Bobby Braswell
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They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.
Book about book bans banned by Florida school board
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2024 at 4:40 AM
They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"
www.mediamatters.org
July 3, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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NEW: On the ignominy of Grants Pass. And the heartlessness of Neil Gorsuch.
Supreme Court's cold ruling criminalizing homelessness
Justice Gorsuch's horrifying opinion in the Grants Pass case recalls an earlier heartless dissent. Also: Law Dork in the media.
www.lawdork.com
June 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
NEW: On the ignominy of Grants Pass. And the heartlessness of Neil Gorsuch.
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In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops.
It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”…
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It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”…
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May 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM
In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops.
It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”…
2/
It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”…
2/
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)
May 5, 2024 at 1:20 PM
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)
-Carl Sagan.
(📷: Michael Okoniewski)
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THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment
THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab...
THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity
THE SOLUTION: ...what?
THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab...
THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity
THE SOLUTION: ...what?
THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
February 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM
THE PROBLEM: Most forms of energy are harming the environment
THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab...
THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity
THE SOLUTION: ...what?
THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
THE SOLUTION: Switch to alternative forms of renewab...
THE PROBLEM: Hold on, I have an idea, what if we made invisible valueless money that eats electricity
THE SOLUTION: ...what?
THE PROBLEM: Also I have this plagiarism machine
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Since 2020, the five richest men on the planet have doubled their fortunes.
During the same time period, nearly five billion people globally have become poorer.
It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.
During the same time period, nearly five billion people globally have become poorer.
It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.
January 19, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Since 2020, the five richest men on the planet have doubled their fortunes.
During the same time period, nearly five billion people globally have become poorer.
It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.
During the same time period, nearly five billion people globally have become poorer.
It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.
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Americans worth more than $100 million sat on a whopping $8.5 trillion in untaxed profits in 2022, a report found — money that may never be taxed unless Congress closes a loophole shielding the investments of the ultrarich
The Ultrawealthy Have Made $8.5 Trillion — And None Of It’s Been Taxed: Report
Thanks to a tax code slanted toward billionaires and centimillionaires, the government is missing out on huge sums that could help fund critical programs.
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Americans worth more than $100 million sat on a whopping $8.5 trillion in untaxed profits in 2022, a report found — money that may never be taxed unless Congress closes a loophole shielding the investments of the ultrarich
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With new advances in technology, computers will be able to do tiresome and unrewarding work like painting, writing, and composing music, leaving human beings free to create shareholder value and protect inventory
December 13, 2023 at 7:28 PM
With new advances in technology, computers will be able to do tiresome and unrewarding work like painting, writing, and composing music, leaving human beings free to create shareholder value and protect inventory