Dear Dean Magazine: January 2024

JAN. 22, 2024 

MAGAZINE 

2023 

WHAT DID 

YOU LEARN? 

IGNORE 

JOY REID 

YOU DIDN’T GET 

INTO AN IVY LEAGUE 

— BOO-HOO 

Plus! 

MYRON'S HIT OR MISS LIST 

NEW MOVIE REVIEWS 

WHAT I'M STREAMING RIGHT NOW 

HOT TAKES 

FEATURED BOOKS & MORE! 

PERFORMANCE REVIEW 

IS DONALD 

TRUMP ELIGIBLE 

FOR REHIRE? 

PRO-TRUMP FORCES 

TOOK OVER THE CAPITOL

THE GOODS 

03 Welcome From Myron 

06 

08 

21 

2023 - What Did You Learn? 

by Myron J. Clifton 

Musings from The Haltian 

American Poet 

10 Ignore Joy Reid 


13 

22 

24 

28 

34 

You Didn’t Get Into an Ivy League — 

Boo-Hoo 


Is Donald Trump Eligible 

for Rehire? 


Hot Take! x4 

Pro-Trump Forces Took 

Over The Capitol 


Myron's HIT or MISS List 

38 

Movie Reviews / My Favorite 

Things Streaming Right Now 

D E A R D E A N M A G A Z I N E , W E B S I T E , B L O G S & 

B O O K S A R E D E S I G N E D B Y K A T Y A J U L I E T L E R N E R

January 2024 

Happy Prosperous, Wonderful, 

Fantastic New Year 2024! 

The new year is starting off with the opening of the 2024 

election campaigns and all the commercials, emails, and 

new shows dedicated to the election, and to ignoring 

good news for Democrats while ignoring bad news for 

republicans. 

In this issue we ask the question: What Did You Learn in 

2023? and mock entitled twerps whining about not 

getting into Harvard. 

We look back on January 6, 2021, with appropriate 

soberness and anger, and we follow that with answering 

the question many HR managers answer about 

employees when they are fired: Are They Eligible for 

rehire? Only we ask and answer it about Donald Trump, 

leader of the insurrection. 

We publish thought-provoking articles on 

government, gender, race, and politics, while also 

providing space for movie and television reviews, 

poetry, short stories, food, pets, fun, and a welcoming 

platform for independent authors and writers. 

And we provide this space for free – because our 

motto is and will remain: Some Art Deserves to be 

Free. 

We appreciate you as a reader and we thank you for 

sharing the magazine to your social media network, 

friends, and family. 

And we look forward to seeing YOUR contribution 

soon. 

Thank you for reading, sharing, contributing, and for 

your feedback. 

Finally, we mourn the victims of another school shooting 

– an administrator and a student. 

Myron 

All your favorites are here as well– What’s Streaming, 

Television reviews, Hot Takes, Hit/Miss, and don’t miss 

our latest book advertisements from many 

accomplished authors! 

Dear Dean Magazine | Jan. 22, 2024 | Page 3

About Me 

Website | Bookshop | Twitter 

Myron J. Clifton is an author of novels Jamaal’s Incredible Adventures in the Black Church; 

Monuments: A Deadly Day at Jefferson Park; BLM-PD: Revenge was Inevitable; Her Legend Lives in 

You: The Untold Story Honoring the Goddess & Our Daughters; and short story collection, We 

Couldn’t Be Heroes, and Other Stories. Also check out his weekly podcast, Voice Memos, his FREE 

digital magazine, Dear Dean Magazine, and his weekly blog at both Medium and DearDean.com. 

Myron lives in Sacramento, California, and is an avid Bay Area sports fan. He likes comic books, telling 

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Jamaal's Incredible Adventures in the 

Black Church by Myron J. Clifton 

Before Jamaal's seventeenth birthday, he’s appointed as his preacher uncle’s 

designated driver and unwilling personal confidant. Behind the fine outfits and 

hats, behind the delicious cooking, Jamaal is exposed to crazy aunties, sexy church 

sisters, corrupt pastors, and predator deacons. A good kid who just wants time to 

finish his homework and kiss a girl his own age, Jamaal is dragged through the 

strange world of the Black church. You best pray for him. 


WHAT DID YOU 

LEARN IN 2023? 

F E A T U R E D A R T I C L E 

Myron J. Clifton 

One of the questions I asked my bosses-all the way up to 

CEO-was: What did you learn this year? 

Every CEO would respond, & I encourage folks to do it 

w/their managers & other executives. 

In answering the question myself here is what I learned 

this year... Social community matters. 

My frustration with this app (X) is from a place of seeing a 

good community relentlessly attacked by its owner and 

his acolytes. 

I learned that I follow incredibly smart and generous 

people. And funny, witty, satirical, and sarcastic. I learned I 

follow very few mean folk. I learned that politics are 

abstract to too many people. I learned that I cannot care 

more for people’s wellbeing than they care for their own 

wellbeing. 

I learned that the curse of anti-Black racism permeates all 

systems and communities and holds a place in the minds of 

every race, demographic, ethnicity, religion, in this nation 

and every other nation and that there’s no serious effort 

to undo what continues to profit the globe. 

