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      richardmurray

      A Sonia Sanchez poem

       

      Title: A Poem for My Father (96 years old on Feb. 29, 2000)
      With exact wings
      Your words sailed back
      into your throat. Could
      not fly forward.
      Your mouth face
      startled by this autumn
      Thunder went south again.
      I had forgotten the salute
      of death, how it waits Militarily
      on the outskirts of our skin.
      I had forgotten how death
      howls inside our veins.
      O father, how much like a child
      again I felt as I ran down doctors
      painted on porcelain corridors.
      O My father, as I breathed
      inhaled for us both,
      I began to sing a song
      you sang when I was little
      without a poet's name,
      Afraid of all the shadows
      cremating my bones,

      Remember the nite,
      The nite you said
      I love you
      remember...


      I remembered your voice swollen
      in a ritual of words on
      152nd Street and St. Nicholas Place.
      Now I, daughter of applause,
      hands waterlogged with memory,
      asked for nothing more
      as I circled your hospital room,
      sequined with our breaths
      in an hour-glass of sound.

       

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    (Matt Chase/The New York Times)

    'A Crisis Coming': The Twin Threats to American Democracy

    David Leonhardt

    Sat, September 17, 2022 at 12:53 PM·27 min read

    The United States has experienced deep political turmoil several times before over the past century. The Great Depression caused Americans to doubt the country’s economic system. World War II and the Cold War presented threats from global totalitarian movements. The 1960s and ’70s were marred by assassinations, riots, a losing war and a disgraced president.

    These earlier periods were each more alarming in some ways than anything that has happened in the United States recently. Yet during each of those previous times of tumult, the basic dynamics of American democracy held firm. Candidates who won the most votes were able to take power and attempt to address the country’s problems.

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    The current period is different. As a result, the United States today finds itself in a situation with little historical precedent. American democracy is facing two distinct threats, which together represent the most serious challenge to the country’s governing ideals in decades.

    The first threat is acute: a growing movement inside one of the country’s two major parties — the Republican Party — to refuse to accept defeat in an election.

    The violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress, meant to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden’s election, was the clearest manifestation of this movement, but it has continued since then. Hundreds of elected Republican officials around the country falsely claim that the 2020 election was rigged. Some of them are running for statewide offices that would oversee future elections, potentially putting them in position to overturn an election in 2024 or beyond.

    “There is the possibility, for the first time in American history, that a legitimately elected president will not be able to take office,” said Yascha Mounk, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University who studies democracy.

    The second threat to democracy is chronic but also growing: The power to set government policy is becoming increasingly disconnected from public opinion.

    The run of recent Supreme Court decisions — both sweeping and, according to polls, unpopular — highlights this disconnect. Although the Democratic Party has won the popular vote in seven of the past eight presidential elections, a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees seems poised to shape American politics for years, if not decades. And the court is only one of the means through which policy outcomes are becoming less closely tied to the popular will.

    Two of the past four presidents have taken office despite losing the popular vote. Senators representing a majority of Americans are often unable to pass bills, partly because of the increasing use of the filibuster. Even the House, intended as the branch of the government that most reflects the popular will, does not always do so because of the way districts are drawn.

    “We are far and away the most countermajoritarian democracy in the world,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and a co-author of the book “How Democracies Die,” with Daniel Ziblatt.

    The causes of the twin threats to democracy are complex and debated among scholars.

    The chronic threats to democracy generally spring from enduring features of American government, some written into the Constitution. But they did not conflict with majority opinion to the same degree in past decades. One reason is that more populous states, whose residents receive less power because of the Senate and the Electoral College, have grown so much larger than small states.

    The acute threats to democracy — and the rise of authoritarian sentiment, or at least the acceptance of it, among many voters — have different causes. They partly reflect frustration over nearly a half-century of slow-growing living standards for the American working class and middle class. They also reflect cultural fears, especially among white people, that the United States is being transformed into a new country, more racially diverse and less religious, with rapidly changing attitudes toward gender, language and more.

    The economic frustrations and cultural fears have combined to create a chasm in American political life between prosperous, diverse major metropolitan areas and more traditional, religious and economically struggling smaller cities and rural areas. The first category is increasingly liberal and Democratic, the second increasingly conservative and Republican.

    The political contest between the two can feel existential to people in both camps, with disagreements over nearly every prominent issue. “When we’re voting, we’re not just voting for a set of policies but for what we think makes us Americans and who we are as a people,” said Lilliana Mason, a political scientist and the author of “Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.” “If our party loses the election, then all of these parts of us feel like losers.”

    These sharp disagreements have led many Americans to doubt the country’s system of government. In a recent poll by Quinnipiac University, 69% of Democrats and 69% of Republicans said that democracy was “in danger of collapse.” Of course, the two sides have very different opinions about the nature of the threat.

    Many Democrats share the concerns of historians and scholars who study democracy, pointing to the possibility of overturned election results and the deterioration of majority rule. “Equality and democracy are under assault,” Biden said in a speech this month in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. “We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise.”

    Many Republicans have defended their increasingly aggressive tactics by saying they are trying to protect American values. In some cases, these claims rely on falsehoods — about election fraud, Biden’s supposed “socialism,” Barack Obama’s birthplace and more.

    In others, they are rooted in anxiety over real developments, including illegal immigration and “cancel culture.” Some on the left now consider widely held opinions among conservative and moderate Americans — on abortion, policing, affirmative action, COVID-19 and other subjects — to be so objectionable that they cannot be debated. In the view of many conservatives and some experts, this intolerance is stifling open debate at the heart of the American political system.

    The divergent sense of crisis on left and right can itself weaken democracy, and it has been exacerbated by technology.

    Conspiracy theories and outright lies have a long American history, dating to the personal attacks that were a staple of the partisan press during the 18th century. In the mid-20th century, tens of thousands of Americans joined the John Birch Society, a far-right group that claimed Dwight Eisenhower was a secret communist.

    Today, however, falsehoods can spread much more easily, through social media and a fractured news environment. In the 1950s, no major television network spread the lies about Eisenhower. In recent years, the country’s most watched cable channel, Fox News, regularly promoted falsehoods about election results, Obama’s birthplace and other subjects.

