List: 🇺🇸 Let’s get optimistic about America /s | Curated by Pluto Wolnosci 🟣

Aug 15, 2023
22 stories
🇺🇸 Let’s get optimistic about America /sI just can’t any more. These stories give me the ability to believe we won’t always live in fear.
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Momentum
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
Why Are You So Uncomfortable With Black People's Self-Defense?An essay about the Mongtomery Riverfront Uprising of 2023
Aug 8, 2023
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Aug 8, 2023
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AfroSapiophile
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Savannah Worley
“Try That In A Small Town” Should Have Been Called “Only White People Allowed”Jason Aldean might as well have grabbed a megaphone and screamed, “White people only! Everyone else get out! Or else!”
Aug 1, 2023
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Aug 1, 2023
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Unpopular Opinions
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Pluto Wolnosci 🟣
What You Get Wrong about Free SpeechYou don’t misunderstand free speech; you misunderstand the nature of the world
Jul 2, 2022
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Jul 2, 2022
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
Why We Should Be Prepared for HIPAA to FallWith lawmakers criminalizing aspects of healthcare for women and trans people, there’s only one inevitable outcome
Mar 17, 2023
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Mar 17, 2023
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The Wicked Orchard by Sidra Owens
Stop Blindly Defending. We Are All in Danger.
Mar 16, 2023
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Mar 16, 2023
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Minds Without Borders
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Michelle Teheux
Some of You Have Never Reached Into an Apple Barrel and It ShowsThe problem is the barrel, not the apples
Mar 11, 2023
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Mar 11, 2023
9
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ZORA
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Louis Byrd
Fleeing the Burning House of DiversityWhy it’s time to redirect our energy in the pursuit of racial equity.
Mar 1, 2023
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Mar 1, 2023
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Adeline Dimond
Notes on Our Collective Mental BreakdownWe need help.
Apr 2, 2022
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Apr 2, 2022
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Elaine Gilmartin
“Stranger Things” is A Little Too Close To Reality For MeMaybe Metallica Can Help Us Escape the Upside Down
Jul 13, 2022
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Jul 13, 2022
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Mari
We Are Not CowsI don’t even like what humans do to cows.
Jun 25, 2022
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Jun 25, 2022
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Takes the Cake
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Pluto Wolnosci 🟣
Fragility Has Won in VAOn book banning and white fragility being passed to our children
Nov 3, 2021
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Nov 3, 2021
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Prism & Pen
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Esther Spurrill-Jones
LGBTQ Christians: Some Good News For a Change!With all the attacks on LGBTQ+ people lately, we need some good news
Jun 27, 2022
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Jun 27, 2022
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New American History
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Ed Ayers
The Classroom is a Community of TrustReflections on lawmakers’ latest attempts to constrain the teaching of American history.
Jun 4, 2021
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Jun 4, 2021
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The Bad Influence
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Reuben Salsa
Normalize the Killing of Pregnant WomenIn a dream scenario for Republicans everywhere, angry women not wishing to carry a baby will simply be murdered.
Aug 2, 2022
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Aug 2, 2022
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Pluto Wolnosci 🟣
RevisitingA submission for the prompt “fuzzy.” Children are the mirrors we must hold up to our past.
Oct 22, 2021
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Oct 22, 2021
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Elaine Gilmartin
Oh, The PlacesYou Won’t Go!Thank you, Dr. Seuss, But I’ll Take It From Here
Jul 20, 2022
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Jul 20, 2022
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Cultured
by
Walter Rhein
We Must Come To Terms With the Lies We’re Taught About AmericaWhy the concept of “polite conversation” is highly offensive
Jul 16, 2022
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Jul 16, 2022
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Cory Doctorow
MoneylikeMy September, 2022 column for Locus Magazine
Jul 15, 2022
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Jul 15, 2022
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Equality Includes You
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Christyl Rivers, Phd.
A Note To Tucker Carlson On Women Lecturing MenOne response to the Highland Park Shooting is to blame women for weak men.
Jul 7, 2022
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Jul 7, 2022
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