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		<title>Saying Goodbye for the Last Time</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2020/08/10/saying-goodbye-for-the-last-time/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some of you no doubt know this already, but I have decided to end my battle to the death with death. I’m entering hospice care and would like to slip into the eternal abyss in the next couple weeks. I reached the point where I simply have no fight left in me. I wish it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SCOTUS Rules Against Churches in Nevada on Reopening</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2020/07/26/scotus-rules-against-churches-in-nevada-on-reopening/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court, without comment, denied a request for an injunction requested by a church in Nevada over reopening. Their argument was that the state was actually allowing casinos to reopen before churches, which they argued violates their religious freedom. With Roberts joining the four liberals, the Supreme Court denied the petition. The Supreme Court [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judge Orders Cohen Released from Prison</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2020 10:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A judge in New York has ruled that former Trump fixer Michael Cohen was the victim of retaliation when he was sent back to prison in order to keep him from writing a new tell-all book and has ordered his immediate release back to house arrest. Attorney General Bob Barr was just one of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What if Trump Refuses to Leave Office If He Loses?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post analyzes what might happen if Donald Trump were to lose in November but refuse to leave office in January. They look at how he might do it and the potential consequences for the country, which would be dire to say the least. President Trump’s relentless efforts to sow doubts about the legitimacy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Republicans Drop Payroll Tax Cut in New Stimulus Bill</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2020/07/24/republicans-drop-payroll-tax-cut-in-new-stimulus-bill/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Congress is likely to pass another economic stimulus package soon, but they have dropped Trump’s demand that a payroll tax cut be included in the bill. It does partially extend unemployment benefits and send aid to schools to help them reopen in the fall. It will also include direct cash payments to some people. Senate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gallups: Satan Has Convinced Christians They Can&#8217;t Say &#8216;All Lives Matter&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Carl Gallups went on the Jim Bakker show and claimed that Satan has convinced Christians that they can’t say All Lives Matter because to do so is racist. The “evil one” somehow managed to convince Christians of this while God has not. Kind of makes you wonder which one of them is more powerful and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>McDonald Calls John Lewis a &#8216;Rabid Racist&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Radical conspiracy theorist Chris McDonald reacted to the death of John Lewis by claiming that he was a “rabid racist” who divided society and that he never worked for anything anyway. He said this in an interview with firefighter-turned-crackpot Mark Taylor, a self-declared “prophet.” Despite the fact that Lewis was a stalwart civil rights leader [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vandersteel: Crokin Deserves Medal of Freedom</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2020/07/22/vandersteel-crokin-deserves-medal-of-freedom/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[QAnon supporter Ann Vandersteel interviewed Liz Crokin on her show and said that Crokin deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom for allegedly saving millions of kids from pedophiles. Trump is the only president who would even consider that loony idea, like giving the medal to Rush Limbaugh. Despite the fact that Crokin seemingly does little [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cohen: Trump Made Racist Comments About Obama</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen has a new book coming out and he reveals that Trump made racist comments about both Barack Obama an Nelson Mandela. He says he also made many anti-Semitic comments. He’s trying to gain his release from prison. The book manuscript being drafted by President Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen alleges that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Peterson Calls John Lewis an Evil Man</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jesse Lee Peterson’s crusade to be white continues as he reacts to the death of civil right icon John Lewis by calling him an “evil man.” He did the same thing to Elijah Cummings when he died. He says Lewis divided society by race, as if it wasn’t already divided by race. “I can think [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Fox Anchor a QAnon Supporter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Media Matters reports that a new host on Fox Nation not only is a QAnon supporter but lots of other bizarre conspiracy theories as well. His name is Isaiah Washington and he’s all in for QAnon, 5G conspiracies and anti-Black Lives Matter material. This despite being black himself. Fox Nation’s newest series features actor Isaiah [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kanye&#8217;s Loony Campaign Rally</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2020/07/20/kanyes-loony-campaign-rally/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Brayton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kanye West is either trying to play spoiler or just looking for attention by running for president this year and he held a rally at which he said some truly bizarre things. See if you can make any sense out of this: “Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slave, she just had the slaves go [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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