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ACLU’s Warning to Trump: Protectin...

A Letter from an American Citizen

The 100th Monkey and 3.5% Rule Explained

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American Autocracy

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Evil Under the Musk/Trump Wrecking Ball

Elon Musk’s & Donald TrumpR...

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Seeking Mercy: A Call from Bishop Budde ...

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First Felon

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Senator Rubio’s Ideas on Science: ...

Stephen Miller: A Trump Pick You May Not...

Letter from a Dark Future

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Kamala is My Choice for President. Who’s...

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Election of the Century

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Are you better off now than you were 4 y...

Why Do Trump Supporters Not See What I S...

Voted Today, Ushered to the Front of the...

Despicable Hurricane Disinformation of D...

Kamala Harris for President, New York Ti...

101 Years Ago, Germany Sought A Dictator...

Science in the Age of Trump: Let’s...

Donald Trump’s Dangerous Rhetoric is Fue...

Ever Lastings: Annie Richards, the 19th ...

Watch the Debate to Bear Witness to a De...

Do you remember when Kemp did this?

Winder, Georgia School Shooting–Ti...

Labor Day Frames to Support Unions

Trump Reindicted for Plotting to Overtur...

John Lewis Statute, Decatur, Georgia

The Leader of The New Democrats

The Last Days of Trump

Into the Storm, Again

How the Press is Abusing Its Power

Georgia is Back in Play, But Voting Rule...

Project 2025

Free and Fair Elections? Not so Much in ...

This Is Not Fiction

President Biden, Passing the Torch

President Joe Biden: A Profile in Courag...

The Autocrat vs. The Democrat

A Letter About the Butler, PA Mass Shoot...

Violence in American Politics

The French Election: A Model as a Front ...

The Dangerousness of Donald Trump

The Rise of Authoritarianism under Trump

The Day After

The Last Presidential Debate

Ten Commitments for Classroom Learning

Banning Chapters from School Science Tex...

Trumpism on Display at the Capitol

Donald Trump: Tyrant or Political Prison...

Criminal Activity in Trump Tower Leads t...

Guilty: The Jury Has Spoken

Liberal Democracy & Enviromental Pro...

70 years after Brown, Georgia is moving ...

Shhh! Don’t tell Mesha Mainor and Moms ...

President Biden and His Predecessor in G...

Immigrants Don’t Threaten Communit...

AGEISM

Video Bibliotherapy of Trumpism

Scoundrels, Weirdos, and Ne’er-Do-...

The Disqualification Section of the 14th...

Georgia Republican Legislators Want to B...

The Godfather’s Sycophants Turn Ou...

How to Run Against Donald Trump

The American Authoritarian Mindset: Unde...

Ceasefire

Safeguarding Democracy: Preventing Autho...

Exit, Maine, Mr. Trump

Trump is Disqualified Not Because of Age...

Trump Should Be Disqualified from Public...

Is Donald Trump Above the Law?

Far-Right Republicans Meet with Far-Righ...

Was it a Training Exercise? And for Whom...

2024: It’s Not About a Number, It&...

Beyond the Scientific Method by Charles ...

An Existential Threat

Trump Files at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Mr. Speaker, Tell us what you believe.

Two Days in the Life of the GOP

What to Read About the Downfall of the G...

Plea Update in the Georgia Racketeering ...

A House Fable

The Trials of Donald Trump

Is Donald Trump a Tyrant?

You think this is a witch hunt, Mr. Pres...

First Guilty and Plea Deals in Georgia T...

One-Year Anniversary of The Trump Files&...

One Year Anniversary Eve of The Trump Fi...

The Media’s Malignant Affair with ...

Fani Willis: The Fearless District Attor...

The Ex-President with Feet of Clay

Georgia is Ground Zero, Again

Trump’s 2021 Phone Call to Raffensperger...

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The Faces of the Fulton County Racketeer...

Trump’s Racketeering Enterprise

Racketeering Charges Brought Against Tru...

Trump, a Strongman Made the Imperfect Ph...

Links Among Trump, Mobs, and the Elite: ...

Trump Indicted for Jan 6 Conspiracy to D...

Essential Books about Atomic Bomb Testin...

Downwinders & Atomic Bomb Testing: ...

Could a Sweeping Indictment of Trump be ...

Ocean heat is off the charts-Here’s what...

