Readings for April 7, 2023

• 🤬 Tennessee statehouse expels Democrats for gun control protest being black and young and angry 🔗 - WTF am I supposed to think about, do about, the display of blatant racism in the expulsion of the two Tennessean representatives? I’m a 50ish progressively-minded white guy from rural Nebraska, surrounded by those who would be almost certainly in support of this obscenity, who has no real power or influence to speak of. I do believe society is tilting away from this evil in the long run, but what can I do to put my seemingly insignificant thumb on the scales to tilt it faster?

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