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Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti is mocked by young Trump supporters in Washington, DC

By Mark | January 19, 2019

If you’ve been on social media today, you’ve likely seen footage of a smirking, young Trump supporter appearing to mock a Native American drummer in Washington, DC during yesterday’s Indigenous Peoples March. If the Native American man in the video looks familiar to those of you who, like me, live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, it’s because […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Photographs, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-abortion, Black Hebrew Israelites, border wall, Catholic, Chris Stranad, Covington, Donald Trump, Doug Coombe, Eastern Michigan University, Huron, Indigenous Peoples March, Kentucky, Little Rock Nine, MAGA, Nathan Phillips, native american, Nick Sandmann, racism, Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, veterans, Vietnam War, xenophobia | 536 Comments

On the road with my 13 yer old daughter… marching for stricter gun laws in DC, learning about the holocaust, and getting to know one another as adults

By Mark | March 26, 2018

In an attempt to further radicalize my 13 year old daughter, I whisked her away on a last-minute road trip to D.C. Friday afternoon so that we could attend the big March for Our Lives demonstration. Having spent much of the past few days behind the wheel, I’m pretty exhausted at the moment, but I […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged "We could have bought a lot of guillotines for $700 billion", #MarchForOurLivesDC, Abraham Lincoln, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Barbara Kruger, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Chicago, Clementine, country ham, crying, Dorothy Avery, Elie Wiesel, Florida, guillotines, Guillotines Not Guns, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, Hirshhorn, holocaust, Lincoln Memorial, MAGA, Make America Great Again, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Mark Bradford, Martha Mitchell, Morgantown, NRA, parenting, parenting advice, Parkland, Pickett's Charge, road trips, Ron Mueck, tears, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, Watergate, West Virginia | 21 Comments

The new, young, and hopefully-more-effective face of American gun reform

By Mark | February 19, 2018

Quite a bit has happened over the past few days, since we first learned of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead. While it doesn’t look as though the 19 year old killer had connections to a white nationalist hate group, as was first reported, it […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alfonso Calderon, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, automatic weapons, background checks, blame the victim, call to action, Cameron Kasky, Christin Yared, Christine Yared, collusion, David Hogg, Donald Trump, Emma Gonzalez, FBI, Florida, gun control, gun reform, gun violence, high school, inaction, inspiration, lobbying, Make America Great Again, Mar-a-Lago, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, National Rifle Association, National School Walkout, Nikolas Cruz, NRA, obstruction of justice, Parkland, protest, Republic of Florida, Russia, Russiagate, school shooting, second amendment, speaking truth to power | 109 Comments

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Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti is mocked by young Trump supporters in Washington, DC

On the road with my 13 yer old daughter… marching for stricter gun laws in DC, learning about the holocaust, and getting to know one another as adults

The new, young, and hopefully-more-effective face of American gun reform

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