I learned that good news needs more shepherds and bad 

news has too many advocates and helpers. 

I learned that leaving corporate after 41 years is lifeaffirming. 

I learned that America’s cultural competence 

has never risen above a D grade and too many revel in the 

muck of willful ignorance about our cohabitants of our 

shared land. 

I learned Barack and Michelle Obama were the best 

presidential team in history and the love and hate they 

still receive confirm it for me. 

And that Vice President Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff 

are their political doppelgängers who could take America 

to another, better, place if allowed. 

I learned my daughter is as smart as I thought she would 

be. I learned my small family circle is enough to satisfy 

my needs. 

I learned love can be given freely and with openness and 

can land easily if I allow it-and I did, with my partner- and 

it’s wonderful. 

Finally, I learned that gratefulness is valuable as I get 

older because it stands out more in my mind and 

emotions. I am grateful 2023 is ending and 2024 is 

starting because I can end and start again with you all. 

Thank you for being you. 

I learned that a high school dropout like me can start a 

writing career at age 50 and successfully sell books, 

produce a free magazine, and earn pennies by blogging 

well received social-political articles. 


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times, what enters will make you gag. These stories by a ride-share short-timer might have the 

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meet (and the money he might make) decides to drive ride-share while looking for a new 

professional management position. 

Don’t want to drive drunk? Well, then, by all means, plug in your location and get your friendly 

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movers? There’s an App for that! Tired of waiting for tricks on the corner? Wait—I’ve got an idea. . 

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The behavior and stories of folks who call on ride-share turned into a unique anthropological 

study for one man who decided to drive ride-share while looking for a new professional 

management position. Recently laid off from his job and intrigued by the people he might meet 

(and the money he might make), the author unwittingly became the anonymous confidant for 

men, women, nonbinary people, and children. Unfortunately for him, he also became the innocent 

target of people who couldn’t hold their liquor, others who couldn’t hold their temper, and at 

least one who couldn’t keep his hands to himself. 

Little did they know they were in the Prius of a writer, who would be able to look in the rear view 

and tell their stories. 

This collection of anecdotes is non-judgmental, full of irony and dry humor, and may help 

someone else decide: Is driving ride-share for you? 


We Couldn't Be Heroes 

Short Story Collection: We Couldn't Be Heroes And Other Stories What if a Black 

man could control the weather, God called 911, or aliens took our souls? Would 

we notice? Would we care?... Enjoy the entire collection, seven stories in all, on 

earth and in space and in any order. 


IGNORE 

JOY REID 



It is election season, so Joy Reid is again doing what she 

does best: bashing democrats, downplaying Biden 

administration successes, and platforming anti- VP Harris 

talking heads like the absurdly self-named “Charlamagne 

tha god.” 

Joy Reid’s cable news show on MSNBC is a leftist and 

right wing dream show that spends much of its time 

“shitposting” against democrats, the President and Vice 

President. 

Joy has found her niche on the low watched cable 

network by providing a Black face and voice to spew antidemocratic 

rhetoric. 

Her soft-peddled voter suppression tactics are tiresome 

and she’s exhausting. 

Joy’s latest mess is when she brought on Lenard McKelvey, 

a media guy and co-host of radio’s The Breakfast Club — a 

show known for spreading rumors, trafficking lies, anti- 

Black woman misogyny, and political hot-takes that are 

embarrassing for their lack of insight or of how government 

works. 

Larry McKelvey — Charlamagne’s government name — is 

accused by a then 15-year-old girl of being a participant in 

her rape. There is also video of Larry laughing as he tells the 

story of putting Spanish Fly/date rape drug in the young 

woman’s drink and.. things proceed to all the worst actions 

from there. 

Did Joy bring Larry on her show to talk about men in power 

getting away with rape and sexual assault? Nope. She 

brought him to talk politics and to hype his new podcast. 

It is not surprising Joy platforms an accused rapist and man 

who routinely attacks Black politicians — especially Black 

women because she also constantly criticizes or ignores the 

work and accomplishments of vice president Kamala 

Harris. 

She takes time to snatch defeat from any and every 

democratic victory and to remind her viewers that no 

matter what the accomplishment — healthcare, 

infrastructure, border security, student debt relief, or 

passing budgets, the president and democrats aren’t 

doing enough. 

No matter what VP Harris does, where she goes, what 

issues she champions, what head of state she meets with, or 

nation she travels to, Joy rarely finds moments to outline 

her work but always finds time to parrot GOP and Russian 

talking points — 


M Y R O N J . C L I F T O N 

“Where is the vice president and what is she doing to 

solve like democrats promised? 

Well, Joy, maybe VP Harris has been busy touring college 

campuses, visiting dozens of states to meet with local 

politicians and state legislatures, working with various 

Hispanic groups that represent the many different issues 

facing the largest minority group in the nation, and 

helping down-ballot democrats reach constituents so the 

party wins more seats in congress… so they can pass more 

legislation and continue to improve the lives of all 

Americans. 

