-highlight-the-dangers-of-disinformation-in-a-democracy

News:

• Ex-U.S. Homeland Security intelligence official to give congressional testimony: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-homeland-whistleblower/ex-u-s-homeland-security-intelligence-official-to-give-congressional-testimony-idUSKBN28J2UN 
• Trump Plans to Execute Four Black Death Row Inmates: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-12-09/us-set-to-execute-1st-of-5-inmates-before-biden-inauguration
• GA Runoff election update: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-polls-say-about-georgias-senate-runoffs/
• Lawsuit Against First Baptist Church of Hammond IN: https://apnews.com/article/religion-protestantism-lawsuits-crime-environment-16e7a928f65c42d6b8b2c3a6ecf8d085
• Pastor Charged with Sexually Assaulting 14-year-old: https://www.tapinto.net/towns/linden/sections/police-and-fire/articles/linden-pastor-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-14-year-old-in-newark
• Minnesota pastor molested teenage girl: https://www.christianpost.com/news/word-of-faith-ministries-pastor-charged-with-molesting-teen-girl.html
• Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA) Pastor arrested and detained: https://www.christianpost.com/news/word-of-faith-ministries-pastor-charged-with-molesting-teen-girl.html
• Priest indicted, faces federal child pornography charges: https://6abc.com/catholic-priest-faces-charges-arrested-federal-criminal-wilmington-delaware/8505418/
• Racism is on the rise, but so are our Black people: https://aframnews.com/lifestyles/culture/racism-is-on-the-rise-but-so-are-our-black-people/

This shit is for us: Are interracial relationships good for Black culture

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: Black Canadian teenager Maryam Tsegaye wins science contest 

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What’s on my mind: Is it me that’s crazy or is it you? Hint, it’s you

News:

• State of the Georgia runoff elections: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/528582-warnock-leading-loeffler-other-georgia-senate-runoff-race-deadlocked-poll
• Trump is out of his mind: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/12/endless-lies-and-nonsense-trumps-46-minute-most-important-speech-ive-ever-made-panned-as-utterly-dishonest/ 
• Calls for Marshall Law over Trump losing the election: https://www.wktv.com/content/news/What-are-the-rules-around-poll-watching-572909001.html
• Bill Bar did not drink enough of Trump’s vile verbal ejaculate:https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/trump-is-reportedly-on-the-verge-of-firing-bill-barr
• The new SCOTUS is as stupid and dangerous as we thought it would be: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/opinions/scientifically-illiterate-scotus-covid-decision-sachs/index.html
• Anti-LGBTQ politician caught fleeing an all male orgy at a gay party: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/12/03/anti-lgbtq-leader-caught-fleeing-all-male-orgy-in-brussels-says-belgian-media/
• Lssons from the massacre in Black Wall Street: https://blackvoicenews.com/2020/11/01/perverse-sacraments-that-bind-lessons-from-the-tulsa-massacre/

This shit is for us: Black Self-Hate

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The story of Sodom and Gomorrah

Closing: Midshipman Sydney Barber makes Navy history 

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What’s on my mind: Inconvertible proof, there is/are no god(s) Further Reading:

• God the failed hypothesis by Victor Stenger
• How to prove god does not exist by Trevor Treharne
• The Atheist Universe by David Mills
• Why there is no God by Armin Navabi
• A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss

News:

• The state of the runoff elections in Georgia, MAGA idiots may win it for us: https://www.politico.com/news/georgia-senate-runoff-2021-latest-race-updates-and-polls
• Trump takes questions since first losing the election: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/politics/trump-election-georgia.html and https://www.wktv.com/content/news/What-are-the-rules-around-poll-watching-572909001.html
• Stock trades by Senator Perdue said to have prompted DoJ Inquiry: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/11/24/ny-state-sues-diocese-of-buffalo-for-not-protecting-kids-from-abusive-priests/
• NY State Sues Diocese of Buffalo: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/11/24/ny-state-sues-diocese-of-buffalo-for-not-protecting-kids-from-abusive-priests/
• Leaders of a Jehovah's Witnesses church 'made a 15-year-old girl listen to an audio tape of her own rape: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8942521/Jehovah-Witnesses-leaders-girl-15-listen-recording-rape-four-hours.html
• Muslim woman biasedly pulled from flight: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-muslim-woman-biasedly-pulled-from-flight-charged/2048288#:~:text=American%20Airlines%20tells%20Amani%20al,comfortable%20with%20her%20on%20plane&text=A%20Muslim%20woman%20in%20the,refusing%20to%20remove%20her%20hijab.
• Paris police suspended over beating of Black man: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/paris-police-officers-suspended-over-beating-black-man-n1249113
• Black pastors vs. COVID-19: https://aframnews.com/news/national/black-pastors-vs-covid-19/

This shit is for us: Isn’t it Afrocentric to believe in God? Further reading; Symbolism Revisited and The Neurological Misadventure of Primordial Man, both by Edgar Ridley

Bible Study with Atheist Mike: The story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Postponed until next week)

Closing: David Dinkins, New York’s First and Only Black Mayor, Dies at 93: https://granthshala.com/usa/david-dinkins-understated-pioneer-and-106th-mayor-is-dead/ 

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