White Male Extremism

Juneteenth in Marietta, GA 2023

Making the Cover of The Trump Files

Trump’s Campaign Commercial Follow...

Particulate Matter: Some Observations

From Pen to Brush

The Book Exchange, a Fiercely Independen...

Independent Bookstore Day, April 29

First Trump Files Book Event

Meet the Author of The Trump Files

Trump’s Indictment. Why it matters...

Trump’s Indictment, Finally

Donald Trump’s Dangerousness

Guns and Mass Shootings

Uncovering the Origin of COVID-19

What do Science Deniers have in Common ?

Nuclear Weapons Must Go

Moon, Venus & Jupiter over Marietta

Representative Greene: Be Careful What Y...

Visits to two Independent Bookstores in ...

Our Visit to The Bookworm, a Local Indep...

Not So Special Grand Jury’s Partia...

Was it a Good Idea to Market My Own Book...

The Struggle for Human Rights

Kepler, Education Activists, & Atmo...

January 6, 2021, A Date which will live ...

President Zelensky’s Legacy

Trump’s Infamies

Warnock’s Win: Potential of Multir...

Warnock Wins: The Headline I Thought I W...

Georgia Is Not Left Liberal-But Warnock ...

Early Voting in Georgia is Over, But Whe...

I VOTED FOR WARNOCK, HOW ABOUT YOU?

Leadership for the People

John “Jack” Smith, TrumpR...

The Fulton County, Georgia Case against ...

The Warnock-Walker US Senate Runoff—-Nev...

Georgia’s Election Cast of Charact...

Book Giveaway–5 Days Left

Covid Came Calling

Will Trump Be Indicted After the MidTerm...

Let’s Elect Trump in ’24

Protagonists in the Trump Files

Review of The Trump Files

The Trump Files at the Frankfurt Book Fa...

Memories of Russia During the Era of Mik...

The Theft of Fifteen Boxes from the Whit...

Why Citizens Should Fear Donald Trump...

Trump Files Arrived Today!

Citizen Jack’s Trump Files

An Expert Raises Questions about US Nati...

Juneteenth at Marietta Square, Georgia

Scallywags Reappear

Neither Eeyore nor Pollyanna Be

When it comes to protecting west Cobb, t...

Georgia Politics of Banning, Dumping and...

Trump’s Interference in Georgia El...

Georgia Voters Threatened with $100,000 ...

The Treacherous and Cowardice War Agains...

The Republican Threat: Trump Lost, Get O...

The Nuclear Threat

“Make Your Country Great Again,...

Our Way of Thinking Has Not Changed

In the Ukraine Conflict, Fake Fact-Check...

The Trump Files: A Forthcoming Book by J...

Retaliation Against Scientists at the US...

Russian Citizens Protest the Invasion of...

NATO’s Creep to the East-Russia...

This is how our local bookstore sold ban...

American Coup, ’20-’22.

Georgia World News: Trump, Voting Loss o...

Voting Rights on Trial

Banning Thinking in School*

When a Coup Attempt Goes Unpunished, It ...

Homage to Treason vs. Vigil for J6 Patri...

Who Is Getting Infected with COVID-19?

Beyond Science Standards

Promoting Global Collaboration in a Worl...

A Letter from A Teen Living in 2051 abou...

The Nuclear Risk

Climate Change is a Menace by the Number...

A Life Defined by the Bomb

Climate Change Threat

School In the Age of a Global Plague

I’M VACCINATED, SHOULD I BE WEARIN...

Fahrenheit 121—Heat Dome 2021

A Whistleblower’s Chronicle of Trump’s P...

Climate Change Effects on Migration ...

The Case of Censorship of James Hansen, ...

30 Ways to Suppress the Right to Vote

Jordon Launches Anti-Science Attack in t...

Trump’s Legacy is a Baseball Game&...

Remembering COVID-19 Last Year

The Fragility of Liberal Democracy

Senators Voted 57-43 To Convict Trump fo...

House Trial Memo of the Impeachment of P...

Finding a lost Manuscript

Watershed

How Donald Trump’s ‘America ...

Pandemic Grief

2021: Have we caught up with Martin Luth...

Impeachment II for Inciting Insurrection

Far-right Activists on Social Media Tele...

The Dangerousness of Donald Trump

Trump Causes Violent Insurrection &...

