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Nobody Wanted to Take Us In: Lizzy Ratner in The Nation and on Democracy Now

Nobody Wanted to Take Us In Lizzy Ratner was interviewed by Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh on Democracy Now! today about her beautifully written and powerful piece, Nobody Wanted to Take Us In: The Story of Jared Kushner’s Family, and Mine in The Nation where she is a Senior Editor. The piece begins: In my aunt’s house, in the bedroom…

justice

**For those uninterested in my alterations on the game of chess or other random free-flowing thoughts and want only to skip straight to changing the world, scroll down to “Justice and the Course of History.” (as an aside i apparently seem done with capitalization. we’ll see if that changes. Okay. Fuck. Oh, well, it was worth…

amazing women

  strength beauty integrity intelligence compassion goodness honesty transparency nurturing  

make the world glass

  fight like a girl we hear everyone saying instead of an insult the hope of all nations      

Mr. President, explain yourself

Right now there are people all over America who were “lucky” enough to get through customs at our airports, in our country  – you know, land of the free and home of the [chickenshit CHEETO–headed buffoon]   brave who know that whoever they left behind in the country they left behind – parents, children, grandmothers grandfathers, aunts, uncles, grandchildren,…