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Proud Boys and Black Lives Matter activists clashed in a Florida suburb. Only one side was charged.
Via: Thomas • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“Amid fears that the confrontations could lead to clashes or shootings, police started enforcing the town’s rarely used noise ordinance, which...”
We need to stand up, sit down, be counted as not willing to let the loudest people in the room, the most in your face type of people, get away with furthering the systemic racism that is endemic to this country. The former president has stolen the impetus for change that was fostered by the...
What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? - The New York Times
Via: Thomas • Health, Science & Technology • 8 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
“The virus's strangest symptom has opened new doors to understanding our most neglected sense.”
An interesting read on an often neglected sense.
Living with a Visionary | The New Yorker
Via: Thomas • Mental Health and Wellness • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“For more than fifty years, my wife and I shared a world. Then, as Diana's health declined, her hallucinations became her own reality.”
Just read this story in The New Yorker and thought that I would share it.
Some Movies Actually Understand Poverty in America - The New York Times
Via: Thomas • Entertainment • 3 Comments • 1 Like • 6 years ago
“The complex realities of subsistence escape "Hillbilly Elegy." But as far back as Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights," filmmakers have been turning a...”
It is funny.. No. Funny is not the right word. Tragic, that with all of the navel gazing that goes on amongst the ones that have means, there is a whole population that seldom gets attention from many people at all.
This Time, Do Not Hate
By: Thomas • Religion & Ethics • 108 Comments • 9 Likes • 6 years ago
“ Just because someone else's life matters doesn't make your life matter any less. If we can't allow someone else to have a platform for a while, It...”
First off, the above quote is not mine, but was lifted from a friend of a friendI have had the opportunity in my life to make a great many friends from highly varied and vastly different vocations: from engineer to professor to grocer, and from many different outlooks: from Christian to pagan to...
Trump's Grotesque Tulsa Speech and the Cult of Trump - BillMoyers.com
Via: Thomas • Op/Ed • 18 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
“Bill Moyers talks with journalist Jeff Sharlet, whose reporting for Vanity Fair describes how Trump the orator has turned his re-election campaign...”
An interesting take on the Rally last weekend. If you would rather listen to the interview, go here
Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In - The New York Times
By: Thomas • placeholder • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago • LOCKED
“In the five years since Jon Stewart left 'The Daily Show,' American politics has been in a state of constant turmoil and he has remained mostly out...”
Please go Here to Comment Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In By David Marchese For all the value Jon Stewart delivered as a political satirist and voice of reason during his 16-year-run as the host of ''The Daily Show,'' it's quite plausible to suggest that the political and media Bizarro World...