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Virally Suppressed is a progressive blog and outreach movement centered around matters of HIV & social justice in America and across the globe.
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They Have To Take You: Mitt Romney and ER Healthcare
Based on his recent comments, it would appear that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports a radical overhaul of preventative healthcare in America—namely in that he wants to prevent 50 million of us from getting it. Over the past few… Read More ›
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Why North Dakota Matters More Than You Think This Election
Despite all of the patriotic pageantry and the endless invocations of the unparalleled freedom of the American people, it’s hard not to see through the sham that is our electoral process. To paraphrase George Orwell, it would appear that all… Read More ›
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50 Shades of Mitt
To call Mitt Romney a lemon of a presidential candidate would be an insult to lemons. When the Republican Party began the arduous process of numbing themselves to the reality that Mitt Romney was their last, best hope for The… Read More ›
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Alabama Brings Back “Separate But Equal” for HIV+ Prisoners
“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man—so artfully, so artistically cruel.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky There are few people in… Read More ›
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Netanyahu Cries Fire, Obama Asks To See The Smoke
In a time of widespread unrest and anti-western demonstration in the Arab world, one would have hoped that America’s biggest ally in the region would step forward to try and reinforce our policies and provide a stabilizing influence in a… Read More ›
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Super Tuesday Meets Super Sunday: Politics & The NFL
Between pyromaniac anti-American riots spreading like an Arizona brushfire through the Middle East and a sizable army of Chicago kids playing state-subsidized hooky from school, it’s been a fairly crap week for old glory and those of us who make… Read More ›
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Isolation Row: Libya, Egypt & A Diplomatic Hammer
Disclaimer: I will not under any circumstances so much as mention Mitt Romney’s recent actions in this article. His comments regarding the attacks in Libya & Egypt were so obscenely mendacious that dignifying them with a cogent and rational response… Read More ›
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Chicago Teachers Learn How To Hold ‘Em…And Possibly Fold ‘Em
A couple of years ago, I was interviewed for a position at a public school in Cincinnati. The job was some bizarre franken-mesh of an English teacher and an IT guy that sounded as if it had been pulled out… Read More ›
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Drachma’s Coming, Hide Your Cash Girl
With less than two months until the US Presidential Elections and a fortnight of convention madness still lingering in our collective unconscious, you would be forgiven if you forgot that there were other countries in the world that weren’t America…. Read More ›
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This Isn’t About Me, It’s About You: Obama & The DNC
On Thursday night, Barack Obama stood behind a dais in Charlotte, North Carolina with two things on his mind. Like his Republican challenger, the President set out to deliver a speech that would capture the hearts and ballots of the… Read More ›
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