VP Harris has been everywhere, Joy, and she and the 

president have the results and accomplishments to prove 

and show their work. From women’s healthcare, access to 

safe abortions, the most significant gun safety laws in 30 

years, and combating book bans and revisionist history. 

Perhaps if you spent less time platforming losers like 

Larry and his like-minded podcast co-hosts Tiffany Cross 

and Angela Rye — two media personalities who also 

regularly downplay and/or ignore VP Harris’s 

accomplishments, you would know what she has done, is 

doing, and will do. 

Angela Rye even defended Charlamagne against rape 

accusations, warmly calling him “My brother” while doing 

so. She’s now accusing Chris Cuomo of sending her 

inappropriate text messages while they interacted at 

CNN where he was a host and she was a frequent guest 

commentator. Chris Cuomo is a known sexist pig.. and so 

is Larry, but one is Angela’s “Brother” and the other is a 

horrible person. 

Joy Reid doesn’t have to loudly support VP Harris or the 

Biden administration -she is after all, a journalist. 

And as a journalist who covers politics she should highlight 

democratic accomplishments and the work democratic 

politicians are doing because their work is… news, plain and 

simple. 

Joy also doesn’t have to parrot GOP talking points, mislead 

her viewers, and pretend not to know how government 

works. But here we are. 

One would think Joy Reid would understand the importance 

of reporting fully and accurately after she claimed long 

standing accusations against her were inaccurate and/or 

there result of hacking. 

Joy has long been accused of vile homophobia because of 

her past social media comments on her blog. Joy denied 

authoring her own homophobic posts and blamed them on 

hackers, before offering a poor “apology.” 

“If I did it, I am sorry, but I don’t think I did it, but if I did I am 

sorry, but I honestly don’t remember doing it. I was hacked.” 

Puh-leeze, Joy. 

But that’s too much to ask a MSNBC host I guess. It is 

really something when Fox News talking face Kayleigh 

McEnaney speaks forcefully and truthfully about VP 

Harris more than you’ve ever done. 

The road to the 2024 election will be filled with potholes, 

misdirection, and misinformation. There will be propaganda, 

disinformation, and purveyors of bad-faith reporting from 

right- and left-wing media outlets. 



The Big Three of cable news — Fox, CNN, and MSNBC 

each lean away from the democratic party and the Biden- 

Harris administration and toward the republican party 

and their convicted rapist leading candidate. 

Will Joy call out Trump’s rape conviction after not calling 

out Charlamagne’s? 

Obviously Fox leans right and many folk aren’t noticing 

that CNN is also leaning right since new management 

took over. 

And MSNBC? They lean so far left they are meeting up 

with Fox — the cable news horseshoe in full effect. 

And it is Joy Reid who is making and securing her coins 

pushing the network so far left that it no longer resembles 

the CNN-light network from years ago. And that’s too bad 

because Joy Reid has the skills to be a good journalist if 

she chose to instead of being a troll to democrats and 

Biden-Harris. 

But take her as she is and judge her on what she has said 

about the lgbtqi community, on how she platformed an 

accused rapist and pedophile, and on how she is making a 

name for herself disparaging and/or ignoring one of the 

greatest presidential teams in American history. 

We see you, Joy, and we’ve seen enough. 


YOU DIDN’T GET INTO AN IVY 

LEAGUE — BOO-HOO 



Tis the season for college acceptance letters to be 

nervously opened and read by exited graduates hoping 

to get into a university of their choosing. 

And all-over social media there are young people 

celebrating their acceptance letters in the midst of 

happy-crying relatives. 

And there are young people whining about not getting 

accepted into the college of their choice — often an Ivy 

League school — and blaming it on Black people. 

Since the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, non- 

Black students are being faced with a sobering reality: 

They didn’t get in based on their lackluster application, 

average grades, and run of the mill extracurriculars that 

match thousands of other students who submitted the 

exact same qualifications. 

You wanted merit-based only and the Supreme Court 

gave it to you. 

You didn’t get in and now you no longer can place the 

blame on Black people. 

A person thing whining online about her “nephew” 

not getting into an Ivy League school is like so many 

Americans just can’t do simple maths. 

97% who apply to Ivy League schools don’t get in. 

Applicants are competing against American and 

foreigners, as this thread highlights: 

They also accept so few because they want to keep 

their brand intact and that means basic-Declan from 

a basic private school with hundreds of other basic 

Declans simply do not stand out. 

That’s why there are, surprise, other schools. 

Some of the anger really baffles me. Like, the 

realization that you bought into superiority then got 

rejected really makes them hate…Black folk even 

more. 

Black people have long recognized that the people who 

benefited the most from Affirmative Action were white 

people, but no matter how much we said it, mass media 

and republicans convinced millions that every Black 

student was only in college due to affirmative action. 

Why? 

Why is the default for these folk always to hate 

BLACK folk, specifically, more? 



We don’t control Ivy League schools or admittance 

rules. As with everything in this nation the 

system/process is run by white men and a small 

percentage of white women. But every single time some 

privileged family’s little genius doesn’t get that coveted 

spot they blame that one Black student who got in. 

They don’t blame the legacy white kids who take up 

most of the slots, or the wealthy donor kid who paid 

their way in, or the foreign non-Black kid who excelled 

and got in. 