Anarchy & Sedition

Trump Threatens Georgia Secretary of Sta...

Examining Trump’s Authoritarian St...

The Second Blue Wave

RBG’s Environmental Legacy

A Climate Change Fact Sheet for the Penc...

Trump, The Super Spreader, Released from...

How RBG Made the Earth A Better Place

Raking Leaves Won’t Put Out Califo...

What’s Causing the Wildfires in th...

Educating for Blacklives: Readings and R...

Why Mail In Voting Isn’t As Bad As...

Most U.S. Citizens Can Vote By Mail

Georgia Is Not Ready to Go Back to Schoo...

Should Students Wear Masks at School?

Remember John Lewis: The Soul of Our Nat...

John Lewis: Standing for Good Trouble

Why Isn’t Testing free, easy, fast and a...

Stormtroopers in American Cities: Trump&...

Do I have Covid-19?

Maybe only 5’s will go to school o...

Face Masks for Health, Art & Scienc...

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

It’s Time For All Georgians to Wear Face...

Is It Reasonable for Colleges To Offer F...

When Trump sends you running for cover...

Trump’s a Loser; Let’s Keep ...

What – or who – is Antifa?

In Science Teaching, Should We Try to be...

Outside the US, People See An Uprising, ...

A justification for unrest? Look no furt...

1940 – 2020: Newspaper Headlines E...

America Is Burning

How Trump has led the United States to a...

We are Go for Launch—Aborted Until...

SpaceX reaches for milestone in spacefli...

Masks Help Stop The Spread of Coronaviru...

Cal State Universities Limit Fall to Onl...

When Trump sends you running for cover

Everyday ethics: When should we lift the...

Are Georgia’s College and Universi...

Should Colleges & Universities Reop...

Has Georgia Reached A Coronavirus Inflec...

Coronavirus: What We Can Learn from Doct...

How South Korea flattened the coronaviru...

Is Georgia Out Of It’s Mind?

COVID-19 Expert Roundup

Letter to Georgia Superintendent of Scho...

Want to know how many people have the co...

When Will We Return to Normal?

Coronavirus in Georgia

Why Have We Waited To Implement Communit...

Social Distancing: Lessons from the 1918...

Ventilators: How They Work & Why We...

Georgians: You Need to Know This, Too Ab...

Trump Is Ignoring the Truth About COVID-...

What Experts Say About Trump’s Cor...

Interview with Anthony Fauci on the Pand...

The TrumpCovid-19 Timeline

Inside Look at Developing A COVID-19 Tes...

Trump’s COVID-19 Response Too Late

Testing for Coronavirus: How Does It Wor...

Roundup of Expert Coronavirus Research

COVID-19 Resource List

Is The U.S. Prepared for COVID-19?

ULTIMATE CORONAVIRUS RESOURCE LIST

Get the Facts About The Coronavirus

No Federal Funds for Charter Schools Pro...

Seeking Knowledge about Coronavirus

Trump Impeached and Forty-Eight Senators...

Trump: The President Without Character

Climate-Grief

All The Presidents’ Impeachments

What Will Trump Do After the Assassinati...

You Won’t Believe Trump’s Un...

Donald Trump Impeached for High Crimes a...

Fighter for the Environment

From Brexit to Trexit

Republican Senators: Seek the Truth abou...

Resident #45 & His Sycophants

Why is Ukraine the Center of the Impeach...

A Few Words about the Impeachment Inquir...

It’s Not Quid Pro Quo–ItR...

Facts Are Facts, Right?

High-Stakes Testing Has to Go

Pale Blue Dot: Science & Poetry

Acrylic Painting of the Geologic Map of ...

From the Archives: Are the Common Core S...

Should Teachers Express Their Political ...

From the Archives: Babel from The Right:...

Why Climate Change Activism Should Be Pa...

Climate Change Youth Activists Are Up Ag...

Why Should We Listen to Young Climate Ch...

How Do We Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...

The Stone Age Didn’t End Because W...

Change Is Coming Whether They Like It Or...

Climate Crisis on Marietta Square 9.20.2...

Climate Crisis Solution Today-A Film by ...

Four Young Climate Activists Testified i...

Greta Thunberg Speaks with President Oba...

Climate Crisis Action 2019

Climate Strike This Friday

Youth Climate Leaders to Testify at a Ho...

From the Archive: A Clear and Present Da...