    These same forces — digital media, cultural change and economic stagnation in affluent countries — help explain why democracy is also struggling in other parts of the world. Only two decades ago, at the turn of the 21st century, democracy was the triumphant form of government around the world, with autocracy in retreat in the former Soviet empire, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, South Korea and elsewhere. Today, the global trend is moving in the other direction.

    In the late 1990s, 72 countries were democratizing, and only three were growing more authoritarian, according to data from V-Dem, a Swedish institute that monitors democracy. Last year, only 15 countries grew more democratic, while 33 slid toward authoritarianism.

    Some experts remain hopeful that the growing attention in the United States to democracy’s problems can help avert a constitutional crisis here. Already, Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election failed, partly because of the refusal of many Republican officials to participate, and both federal and state prosecutors are investigating his actions. And while the chronic decline of majority rule will not change anytime soon, it is also part of a larger historical struggle to create a more inclusive American democracy.

    Still, many experts point out that it still not clear how the country will escape a larger crisis, such as an overturned election, at some point in the coming decade. “This is not politics as usual,” said Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory University and the author of the book, “One Person, No Vote,” about voter suppression. “Be afraid.”

    The Will of the Majority

    The founders did not design the United States to be a pure democracy.

    They distrusted the classical notion of direct democracy, in which a community came together to vote on each important issue, and believed it would be impractical for a large country. They did not consider many residents of the new country to be citizens who deserved a voice in political affairs, including Natives, enslaved Africans and women. The founders also wanted to constrain the national government from being too powerful, as they believed was the case in Britain. And they had the practical problem of needing to persuade 13 states to forfeit some of their power to a new federal government.

    Instead of a direct democracy, the founders created a republic, with elected representatives to make decisions, and a multilayered government in which different branches checked one another. The Constitution also created the Senate, where every state had an equal say regardless of population.

    Pointing to this history, some Republican politicians and conservative activists have argued that the founders were comfortable with minority rule. “Of course we’re not a democracy,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has written.

    But the historical evidence suggests that the founders believed that majority will — defined as the prevailing view of enfranchised citizens — should generally dictate national policy, as George Thomas of Claremont McKenna College and other constitutional scholars have explained.

    In the Federalist Papers, James Madison equated “a coalition of a majority of the whole society” with “justice and the general good.” Alexander Hamilton made similar points, describing “representative democracy” as “happy, regular and durable.” It was a radical idea at the time.

    For most of American history, the idea has prevailed. Even with the existence of the Senate, the Electoral College and the Supreme Court, political power has reflected the views of people who had the right to vote. “To say we’re a republic not a democracy ignores the past 250 years of history,” Ziblatt, a political scientist at Harvard University, said.

    Before 2000, only three candidates won the presidency while losing the popular vote (John Quincy Adams, Rutherford Hayes and Benjamin Harrison), and each served only a single term. During the same period, parties that won repeated elections were able to govern, including the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson’s time, the New Deal Democrats and the Reagan Republicans.

    The situation has changed in the 21st century. The Democratic Party is in the midst of a historic winning streak. In seven of the past eight presidential elections, stretching back to Bill Clinton’s 1992 victory, the Democratic nominee has won the popular vote. Over more than two centuries of American democracy, no party has previously fared so well over such an extended period.

    Yet the current period is hardly a dominant Democratic age.

    What changed? One crucial factor is that, in the past, the parts of the country granted outsize power by the Constitution — less populated states, which tend to be more rural — voted in broadly similar ways as large states and urban areas.

    This similarity meant that the small-state bonus in the Senate and Electoral College had only a limited effect on national results. Both Democrats and Republicans benefited and suffered from the Constitution’s undemocratic features.

    Democrats sometimes won small states like Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming in the mid-20th century. And California was long a swing state: Between the Great Depression and 2000, Democratic and Republican presidential candidates won it an equal number of times. That the Constitution conferred advantages on residents of small states and disadvantages on Californians did not reliably boost either party.

    In recent decades, Americans have increasingly sorted themselves along ideological lines. Liberals have flocked to large metropolitan areas, which are heavily concentrated in big states like California, while residents of smaller cities and more rural areas have become more conservative.

    This combination — the Constitution’s structure and the country’s geographic sorting — has created a disconnect between public opinion and election outcomes. It has affected every branch of the federal government: the presidency, Congress and even the Supreme Court.

    In the past, “the system was still anti-democratic, but it didn’t have a partisan effect,” Levitsky said. “Now it’s undemocratic and has a partisan effect. It tilts the playing field toward the Republican Party. That’s new in the 21st century.”

    In presidential elections, the small-state bias is important, but it is not even the main issue. A subtler factor — the winner-take-all nature of the Electoral College in most states — is. Candidates have never received extra credit for winning state-level landslides. But this feature did not used to matter very much, because landslides were rare in larger states, meaning that relatively few votes were “wasted,” as political scientists say.

    Today, Democrats dominate a handful of large states, wasting many votes. In 2020, Biden won California by 29 percentage points; New York by 23 points; and Illinois by 17 points. Four years earlier, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s margins were similar.

    This shift means that millions of voters in large metropolitan areas have moved away from the Republican Party without having any impact on presidential outcomes. That’s a central reason that both George W. Bush and Trump were able to win the presidency while losing the popular vote.

    “We’re in a very different world today than when the system was designed,” said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California. “The dynamic of being pushed aside is more obvious and I think more frustrating.”

    Republicans sometimes point out that the system prevents a few highly populated states from dominating the country’s politics, which is true. But the flip is also true: The Constitution gives special privileges to the residents of small states. In presidential elections, many voters in large states have become irrelevant in a way that has no historical antecedent.

    The Curse of Geographic Sorting

    The country’s changing population patterns may have had an even bigger effect on Congress — especially the Senate — and the Supreme Court than the presidency.

    The sorting of liberals into large metropolitan areas and conservatives into more rural areas is only one reason. Another is that large states have grown much more quickly than small states. In 1790, the largest state (Virginia) had about 13 times as many residents as the smallest (Delaware). Today, California has 68 times as many residents as Wyoming, 53 times as many as Alaska and at least 20 times as many as another 11 states.

