A Straight Line
It’s a long, long way from the Trump administration to an actual fascist dictatorship, but it’s a straight line.
It’s a long, long way from the Trump administration to an actual fascist dictatorship, but it’s a straight line.
It’s an exhaustive list, far longer and deeper than you might suspect. All the way back in 1840, student Joseph Semmes shot University of Virginia law professor John Anthony Gardner Davis.
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She was about 9 years old when she met John Smith. When she converted to Christianity, she took the name Rebecca. She died while visiting England. She did not sing with raccoons.
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AIM’s brash and confrontational Red Power movement did for Indigenous Americans precisely what Black Power did for African Americans.
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