Nope, they blame the few Black kids who also excelled and 

earned their way in. Only now, they can’t angrily toss out 

Affirmative Action as an excuse and boy are they mad. 

The schools have so many admittance rules they can be 

hard to navigate if one isn’t wealthy or a legacy. The person 

who whined about her nephew not getting in even included 

the fact that his father was an alumni. So she was both 

complaining about Black folk getting in, her nephew not 

getting legacy, i.e. affirmative action, and that he, and not 

those who got in, “deserved it.” 

Even Hollywood actors figured out that in order to get their 

nepo-babies into one of those coveted slots, they had to 

pay to play. 

And many Asian families are finding out that the efforts 

they took to end Affirmative Action are backfiring — as 

Black people told them it would. 

It’s not only schools where Black people have to deal with 

this type of racism. It’s that one job, that one head coach, 

that one District Attorney, Senator, police chief, school 

superintendent or principal, or that one judge. 

Or it is where you work and that one supervisor, one 

project manager, or team lead. When they’re Black there’s 

always someone mad about it. 

And let’s be clear, that type of questioning is always based 

on racism. This is the same person whining about people of 

color getting into an Ivy League school and not her nephew. 



She’s calling the Black Vice President and Black elected 

officials “Criminal scum who do not belong in the White 

House.” 

It is the same racist insults Supreme Court Justice Ketanji 

Brown-Jackson, Fulton Country District Attorney Fani 

Willis, and New York Attorney General Letiticia James 

receives. 

They “Don’t belong there.” 

Oh really? Then where exactly do we “Belong?” 

Belong. 

Ruminate on the evil that word evokes. 

We don’t belong in the White House we literally built, 

protected, died for, fought for, and got elected to. 

We don’t belong. Where do we belong in a country our 

people built and made wealthy? 

Do we belong in your fields? In your kitchen? Or nursing 

your kids? In your military? 

People rarely acknowledge the affirmative action of hires 

like Lee Roberts who is the new University of North 

Carolina interim chancellor: 

“Lee Roberts will be UNC’s interim chancellor, beginning Jan. 

12. Roberts is on the UNC Board of Governors and worked as 

state budget director under Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. He 

has no professional administrative experience in higher 

education.” 

It is in the foundational DNA of this nation that owned our 

bodies for so long that far too white Americans feel they 

inherited that DNA power. 

Guess what? We belong where we stand. We belong 

where our ancestors are buried on nameless lands and 

unmarked graves. We belong at the same Ivy League 

schools who survived financial crisis by selling our 

ancestors. 

When you’re left to face the unfairness of America 

without the crutch of Black people you should finally 

understand what we have said for 350 years -that 

unfairness to us is unfairness to everyone, eventually. 

You always have had next. Now you’re experiencing it. 

We told you. 

One day Americans will realize the fault placed on Black 

people for everything wrong with this nation has been 

nothing more than a distraction and deflection from fixing 

the sickness that permeates public and private life. Look in 

the mirror, American, and you’ll see the problem. 

In any case, I don’t care where your nephew, your son, or 

your daughter gets into an Ivy League school or any other 

university. I do care that if they go they learn real 

American history, and that life has far more educational 

opportunities than any school. 

Maybe they will learn what so many did not: Black people 

aren’t to blame for your life or your failure to achieve your 

goals. 

People crying about not getting into Ivy League schools believe 

they have the right to decide where Black people can be. It is the 

foundation of redlining, sundown towns, HOAs, segregation, 

discrimination, back of the bus, and No Negros Allowed signs 

that draped American cities and businesses for the majority of 

this nation’s history. 


Marcus A. Banks-Bey, M.Div 

Gathered experience and elevation gained from years as an Army & hospital chaplain, mental health worker 

and clinical psychology doctoral student, equips Marcus A Banks to aid in journeying the reader to 

intelligently question their past belief systems and future creative visions of thought and identity as a 

purposeful means to developing their own personal reality for establishing their “true identity.” 

Within Dig Deep lies practical language, developed to help the reader grow the relationship with 

themselves, and understand why nurturing the relationships we have with our Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness 

and Finances will support our Purpose, Planning, Patience, and Persistent-Perseverance. This system helps 

one establish their own 5×5 Side by Side Guide through life. Dig Deep was written following a series of 

extremely challenging life occurrences, including the suicide of the author’s brother, Iverson; divorce; and 

war deployment. From this place, the author engaged in the process of self-discovery, self-awareness and 

meaning. 


Looking back on the Before and the events leading up to the After, it was impossible to say precisely when 

everything went to shit. Understanding the importance of human connection, a lone trader braves the 

Weeps and an emerging cult to unite the survivors of a shattered world. The Before and The After is a tale 

of loss, acceptance, and finding one’s truth in a barren future. 

Catherine Sequeira 

Catherine Sequeira is a veterinarian, author, and teacher. Originally from California, she has lived in 

Switzerland, New York, Oklahoma, and Scotland. She is an avid tabletop gamer and was all verklempt the 

first time her older son kicked her ass at Lords of Waterdeep. She would live in the garden if she could, 

pretending to be Snow White or channeling her inner Poison Ivy. When the weather chases her inside, you 

can find her reading sci-fi and fantasy or binging horror shows. She lives in Northern California with her 

partner, younger son, cat, and rescue dragon (the bearded kind, that is). 