    Together, these trends mean that the Senate has a heavily pro-Republican bias that will last for the foreseeable future.

    The Senate today is split 50-50 between the two parties. But the 50 Democratic senators effectively represent 186 million Americans, while the 50 Republican senators effectively represent 145 million. To win Senate control, Democrats need to win substantially more than half of the nationwide votes in Senate elections.

    This situation has led to racial inequality in political representation. The residents of small states, granted extra influence by the Constitution, are disproportionately white, while large states are home to many more Asian American, Black and Latino voters.

    In addition, two parts of the country that are disproportionately Black or Latino — Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico — have no Senate representation. Washington has more residents than Vermont or Wyoming, and Puerto Rico has more residents than 20 states. As a result, the Senate gives a political voice to white Americans that is greater than their numbers.

    The House of Representatives has a more equitable system for allocating political power. It divides the country into 435 districts, each with a broadly similar number of people (currently about 760,000). Still, House districts have two features that can cause the chamber’s makeup not to reflect national opinion, and both of them have become more significant in recent years.

    The first is well known: gerrymandering. State legislatures often draw district boundaries and in recent years have become more aggressive about drawing them in partisan ways. In Illinois, for example, the Democrats who control the state government have packed Republican voters into a small number of House districts, allowing most other districts to lean Democratic. In Wisconsin, Republicans have done the opposite.

    Because Republicans have been more forceful about gerrymandering than Democrats, the current House map slightly favors Republicans, likely by a few seats. At the state level, Republicans have been even bolder. Gerrymandering has helped them dominate the state legislatures in Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio, even though the states are closely divided.

    Still, gerrymandering is not the only reason that House membership has become less reflective of national opinion in recent years. It may not even be the biggest reason, according to Jonathan A. Rodden, a political scientist at Stanford University. Geographic sorting is.

    “Without a doubt, gerrymandering makes things worse for the Democrats,” Rodden has written, “but their underlying problem can be summed up with the old real estate maxim: location, location, location.” The increasing concentration of Democratic voters into large metro areas means that even a neutral system would have a hard time distributing these tightly packed Democratic voters across districts in a way that would allow the party to win more elections.

    Instead, Democrats now win many House elections in urban areas by landslides, wasting many votes. In 2020, only 21 Republican House candidates won their elections by at least 50 percentage points; 47 Democrats did.

    Looking at where many of these elections occurred helps make Rodden’s point. The landslide winners included Rep. Diana DeGette in Denver; Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York City; Rep. Jesús García in Chicago; Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in northern New Jersey; and Rep. Barbara Lee in Oakland, California. None of those districts are in states where Republicans have controlled the legislative boundaries, which means that they were not the result of Republican gerrymandering.

    Again and again, geographic sorting has helped cause a growing disconnect between public opinion and election results, and this disconnect has shaped the Supreme Court as well. The court’s membership at any given time is dictated by the outcomes of presidential and Senate elections over the previous few decades. And if elections reflected popular opinion, Democratic appointees would dominate the court.

    Every current justice has been appointed during one of the past nine presidential terms, and a Democrat has won the popular vote in seven of those nine and the presidency in five of the nine. Yet the court is now dominated by a conservative, six-member majority.

    There are multiple reasons (including Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decision not to retire in 2014 when a Democratic president and Senate could have replaced her). But the increasingly undemocratic nature of both the Electoral College and Senate play crucial roles.

    Trump was able to appoint three justices despite losing the popular vote. (Bush is a more complex case, having made his court appointments after he won reelection and the popular vote in 2004.) Similarly, if Senate seats were based on population, none of Trump’s nominees — Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — would likely have been confirmed, said Michael J. Klarman, a law professor at Harvard. Senate Republicans also would not have been able to block Obama from filling a court seat during his final year in office.

    Even Justice Clarence Thomas’ 1991 confirmation relied on the Senate’s structure: The 52 senators who voted to confirm him represented a minority of Americans.

    The current court’s approach has magnified the disconnect between public opinion and government policy, because Republican-appointed justices have overruled Congress on some major issues. The list includes bills on voting rights and campaign finance that earlier Congresses passed along bipartisan lines. This term, the court issued rulings on abortion, climate policy and gun laws that seemed to be inconsistent with majority opinion, based on polls.

    “The Republican justices wouldn’t say this and may not believe it,” Klarman said, “but everything they’ve done translates into a direct advantage for the Republican Party.”

    In response to the voting rights decision, in 2013, Republican legislators in several states have passed laws making it more difficult to vote, especially in heavily Democratic areas. They have done so citing the need to protect election security, even though there has been no widespread fraud in recent years.

    For now, the electoral effect of these decisions remains uncertain. Some analysts point out that the restrictions have not yet been onerous enough to hold down turnout. In the 2020 presidential election, the percentage of eligible Americans who voted reached the highest level in at least a century.

    Other experts remain concerned that the new laws could ultimately swing a close election in a swing state. “When you have one side gearing up to say, ‘How do we stop the enemy from voting?’ that is dangerous to a democracy,” Anderson, the Emory professor, said.

    An upcoming Supreme Court case may also allow state legislatures to impose even more voting restrictions. The court has agreed to hear a case in which Republican legislators in North Carolina argue that the Constitution gives them, and not state courts, the authority to oversee federal elections.

    In recent years, state courts played an important role in constraining both Republican and Democratic legislators who tried to draw gerrymandered districts that strongly benefited one party. If the Supreme Court sides with the North Carolina legislature, gerrymandering might increase, as might laws establishing new barriers to voting.

    Amplifying the Election Lies

    If the only challenges to democracy involved these chronic, long-developing forces, many experts would be less concerned than they are. American democracy has always been flawed, after all.

    But the slow-building ways in which majority rule is being undermined are happening at the same time that the country faces an immediate threat that has little precedent. A growing number of Republican officials are questioning a basic premise of democracy: that the losers of an election are willing to accept defeat.

    The roots of the modern election-denier movement stretch back to 2008. When Obama was running for president and after he won, some of his critics falsely claimed that his victory was illegitimate because he was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii. This movement became known as birtherism, and Trump was among its proponents. By making the claims on Fox News and elsewhere, he helped transform himself from a reality television star into a political figure.

