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Black Solidarity

by Jonathan Erdman

On Independence Day, Black militias arise in the United States…As we have been reading about in Black Against Empire, it’s when Black people arm themselves that they get taken seriously by the white establishment…White liberals, of course, begin to get uncomfortable… Black Power Black Lives Matter Black Love

July 4, 2020
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Current Events and Scattered Scribbles

Moonlight, no flash

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July 2, 2020
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Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company

Mark Twain

stories from life

July 2, 2020

Moonlight, no flash

12:42 AM

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May 17, 2020

Fireweed Mountain

The view from my front yard. Alaska state mandates a two week quarantine for out of state-ers, of which...

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March 24, 2020

New Party, New Narrative

One thing I’ve been discussing with the comrades is a new political party. The Bernie Sanders left is now...

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March 19, 2020

Into The Wild: 2010 to 2020

It was August of 2010. I saw the lights of Anchorage from the seat of my plane as we...

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March 16, 2020

When the going gets tough

If socialism is what we (rightly) resort to in a crisis….then think of how much better things would be...

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March 14, 2020

What’s buried in your backyard?

It’s during times like these that those of us who are End-of-The-Worlders can hold our heads up high and...

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March 1, 2020

Bernie in San Jose

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December 27, 2019

2019 POV

For me, 2019 brought a big shift. In the fall of 2018 I knew that I needed to make...

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June 26, 2019

McCarthy’s Mutts

Originally posted on Paul Scannell Photography :
Stories From Alaska Welcoming Committee How’s it goin? Oh, to...

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June 20, 2019

Jumbo mine

My writing has been going pretty well so I had to drag myself away for a nice hike. I...

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June 19, 2019

Bare and bear

Long day of hiking yesterday, then back home to the cabin, late, where I took a sponge bath. Not...

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June 17, 2019

Moose on the run

The other day I was on my walk back to the cabin, returning from town on the hour long...

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"And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need."

The Acts of The Apostles, chapter 2, verses 44-45

Spiritual Scribbles and Religious Reflections

June 9, 2020

The Great Unmasking

Sharing a podcast link to a sermon, The Great Unmasking, from a famous white evangelical pastor preaching some Gospel,...

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June 6, 2020

The tears of the oppressed

It’s my birthday today. I took the day off of work, and I also took a day off from...

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May 19, 2020

Untitled Apocalyptic Reflection

The essential problem in an apocalypse is not that civilization crashes. This is only the backdrop, a common theme,...

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April 1, 2020

COVID-19 and the spiritual revolution

COVID-19 may very well be a catalyst for a spiritual revolution. It definitely has potential. One of America’s greatest...

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March 25, 2020

Intimacy with one’s own life

I’ve been mulling over a new definition of meditation that came to mind a few months back. Meditation is...

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March 10, 2019

Watch “March 15 Sermon by James Finley, Ph.D.” on YouTube

I recently came across this little homily from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, James Finley. He’s been called...

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February 4, 2019

Why You Should (Probably) Avoid Public Accounting

I’m back in the game, I’ve got a few weeks of public accounting under my belt, and tax season...

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December 12, 2018

The Sting of Winter

To take the sting out of winter, I turn to Sting. It’s kind of homeopathic, an approach to healing...

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Colour prejudice is not our original fault, but only one aspect of the atrophy of the imagination that prevents us from seeing ourselves in every creature that breathes under the sun.

Doris Lessing, African Stories; cited by James Baldwin in Notes of a Native Son

Ideas & Issues -- Thoughts and Short Essays

June 3, 2019

Alaska and/or Bust

I wrote up a humorist piece (attempting to channel a bit of Melville) as a therapeutic way to bring...

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January 20, 2019

Women’s March 2019

Activism is good for the soul. I want to change the world, like anyone else, but for me activism...

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January 9, 2019

It’s time for Democrats to be the grownups voters want | Washington Post

I recently read a wonderful Op-Ed article that I thought I’d bring to your attention. It’s wonderful, not in...

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December 5, 2018

Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Is a Winning Climate Strategy | The ...

Good reading in The Atlantic on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal. It highlights one of the overarching...

