Perspective, Insight, & Humor
Category: <span>When We Weren’t Looking</span>

THE LAST 2 DOMINOES OF OUR DEMOCRACY

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} URGENT WARNING—SOUND THE ALARM: Red Winter of Trump Trump issued an Executive Order stating that he and AG Bondi get to interpret laws and impose those views upon federal agencies!!!  This includes the FCC, which oversees our NEWS MEDIA. WHAT THIS MEANS: Trump is taking steps to control news media, which will make it STATE-RUN MEDIA, like all autocrats before him, including Orban & Putin.  He opposes all reporting which could be considered dissent—does that sound like Democracy to you? He has already banned The Associated Press (one of the most unbiased, impartial news agencies) …

What Anti-DEI Politicos Get Wrong

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} Part 2:  It IS White Supremacy A previous version of this publication appeared at Forward Kentucky, in response to state-level anti-DEI legislation; this version is updated to include the Trump administration and Project 2025.  Part 1 is available here. “Diversity” represents all cultural sub-groups, including gay and trans, white and non-white, differently abled (both physically and mentally), religions, classes, ages, and genders. ~~~~~~ Decades ago I worked as a multicultural educator and saw first hand the ability to bring diverse people together and promote understanding, acceptance, and unity.  To see the concept today so maligned …

Dear Trump Voter, This is the result of your vote.

Days Till Anti-Trump Congress {day} The first 10 days.   As you likely know, during the first 10 days of Trump’s Negative 2.0 Presidency, he rescinded dozens of previous presidents’ (mostly Biden’s) Executive Orders, as well as creating his own, covering a range of categories below.  News summaries couldn’t convey the true essence of the rescissions and orders as well as snippets of the original text below.  Moreover, there are orders which will have broad-reaching consequences and thus were short sighted.  Here are insights and perspective on the most consequential, by topic: Civil Rights & Diversity In 2017, a friend …