    When he ran for president himself in 2016, Trump made false claims about election fraud central to his campaign. In the Republican primaries, he accused his closest competitor for the nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz, of cheating. In the general election against Hillary Clinton, Trump said he would accept the outcome only if he won. In 2020, after Biden won, the election lies became Trump’s dominant political message.

    His embrace of these lies was starkly different from the approach of past leaders from both parties. In the 1960s, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater ultimately isolated the conspiracists of the John Birch Society. In 2000, Al Gore urged his supporters to accept George W. Bush’s razor-thin victory, much as Richard Nixon had encouraged his supporters to do so after he narrowly lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960. In 2008, when a Republican voter at a rally described Obama as an Arab, Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee and Obama’s opponent, corrected her.

    Trump’s promotion of the falsehoods, by contrast, turned them into a central part of the Republican Party’s message. About two-thirds of Republican voters say that Biden did not win the 2020 election legitimately, according to polls. Among Republican candidates running for statewide office this year, 47% have refused to accept the 2020 result, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.

    Most Republican politicians who have confronted Trump, on the other hand, have since lost their jobs or soon will. Of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him for his role in the Jan. 6 attack, for example, eight have since decided to retire or lost Republican primaries, including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

    “By any indication, the Republican Party — upper-level, midlevel and grassroots — is a party that can only be described as not committed to democracy,” Levitsky said. He added that he was significantly more concerned about American democracy than when his and Ziblatt’s book, “How Democracies Die,” came out in 2018.

    Juan José Linz, a political scientist who died in 2013, coined the term “semi-loyal actors” to describe political officials who typically do not initiate attacks on democratic rules or institutions but who also do not attempt to stop these attacks. Through their complicity, these semi-loyal actors can cause a party and a country to slide toward authoritarianism.

    That’s what happened in Europe in the 1930s and in Latin America in the 1960s and ’70s. More recently, it has happened in Hungary. Now there are similar signs in the United States.

    Often, even Republicans who cast themselves as different from Trump include winking references to his conspiracy theories in their campaigns, saying that they, too, believe “election integrity” is a major problem. Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, for example, have both recently campaigned on behalf of election deniers.

    In Congress, Republican leaders have largely stopped criticizing the violent attack on the Capitol. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House leader, has gone so far as to signal his support for colleagues — like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. — who have used violent imagery in public comments. Greene, before being elected to Congress, said that she supported the idea of executing prominent Democrats.

    “When mainstream parties tolerate these guys, make excuses for them, protect them, that’s when democracy gets in trouble,” Levitsky said. “There have always been Marjorie Taylor Greenes. What I pay closer attention to is the behavior of the Kevin McCarthys.”

    The party’s growing acceptance of election lies raises the question of what would happen if Trump or another future presidential nominee tried to replay his 2016 attempt to overturn the result.

    In 11 states this year, the Republican nominee for secretary of state, a position that typically oversees election administration, qualifies as an “election denier,” according to States United Action, a research group. In 15 states, the nominee for governor is a denier, and in 10 states, the attorney general nominee is.

    The growth of the election-denier movement has created a possibility that would have seemed unthinkable not so long ago. It remains unclear whether the loser of the next presidential election will concede or will instead try to overturn the outcome.

    ‘There Is a Crisis Coming’

    There are still many scenarios in which the United States will avoid a democratic crisis.

    In 2024, Biden could win reelection by a wide margin — or a Republican other than Trump could win by a wide margin. Trump might then fade from the political scene, and his successors might choose not to embrace election falsehoods. The era of Republican election denial could prove to be brief.

    It is also possible that Trump or another Republican nominee will try to reverse a close defeat in 2024 but will fail, as happened in 2020. Then, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, rebuffed Trump after he directed him to “find 11,780 votes,” and the Supreme Court refused to intervene as well. More broadly, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, recently said that the United States had “very little voter fraud.”

    If a Republican were again to try to overturn the election and to fail, the movement might also begin to fade. But many democracy experts worry that these scenarios may be wishful thinking.

    Trump’s most likely successors as party leader also make or tolerate false claims about election fraud. The movement is bigger than one person and arguably always has been; some of the efforts to make voting more onerous, which are generally justified with false suggestions of widespread voter fraud, predated Trump’s 2016 candidacy.

    To believe that Republicans will not overturn a close presidential loss in coming years seems to depend on ignoring the public positions of many Republican politicians. “The scenarios by which we don’t have a major democracy crisis by the end of the decade seem rather narrow,” Mounk of Johns Hopkins said.

    And Levitsky said, “It’s not clear how the crisis is going to manifest itself, but there is a crisis coming.” He added, “We should be very worried.”

    The most promising strategy for avoiding an overturned election, many scholars say, involves a broad ideological coalition that isolates election deniers. But it remains unclear how many Republican politicians would be willing to join such a coalition.

    It is also unclear whether Democratic politicians and voters are interested in making the compromises that would help them attract more voters. Many Democrats have instead embraced a purer version of liberalism in recent years, especially on social issues. This shift to the left has not prevented the party from winning the popular vote in presidential elections, but it has hurt Democrats outside of major metropolitan areas and, by extension, in the Electoral College and congressional elections.

    If Democrats did control both the White House and Congress — and by more than a single vote, as they now do in the Senate — they have signaled that they would attempt to pass legislation to address both the chronic and acute threats to democracy.

    The House last year passed a bill to protect voting rights and restrict gerrymandering. It died in the Senate partly because it included measures that even some moderate Democrats believed went too far, such as restrictions on voter identification laws, which many other democracies around the world have.

    The House also passed a bill to grant statehood to Washington, D.C., which would reduce the Senate’s current bias against metropolitan areas and Black Americans. The United States is currently in its longest stretch without having admitted a new state.

    Democracy experts have also pointed to other possible solutions to the growing disconnect between public opinion and government policy. Among them is an expansion of the number of members in the House of Representatives, which the Constitution allows Congress to do — and which it regularly did until the early 20th century. A larger House would create smaller districts, which in turn could reduce the share of uncompetitive districts.