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November 8, 2018

The midterms were not a bad night for Trump | Cas Mudde | Opinion | The Guardian

“Whether the Republican establishment likes it or not – and more and more are actually perfectly happy with it...

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November 5, 2018

Election day and how is your stomach?

Trump is hitting the campaign trail, hitting it hard in the way that Trumpty Dumpty sort of way he...

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September 14, 2018

Will protests stop Trump?

My time is winding down here in McCarthy, and so I’m trying to enjoy the last week of my...

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August 6, 2018

Communion

This summer I’ve turned more attention to blogging, and I’ve started phazing out Facebook. In the process I’ve been...

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July 10, 2018

Phazing Out Facebook

“I’m off the book,” says my friend Scott. We stand together on the porch of the Golden Saloon, drinking...

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June 25, 2018

This is why the Gospel is political

It’s extremely weird, in retrospect, but in my evangelical circles no one ever really talked about Martin Luther King,...

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May 31, 2018

Republican Peter King compares NFL protests to ‘players giving Nazi ...

One way that racism persists in America is that non-Whites are not permitted to interpret their own experiences. White...

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May 8, 2018

The Quotable Trump

The Trumpification of the English language: “For instance, I went to Russia for a day or so, a day...

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Tap a vein and bleed on the page. Everything else is technical.

Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, & Revolution

Pickings and Gleanings from books I'm reading and stuff I'm watching

June 20, 2020

Black Against Empire #2 Strategy

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale wanted to organize, locally, to resist police brutality in their Oakland communities. But they...

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June 19, 2020

Black Against Empire by Bloom and Martin (2012)

I am just starting in on this fascinating text, a thoroughgoing academic analysis of the Black Panther Movement, situated...

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March 17, 2020

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, by David Garrow

1,460 pages. Audiobook length of over 56 hours. And all of that is just to cover the time leading...

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March 10, 2019

Watch “March 15 Sermon by James Finley, Ph.D.” on YouTube

I recently came across this little homily from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, James Finley. He’s been called...

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February 18, 2019

Live free or die trying

I recently finished that Ken Burns documentary that I’ve been watching (more on that in another post) and decided...

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David Foster Wallace
February 14, 2019

But, so, what do I read next?

If you’re an avid reader, you are doubtless acquainted with a familiar phenomenon, the thrilling but also potentially problematic...

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February 5, 2019

The Brilliance of My Brilliant Friend | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I’m nearly at the end of watching HBO’s My Brilliant Friend, the recently aired adaptation of the Elena Ferrante...

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January 26, 2019

Westworld [Heart Shaped Box] | YouTube

I’ve just finished watching the second season if Westworld — and wow — but more on that wow at...

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January 9, 2019

The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

I started watching Ken Burns’ 18 hour documentary on Vietnam, and after five episodes I’m hooked in, way more...

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January 7, 2019

Binging on Westworld

I spent a pleasant New Year’s Day in my pajamas, binge-watching the first season of Westworld with one of...

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January 6, 2019

The Menace of Eco-fascism | New York Review

In the States we are used to thinking of environmentalism as bring a “liberal” or “left-wing” issue. This isn’t...

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December 31, 2018

Noname and The 50 best albums of 2018

I came across an article in The Guardian ranking the best albums of 2018. In recent years I’ve drifted...

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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism

Current Events and Scattered Scribbles

July 4, 2020

Black Solidarity

On Independence Day, Black militias arise in the United States…As we have been reading about in Black Against Empire,...

by Jonathan Erdman
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May 28, 2020

100,000 and counting

It’s a perfect storm: our institutions are failing; voters are disenfranchised; our government is dysfunctional; our political system is...

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April 5, 2020

Medicare for All and COVID-19

Excellent video. Dude breaks it down in a little under three minutes:

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March 20, 2020

What's Wrong

Was chatting with my brother today, and he put the matter succinctly: In out economy it’s hard to do...

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May 27, 2019

Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert | The ...

“We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the...

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May 14, 2019

GoT meets Sesame Street: Respect is Coming

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March 26, 2019

Great response to Mueller report

Having just finished watching Lost in it’s entirety — for the first and last time — this last fall,...

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March 19, 2019

It’s the end of the world as we know it?

Glenn Beck to Sean Hannity: “We are officially at the end of the country as we know it” if...

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