Did Trump Falsify U.S. Government Data?

Assault on Weather Forecasters

Changes Are Coming to the Art of Teachin...

Sharpie-Trump is a Diversion & Atta...

What is Trump’s Stupidity of Hurri...

Hurricane Dorian: Another Extreme Storm ...

What is Donald Trump, anyway? Could he b...

The Rise of Political Repression in the ...

Censoring Scientists in the World of Put...

Real News about Testing Nuclear Weapons:...

Trump-Netanyahu Axis of Shame

It’s Really Hot! Climate Change, Y...

The Cowardness of the First Day of Schoo...

Courage to Fight Gun Violence: Join Gabb...

Call (out) US Senators

Reject Leaders Who Feed Fear and Hatred

Shootings are caused by Hatred, Not Ment...

From the Archives: Do Some Charter and T...

The Dark Cloud of Hate that Rode The Ele...

Facial Recognition

Caution!: The Dangerous Myth-Making of D...

Roundups—Nazi-Style—of groups of America...

Time to Impeach

We’d Better Keep Our Eye on the Ba...

Is the Trump Presidency Valid in Light o...

Mueller: The 2016 Election was Directly ...

Trump’s Hard Right Toward Dictatorship: ...

Power Shift in DC: And in the States

Is a Global Temperature Difference of 1....

Most Children & Women Fleeing Centr...

Trump’s Hard Right Toward an American Di...

Global Arms Export Leaders Filling the W...

FY 2018 Budget: War or Peace

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Health Care Opposition Letter to Congres...

The Principle of Tolerance: Curing Ourse...

Let the Sunshine In

The Georgia Opportunity School District ...

Gov. Deal’s Opportunity School Dis...

If Poverty & Financial Hardship Aff...

P.L. Thomas On “Miracle” Sch...

Can EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Yout...

Authoritarian Spray: How the Spray of St...

Atlanta Public Schools’ Equity Aud...

NCTQ Review on Teacher Prep Replete with...

Resisting the National Council on Teache...

The NCTQ Review of Teacher Prep in the U...

National Council for Teacher Quality Tea...

Why Chetty’s Value-Added Model Studies L...

Georgia Teachers Continue to Impress: 20...

Top 20 Organizations Receiving Common Co...

Are the Deep Pockets of Gates, Walton, a...

Bush’s Digital Learning Report Car...

Jeb Bush’s Math/Science Claim Amer...

The Absurdity of Teacher Evaluation Syst...

A Vanguard of Voices for Educational Ref...

Charter School Formula for Financial Suc...

Why Bill Gates Defends the Common Core

Science is a Way of Thinking: So, Why Do...

The Gobbledygook of Florida Teacher Eval...

Welcome to A New Web Design for the Art ...

NBC’s Climate Debate: Enabling the...

In Science Teaching, What Does it Mean t...

Evolution Might be a Law, But Student Id...

Students Choose What to Learn: Freedom t...

What Would the Russian Scientist, V.I. V...

Governor Deal's Weather Task Force ...

Governor Deal’s Weather Task Force...

Bill Nye, The Science Guy, Debates Ken H...

Atlanta Snow Storm Fiasco: The Case for ...

5 Qualities of Systems Thinking and Comm...

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If You Think Student Output as Measured ...

Instead of School’s Industrial Cul...

Reforming Education Requires another Way...

In Spite of the "System," Urba...

A Systems Thinker Reviews The Atlanta Pu...

NAEP Large City Study Sheds Light on the...

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Teacher Educators are Teachers First by ...

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EmpowerED Georgia Kicks Off Stop Putting...

Moving Beyond the Drama and Hyperbole th...

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PISA Testing in the Year 2063: Fives Wal...

PISA Headlines from the UK: World League...

PISA Day: Your education today is your e...

A Reporter from Ireland Previews the Rel...

Schools Stuck at Back of the Class Accor...

NSTA’s Uncritical & Authorita...

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What Sort of Teacher Preparation Program...

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Do MOOCS Serve Schools or Corporations?

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Letter Number One to Governor Deal and S...

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A Story of Global Inquiry in Action

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Grant Lichtman on Simple Metrics

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Inquiry: The Cornerstone of TeachingR...

The DeKalb County, Georgia “Big Vo...

The Artistry of Teaching

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Part I. Will the Debate over Evolution E...