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THE HOSTS! 

MYRON 

JENN 

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brief discussions about multitudinous topics. 

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The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the 

assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr--and a daughter's quest for the truth about her father. 

In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's 

Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound 

with a borrowed towel. 

This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days 

leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting 

on the activities of this group, which was thought to be possibly dangerous and potentially violent. This 

kneeling man is Leta McCollough Seletzky's father.. 

Marrell McCollough was a Black man working secretly with the white power structure, a spy. This was so 

far from her understanding of what it meant to be Black in America, of everything she eventually devoted 

her life and career to, that she set out to learn what she could about his life, his actions and motivations. 

But with that decision came risk. What would she uncover about her father, who went on to a career at the 

CIA, and did she want to bear the weight of knowing? 


IS DONALD TRUMP 

ELIGIBLE FOR REHIRE? 



When Americans employees are fired, most corporations 

conduct an exit interview that is followed up by the firing 

manager and HR manager submitting and filing required 

paperwork that details why the employee was terminated. 

The paperwork usually has at its conclusion one final 

question: Is the Employee Eligible for Rehire. The below is 

what former President Donald Trump’s exit interview would 

look like. 

Is the recently separated candidate, Donald Trump, 

eligible for rehire? 

YES 

NO — X 

If NO is selected please provide brief explanation. 

Donald Trump mismanaged Covid resulting in hundreds 

of thousands of deaths, job losses, and permanently 

closed small and large businesses. 

He released 5k Taliban terrorists, exited the Paris 

Agreement, and ruined the economy by giving massive 

tax breaks to only wealthy Americans and made it so that 

middle class and poor Americans would pay for the tax 

breaks. 

Donald Trump allowed his family to illegally enrich 

themselves, especially his daughter, Ivanka Trump and 

her husband Jared Kushner, despite neither passing 

security clearance. 

Donald Trump separated children from families at the 

southern border and allowed Nancy DeVos and Louis 

DeJoy to devastate public schools and the United States 

Postal Service, respectively. 

Donald Trump attacked government employees, 

military leaders, law enforcement, and other 

government institutions with lies and falsehoods with 

alarming regularity. Donald Trump ignored the 

separation of powers, threatened civilians with 

retaliatory actions, and encouraged police violence 

against peaceful protestors. 

Donald Trump was accused (since convicted) of rape, he 

attacked allies while supplicating himself to Russia, and 

he spewed homophobic, racist, misogynistic pollution 

with comfortable regularity. 

And finally, Donald Trump supported white 

supremacists who attacked Black and Jewish 

Americans, and he encouraged civil war which 

culminated in an insurrection on January 6th that nearly 

toppled American democracy — During said 

insurrection he abandoned his oath and duties while he 

and his co-conspirators gleefully watched and waited for 

the outcome they had long planned for — the end of the 

peaceful transfer of power. 

For the above and many other reasons too numerous to 

include, and due to his subsequent numerous illegal 

activities he’s been accused of — stealing government 

documents and nuclear secrets and sharing those with 

foreign and domestic civilians and enemies of the state, 

Donald Trump is unfit for the presidency or any other 

government position and is not eligible for rehire. 



my anaconda, back, forth, up, down, repeat repeat repeat 

repeat repeat meant that I showed excitement. 

So, I said quietly but in my soothiest voice: if I’d known 

vasectomies were this fun I’d have come long ago. 

Well, Christine lost it and laughed loudly. And as my 

hospital is a teaching hospital there were student nurses 

present and they also lost their composure. It was a good 

laugh. 

Until the doctor showed up and told us all to pipe down so 

he could work. 

Then he did. I recorded it, too. 

He sliced me open, pulled the vas deferens - which, though 

I was locally anesthetized, I felt. It didn’t hurt, but it was 

uncomfortable. 

Then he snipped and soldered the wound close. 

it isn’t about religion, saving “babies” adoption or sex. 

It’s about controlling women vs controlling 

themselves/men. 

It’s an extension of: 

Why was she dressed like that? 

What were you wearing? 

Brock Turner deserves a second chance. 

While republicans are enacting laws in most states to 

regulate women I’ve yet to see one regulating men, boys, 

teenagers, rapists, traffickers, and the entirety of maledom. 

It is men who create all these problems but who find false 

“solutions” that project their misogynistic beliefs and 

toxicity on women instead of getting therapy and fixing 

their egos and hatred of women. We should start saying: 

Conception starts with ejaculation and see how men like 

it. 

The Social Media App, Spoutible, has an AI that 

summarizes threads: 

He told me to put a bag of frozen peas on it for a few hours 

and not to do any heavy lifting. That was it. 

There was no unprotected sex for a month, or so and I had 

to go to follow-up and deposit sperm in a cup again but this 

time to see if there was still swimmers. 

That was that. This easy procedure was NOTHING like 

women and girls have to go through. 

