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The need for papers: An oversight 52 years ago and its impact today

March 30, 2025 by Shay
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As this administration makes it clear that we will all soon need to carry papers proving that we are citizens if we don’t want to be shuttled off to some random country for exercising First Amendment rights or something—and with the deadline looming for Real ID to finally go fully into effect after years of …

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From COVID to fascism: Tapping into our collective humanity

March 18, 2025 by Shay
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March 13, 2020. The day that the United States declared Covid a National Emergency and life as we knew it would change forever. I remember the day clearly; I had gone down to Boston earlier that week to shut down my office for a few weeks because of what we were then just calling the …

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Calling All White People, Part 67: This isn’t the Gen X showing I asked for

February 15, 2025 by Average White Guy
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Calling All White People, Part 67 TODAY’S EPISODE: Gen X finally gets noticed—in a very bad way You know, it wasn’t that long ago that me and my fellow members of Generation X were shaking our heads at how news stories would come out with the opinions or leanings of various generations, and so often …

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