Author: Carma Henry

     I have been trying to stay out of the sand but, the same old names keep popping up with sand in their mouths. Ol’ Peter Traceit is back and what a great time to be drag netting through the sands! In the game of Politricks you are always bound to come up with some DIRT (Discredit Information Revealed Tactically). This could refer to a strategy where damaging information about a political opponent is strategically disclosed to discredit them.

Haiti – Worst Mass Killing by Gangs Forced Residents to Flee

Trump’s divisive rhetoric is nothing new. His enduring call for the death penalty for five Black and Latino men—exonerated in the infamous Central Park jogger case—casts a long shadow over his candidacy. In stark contrast, Vice President Harris, the Democratic nominee, and a former prosecutor, has spoken out against Trump’s inflammatory language and is advocating for a justice system that is fair and equitable for all.

The presidents of the nation’s largest public service labor unions — April Verrett of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Becky Pringle of the National Education Association (NEA), Randi Weingarten of the AFT, and Lee Saunders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) — today announced a coordinated, multi-state voter outreach initiative to turn out voters in support of Harris-Walz in key battleground states. This massive effort, launching October 19 in Detroit, underscores the impact working people will have in determining the outcome of the 2024 election.

 The report details how Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel regularly overcharged the Secret Service while agents protected him, his family, and foreign dignitaries—a practice that Democrats say violated the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause.

      Young people play games on the internet, seek dates on the internet, watch catfights and booty videos on the internet, and they parrot and rubber-stamp wicked, devilish, and misinformative posts and messages on the internet placed on the internet by right-wing nationalists, supremacists, and oppressors of Black and African people.

   There is a large and corrosive    gap between a heuristic–a profiling tip that indicates something or someone may need to be observed for possible misconduct–and stereotyping–deciding that someone is undesirable and is going to commit unwanted actions because of their identity. A man walks into a crowd at a speech and he’s scowling, possibly fingering a knife in its case–the idea that this man should be observed is based on logic fed by hints from similar past situations–a heuristic that is a shortcut and an efficient mental process that narrows the odds of error. Stereotyping increases the chances for mistakes.

       Arts For Everybody brought unlikely community partners together— artists, government officials and community health leaders— to produce participatory arts projects seeking to bridge the arts with the health and well-being of our communities. The activation part of “One Nation/One Project” spanned 18 communities across the country from Hawaii to Washington state to Texas to Florida to Illinois to New York and to the nation’s capital Washington, DC and beyond to share, to create, to perform in celebration of health, community, belonging, and togetherness. Each project sought to address the unique challenges of their city, from access to clean water to access to lost customs and culture—issues that, many times, disproportionately impacted Black and brown and low-income communities. These same communities face the biggest barriers when it comes to access to the arts and health care.  

        Recently, many opinion polls indicate that Donald Trump―a convicted criminal, a pathological liar, and the latest in a long string of rightwing demagogues―is likelier than not to be elected President of the United States.

The Campaign enlisted support from influential entrepreneur champions to rally business owners in key battleground states