    Other scholars favor proposals to limit the Supreme Court’s authority, which the Constitution also allows and which previous presidents and Congresses have done.

    In the short term, these proposals would generally help the Democratic Party, because the current threats to majority rule have mostly benefited the Republican Party. In the long term, however, the partisan effects of such changes are less clear.

    The history of new states makes this point: In the 1950s, Republicans initially supported making Hawaii a state because it seemed to lean Republican, while Democrats said that Alaska had to be included, too, also for partisan reasons. Today, Hawaii is a strongly Democratic state, and Alaska is a strongly Republican one. Either way, the fact that both are states has made the country more democratic.

    Over the sweep of history, the American government has tended to become more democratic, through women’s suffrage, civil rights laws, the direct election of senators and more. The exceptions, like the post-Reconstruction period, when Black Southerners lost rights, have been rare. The current period is so striking partly because it is one of those exceptions.

    “The point is not that American democracy is worse than it was in the past,” Mounk said. “Throughout American history, the exclusion of minority groups, and African Americans in particular, was much worse than it is now.

    “But the nature of the threat is very different than in the past,” he said.

    The makeup of the federal government reflects public opinion less closely than it once did. And the chance of a true constitutional crisis — in which the rightful winner of an election cannot take office — has risen substantially. That combination shows that American democracy has never faced a threat quite like the current one.

    © 2022 The New York Times Company

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  7. A talk with Estelle Sarah-Bulle and other writers in the Francophonie https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2069&type=status
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    Estelle Sarah-Bulle
    September 27 - October 3 | Miami, New York

    Writer Estelle-Sarah Bulle will be on tour from September 27 to October 3 for the promotion of the American edition of her first novel, Where Dogs Bark With Their Tails (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022, tr. by Julia Grawemeyer), which met with great success in France, garnering several literary prizes including the Stanislas Prize for a first novel, the Eugène-Dabit Prize for a popular novel, and the Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde Prize. Bulle is also the author of a children's novel, Les Fantômes d'Issa (L'École des Loisirs, 2020). She will be in Miami on September 27 and in New York on September 29, where she will participate in the Brooklyn Book Festival.


    Check out her work
    Là où les chiens aboient par la queue
    Estelle-Sarah Bulle
    https://www.lianalevi.fr/catalogue/la-ou-les-chiens-aboient-par-la-queue/

     

    Where Dogs Bark With Their Tails: Estelle-Sarah Bulle and Naomi Jackson

    October 1, 4pm (ET) | Albertine Books (in-person)
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    Estelle-Sarah Bulle, a French novelist, and Naomi Jackson, author of the widely acclaimed novel The Star Side of Bird Hill will discuss Bulle’s bestselling debut novel, Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022, tr. by Julia Grawemeyer). In this novel, Bulle examines the legacies of capitalism and colonialism, the experience of being caught between worlds, the grief of losing our most beloved, and the stories that might help us reconcile the past, present, and future.

    The conversation be in English. It is free with RSVP. Click here for ticket(s).

    THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2022 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
    DATE & TIMESaturday, October 1, 20224PMLOCATIONAlbertine Books
    972 5th Avenue
    New York, NY, United States

    free tickets
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/where-dogs-bark-with-their-tails-estelle-sarah-bulle-and-naomi-jackson-tickets-390743643757

     

    Article
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    Brooklyn Book Festival 

    September 25 - October 3 | Downtown Brooklyn (hybrid)
     

    The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national, and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week. It takes place in several locations surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall. Estelle-Sarah Bulle, Didier Fassin, Titaua Peu and Scholastique Mukasonga will participate in the festival on October 2.

    Click the following link  to discover the full program.
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    Scholastique Mukasonga at Brookline Booksmith

    September 29, 7pm (ET) | Brookline Booksmith (in-person)

    Scholastique Mukasonga will discuss her new novel Kibogo (Archipelago Books, 2022) with her translator Mark Polizzotti at Brooklyn Booksmith for an in-store event part of the Transnational Literature Series.

    In this novel, Mukasonga, the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity.

    Scholastique Mukasonga and Mark Polizzotti
    Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 7:00PM ET
    Event address: 
    279 Harvard Street
    Coolidge Corner
    Brookline, MA 02446-2908

    Registration
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transnational-series-live-scholastique-mukasonga-and-mark-polizzotti-tickets-403425545667

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    Titaua Peu

    October 5 and 6 | White Whale Bookstore and Community Bookstore (online)

    Award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu will participate in two virtual talks organized by White Whale Bookstore on October 5 and Community Bookstore on October 6, and present her first translated novel, Pina (Restless Books, 2022, tr. by Jeffrey Zuckerman). In Pina, Titaua Peu traces the story of a family, torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism, held together by nine-year-old Pina.

     

     

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    Support David Diop

    Shoot the Book ! LA 2022: Book-to-Screen Adaptation Event with Marketplace

    The Shoot the Book ! LA team is delighted to bring back both in-person and online markets where US film and TV professionals can meet with the French publishers representing the selected titles (as well as the thousands of other works in their catalogs).
    Shoot the Book ! Los Angeles, a program brought to you by the Société civile des éditeurs de langue française, the Bureau international de l’édition française, the Institut français and Villa Albertine, is back for its 8th edition in 2022.  Fifteen French-language books have been selected to showcase their promise for screen adaptation. This year, the titles reflect the theme of New Francophone Voices, highlighting authors from various French-language backgrounds who are making impressive débuts in French publishing. The event is now hybrid, allowing attendees from all time zones to participate either in Los Angeles or from the comfort of their own screen.

    After two years online, the Shoot the Book ! LA team is delighted to bring back an in-person market where US film and TV professionals can meet with the French publishers representing the selected titles (as well as the thousands of other works in their catalogs). These one-on-one meetings will take place on Wednesday, September 28, in Beverly Hills, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm PDT. The publishers attending are VIPs of the French literary scene, with representatives from large groups Editis, Madrigal, Mediatoon, and JC Lattès.

    For those not able to meet in Los Angeles, the program also includes an online B2B marketplace on Thursday, September 29, 2022, from 5:00am PDT (8:00am EDT) to 12:00pm PDT (3:00pm EDT). Attendees from across the US are welcome to participate and meet even more French publishers from Actes Sud, Archipel, Auzou, Editions Thierry Magnier, and Matriochkas. 

