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Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The normalization of hate:  https://www.counterextremism.com/content/extreme-left-groups-united-states ,  https://verdict.justia.com/2019/04/04/if-these-ideas-are-too-far-left-why-are-they-so-popular News: Internal memo reveals the GOPs insidious tactics:  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/jim-jordan-republicans-memo-immigration.html The politics of COVID: ...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The universal death of rational thought: News: Book Banning Efforts Surged in 2021:  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/books/banned-books-libraries.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Education A Christian ‘health insurance’ ministry left families with millions in unpaid bills:  https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/a-christian-health...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Democrats can’t fuck this up:  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-black-voters.html News: Text from Trump son is said to plan overturning election:  https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html This is Justice in America:  https://www.npr.org/2022/04/08/1091769554/2-found-not-guilty-in-michigan...

Send us Fan Mail Feedback:  What’s on my mind: Who’s my audience for RBT and what do I want them to do? News: Jackson Confirmed:  https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/07/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-vote-scotus No justice for Amir Locke:  https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/a-no-knock-warrant-led-to-the-police-shooting-of-amir-locke.html If you are white, you are presumed innocent, even after you are prove...

Send us Fan Mail Feedback:  What’s on my mind: A Systems Analytic Explanation for the Shitshow we Live in:  https://www.agile42.com/en/blog/cynefin-framework#:~:text=The%203%20basic%20types%20of,%3B%20ordered%2C%20complex%20and%20chaotic. ,  https://www.agile42.com/en/blog/cynefin-framework#:~:text=The%203%20basic%20types%20of,%3B%20ordered%2C%20complex%20and%20chaotic. News: Gini Thomas’ push to...

Send us Fan Mail Feedback:  What’s on my mind: Allow me to Retort…:  https://www.amazon.com/Allow-Me-Retort-Black-Constitution/dp/1620976811 News: The GOP Staged a Racist Shit Show at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS Hearings:  https://www.thedailybeast.com/gops-racist-clown-show-at-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jacksons-confirmation-hearings Here’s what you get when racism and religion fuck a...

Send us Fan Mail Feedback:  What’s on my mind: The Centre cannot hold …:  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming News: Is God causing the war in Ukraine:  https://www.bradenton.com/news/nation-world/national/article259276904.html If evolution is real, why we still got Herschel Walker:  https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/herschel-walker-denies-evolution-why-are-there-still-a...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Don’t push me cause I’ close to the edge…:   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d824da4727dfb5bd9e59d0c/t/615c7ae7c1b58c7f92fb2ce1/1633450730356/Black+Nonreligious+Americans+-+A+Brief+from+the+U.S.+Secular+Survey.pdf News: The Ukraine Crisis and Anti-Blackness In Immigration:  https://newsone.com/4301129/ukrainian-refugee-crisis-spotlights-anti-blackness-im...

Send us Fan Mail Feedback:  What’s on my mind: Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth: News: MTG spoke at a white supremist conference, but claims she didn’t know where she was:  https://newsone.com/4297890/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop-problem/ Capitol rioter awaiting sentencing dies by suicide…good riddance:  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/capitol-rioter-awaiting-sentencing-...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: A Black atheist prophecy:  News: A jury finds Ahmaud Arbery's 3 killers guilty of federal hate crimes:  https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082225480/ahmaud-arbery-hate-crimes The Republicans are Racist, and If You Still Support them, So Are You:  https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-a-racist-if-you-still-support-him-so-are-you Pastor arrested for raping kids...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: In plain sight, the quite part out loud: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/republicans-america-first-caucus News: Racist slurs, violent messages: How Arbery’s killers talked about Black people: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/racist-slurs-violent-messages-how-arbery-s-killers-talked-about-black-people/ar-AATWzb9?ocid=msedgntp Dear Democrats: Start treati...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: This shit is not sustainable:  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/politics/republicans-jan-6-cheney-censure.html and  https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-alabama-voting/ News: Kentucky pastor charged with sex crimes involving minor:  https://www.whas11.com/article/news/kentucky/kentucky-pastor-thomas-wall-child-sex-crimes/417-646bed51-0a7e...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: I t’s worse than I thought:  https://orientalreview.org/2022/01/29/the-1994-rwandan-genocide-and-the-united-states-i/ News: Trump Really, Really Wanted the Government to Seize Voting Machines:  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pushed-government-seize-voting-machines-1293232/ Cops suspended over mishandling of the deaths of two Black wome...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Motivated Blindness, an answer to the question, why are people so dumb:  https://www.stevebizblog.com/the-truth-about-how-motivated-blindness-affects-business-decisions/#:~:text=Motivated%20blindness%20is%20a%20type%20of%20confirmation%20bias,blindness%20for%20a%20small%20business%20involves%20money-related%20issues. ,  https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/12/elc-pi...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: How to stop the Dem’s plan to lose the House and the Senate this year:  https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/joe-biden-gets-f-grade-from-37-of-americans-poll-shows/ ,  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-numbers-are-pointing-midterm-shellacking-democrats-n1287624 News: The prayer timeline for Jan 6:  https://religionnews.com/2022/01/06/jan-6-a-timeline...

