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Kathy Routliffe

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Grouchy old broad, semi-retired reporter, Canadian ex-pat in her adopted city, Chicago. Pro: democracy, 4th estate, unions, SFF, silliness, Dr. Who, music, esp. KPop. Anti: fascists, forced birthers, misogynists, transphobes, homophobes. she/her

  1. I have two. One I read before the age of 10 - Ted Sturgeon's book of short stories "A Touch of Strange" - and one I read about two years later, Cordwainer Smith's "The Planet Buyer." I am who I am because of those two novels (and when I found CS's non-cut "Norstrilia," reader, I celebrated.

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  2. The initial Rainbow Coalition was forged in Chicago in 1969 by the Black Panther Party, led by Fred Hampton.

    It brought together the Black Panthers, the Young Lords (a Latino activist group), and the Young Patriots (a group of working-class white youth from Appalachian backgrounds).

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  3. It's most definitely not being exaggerated if anything it's under reported You have Concentration Camps You have masked ICE abducting people off the streets You have a POTUS wanting to prosecute & has even said execute political opponents Press is being silenced as are you FASCISM IS HERE

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  4. The next time American politicians visit, we should immediately take them into custody, then ship them to a Canadian detention centre which, in our case, would be the Motel 6 just outside of Red Deer.

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