    The fifteen selected titles include: 

    The Art of Murder, Chrystel Duchamp (L’Archipel) 

    Love Me Tender, Constance Debré (Flammarion) 

    The Man for the Job, Lou Lubie (Dupuis) 

    Leawald, Dov Lynch (Editions du sous-sol) 

    The Door of No Return, David Diop (La Martinière) 

    Rosa Dolorosa, Caroline Dorka-Fenech (La Martinière) 

    Tanz!, Maurane Mazars (Le Lombard) 

    The Goddess of Small Victories, Yannick Grannec (Anne Carrière) 

    Timothée Brahms and the Book of Possibilities, Aurélie Magnin, Illustrated by Vincent Pianina (Editions Thierry Magnier) 

    Speak of the Devil, Joseph Denize (Julliard) 

    The Aquatics, Osvalde Lewat (Les Escales) 

    Into Violence, Blandine Rinkel (Fayard) 

    My Part of Her, Javad Djavahery (Gallimard) 

    Aya of Yop City, Marguerite Abouet, Illustrated by Clément Oubrerie (Gallimard Jeunesse) 

    Hana Thierry, Swallows and Other Birds Names, Touria Arab-Leblondel (Milan) 

     

    For all US film and TV professionals interested in meeting with the French publishers—either in Los Angeles or virtually—please write to stbla@frenchculture.org to receive further details. 

    Article
    https://villa-albertine.org/professionals/book-film-adaptation-event-shoot-book-la-returns-new-francophone-voices

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    EXPERIENCE COMIC FANDOM THE WORLD-OVER
    FanConXR is a comics and pop culture convention celebrating fandom. This has been designed and developed in virtual reality and the whole world is invited.

    ADMISSION is FREE

    Saturday, September 24
    https://fanconxr.com/
     

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  10. Being real or mature is something many people talk about until being real or mature leads to the inevitable assessment https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2067&type=status
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    Brooklyn mother accused of drowning 3 children near ocean shore is arraigned

    Liam Quigley and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News - Yesterday 1:58 PM

     

    NEW YORK — The troubled Brooklyn woman accused of drowning her three children in the ocean off Coney Island was arraigned on murder charges Friday.

     

    A judge ordered Erin Merdy, 30, held without bail during the brief arraignment at NYU Langone-Brooklyn, where she’d been undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. Merdy allegedly drowned her children, 7-year-old Zachary, 4-year-old Liliana and 3-month-old Oliver in the surf in the wee hours on Monday morning.

    Her eyes closed, Merdy whispered her responses to the judge’s question as she leaned over in her bed dressed in a yellow hospital gown, a video feed from the arraignment showed.

    George Cooke, Merdy’s attorney from Brooklyn Defender Services, asked that his client be kept in protective custody as the case continues, which the judge granted.

    Merdy’s panicked sister and aunt called police at about 1 a.m. Monday after the young mom called them, claiming that the “babies were gone,” police said.

    Responding officers found Merdy, wet and barefoot, wandering alone along the Coney Island Boardwalk at about 3:15 a.m. A short time later, cops found her children dead in the water. An autopsy later revealed that the children had been drowned.

    Merdy was incoherent when questioned by police, but she did allude to a dream she had where she had taken her children into the water, cops said.

     

    Surveillance footage recovered by police showed Merdy walking to the beach with her three children before they died, according to court records.

    Merdy’s mother told the Daily News that she thought her daughter might be suffering from postpartum depression and was described by other relatives as struggling with mental health issues.

    She was served with an eviction notice on Jan. 12 claiming she was more than $5,000 behind in payments on her $1,531 monthly rent.

    Zachary’s football coach said the boy regularly arrived for team practices hungry until he left the squad last year.

    The boy’s mom rarely attended games to watch her son play and often left early when she did appear, said Coney Island Training Youth Program head coach Allen McFarland.

    The city’s Administration for Children’s Services investigated Merdy after a father of one of the children reported that the kids weren’t going to school, but they “fell through the cracks” a few weeks before the killings, a source with knowledge of the case said.

    “Her (youngest) baby was born in May and she was discharged from (ACS) services on July 15,” the source said. “Someone in the (ACS) Family Services Unit discharged her when they shouldn’t have. At the very least, a psych exam should have been done — and that wasn’t done.”

    Hundreds of people attended a wake for Zachary and Liliana Thursday. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez was among the mourners.

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    ©2022 New York Daily News. Visit at nydailynews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

     

    ARTICLE

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/brooklyn-mother-accused-of-drowning-3-children-near-ocean-shore-is-arraigned/ar-AA11V1HS

     

    MY THOUGHTS

     

    Search "mom in new york killed kids at beach" and you see it is not uncommon, most faces are white.  The reality is, the USA is rife with these incidents but they never make front page cause the people in the USA who want to forgive the USA or feel settled in the USA don't want to admit the people who are not have every right not to be and the reasoning isn't mental imbalance it is simply people accepting the reality of their situation and not lying to themselves about getting out. The people in the USA who talk about the USA dream are the ones who never say that most in the USA have always been in a nightmare. But those dreamers don't care and treat the more in a nightmare as acceptable for their individual or minority success.

     

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      @Troy share to the black business women you know

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      Why not share on the forums?

