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Is It Time for This War to End? Evidently Not

 Well, jail time for the Babayka is a consideration but I don’t think it will happen anytime soon.

     As a scientist who researches peace and conflict, I find it important to systematically approach questions and see where the evidence leads me. It is a trait I developed from great mentorship, and a value that was instilled in me by my father from a very young age.

     The racial divide in America is alive. It’s approaching points as violent as those that led to the Civil War. Social progress has inflamed Republicans’ lust for power. MAGA followers’ hatred toward Black people and others of color remains as destructive as a stick of dynamite. Unfortunately, Trump holds an ignitable fuse in one hand and controls the detonator switch with the other.

     Through the years, I’ve never hidden my many misgivings with United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, and while I disagree with his conclusions on most of the cases and controversies that our nation’s highest court considers each term, I’ve always suspected that it’s the “how” he reaches his decisions that irks me to no end.

More clean energy initiatives are needed and proposing them should remain a priority for the administration. That said, the new EPA policy rule on existing coal and natural gas plants should be done in a manner that protects the environment and climate while also enhancing the economy. The administration needs to ensure that new well-intentioned mandates will not have the unintended consequences of making electricity more expensive, especially for underserved communities.

      However, I will vote in November 2024. This year’s election may be the last free and fair election in the United States!

America would be better off with no Trump

     Former President Donald Trump was convicted by a 12-person jury in New York State Court of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, in violation of New York Penal Law § 175.10.

     The Conservative Right, which is manifesting itself in election officials of the Republican Party and now the United States Supreme Court itself, would seek to roll back all social gains made since the Brown Decision of 1954, which in effect reversed the “separate but equal” Jim Crow doctrine which was further outlawed with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. This law and the Voting Rights Act gave new meaning to the “Equal Protection Clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.