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  The Shit Spreader That Is Trump (Photo:  Randy Fath / Unsplash ) First published on Medium . . We have crested atop the fabrication and falsehood epoch. Trump did his bestial worst to turn the nation into a large lying sack of horse spit . Thankfully , the spreader of poo, and his spew crew, has died down to a mere slow, floundering burn of sickness, stupid, and speciousness. Therefore, I am able to finally turn my energies toward assessing the damage, and figuring out the way forward. . My research is not completely thorough on all the proposed government actions, internet applications, or general theories of how to reduce conspiracies and other attacks on logic, science, and facts. Nor have I found out how to prevent the violence against people and the environment falsehoods can elicit. However, I have read enough to know we do not currently have an implementable, all encompassing conspiracy-removing solution that still allows all other civil communication to occur. . T...

Photo by LinkedIn Sales Navigator on  Unsplash I wrote about this memory, first as a condensed, tweet thread last Juneteenth . I worked part time for a black business owner, as I attended Brown Institute for radio in Minneapolis from 1983–84. Initially, I was one of only two workers. Both of us were white. And why was that? Race in America is complicated. Later it was myself and two black workers, one of them worked directly with Bill on reupholstering. Then one of the black employees was working with me after the upholsterer left. The remaining worker had been in the Navy. We became quick friends, being the same age; he even invited me to come with him to a party Prince was putting on. My last coworker was a 4th generation Latino Minnesotan; a great guy, too. Finally, after 10 months it was just the boss and me. Then one day… “Bill” stood in front of me… . He had arrived here via the The Great Migration from 1950s Alabama. He ran his own, small upholstery shop for 30 years by 1...