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### [Remembering Ken Draper: CityWatch and Transparency Are his Legacy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29355:remembering-ken-draper-citywatch-and-transparency-are-his-legacy&catid=12)

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### [Be Prepared to Protect Our Democracy in November From a Trumpian Plot](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33204:be-prepared-to-protect-our-democracy-in-november-from-a-trumpian-plot&catid=9)

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##  [ Internet Censorship: The Real Monopoly Threat ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22072:internet-censorship-the-real-monopoly-threat&catid=376)

Catron (and Trump and Sanders) want the US government to seize control of social media platforms and dictate which users those platforms must accept and what kind of content those platforms must permit publication of. They don’t put it qui…

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- [A new study has found being angry increases your vulnerability to misinformation](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22000:a-new-study-has-found-being-angry-increases-your-vulnerability-to-misinformation&catid=376)
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## [California is about to feel Delta’s full force](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22047:california-is-about-to-feel-delta-s-full-force&catid=376)

For weeks, California has experienced low numbers of virus-related cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Cases are now on the rise, in part because of the state’s much publicized reopening on June 15. And with Delta making up nearly half of…

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### [A new study has found being angry increases your vulnerability to misinformation](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22000:a-new-study-has-found-being-angry-increases-your-vulnerability-to-misinformation&catid=376)

Written by Eric W. Dolan on July 05 2021.

### [God Bless America, Land That I Love: Crackpots Rejoice When Jesus Christ (Briefly) Shuts Down Right Wing Watch and Can We Get An Amen?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21981:god-bless-america-land-that-i-love-crackpots-rejoice-when-jesus-christ-briefly-shuts-down-right-wing-watch-and-can-we-get-an-amen&catid=376)

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### [Britney Spears Conservatorship Case: Read Her Full Statement](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21954:britney-spears-conservatorship-case-read-her-full-statement&catid=376)

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### [A gay waiter was humiliated & stiffed by “Christian” customers. Then TikTok stepped in.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21922:a-gay-waiter-was-humiliated-stiffed-by-christian-customers-then-tiktok-stepped-in&catid=376)

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### [Cognitive Dissonance Is Us: Spoons On Your Face and Other Dangers of the Vaccine](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21876:cognitive-dissonance-is-us-spoons-on-your-face-and-other-dangers-of-the-vaccine&catid=376)

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### [New Campaign to Fight Amazon's Push for World 'Dominated by Total Corporate Surveillance' ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21861:new-campaign-to-fight-amazon-s-push-for-world-dominated-by-total-corporate-surveillance&catid=376)

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### [Blood at the Root: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21812:blood-at-the-root-who-lives-who-dies-who-tells-your-story&catid=376)

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### [Kill Them One by One: Today, We Are Nazis](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21792:kill-them-one-by-one-today-we-are-nazis&catid=376)

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### [Nothing To See Here: Treasonous Cowpoke and DOJ Went In Search of Devin Nunes' Cow and Mom](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21774:nothing-to-see-here-treasonous-cowpoke-and-doj-went-in-search-of-devin-nunes-cow-and-mom&catid=376)

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### [Some Aren’t Ready to Give Up Masks Despite New CDC Guidance](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21757:some-aren-t-ready-to-give-up-masks-despite-new-cdc-guidance&catid=376)

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### [My Vaccine Experience](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21732:my-vaccine-experience&catid=376)

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### [We Cannot Afford to Forget the Death and Damage Trump Has Caused](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21713:we-cannot-afford-to-forget-the-death-and-damage-trump-has-caused&catid=376)

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### [The Inadequacy of the Term “Asian American”](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21689:the-inadequacy-of-the-term-asian-american&catid=376)

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### [The Lines So Wrong](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21665:the-lines-so-wrong&catid=376)

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### [About Damn Time](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21652:about-damn-time&catid=376)

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### [When A Black Woman Speaks](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21624:when-a-black-woman-speaks&catid=376)

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