This is an article written by a group of Georgia public schools high school students. One of the students to Marietta High, just a few miles away from my home. I know many of the other schools represented by these students. The students have created a statewide activist group whose goal is to improve public school education.
Read More
This guest post by Ed Johnson, Advocate for Quality in Public Education, Atlanta, GA
, edwjohnson@aol.com is the second of two posts written by Ed about the insanity of banning books from children’s eyes and minds. You can read the first of Ed’s posts here, Shhhh! Don’t tell Mesha Mainor and Moms for Liberty about this. You can also find other posts written by Ed Johnson on this blog here.
On Saturday, March 9th, Joe Biden and his predecessor visited Georgia a few days before the March 12 primary. In Georgia, the media appears to treat President Biden and his predecessor as equals in the 2024 presidential race. But they are not—not by a long shot. The media is replicating how they covered the 2020 presidential race. This is a failure of the free press to discern the real difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate, who happens to be President of the United States. The Republican candidate sought to stay in office in 2020 by staging a coup on January 6th, 2021. He lost the election by 7 million votes and still to this day, claims the Big Lie that the other side stole the election from him. Millions of Americans believe this, also. This is the underlying context that the press forgets to mention. The predecessor spent for years while sitting in the White House chipping away at the guard rails of democracy. Thankfully he was an under achieving autocrat.
Read More
A student at the University of Georgia was killed last week on campus. But because the man they arrested was an undocumented Venezuelan migrant, the Governor, Republican legislators, and a handful of protesters in Athens have turned the incident into a vendetta—a feud in which politicians want to seek vengeance against an entire group of people because of the murder by one person. The Georgia government is laying the blame on the whole Latino community, not only in Athens but throughout the state.
Read More
This post is about ageism and how we discriminate against people that are considered old. We need to look at the media and ask why they are making the case that Biden is not fit for office based on his age. Most of the people in the media, those that are writing the stories and reporting on various outlets, are much younger than either Trump or Biden. Could they be involved in a case of bias, discrimination, or bullying on the basis of age? This very well could be the case. Researchers call this ageism, patterned after sexism and racism.
Read More
This post consists of a short video (11 minutes) in which I talk about some of the books that have influenced my writing and thinking about the dangerousness of Donald Trump and his Trumpist allies.
Read More
I was intrigued by the subtitle of this article, and since I’ve spent a lot of time in Texas, I’m passing this article on to you. Scoundrels, Weirdos, and Ne’er-Do-Wells on TX Ballot 2024 by Forrest Wilder, an article in the Texas Monthly, February 8, 2024.
Read More
The Colorado Supreme Court blocked Trump from the 2024 ballot. This was a landmark case, but it was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral arguments will be heard on February 8, 2024. More than 4 dozen amicus briefs have been filed for and against the Supreme Court case. The case will decide whether or not Donald Trump can be on ballots for the 2024 primary and general elections.
This post explores how the disqualification section of the Fourteenth Amendment can be used to prevent insurrectionists from holding office in the U.S.
Read More
S.B. 390 is written to target libraries and librarians. Some Georgia Republican Senators believe the American Library Association (ALA) spreads Marxist ideology. Therefore, they want to ban the Association from the state and require all public libraries to disassociate from the ALA.
I don’t believe these senators. I don’t think they are telling the truth about their remarks about libraries in Georgia.
GA Senate Bill 390 is disingenuous. They are claiming the ALA is a Marxist organization without any evidence. In this post I provide evidence to refute their bill and suggest an action plan to overtake the bill.
Read More
Donald Trump is the godfather of American politics in 2024. I would align him with authoritarians such as Viktor Orbán of Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an of Turkey, and Vladimir Putin of Russia. He insists on complete loyalty. But he also dehumanizes others, even the people who support him. He embarrassed Ramaswamy and Scott last night before each was to speak. Scott professed his love for Trump in an unbelievable remark he made in front of the cameras: “I just love you.”
Read More