Not in any way. 

Obviously vasectomies are not the same as abortions (they 

would be closer to tubal ligation, but again, much easier). 

That it can be this easy for men to prevent pregnancy and 

to do so without laws, lobbyists, protests, commercials, 

religious leaders, or posters of crying sperm, it tells me that 


Myron's 

HOT TAKE 

#1 

So long supporter of mass killers, Wayne 

LaPierre, NRA CEO and chief supporter of all of 

America’s gun deaths. He resigned days before his 

civil trial. 

#3 

Listening to republicans’ quote Dr. Martin Luther 

King on MLK’s national holiday while they ban 

his books in schools, refuse to raise federal 

minimum wage, refuse federal money for food 

for poor kids, and work to suppress voters is 

disgusting and so very republican. 

#2 

Donald Trump and Jared Kushner loudly proclaiming 

they will do mass deportations of Latinos and 

Palestinians on day one if he is elected. Please share this 

information with Latinos for Trump and with all those 

protestors blocking bridges, airports, and businesses. 

#4 

How very sad and tragic. Our educators don’t deserve 

the violence and harm they are forced to endure 

because gun nuts control politicians.. 

May this brave honorable man -Principal Dan Marbuger 

Rest in Peace sir and thank you for saving as many 

students as you could. Rest easy, also, to this beautiful, 

sweet boy, Ahmir Jolliff -who was killed by the gunman. 

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Coming Soon! 

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job to figure out the cause of death in a never-ending parade of various non-human species. Most cases are 

cut-and-dried, and rarely will a carcass roll in that gets her racking her brain. 

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wonder, is it just coincidence or is there something more nefarious killing horses at JW Ranch? 


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Pro-Trump Forces Took 

Over the Capitol 



Pro-Trump forces attacked the United States Capitol 

yesterday in their boldest attempts yet to prevent the 

newly elected Biden/Harris administration from 

assuming power. 

commanded and marched to the hallowed building and 

taking it over after being greeted by Capitol police, offduty 

military, and other Federal employees who were 

also Trump loyalists. 

After two months of efforts to stop Biden from assuming 

power, Trump unleashed his forces in a brazen display of 

violence and disregard for historical United States 

norms. 

Flouting the Constitution and law, Trump rallied his 

forces earlier in the day just outside the gates of the 

Capitol in a rousing speech that reiterated his month’s 

long theme of election cheating by Biden, Harris, Pelosi, 

the Democrats, and the “Deep State.” 

The Trump forces feared nothing. 

And they had nothing to fear as the various security 

forces, made famous around the world in movies and 

television — the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, Secret 

Service, and others- were nowhere to be found. 

The myth of American security invincibility was forever 

shattered, like the windows to the Capitol. 

He concluded his speech with specific instructions to the 

gathered troops to “March on the Capitol and to never 

stop fighting.” 

The insurrectionists quickly took over one of the 

heretofore most protected places in the country and on 

the planet and set about making their mark throughout 

the building. 

Shortly after his speech, the Trump Troops did as 

They ransacked offices and hallways, went through 



desks, took pictures, stole small things like the Speaker’s 

gavel, and they stole large things like the Speaker’s 

podium. 

They climbed and swung from railings like wild animals. 

And there are reports that, again, like animals, they 

pissed and defecated on office floors and desks. 

They also smeared their shit on the walls. 

This is the level of debasement the mostly white mostly 

male insurrectionists did to the Capitol building of the 

United States of America. 

The troops were there to do more than damage 

historical furniture, as more than a few brought 

weapons and plastic ties of the kind police use to hold 

prisoners. They hung nooses, built gallows, and even had 

time to recreate scenes of state sanctioned murder: 

recreating the horrific murder of Black American 

George Floyd. 

Every act was designed to send a message to political 

leaders and Black Americans. 

Trump loyalists had been ordered to “Stand by” by their 

leader while he worked to get his key higher level 

agents in key places of authority. When the time came 

for expected intervention by government agencies, the 

public quickly realized that there was no help coming, 

no cowboy on a white horse, no super spy in a fancy car, 

and no military man ready to break with corrupt orders. 

No, every agency that could be expected to fight back 

was instead adhering to “Stand down” orders from 

Trump. 

Donald Trump had effectively taken control of all American 

Security forces and apparatus, and in those moments his 

coup was successful. 

America had lost and had done so not by knockout 

befitting the heavyweight champ but by being 

outmaneuvered by dumb-dumb Donald Trump and his 

cadre of white nationalists maga misfits. 

The so-called greatest military in the world, the greatest 

spy network, the greatest men and women in law 

enforcement, and the smartest intelligence agents on 

the planet were defeated in a few hours, forever 

embarrassing the nation before a world no longer in 

awe of America’s power and might. 

The most direct threat to Black Americans was the 

collection of Confederate flags that were proudly 

marched up the steps and then throughout the 

chambers and hallways, harkening back to the grand 

wishes of the old confederacy of “The South Rising Again.” 

America witnessed a coup by thousands of mostly white 

men, and now we are at the mercy of other white men 

who we hope will bring them to heel. 

