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There's a field near my neighborhood that has bluebonnets blooming now. It's starting to feel like spring. I saw that Prince Philip died recently, but people are using it as an excuse to attack Meghan Markle again for the Oprah Winfrey interview, even though she and Harry stressed that the racism never came from the Queen and Prince Philip. Anyway, Meghan's pregnant and not going to travel to the funeral, probably because her doctor doesn't want to risk her having another miscarriage. I'm sure the racist UK tabloids are going to criticize her for it anyway.

The big Alabama union vote at Amazon failed, but that was probably due to their usual anti-union intimidation tactics. The union is appealing the results to the NLRB. Speaking of voter intimidation, the GOP are continuing to pass voter suppression bills. I contacted my useless Texas senators about H.R. 1, but as expected, Cornyn just replied with talking points about federal overreach and election security. I'm sick of the drama about the filibuster, but a recent report said that Biden is not stressed out about Manchin, so presumably he knows something or is negotiating some kind of deal to get Manchin on board. We'll see.

I read that there's another racist incident with a Black army lieutenant being brutalized by cops. It reminded me of the American Experience special about "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard" that recently aired. Black veterans returning from WWII were lynched by whites who felt that the soldiers had become uppity and no longer deferred to Southern racism. The NAACP used the outrage about Woodard's maiming to raise awareness and make Harry Truman sympathetic to civil rights. I watched the PBS special, but felt that it gave too much credit to Judge Waring and Harry Truman about desegregation. They act like Judge Waring talked Thurgood Marshall into making the Briggs v. Elliot case all about separate but equal. I mean, it's good to talk about white allies, like Orson Welles publicizing the attack on his radio show, but give the Black people credit too for fighting for their rights.