Charter Schools in Georgia: Corporate Re...

Fernbank Science Center Might Be Shut Do...

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Some Problems with the Next Generation S...

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Inverse Relationship between Common Stan...

The Predicted Effects of the Common Core...

The Social-Emotional Consequences of the...

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Ozone: An Inquiry into Air Quality

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The Authoritarian
LatestThe Press + the Idiot = Danger
by Jack Hassard | Mar 4, 2025 | Autocracy, The Authoritarian, The Trump Files | 0
Tonight the press is going bonkers over the idiot’s showtime to the Congress, the Supreme Court,...
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Elon Musk’s & Donald Trump’s Illegal Reshaping of America’s Future
by Jack Hassard | Feb 12, 2025 | Autocracy, The Authoritarian | 0
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First Felon
by Jack Hassard | Jan 10, 2025 | The Authoritarian | 0
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Another Existential Threat: Donald J. Trump
by Jack Hassard | Nov 10, 2024 | The Authoritarian | 0
Wildfires
Latest2025 LA Fires: Understanding Causes and Consequences
by Jack Hassard | Jan 15, 2025 | Wildfires | 1
The post that follows was written 4 years ago. That year, wildfires ravaged Australia and the western United States, especially California. On January 7th, 2025, at least 23 catastrophic fires broke out in Los Angeles County. These fires were intense due to low humidity. There were arid conditions. Powerful Santa Ana winds reached hurricane force, exceeding 80-100 miles per hour. Two fires, the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Fire in Altadena, have caused the most damage. The map shown here is an overview of the significant fires in the Greater Los Angeles area.
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2021’s Biggest Climate and Weather Disasters
by Jack Hassard | Jan 12, 2022 | Climate Change, Wildfires | 0
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Fahrenheit 121—Heat Dome 2021
by Jack Hassard | Jul 9, 2021 | Climate Change, Wildfires | 0
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Raking Leaves Won’t Put Out California’s Fires
by Jack Hassard | Sep 18, 2020 | Climate Change, Wildfires | 0
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What’s Causing the Wildfires in the West?
by Jack Hassard | Sep 14, 2020 | Climate Change, Wildfires | 0
History & Philosophy
LatestSchool Closings in Our Cities: A Deep Ecological Problem
by Jack Hassard | Mar 23, 2013 | History & Philosophy, Progressive World-View, Teacher Unions | 0
In this post I am going to argue that it is a mistake for large school districts such as Chicago, New York, and Atlanta to close schools on the basis of achievement and cost effectiveness. The Chicago School District announced...
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Part II: Will the Debate over Evolution End Soon?
by Jack Hassard | May 28, 2012 | History & Philosophy, Religion, Science | 0
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Part I. Will the Debate over Evolution End Soon?
by Jack Hassard | May 27, 2012 | History & Philosophy, Issues, Religion | 0
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Sir Isaac Newton's Notebooks and Papers
by Jack Hassard | Dec 14, 2011 | History & Philosophy | 0
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10 Hall of Fame Teachers
by Jack Hassard | Aug 9, 2011 | History & Philosophy, Teacher Education | 0
Insurrection
LatestTrump Reindicted for Plotting to Overturn the 2020 Election
by Jack Hassard | Aug 28, 2024 | Indictment, Insurrection | 0
Federal prosecutors issued a revised version of an indictment accusing former President Donald J. Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. Trump knowingly made false claims about election fraud and was on notice that his claims were untrue. His running mate and staff told him he lost the election. The defendant continued to make false claims on his Twitter account. He continued falsifying the election outcome at the rally on the Eclipse on Jan. 6. This post explores the new indictment.
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Into the Storm, Again
by Jack Hassard | Aug 21, 2024 | Elections, Insurrection | 0
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Trump Should Be Disqualified from Public Office
by Jack Hassard | Dec 19, 2023 | Insurrection | 0
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Systems Thinking
LatestOur Way of Thinking Has Not Changed
by Jack Hassard | Mar 16, 2022 | Global Collaboration, Systems Thinking | 0
In 1945, Albert Einstein said after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, everything has changed except our modes of thinking. And still our modes of thinking have not changed.
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2021: Have we caught up with Martin Luther King Jr? Can we? How could we?
by Ed Johnson | Jan 18, 2021 | Racism, Systems Thinking | 0
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