White supremacy, white nationalism, and white 

privilege on global display in an embarrassing testament 

to America’s refusal to deal with its original sin. 



Black Americans watching white men riot and destroy 

the symbols of democracy that white men tell us we need 

to honor and respect, and to do so without 

consequences, reaffirms what we all know about two 

versions of justice and law enforcement. 

And we listened to interviews with rioters as they loudly 

proclaim “It is our country” “We won’t let *them steal it” 

and “We will take back our country.” 

I must have missed it when *their country was stolen 

from them. 

We live in a country that caters and panders to white 

men above all else. And those white men are following a 

two-bit game show host and conman who is actively 

working for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to destroy 

America from the inside, top to bottom. 

And they are winning. 

The whitewashing has already begun as network and 

cable news are complimenting Trump for a speech, 

portraying his troops as “exercising their First 

Amendment rights” and showing gentle pictures of the 

participants troops with humanizing words such as 

“Loving dad; veteran; and protestor. 

The victors write the history and we can say that the 

victors are already looking like white supremacy won. 

Again. 

Life sentences for the guilty. 

Loss of gun licenses. 

Unable to run for office or hold Federal jobs. 

Any elected officials who is found to have in any way 

aided, abetted, or gave comfort to the internal 

domestic terrorist troops, should be immediately 

kicked out of office and held in jail until they can be 

tried. 

The confederate flag must be outlawed. 

Social media platforms that allowed Trump to spread 

his insurrection should be penalized tens of billions of 

dollars so that they hurt financially. 

Social media platforms that profited from Trump’s 

takeover attempt should be regulated. 

Public news companies — print and especially 

television — must be regulated, fined for telling lies, 

and shut down if repeatedly found in violation. 

Unless America comes to accept that the enemy is using its 

own laws to destroy it from the inside, and that to do 

nothing about white supremacy and white nationalism, 

what we saw this week is merely the first of many internal 

attempts to destroy the country and replace it with a 

whites only everything. 

The crossroads America faces is a government and 

individual crossroad: 

The government must reform itself and root out traitors 

and hold them accountable under the law — and make new 

laws to prevent what just happened from happening again. 

The coup is over for now but without swift justice for the 

perpetrators it will happen again, and certainly with 

more success since the template can now be studied and 

tweaked. 

To prevent anything remotely similar from happening 

again, there needs to be devastating consequences for 

everyone involved in the attempted overthrow of the 

American government, including: 



And to white Americans: You must confront your nice 

family members who support Trump because they will 

support the next Trump. If you don’t get to them now, 

they’ll be staging the next coup. You have to have 

uncomfortable conversations, challenge their beliefs, and 

dispel any notion that anything was honorable about 

what we just witnessed. 

And to white Christians, you need to get your pastors to 

teach his members about racism. Not whitewashed 

racism, but real American dirty ugly evil racism.. of which 

those congregations have long been willing participants. 

Unless and until white America confronts who you are 

you will see more of your sons and daughters lashing out 

trying to takedown a government designed by white 

people for white people. 


Vernon L. Andrews 

Policing Black Athletes 

Racial Disconnect in Sports 

O R D E R 

T O D A Y !

BLM-PD 

BLM-PD 

BLM-PD 

BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD. BLM-PD 

BLM-PD 

In the not too distant future, the US has been taken over by white nationalists, and 

the institutionalized racism that has underscored the country’s entire history has 

once again been codified. California has seceded from the US, and a band of strong 

women plan to start the next civil war following the death of their friend at the hands 

of the police. This is BLM-PD.

MYRON'S 

list 

HIT OR MISS 

MISS 

Trevian Kutti, former Trump team member, and Kanye publicist was fired by her 

attorneys, banned from Trump’s social media platform because she tried to fundraise 

to pay her defense attorneys, and who is rightly facing years in prison for voter 

intimidation of Ruby Freeman and her daughter, plus appearing to threaten Ms. 

Freeman in online social media posts. 


MISS 

Houthis from Yemen, backed by Iran, deciding to 

attack shipping lanes and U.S. wars ships in the 

Mediterranean and instantly forgetting that U.S. 

war ships fire back. 

HIT 

U.S., U.K., and a few other nations deciding that 

they were tired of the Houthi’s firing upon their 

ships and ships from 41 other nations, so they 

did what they are trained to do: fire back and 

disable the Iranian-backed terrorists. 

HIT 

Vivek Ramaswamy denying that racism exists only 

to hear from Iowans that they think he’s took 

dark, he’s a foreigner, and that his religion is scary. 

MISS 

Accused thief Brett Favre and loudmouth 

sanctimonious football announcer Toney Dungy, 

both found time to spew their bigoted nonsense 

by blaming Taylor Swift for the Kansas City Chiefs 

recent poor performance on the field. 

MISS 

Josh Hawley and many republicans trying to reframe 

the jailed insurrection participants as 

“hostages” 

HIT 

Nikki Haley who once identified as white, denied 

racism exists, said of Georgia-born, Black 

representative Rev. Ralph Warnock that he 

should “Be deported,” having to face the truth of 

the party she represents as Donald Trump 

claimed that she isn’t in fact American-born. Nikki 

getting a taste of Birther part 2 by the person she 

says she still supports. 

