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Darlene McDonald

@darlenemcdonald.com
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Novelist. Essayist. Writer of Political and Civil Rights History darlenemcdonald.substack.com

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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 18/09/2026
White presenting Hispanics are still Hispanic. We tried to tell you. Ya’ll wouldn’t listen. Thought it only applied to folks from that ‘other’ Latino country. In a country run by white nationalists trying to ‘take their country back’ all brown people are Black and all Hispanics are from Mexico.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 09/09/2026
Who was that Sarah person on Money Power Politics with @stephruhle.bsky.social ? I didn’t agree with her AT ALL. Dems DO talk ‘kitchen table’ issues. Republicans start culture wars and are better at convincing people to care more about fake issues while doing better financially under Democrats.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12/08/2026
Thursday, August 13 | 5:30–8:30 p.m. |Viridian Event Center – West Jordan MC: Susie Estrada, President LWV of Salt Lake Speaker: Darlene McDonald, Founder, Selma Institute Documentary: Standing on My Sister’s Shoulders, an award-winning 2002 documentary.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/08/2026
Trump inherited one of the strongest economies in the world, yet 33% of Americans still think he inherited a disaster. The power of right wing propaganda. #BlueWaveIn90Days
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 30/07/2026
What value does John Kasich brings to MS Now? I can’t see any. Everything he says…but the Democrats…. Just stop. 🛑
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 20/07/2026
Do Something Get into #GoodTrouble Necessary Trouble #Vote
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12/07/2026
“A journalist asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be, 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.” Actor Paul Eddington #sage
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 10/07/2026
Barack Obama is unbothered and unfazed by Donald Trump, but let’s be clear. Trump’s cyberbully of Barack and Michelle Obama is intentional. Trump’s supporters understand his ‘coded’ language. Trump’s target becomes their target. (The comment at the WH UFC) What is Secret Service waiting for?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 06/07/2026
Is this not an attack on religious freedom?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 06/07/2026
DO NOT expect Folarin Balogun to do what Neil Gorsuch would not do.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 24/06/2026
Ballot still in the mail pile? It can’t count if you don’t turn it in.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 18/06/2026
Companies pay tens of millions of dollars for this type product placement in a movie! Altoids got a forever product placement at the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening for FREE!
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 15/06/2026
Michelle Obama does not have to prove her womanhood. Barack Obama did not have to prove his citizenship. The fact that these things are part of the conversation is the very reason why America 250 is feeling exactly like America, 250 years ago.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 15/06/2026
Many people compare the UFC matches at the White House to Roman Gladiator matches. In light of the comment by UFC Fighter Josh Hokit about forever FLOTUS Michelle Obama, a more appropriate comparison is President Woodrow Wilson’s screening of Ku Klux Klan movie, The Birth of A Nation.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 14/06/2026
Donald Trump’s Battery Park, moment. Upset that his plan to build a massive bridge connecting Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan was blocked, NYC’s infamous Park Commissioner Robert Moses closed the park—for 12 YEARS! These two men share many similarities other than the City of New York. None are good.
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A tarp now covers where Trump's name used to hang at the Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center confirmed in a court filing Saturday that it has removed President Trump's name from the building, the website, staff email signatures and letterhead, complying with a federal judge...
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 14/06/2026
Donald Trump put his name on a dead man’s living memorial believing he could redirect the glory bestowed to John F Kennedy on to himself. It didn’t work. JFK is revered DJT is despised To compensate, he builds large structures, slaps his name on them and demand worship. A sad pathetic man
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 13/06/2026
CNN left out a key detail in this headline. Trump’s name was removed in the wee hours of the morning after workers installed scaffolding, stood around for hours, and then lowered a tarp to block visibility. Just like the Epstein files. All done to protect the Predator-in- Chief
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 12/06/2026
The man that’s worth 1 Trillion dollars is also directly responsible for hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, of deaths globally due to the sudden cuts in USAID because of his racism and a grudge. Let that sink in.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 There is well-documented historical proof that some police officers have framed Black and brown people by planting weapons or drugs. Today, we will go over some high profile cases. Pull up a 🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 11/06/2026
The NAACP is asking Black collegiate players to not sign with schools in states that pass redistricting maps that diminish the Black vote. The same should be asked for teams traveling to the U.S for the World Cup. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Who makes the first stand?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 02/06/2026
Remember that West Palm Beach estate Trump wrestled from Jeffrey Epstein at auction? Bidding: Trump, Epstein, and Mark Pulte, Bill’s father. Trump won with bid of $41.35 million and later sold it to Russian Oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million. There are ?? www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/...
