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	<title type="text">The Chief Organizer Blog</title>
	<subtitle type="text">WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of &#34;Nuts &#38; Bolts&#34;, &#34;Citizen Wealth&#34;, &#34;Global Grassroots&#34;, and &#34;The Battle for the 9th Ward&#34;.</subtitle>

	<updated>2026-04-17T03:01:28Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence Risks Open Source and the Internet]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-04-17T03:01:28Z</updated>
		<published>2026-04-17T03:01:28Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Houston           If we don’t have enough to worry about, there’s always more, right? Organizationally and personally, we’re fans of open source as our choice for access to email and internet.  I should add to databases for ACORN members as well, since we use Civi.  Why support the tech overlords anymore than we must?  That’s &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[NYC’s Health Commissioner is Singing Our Song]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-04-15T23:58:41Z</updated>
		<published>2026-04-15T23:58:41Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="BRAVO" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Health Care" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="New York" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans        Dr. Alister Martin is New York City’s health commissioner, and he’s a hero of the people in my book.  Even better, he’s singing our song and doing so loudly and clearly, when it comes to keeping people on Medicaid against the Trump and Republican assault of the big bad budget bill &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Pope’s from Here, There’s No Backdown]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-04-14T23:08:29Z</updated>
		<published>2026-04-14T23:08:29Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Religion" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       I won’t speculate, as experts do in the Times, about whether or not Trump is losing it, because I can’t verify that he ever “had it,” given his nth degree of narcissism.  I can say that if he was borderline before, he’s crossed over into another territory now with his recent &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Mississippi is Going Dry]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-04-13T17:43:32Z</updated>
		<published>2026-04-13T17:43:32Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans      Mississippi has many problems as one of the poorest and reddest of American states.  Of course, there’s the constant battle to offset its well-deserved bad reputation that predated the Civil Rights movement, which exposed its draconian racial reputation internationally.  Recent advantages in youth education still couldn’t get as many headlines as &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Chuck Norris and Me]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-04-12T18:37:34Z</updated>
		<published>2026-04-12T18:37:34Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Personal Writings" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      Chuck Norris passed away recently at 86.  He was a former kick-boxer, sometime movie actor, and occasional television star.  In martial-arts, he was good enough to be in some of the legendary Bruce Lee flicks in the 70s and managed to show up in 32 films before he was done.  In television, &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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