Send us Fan Mail Sorry for the long episode this week, I had a lot to say. In the future, if I have too much content in a given week, I will cut out content and save it for a subsequent week. If you have comments, that my podcast is too long, that my points are incoherent or wrong, please send a message to Feedback@RationalBlackThought.com What’s on my mind: How to get shit done: https://gettingth...

Send us Fan Mail Feedback: Conversation with Kenneth: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abb7498 What’s on my mind: When our democracy falls, who will be to blame? https://www.ft.com/content/85ff09bc-eb08-4d99-b7d5-57e07b191dd1 News: Breaking News: New wave of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories: https://www.axios.com/january-6-capitol-conspiracy-theories-conservative-social-media-f216bf07-6f...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: People have crossed over to the Twilight Zone:  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html News: Court rules New York Times can temporarily keep Project Veritas documents:  https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/appeals-court-says-new-york-times-can-temporarily-keep-project-veritas-documents-526229 Florida Youth Pa...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: How it all ends:  https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/worldwide ,  https://www.cgdev.org/blog/the-next-pandemic-could-come-soon-and-be-deadlier ,  https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/climate-change-frequently-asked-questions/ News: Joe Manchin goes on Fox News to tell the Democrats to go Fuck the...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Increasing our Return on Failure:  https://www.luxoft-training.com/news/agile-life-planning-managing-personal-goals-with-agile/ ,  https://www.collectivecampus.io/blog/how-to-optimise-your-return-on-failure-rof News: Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power:  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/trump-meadows-republican...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: How to Correct Cognitive Distortions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion , https://positivepsychology.com/cbt-cognitive-restructuring-cognitive-distortions/ News: Biden treated worse than Trump by the media: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable/ Democrats shoot themselves in their own dick:...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: Modern Monetary Theory and Build Back Better:  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp ,  https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-economist-who-believes-the-government-should-just-print-more-money News: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Overturn Roe v. Wade:  https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/01/us/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court Trump Tested...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The Bad Guys are winning:  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/ News: All three defendants found guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Abery:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/jury-reaches-verdict-in-ahmaud-arbery-death-case-all-found-guilty-of-murder/ar-AAR5IpG?ocid=msedgntp Convicted sex offender working as Birmin...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: The war on Blackness:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/08/wake-up-these-woke-distortions/ ,  https://www.epi.org/blog/the-racist-campaign-against-critical-race-theory-threatens-democracy-and-economic-transformation/ News: Build ‘BLACK’ Better Agenda:  https://aframnews.com/build-black-better-agenda/ McCarthy isn't the only Republican who&apo...

Send us Fan Mail What’s on my mind: I’m sorry, I lied, we have already lost: News: After talking about Dr. Suess, and Mr. Potato Head the GOP is now attacking Big Bird:  https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053548074/big-bird-covid-19-vaccine-conservative-backlash-ted-cruz Photos of Mike Pence in Hiding on Jan. 6:  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/journalist-describes-wild-unpublished-photos-1541491...