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Determined, Disillusioned, or Despondent?
Q: With our loved ones still under Trump’s spell, how do we minister to them? A: One angry text at a time.
“Listen to Joe Biden,” I hissed at my 9-year-old, who was grunting at me. “
I said listen to Joe Biden!”
In the other room, our 46th president was calling for unity in his first address to the nation. Yes, Joe! I remember thinking. Bring some mother-effing unity to this mother-effing house! Though I think he was talking about the liberals and conservatives in the country, his speech could have applied to the Marianis of Fort Worth, three people me, my wife D., and our third grader A. dissolving into yet another Mariani Blowout ®. More grunting, a lot of yell-whispering, and finally tears of sorrow soundtracked my “helping” our littlest family member redo a few math questions he had screwed up. You would have thought his teacher had asked him to saw off his right hand with a plastic b
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Lalaland.
In 2017, according to the nonpartisan law and policy institute
The Brennan Center, the FBI “reported that white supremacists posed a ‘persistent threat of lethal violence’ that has produced more fatalities than any other category of domestic terrorists since 2000. Alarmingly, internal FBI policy documents have also warned agents assigned to domestic terrorism cases that the white supremacist and anti-government militia groups they investigate often have ‘active links’ to law enforcement officials.”
Not long after Wednesday’s attempted coup in our nation’s capital, the
Fort Worth Police Officers’ Association joined
Parler, a social media platform preferred by