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What an entry to 2021.

I pray everyone is finding at least a little bit of peace and laughter somehow, some way this week.

It is wild out here, but joy is resistance too, and I urge you to find your joy and not let anyone

threaten to take that from you.

And should you be looking ahead to spring,

which for me, cannot get here fast enough.

Our friends at Shambourne have a very spring-like suggestion, which a shambord spritz. All you need is shambord,

dry white wine and soda. So go wherever you buy your spirits or head to drizzly. And as always, it's Brittany. So a racist insurgency coupled with a perpetually blazing

pandemic is not the 2021 I had hoped for.

But it's the 2021 we got.

And someone said that 2021 is just like 2020 with bangs.

And I don't know if I've ever agreed with something

so much in my entire life like yeah girl we know it's you we can see you under

there look y'all going forward that slimy myth of American

exceptionalism it has got to be in our rear view. It is over done. America has to move forward with a big

slice of humble pie washed down with a massive glass of black women tried to tell you.

You cannot be the world's so-called greatest democracy

when your white supremacy is so damn unrepentant. You and I are going to have to do the hard work of

holding two things up at the same time. Progress and accountability. It's not just about consequences. It is also

about prevention. Let's get one thing straight. You cannot defeat fascism by just giving it a tighter hug. You want to be

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