On the surface, the case seems like a straightforward fraud investigation: two employees at the Bay County Tax Collector’s Office were allegedly issuing Florida driver’s licenses to individuals who didn’t meet legal requirements, bypassing required testing and documentation in exchange for financial compensation. According to BCSO, the fraudulent activity was captured on DMV surveillance, and many of those who received licenses were traveling from across Florida to take advantage of this illicit service.
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As a hostile backlash to racial justice and gender equality wipes out desperately-needed corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, the latest Fortune 500 rankings marked two revealing milestones.
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America, conceived in iniquity by white mortal men in 1776, remains grounded in a white supremacy ideology. The Founding Fathers recognized that within this new Country, they possessed a rare opportunity to experiment using Democracy to manage this government and its people. Despite the Founding Fathers faithful efforts of establishing separate branches of government to guard against a Monarch, they recognized that they could not account for man’s eroding integrity and America’s ensuing mortality.
Imagine a private company wants to build a potentially dangerous pipeline through your backyard and the government decides your rights as a property owner matter less than the profits of said company. And it uses eminent domain – the power to seize private land for public use – to take control over part of your land as a gift to the company. For four years now, farmers and other landowners, environmentalists, Indigenous groups, and Iowans from all walks of life have come together to fight this outrageous idea.
In the lead-up to Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and its military leadership, Pres. Trump posed as a peacemaker and concerned bystander. He said that he much preferred a nuclear deal with Iran to war but hinted that he might not be able to keep Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ordering a strike.
“Freedom isn’t free” is a slogan I have heard much of my adult life, almost always associated with praising our military and the sacrifice veterans have made. We are well educated about soldiers freeing us from British tyranny in the American Revolution and keeping us free from the Nazis and Japanese in the Second World War. The question of this moment is, what are the greatest threats to our freedom in the here and now, and what price will they demand from us? It is time to reconsider how we think about the price of freedom and who needs to pay it.
This Father’s Day, let’s commit to raising a generation of sons who can grow into manhood not shackled by rigid roles but liberated by love, equality, connection.
Donald J. Trump, now the 47th U.S. President and newly granted sweeping immunity by the Supreme Court, runs the government like a personal puppet show. His Cabinet—composed largely of millionaires and billionaires—has followed his lead without question, echoing his views and reversing course whenever he tugs the strings.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — “Today, the U.S. actively blocks vessels from delivering oil to Cuba. It pressures other countries to deny Cuba tourism access,” she asserted. “And then it blames us for the resulting blackouts and scarcities. This is not diplomacy. This is punishment.”