The Democrats have changed the candidate for the nomination of the president in 2024, and it is a woman of color who will take over the campaign. “People in your life will tell you, though; it’s not your time. It’s not your turn. Nobody like you has done it before. Don’t you ever listen to that, I like to say, I eat no for breakfast,” says Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.
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When I was a little girl, I was nourished with healthy food, clean drinking water, safe housing, access to education, adequate medical care, and the loving support of family and friends. As a result, I became an idealist, a perpetual optimist, a lover of people, and a dreamer. It seemed that the world was a magical place where anything was possible.
Toynbee contended that in the atomic age, humanity would have to choose between political unification and mass-suicide. He believed the chief obstacle to political unification was a long-standing destructive habit of the West which he referred to as the habit of “divisive feeling” to which we tended to easily succumb as opposed to reaching for our more recently adopted habit of “world-mindedness.” The good news, he said, was that just as new habits could be adopted, old ones could also be modified or abandoned. He stressed that as a general rule we humans would opt to abandon even our most deeply rooted habits once it became clear that clinging to them would spell disaster.
The thousands of red MAGA hat wearers at a Donald Trump rally symbolize a vote for Trump and personify the words of Benjamin Franklin.
The Unspoken
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, known as SLAPP suits for short, are a type of lawsuit intended to silence or punish people who speak out on matters of public interest. They often attack protected free speech and have mostly been used by powerful and wealthy interests to harass. The suits are usually not built to win in court, but rather to leverage the deep pockets of those filing the suits to bully less wealthy groups and individuals and force them to divert their time and resources to defending themselves in court. This is a tactic increasingly used by the fossil fuel industry and other corporate polluters to suffocate environmental activism and advocacy.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democrat nominee, has a history of proposing sound affordable housing plans that resonate with voters. Given how much attention voters are paying to this issue, she should quickly make them a central part of her campaign platform.
Two Wars with No Way Out
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Violence is nothing new in association with politics in America. What has become different, however, is how it is reported in the so-called mainstream media and in the various channels of social media.
Over the last four days at the Republican Party Convention, Trump was totally in control of the money, power, and policies of every detail in the convention. Trump is the dictator of the party, and every one must march in line.