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      I thought I did @Troy 

       

       

  18. @Chevdove yes, by america you mean whites in the usa , became enamored. And this is a hard topic:) Black people in the usa, or the english colonies that preceded it have a complicated history with white people before or during the usa and to the usa itself. It is not a straight line. And Black people have always been into varying unbridgeable tribes about who we are or how we relate to whites or the usa itself. The essence of this topic is vital. I concur to you side @ProfD about education having value, being necessary, in or out of schools or any scholastic environment. But, We black adults have to come admit to ourselves what we don't provide for black children. We have to say to ourselves and to black children, as black adults, we are failing you. White adults aren't failing white children when a tribe of white children can fail a standard test over 99% and they are being protected successfully by nearly all around them from critique from admonishment from ridicule. To be blunt, no black set of children DOS/from caribbean/from the continent can say they reached 99% failure on a standardized test and yet, all black children's can attest to being constantly admonished by non blacks as well as many blacks. The last question is simple, are black adults asking black children to overcome black adults failings as well as live in and change a white country as well as simply grow as human beings? Post script if that is what we black adults are asking black children, then shame on us. We black adults have to give, provide, make more for black children
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  21. THE BIG BUDGET GAMES Fire Emblem Engage If you are a fan of the fire emblem series, this is a buy. It will be out 1-20-2023 A divine edition with collectible items will be with it. Fire Emblem is a franchise game so what that means is, fans will be favored and non fans for whatever reason, take it or leave it. It Takes Two - electronic arts usa, 2 players required Help two parents return to normal, can be played in handheld mode exclusively, I think. They say you can play it in the complete switch. November 4th Interesting game, a natural two player. I am interested. Can pre-order if you are seeing this post. Fatal Frame: Mask of the lunar eclipse - Koei Tecmo games Creepy game, scary game, for you frighteners:) Seem to be a maid outfit:) she mysteriously vanished as a child and is now in an abandoned hospital , a camera is used to recover memories. This game never came out in the USA but those in japan know it. Nintendo does a number of these sorts of games, new to the world outside japan. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 second wave look like mechas. Ino is a new hero made for this advance in character or item content or quality for xenoblade 3. She will allow new strategies and types, after you complete her quest. A third wave is coming October 13th Indie or smaller budget games- my preferred zone Spongebob squarepants: the cosmic shake by THQ Nordic I am not a fan of the cartoon so... 3-d platformer. Looks fun though if you are into the series. Voiced by the original actors from the show launching next year, no exact time given Fitness boxing fist of the north star from Imagineer Wow! the original screenshot I was thinking. Oh wow! first of the north star, but this is a fitness game:) I remember a relative had the first fist of the north star video game on his nintendo. It was interesting. You can take on bosses, they look like the characters from the anime. But it is for fitness, you need to move and work out as you play. March 2023 Oddballers from UBisoft Many minigames, six players can play simultaneously, can specify your playing character. Meant to be fun. These games are best if you have a bunch of people you know play the switch, can get online with it, and then you can organize play times. Launches Early next year Tunic by Finji A puzzle adventure game. A fox washed up on a shore, needs to complete a manual and to do that you have to go through the island. Looks pretty. September 27th preorders are available now Front Mission 1: Remake + Front Mission 2: remake both by Forever entertainment Front mission is a strategy game, turn base, you ride a mecha, they call wanzers, that you can advance. Front Mission 2 was not released outside japan. I love strategy games so I may get this. IT all depends on how busy I am. Front mission 1 in November 2022 Front Mission 2 in 2023 Front Mission 3 is coming after Front Mission 2 Story of Seasons: a wonderful life from Xseed games Originally it came out 20 years ago. This is a daily life routine game. Care for animals, raise up a farm, like Stardew Valley, but better colorizations or scope. You can have a child and raise it and characters will grow old. Summer 2023 Splatoon Injection First post launch splatfest for splatoon 3. 09/23 friday 5pm Pacific time to 09/25 sun 5pm Pacific time Theme: what would you bring to a deserted island? Gear Grub Fun Splatoon was injected here. This is a larger project that the smaller games, but Splatoon was started as an experimental. Like PRofessor Layton, it was contingent on success so it was an inhouse indie project so to speak. Enjoy splatters:) They end with more updates for splatoon 3 Medium budget game Octopath Traveler 2 from Square enix This adds 8 new travelers. Hikari the warrior Agnea the dancer- I am a dancer and a singer, for those who remember coming 2 america Partitio the merchant- who sounds like he doesn't know whether he wants to be from the midwest or the deep south and sports a cowboy hat of course:) while his name is:) partitio Osvald the scholar Throne the thief Temenos the cleric Ochette the hunter Castti the apothecary Players path differs between day and night. This is a game meant to give users truly different stories to be a part of, like a choose your path but meets super nes graphics Launches 2 24 2023 Fae Farm from Phoenix Labs A lifestyle game. Farm simulator. Magical spells to grow crops. Face off against mischievous foes. Can play up to 4 players online or local player. Can customize home. Seasons change that will be important. Spring 2023 Theatrhythm Final bar line from Square Enix For the 35th anniversary. I have the original. For fans of the series, this is for you 385 songs in total, can play each stage, music divided by game. Two players can compete locally, 4 players online multibattle February 16th 2023- can preorder now after games launch downloaded able content songs from various series in the square enix library Mario + Rabbids sparks of hope from Ubisoft I never got into this. but you can freely roam into worlds. Find coins, unlock paths. help locals with task. A gold edition can be ordered that gives you the game with weapons skins and a season pass October 20th 2022 Rune factory 3 Special from XSeed games You can now fish, farm, relax in the town in and around doing quest. Can transform into a "Monster" Locales will change how they react to you based on your look and they have improved the features to be with your game spouse:)... I play a game that has that and I can't bring myself to go down that tunnel Out in 2023 A new rune factory series will launch in the future. This is a series though which has many fans who have every game so for newbies like me, you can get in now if you want. Nintendo 64 games on Nintendo online Pilotwings 64 MArioparty Marioparty 2 MArioparty 3 Pokemon Stadium Pokemon stadium 2 1080 snowboarding excitebike 64 Goldeneye - i played that game:) when it was new Games out now or near out and medium to small budget to Indie Various Daylife from Square Enix An RPG. More common