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R. E. Hayes
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Ret. lawyer, USMC, grandpa, Great grandson of a KY slave Civil War vet. My debut novel “Be White With Me,” is about a striving middle-class Chicago family in crisis, and is 20% autofiction. My second novel DUPED In AMERICA is pure fiction.
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“A powerful, humane novel that turns the headlines of recent years into a moving story of loss, courage, and hope. (Kirkus Reviews)

Being an overlooked writer can sometimes be a heavy lift. This review goes a long way toward brightening our day. #Booksky
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November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“A powerful, humane novel that turns the headlines of recent years into a moving story of loss, courage, and hope. (Kirkus Reviews)

Being an overlooked writer can sometimes be a heavy lift. This review goes a long way toward brightening our day. #Booksky
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first strike down.~ Frederick Douglass. #Freespech
October 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ironically, Charlie Kirk, a former spewer of ugly critical race theory disinformation, was assassinated in one of the whitest states in America.
September 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The lawyer representing the Epstein victims affirmed that Trump assisted the FBI during their investigation. What! Do birds sing? Do snitches rightfully still get stitches?
September 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I learned today, of all days, that RFK took the NY bar exam three times before he passed it. He’s a medical charlatan and a bottom draw attorney to boot.
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Why is the orange clown gangster idiot always surrounded by his nefarious henchmen, his fawning tax paid audience?
President Trump, speaking at a news conference, said he was planning to send the National Guard to Chicago. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said the state was ready to fight the Trump administration’s plan in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
September 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
September 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Shout out to mayor Brandon Johnson for spotlighting Red states Mississippi, Louisiana, and Indiana for being notorious gun runners. Chicago is a big city, but they don’t make guns there.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
share.google/QjHHK85EIUEK... Yea, right the bleached blonde hack says, fuck the First Amendment.
Attorney General Pam Bondi fires DOJ staffer for alleged obscene gesture toward National Guard members
The Justice Department on Friday confirmed the termination of a paralegal accused of flipping off National Guard troops on her way to work.
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August 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
DUPED In AMERICA released today, is a timely thriller about the country’s anomalous social changes; one family, two brothers, one of them destructively influenced by Trump’s machinations. Not a hint of Epstein in the book.
August 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Tomorrow my new thriller novel DUPED In AMERICA, Palmetto Publishing, will be released. One family, two brothers, one enthralled by Trump. Not even a hint of Epstein. #Booksky
August 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Yes, but TV seemed to always show her upbeat and cheerful. The country just wasn’t ready for that and her skin is brown to boot.
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo.

Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
August 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Hakeem Jeffries today described the orange clown gangster idiot as a “ignorant racial arsonist.” Preach, brother!
August 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
@amandaseales.bsky.social I just discovered you, a different version of AOC.
August 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Source: PublishersWeekly.com If this were a law passed by today’s congress, it would be titled The American Strive For Ignorance Act.
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August 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Maxwell tells Trump’s lawyer she never saw Trump behave inappropriately. Coming from a perjured convicted sex pervert, that really settles the matter in my mind. How about you?
August 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“I could know about it.” Translated, he’s saying, I could be an orange clown gangster Idiot. Yes, Yes, you are that and only that.
For the record, the president isn’t the chief law enforcement officer. Also, this is how mafia states are run and he, as usual gives away the game. He says he tells them he “doesn’t want to know about it,” but they get the message. Do what it takes to please Dear Leader. So it happens.
Trump on FBI raiding Bolton's house: "I could know about it. I could be the one starting it. I'm actually the chief law enforcement officer."
August 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Trump is a dictator clawing to control everything.

But our voices are getting louder, as more and more folks are rising up, speaking out, and refusing to back down. The great news I have for you today is proof of that.
This Is Not Normal. This Is Tyranny. Here’s How Folks Are Fighting Back.
Three booed operatives, a crumbling dictator, and more
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August 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Garish. Inspired by a doofus goon.
This is so disgusting and tacky.

Everything about him is so disgusting and tacky.

This is what people with zero class think class looks like.
August 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The orange clown gangster idiot is not a republican and is not a democrat, he is as Gavin Newsom says, a political “invasive species.”
August 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sunny likes to sit here with my head just grazing her tummy as we wait until the Aug 26 release of my new Trump infused thriller Duped In America. No mention of Epstein in it, but Trumpism is always in the air.
August 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I’m watching the Cubs and the Pirates and reading about ex slaves in Aurora, IL just up the road from me. On Jan 1, 1873, the temperature was minus 33 degrees. Brrrrr
August 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM