----- Forwarded Message -----*From:* "dakotakwolf@PROTECTED" <dakotakwolf@PROTECTED>*To:* "anneabowd@PROTECTED" <anneabowd@PROTECTED>*Cc:* "freespch@PROTECTED" <freespch@PROTECTED>; "tjlodge50@PROTECTED" <tjlodge50@PROTECTED>; "peggydm@PROTECTED" <peggydm@PROTECTED>; "tommcdona3@PROTECTED" <tommcdona3@PROTECTED>; "josiesetzler@PROTECTED" <josiesetzler@PROTECTED>; "inquiringminds@PROTECTED" <inquir ...Continue Reading

----- Forwarded Message -----*From:* Dennis Kucinich <info@PROTECTED>*To:* "tjlodge50@PROTECTED" <tjlodge50@PROTECTED>*Sent:* Friday, June 18, 2021, 4:16:43 PM EDT*Subject:* I'm running for Mayor!I want to share with you some very exciting news. This week I announced my candidacy for Mayor of Cleveland. View this email in your browserTerry I want to share with you some very exciting news. This week I announced my candidacy for Mayor of Cleveland. At a time when many American big citi ...Continue Reading

How the Biden DOJ continued -- and expanded -- reporter surveillance (without any public objection by the management of the NYT) /after/ it was discovered to have happened during Trump's presidencyOpinion: Something appears to be ‘simply, simply wrong’ at the Biden Justice DepartmentOpinion by Fred RyanJune 6, 2021 at 5:14 p.m. EDT/Fred Ryan is publisher of The Post./During the final days of the Trump administration, the attorney general used extraordinary measures to obtain subpoenas to secretly seize records of report ...Continue Reading

  Bureaucratic and boring and routinely depriving the public of information about what their imperial government is up to.  As in, pending FOIA requests since 2005, unanswered. And DoD's "trust us, if you grant the exemption, we won't abuse it" attitude. ----- Forwarded Message -----*From:* Steven Aftergood <saftergood@PROTECTED>*To:* "tjlodge50@PROTECTED" <tjlodge50@PROTECTED>*Sent:* Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 5:11:38 PM EDT*Subject:* Secrecy News -- 06/08/21Secrecy News: June 8, 2 ...Continue Reading

  Central Ohioans, I hope you can gather at the Statehouse next Monday----- Forwarded Message -----*From:* Stansfield Smith <stansfieldsmith100@PROTECTED>*To:* "chicagoalbasolidarity@PROTECTED" <chicagoalbasolidarity@PROTECTED>*Sent:* Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 7:27:34 AM EDT*Subject:* [Chicagoalbasolidarity] US tour of Julian Assange's father and brother calling on the U.S. government to drop its prosecutionwww.assangedefense.org*https://assangedefense.org/supporters/*https://assangedefense.org/t ...Continue Reading

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And the US did not immediately capitulate and settle this after the inauguration because ??? Because a lot of times, there's a virulent authoritarian, Constitution-trampling strain of Murrican "democracy" that infects both wings of the Property Party.----- Forwarded Message -----*From:* The New York Times <nytdirect@PROTECTED>*To:* "tjlodge50@PROTECTED" <tjlodge50@PROTECTED>*Sent:* Friday, June 4, 2021, 11:04:35 PM EDT*Subject:* Breaking News: The Justice Department waged a secret battle ...Continue Reading

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Memorial Day 2021by Richard LevineFacebook Twitter Reddit Email Memorial Day 2021The brown splash and swirl in the glass. I set down the bottle beside it, the cork forced back in place. Any smoky, sweet aromatic notes that might escape would be wasted on me, with tree pollen clogging my sinuses.  And if my eyes are puffy and tearing, blame it on that, too.  But I snuck away from friends who only think of this as a long holiday weekend before summer. For you and me, it goes back to Quang Tri and a wet mort ...Continue Reading

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