Over the last week, apparatchiks of the Musk/Trump/Vance Central Committee have framed their actions of detaining a Columbia student from Syria who participated in Anti Israel protests and transporting hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members as combatting terrorism and any complaints about the lack of due process is challenging the legitimate power of the Executive … Read more
Yesterday evening, Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari held a town hall event at the Burton Barr Public Library in Phoenix. It drew about 250 people. The Representative took questions from constituents concerned about the direction of the country under the Musk/Trump/Vance Central Committee, what she is doing with her colleagues to fight it, and according to … Read more
This conversation between Ezra Klein and David Shor, the head of data science at Blue Rose Research, a Democratic polling firm, blew away many of my comforting assumptions and conclusions about the painful and terrifying result of the 2024 election. I urge you to watch it in its entirety. Several conclusions that are backed by … Read more
Along with his outlandish lies on the historic achievements of the Biden/Harris Administration, Donald Trump’s crusade to do away with all things Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, are resulting in erasures of history that would make Joseph Stalin smile. The Washington Post, Axios, other media outlets, and political figures have rushed to decry the purging from … Read more
For too long, Discrimination, Ego, and Ignorance (DEI) have been under attack. Over the last 60 years, with landmark legislation like the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the growing perspective that long-term discrimination carries huge, generational effects, the lock on power of privileged groups has been loosened (some). And institutions like our universities have … Read more