visual structure. Out the day of this post, so you can get it if you see this Factorio from WUbe Software ltd Management simulation game. This kind of game is what I mean by a game's scale is very tiny. It looks interesting, but your character is really small. At least by the images given. I love the concept though. More original than the usual. Crashed ship, you have to reconstruct it on an alien world. Like Pikmin meets Astroneer. Love the look of the construction lines. You have enemies you will need to construct. OCtober 28th 2022 Ib from playism A young girl named Ib in an art gallery gets sucked into a scary surreal world through a painting, you have to get her back. A puzzle horror game with nice visual graphics so you can actually have puzzles. Puzzles can't be difficult to see, that is why horror games that try to look like a movie with puzzles can be too difficult. Like the concept. spring 2023 Big budget games Mario Strikers battle league from Nintendo Pauline , Diddy Kong joins in More gear and a new stadium 2nd free update launches in september 2022 Atelier Ryza 3 alchemist of the end and the secret key from Koei Tecmo games I don't know this series. I love how it is subtitled into english. One of the come here from japan games. Ryza is a female lead. An RPG, very graphic. If you are in the series you are in. February 24th 2023 Mario kart 8 deluxe booster course pass Wave 3 A sneak peak of the courses. Mario Kart fans rejoice. This holiday 2022 launches. If you have nintendo switch online + you don't need to pay Nintendo switch sport Golf will be added from Wii sports, 22 golf courses Free update this holiday 2022 The guy in mr iwata's position asked for fans to wait a little longer Shigeru Miyamoto- if you don't know who that is , shame on you Super Mario Bros animated movie will be out next Spring with illumination Suepr Nintendo world, will open in hollywood california Pikmin! over 20 years for the first game. I love pikmin. I wrote this as I listened so if you read my words you know how I feel. Pikmin Bloom - Take it with you . Send out pikmin , on your phone, a phone game.You can keep a record of where you have been with pikmin. PIKMIN!!! Pikmin 4!!! YES!!! 2023 I can wait I can wait You can play from the pikmin perspective from the ground. Switch will make it more interesting. Dandori- strategically deploying commanding the pikmin!! I can't play Pikmin on the phone but I am very happy. As an engineer I think Pikmin is one of the finest games ever made. Non engineers don't comprehend the challenge of pikmin. I have enjoyed Pikmin , Pikmin 2, Pikmin 3, Hey Pikmin, and will enjoy pikmin bloom if I can. Pikmin 4 is a keeper! Big Budget games Just dance 2023 edition from Ubisoft Karaoke games. Great for partying. for gatherings. Not really a game you buy for yourself, you buy that for the house. Medium Budget Games Harvestella from square enix Life simulator RPG. very glitzy, pretty. Not for me, the combat is too glamoury. Demo will be later the day of this post. November 4th 2022 Bayonetta 3 Bayonetta recovered memories, confronted demons to save friend, now saves humanity from the humonguli Any one who wants to play a bad ass woman, who looks like a purposefully cosplayable character, enjoy October 28, can preoder now- a new trailer will launch on youtube.IT wasn't on nintendo's Master Detective archives Rimcode from Spike Chunsoft Yuma an amnesiac detective, and a spirit haunting him have to solve cases. This is like Yokai watch had a baby with Ace Attorney. Spring 2023 REsident Evil Village Cloud from Capcom OCtober 28th 2022- can try a demo if you see this. Winters expansion available December 2nd for third person character. Resident evil 2 and 3 will be available as cloud versions Sifu from Sloclap Brawler game, thrusting, tripping, parrying. Break opponent's stance and gain the upper hand. SIFU!! Fall in combat and you get older and weaker. Get revenge before your time is up. This reminds me of Sakurai samurai designed by the late Mr Iwata, a game I absolutely love, where you wield a sword but you have to do it wisely November 8th , can preoder today Crisis core final fantasy Vii reunion from square enix The events leading up to Final Fantasy 7 Final fantasy fans rejoice, separath and cloud are with him. December 13th 2022 Radiant Silvergun from live wire inc A space shooter game. September 13 2022, today . For space shooter collectors this looks nice, nothing new mechanically, but looks pretty Endless Dungeon from Sega Gauntlet but in space junkyards , procedurally generated levels. unlock weapons heroes. 2023 Tales of Symphonia remastered from bandai namco entertainment america inc Remastered. I am not a fan but for fans, rejoice early 2023 Quick news Life is strange arcadia bay collection from square enix september 27th 2022 Romancing saga minstrel song remastered from square enix december 1st 2022 , pre order now Lego Bricktales from Thunderful Was a few short video clips but looks fun Fall 2022 Disney Speedstorm from Gameloft SE 2022 Fall guys season 2 from epic games september 15th 2022 LATe Big news Kirby's return to dreamland deluxe Mr Iwata's baby, Kirby fans rejoice for 30th anniversary of Kirby February 24th 2023 can preorder King LINK!!! One man alone. When will they do a link between worlds 2 The Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom 5-12-2023 CONCLUSION Saw a lot of Square enix and in house Nintendo. Though I did enjoy some of the smaller development firms projects Of the games I saw , the following interest me in a sale. Tunic- looks beautiful FaeFarm- this is the first game in a long time that looks like it mirrors for me one of the most fun games ever, and that is fantasy life. When I look at this game, it makes me think of fantasy life had a baby with animal crossing and stardew valley. The time changing and scope is very stardew valley-ish. The visualization, which is important in these games, is like animal crossing. You can see everything. some times in these games, its too tiny or too large. Or the scale is not right. But, you can actually battle in here and that is Fantasy life. I think fantasy life was underrated for how people could come in and play and help another person playing the game. Factorio- this is an individual game, I wish it was a multiplayer, I swear this concept with a multiplayer facet could be huge. But I like it. It's not for everyone, it is niche. But I like astroneeer, I like pikmin so if you like those then you will like this, and I haven't even played it. PIKMIN 4 Mandatory Sifu- the mechanics I like. I am tired of immortal fighter games. I want fighter games where the mechanics are more honest, not unfun, not real, but honests. Why can't I get older if I lose. I like the concept. Endless Dungeon- like gauntlet ,a loose maybe Lego Bricktales- looks fun, I love my build a world games The following games I want to say why not. Oddballer- if i can get members of black games elite to do this game, I will be in, cause it looks fun:) and we can go as a team on others teams. but it is contingent on the group Front Missions- I love strategy but I will not deny, there is a particular strategy game that I like a lot and until that next edition is available on switch while I like certain strategy games a lot, I will pause. Story of Season- look at faefarm above The main video:)
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  23. The failure of Black adults to Black children is the speech Black adults, whether parent or not, need to give to Black children. I explain myself in the status post linked below, please read my comments under the articles. https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2064&type=status
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