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Tuesday in Mooseville – The Six-Week Filibuster 6/18/19

June 18, 2019 DoReMI 1

On December 20, 2018, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 passed the Senate by unanimous consent. After 200 attempts since 1882, this was the first federal anti-lynching legislation to pass in the […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Maybe It’s Time to Believe ‘Em 6/4/19

June 4, 2019 DoReMI 2

I think we all realize at this point that the phrase, “This is not who we are!” is more a statement of wishful thinking than objective reality. It’s a statement of privilege for those who […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Unsung: Voices from the Margins 4/2/19

April 2, 2019 DoReMI 2

Note: I started this post in November 2017 but didn’t complete or publish it after deciding that it was a bit too obscure. But then I saw these tweets over the weekend; the devastating loss […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Unholy Alliances: NAM Discovers the Fledgling Public Relations Profession 3/12/19

March 12, 2019 DoReMI 3

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is an “advocacy group” that was founded in 1895 and is still active and influential today. Almost from the beginning, they have been virulently anti-labor, and its member companies […]

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Thursday in Mooseville – Unholy Alliances: DeMille and the Fraternal Order of Eagles 3/7/19

March 7, 2019 DoReMI 5

“How can ‘Christians’ support the current pResident?” is a question we’ve all heard over and over again. I, however, think it’s the wrong question, or at least a question that is asked without benefit of […]

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Barbara Jordan: Sharing and shaping our future

March 5, 2019 JanF 3

Barbara Jordan was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Texas and the first African-American elected to her state’s senate. Rep. Barbara Jordan was not only a trailblazer but […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Slaveholders-in-Chief Cont’d 2/19/19

February 19, 2019 DoReMI 4

After Denise’s tour-de-force of a post on Sunday (if you haven’t already, be sure to read it here: I refuse to honor George Washington, and ‘founders’ who enslaved and sold human beings ), my efforts […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – Slaveholders-in-Chief 2/12/19

February 12, 2019 DoReMI 8

Today’s post is prompted by Dee’s observation that we celebrate Presidents’ Day with no mention of the fact that twelve of them were slaveholders. It occurred to me that I wasn’t sure which twelve those […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – The Many Tentacles of Christian Libertarianism, Part Two 2/5/19

February 5, 2019 DoReMI 5

Last week, I wrote about the early history of the Spiritual Mobilization organization, a group whose activities were largely limited to pamphleteering. Although Spiritual Mobilization at one point sent tracts to more than 70,000 pastors […]

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Tuesday in Mooseville – The Many Tentacles of Christian Libertarianism 1/29/19

January 29, 2019 DoReMI 2

    Several months ago, I mentioned in a comment that the story about the addition of the words, “under God” to the pledge of allegiance was more nuanced and more detailed than most of […]

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