We are witnessing a repeat of what happened in Europe in the 1920s and 30s which saw the emergence of three nationalist tyrants in Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union. Trump is using their playbooks and has emerged as a 21st century tyrant. This post compares Trump to tyrants and political prisoners (which he claims to be). It will be clear which list he belongs.
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Former President Donald Trump has been convicted in a Manhattan court of multiple felony charges related to his role in the “hush money” payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The high-profile trial, which captivated the nation, has resulted in a guilty verdict that will forever tarnish Trump’s legacy and have significant implications for his political future.
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In the New York “Hush Money” case, Trump was found criminally guilty of 34 felonies. A jury of his peers, made of 7 men and five women from New York City, convicted Trump. He is now a felon and will be bound by the laws of New York. Trump will not be able to vote because Florida does not allow felons to vote. He will also have to report to a parol officer in New York. and be bound by the rules against felons.
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During Trump’s presidency, the EPA rolled back more than one hundred environmental regulations.238 The health of the nation was put in a crisis with hundreds of thousands of Americans dying of COVID-19. Extreme weather events were met with ignorance and mockery for the people affected. In this post I review how Trump and his administration diminished the work of the EPA and science departments in the Federal government. This is a warning that it will worsen if Trump gets in again. We have to fight like hell to prevent that from happening.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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