MISS 

The Dallas Cowboys flaming out in the playoffs 

again despite having a great record, a home game 

where they were undefeated this season, and a 

high-scoring office. They were humiliated by the 

Green Bay Packers 38-32. 

HIT 

President Biden and Vice President Harris 

MISS 

Angela Rye, Joy Reid, and Tiffany Cross platforming 

Lenard "Charlamagne tha god" McKelvey who admitted 

drugging and sexually assaulting an underaged girl. They 

appeared on Joy Reid’s show to launch their new 

podcast. 

The group are notorious for bashing the Biden/Harris 

administration, with Lenard being especially 

misogynistic. 

Joy Reid’s long exposed homophobia and Angela Rye’s 

strong support of sexual assaulter Lenard while herself 

complaining about receiving inappropriate text 

messages from former co-worker Chris Cuomo is 

incredibly hypocritical. I’m going to gladly ignore their 

television shows and podcasts. 


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To gain a better understanding of his friends, Myron went on a mission to try their favorite 

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MOVIE 

REVIEWS 


Society of The Snow – Netflix 

Society of the Snow. Netflix. It’s a gutwrenching 

retelling of the 1972 airplane crash 

in the Andes. The plane carried the Uruguay 

rugby team. Many died but many survived. It’s 

tense and very well done and includes the 

unfathomable decisions the survivors were 

faced with as they were without food and 

water in freezing temperatures for 72 days. 

Saltburn – Amazon Prime 

I found it boring and very unsexy. It seemed 

like a community theater play put on by 

washed up actors feeding their egos but also 

trying really hard to be artsy, shocking, and 

match French moviemaking. It’s interesting but 

as a study of how to waste money and cast. The 

parts that are supposed to be shocking come 

off as inauthentic and over-directed trying to 

be shocking. 


MOVIE 

REVIEWS 

Night Swim – In Theaters 

If you have teenagers and a pool and they like to swim at night, this is the perfect horror movie for 

them. 

Not a slasher or anything, but full of jump scares in and around the backyard swimming pool. Don’t 

get distracted by the plot, just enjoy the scariness of the family pool and what may be in the deep end. 

It is a good sleepover movie that’ll creep out your teenagers and you. 


MY FAVORITE THINGS 

streaming right 

now...

S T R E A M I N G N O W 

Fool Me Once – Netflix 

Harlan Coban series that meets your murder 

mystery needs. There’s the main crime and 

each of the suspects has their own stories 

that intersect with the primary story in 

strange and questionable ways. There are 

flawed characters with questionable motives 

and layered dubious dealings that may-may 

not tie to main crime. A fun, twisty, thriller 

that keeps you off balance to end. I really 

enjoyed it. 

Reacher, Season 2 - Prime 

The muscle man investigator is back and he’s as 

tough, irreverent, and violent as he was in 

season 1. This season, someone is methodically 

killing members of an elite military squad who 

may have done shady business in the war – the 

squad that Reacher was a part of. Reacher and 

his crew are both running for their lives and 

taking lives as they seek to unravel the mystery 

in the most brutal ways they can. 

Rebel Moon – Netflix 

It has some entertaining moments, a lot of 

slow motion, minimal character development, 

and so-so story and plot. It is being hyped as 

the next Star Wars but it’s closer to 7 Samurai 

in space. The movie has 2-parts so part one 

leans too heavily on action and not enough on 

world or character building. Part two has to do 

better world building vs voiceover exposition 

then explosions if the movie is to move beyond 

standard Netflix c-rated science fiction. 

HBO - The Curious Case of Natalia Grace - 

Documentary 

This 2-season documentary isn’t like anything 

you’ve seen. The national story from a few 

years ago of a Ukrainian child adopted at age 

six by an American couple who almost 

immediately suspect the “child” is significantly 

older than six years old. Is she older than she is 

presenting herself or are her adoptive parents 

abusive people who changed their minds about 

wanting their disabled child. You will not 

anticipate the twists and turns of this all too 

human story. 


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A powerful YA debut set in a world where survival and magic are a deadly mix. 

Coa, who was born feral in the North Transatlantic wilds, has just been captured. Now, Coa is 

subject to public humiliation and execution in a gruesome spectacle known as The Great Hunt. 

If participators die in the Great Hunt—their entire family will be executed. In front of 

everyone. The nationalist regime, known as the Allied Force, will not rest until all foreigners 

are exterminated. Her best hope might be Princess Ife, born of privilege, but newly married 

into the authoritarian lineage. 

Her riskier choice is an alliance with a gorgeous, cunning participator—marked as a traitor to 

his militarized nation. Soon, Coa entangles herself with the captivating, deadly young man who 

could be her ultimate downfall. 

Akana Phenix is a recent Harvard alum who researches genocide. 

The Empire Wars comes out on July 30, 2024. It is now available 

for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Audible, Apple Books 

and more. On social media, she is primarily on Twitter, but she can 

also be found on Instagram and TikTok. She is located in the 

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Podcast Network 

Music App 

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Great Start Initiative

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