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DeSantis appointee thinks tap water makes people gay

Screenshot 2023-03-07 at 9.51.08 AM Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has appointed a pastor who traffics in anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theories to serve on the board that controls Disney’s special tax district. The Orlando-based Ron Peri has shared video discussions on YouTube asserting that homosexuality is “evil” and suggesting that […]Continue Reading

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Jaelle Terrell Once again I find Real Time with Bill Maher falling short on the issue of transgender identity. Often in the past, Bill and his guests have made incorrect statements about the transgender person’s needs and rights.  But let’s focus on yesterday. The twenty-first season of Real Time withContinue Reading

Dangerous Minds & The Resistance

What happens when dangerous minds meet resistance? Where are the agreements to get the government back to work? Can they be agreed upon? How long can America continue without a common narrative to follow? With approval ratings in the teens to the thirties, the United States just can’t work thisContinue Reading

So, here we are in this great US of A in the year 2020 STILL fighting for civil and human rights — endowed to every citizen as stated by the U.S. Constitution. How does that happen in a country born on the premise of freedom and the pursuit of happinessContinue Reading

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Curricula still focus on memorization, forcing students to remember quantity over quality. Names, dates, and places must be regurgitated for history tests, and conjugation tables must be memorized for language exams. Instead of real-world skills, the education system focuses on furthering academic achievement. We use tests to measure students’ ability, and schools have curated their curriculums to prepare pupils for these tests. Kids are taught to succeed in the classroom, with little thought given to the outside world. Memorization is not a life skill…Continue Reading

Trump’s Lies About Amazon and the Post Office

Harvey Gold President Trump issued an unexpected and typically uninformed…well…stupid, executive order Thursday night creating a federal task force to investigate the U.S. Postal Service’s finances, including its pricing and workforce costs. “The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path and must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout,” theContinue Reading

Hope During the Age of Trump

Harvey Gold Despite my daughter constantly telling me that I’m not old, (and that my articles are too damn long) I have been on this earth for a lot of cycles around the sun. I remember when the news meant Walter Cronkite (the Most Trusted Man in America). I rememberContinue Reading

The Biggest DonCon of All: “America First” is Making America Worst

Harvey Gold Just as Herbert Hoover, the last Republican “businessman” did, President Trump and the GOP has implemented isolationism, personal enrichment, and a gross ignorance of knowledge about governmental economics, into a death spiral for the U.S., in the world leadership role. Incidentally, Hoover also had an all-Republican Congress atContinue Reading