https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230522-three-years-after-george-floyd-hopes-dashed-progress-mixed

#CivilSociety versus the #AmericanExperiment: "Twenty years from now, 50 years from now, 100 years from now, the goal is not to hold a sign that says '#BlackLivesMatter.' And until we can do that... that's when we know we have arrived. That's the goal."

Heather Cox Richardson (HCR)

HCR's *Letters from an American* is a daily read. Sane. Insightful. Often framed in the historical context of the greater American Experiment. This morning I had a good gut laugh. I keep a notebook entitled, "Funny Things Narcissists Say," and reading HCR I realized that I need a complementary supplement of "Funny Things Said to Narcissists."

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The hearing devoted time to a discussion of Trump’s attempt to get Twitter to take down a tweet by model Chrissy Teigen who, after Trump insulted her on Twitter, referred to him as a “p*ssy *ss b*tch” (a description that is now in the Congressional Record). The White House contacted Twitter immediately to ask it to take down this “derogatory statement directed toward the president.” (Twitter left it up.)
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Funny things people say to Narcissists. In the Congressional Record. The American Experiment. Laughing instead of crying.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-9-2023

#AmericanExperiment #FunnyThingsPeopleSayToNarcissists #LaughingNotCrying

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#Reaganomics #neofascism #neofascist #Reagan #GOP #CitizensUnited #SCOTUS #MiddleClass #Corporatocracy #NewDeal #FDR #Economics #Economy #Democracy #republicans #AmericanExperiment

Today is the 50th anniversary of the *Roe v. Wade* decision. Heather Cox Richardson's daily *Letters from an American* is an accessible, insightful contextualizing of todays politics in history. An educational antidote to the ceaseless onslaught on our rights, and humanity itself, in the *Present Moment.* Follow on substack. Expand the time horizon.

Here's her brief lookback at Roe.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-21-2023

#ThickTime #Roe #AmericanExperiment #HumanRights