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Trump names housing chief Bill Pulte acting intelligence director, replacing Tulsi Gabbard
Pulte has alleged wrongdoing related to mortgages against Trump's foes, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 01/06/2026
$10 billion for Board of Peace $2 billion for insurrection goons $1 billion for a ballroom $100-$250 million for Arch $13 million to paint the Reflecting Pool $1 million to replace the grass on the South lawn Using the U.S. Treasury like a personal bank account. #NotABusinessMan
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 29/05/2026
MAGA-aligned people will claim categorically that one man named Barack Obama is responsible for the racial division in the country. Obama is guilty of having the audacity to exist as the exact opposite of what they believe a Black man and the Black family in America is. And they can’t stand it.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 20/05/2026
In a representative democracy, citizens elect officials to make laws and govern on their behalf. Members of Congress are elected to represent citizens’ interests at the federal level. Electing representatives that are loyal to a person rather than the people, is not a representative democracy.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 05/05/2026
The Supreme Court is doing everything within its power to help Republicans steal the 2026 mid-term. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms
Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision, saying the court has hastened it ruling only twice before in 25 years
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 28/04/2026
The initial price tag for the proposed White House ‘ballroom’ was $200 million. The price has ballooned by a whopping $200 million and guess who’s now paying for it. What happened to the billions he’s already collected for his pay-to-play scheme? Why hasn’t anyone in Congress asked about this?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 07/04/2026
When people say… “I voted 3 times for Trump. I didn’t, however, vote for THIS.” Call bullshit. 2016 Hillary Clinton 2020 Joe Biden 2024 Kamala Harris All warned Donald Trump didn’t have the temperament to be trusted with the nuclear codes. Warnings were ignored. Now we’re facing nuclear war.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 07/04/2026
Trump 1.0, the Administration had General Mattis to keep Trump from acting on his worst impulses. Trump 2.0, Pete Hegseth fired the Generals that would oppose Trump’s illegal and immoral orders. The rest resigned. The scars of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain. This cannot happen in our name.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 05/04/2026
This is real. Members of Congress should prompt an immediate return to Washington to begin the process of removing Donald Trump from power. Any military service member that executes this order will be complicit in committing ANOTHER war crime. Trump needs to be removed, ASAP.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/04/2026
If Trump made $264 billion in tariff revenue. why is he asking $200 billion for his illegal war on Iran? 🤔 #TrumpsTariffsCostUS
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 03/04/2026
I really want to know why no one has pressed #BlackMAGA on this. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military,...” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers
The defense secretary’s efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the B...
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 01/04/2026
The sad part is there’s no way for our current President of the United States to ever write anything remotely this coherent. He cannot.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 01/04/2026
Donald Trump was never a businessman that was going to make the economy better for everyday Americans. Never. He was failed businessman who survived multiple bankruptcies because of a rich father whose money and later trust fund kept him out of the welfare lines and prison.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 01/04/2026
There’s no way to not know that the take down of Kristi Noem is an inside job. The same way the take down of Matt Gaetz was an inside job. Pissed someone off, said the wrong thing, or made the wrong threat and they dropped da 💣 . Of course they knew. The Party of Lincoln is the Party of Trump.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 30/03/2026
A quick reminder that the current president received FIVE medical deferments during the Vietnam War era and called military casualties suckers and losers. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
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Rob Schneider calls on US to restore military draft
The actor and comedian, posting on X, said that ‘unlike in today’s universities’ the military would teach young people ‘how truly great their country is’
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 26/03/2026
What about those cosplaying young men training to fight in the next American Civil War? Surely their yearning to fight in Donald Trump’s war of choice. No?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 26/03/2026
They lied to people about what they were signing. When that failed, they fraudulently added names. In the end, Republicans in Utah failed to meet the threshold they established to make it harder to get initiatives on the ballot. Great job, Utah! This is what democracy looks like. #utpol #utleg
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 26/03/2026
For 20 years, politicians in Washington D.C sent young men to fight in the Vietnam ‘Conflict,’ an undeclared war. Donald Trump received 5 deferments during the Vietnam War era. Now he’s sending young service-members to fight is his war of choice. Your president. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump says he doesn't want to call Iran conflict a "war" because of need for approval from Congress
President Trump suggested late Wednesday he's avoiding describing the military conflict with Iran as a "war" because of concerns around the fact that Congress hasn't authorized military force.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 25/03/2026
So unmasking ICE isn’t a problem, then? Whether at the airport or on our city streets, it’s the same ICE. #unmasked
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 18/03/2026
Dolores Huerta ✊🏾 That’s it. That’s the post.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 16/03/2026
Will Trump’s Truth Social melt down be blamed on an unnamed staffer tomorrow?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 16/03/2026
If you didn’t know, now retired ballerina Misty Copeland is still recovering from a hip replacement surgery, yet she danced for #Sinners tonight. Simply AMAZING.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 02/03/2026
The last time the U.S installed a puppet leader of Iran it didn’t end well… Hence…the current moment.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 01/03/2026
W.E.B Dubois had choice words for Booker T Washington for the very reason this Administration would choose to use him on the Board of Education. The inclusion of Washington, Catherine Beecher and Charlie Kirk sends a message to Black students and women. Aim down, and stay in your place. #doe
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 28/02/2026
“War is peace,” as a means of controlling citizens through propaganda.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 27/02/2026
Of course, importing white people while deporting Black and brown people have nothing to do with race. www.reuters.com/world/us-aim...
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Exclusive: US aims to bring in 4,500 white South Africans per month as refugees, document says
The new target, stated in a previously unreported State Department document dated January 27, signals a push to ramp up admissions from South Africa, while refugee applications from other areas have b...
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 27/02/2026
Do you find it strange that Hillary Clinton have had to answer for failings of Bill Clinton, but the same is dared not asked of Melania Trump? Why the double-standard?
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 25/02/2026
When referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, Barack Obama said this during 2008 Dem primary "They get bitter… cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment…as a way to explain their frustrations."
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Trump renews attack on Minnesota's Somali community during State of the Union
The president's focus on the community contributed to his deployment of thousands of immigration agents to Minnesota in recent months.
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 25/02/2026
One of the issues about Donald Trump is that people will not call him out on his sh*t to his face. Rep Al Green of Texas does just that, as Trump enters the House Chamber for the #SOTU. No worries, Utah’s Congressional Rep Burgess Owens is there to make things better. #utpol
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Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com · 20/02/2026
That one time (too many times, actually) when they erected Confederate statues in town squares to intimidate the Black residents. Yeah, same vibe.
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