Happy Fourth of July!
Check out James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's icon speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
Of course, we're still in the midst of the pandemic, and some students in Alabama have decided to have a little fun by holding "COVID parties" to bet on who gets sick first. Is this only happening in America, or are kids in other countries this stupid? I know most other world leaders aren't as clueless as our AWOL president.
What if COVID is another of Mother Nature's ways of pushing back against our environmental degradation? I pondered that in an article I published this week.
Trump went to Mt. Rushmore on Friday to deliver a real whopper of a speech replete with threats, racism, and jingoism. Of course he did it at the foot of a sculpture a former Ku Klux Klan sympathizer carved. The Oglala Sioux tribe of S.D. voted to ban Trump from their sacred land. But, hey, when has the U.S. ever respected Indigenous rights?
So now that ICE has started gassing refugees detained at our Southern border, will your Fox-so-called-News-loving Uncle Ralph finally concede we've been running concentration camps?
Now the Wildlife Services is on our radar after The Guardian this week broke a story about the agency surreptitiously planting cyanide bombs close to residences.
Finally, folks, we have officially hit the halfway mark of 2020. This November, the republic is at stake. If you are not registered to vote, register now. The Republican voter-suppression machine is running full bore, so we need all hands on deck knowing millions are going to have their votes stolen. No matter what you think about Joe Biden and the Democratic party, the alternative is Donald Trump. There is no third option. None. It's Biden or Trump. No matter what you might feel about Biden's voting record while in the Senate, the conservative positions he took on some issues, he will not cancel your civil rights, like Trump. He will not court right-wing dictators and white supremacists, like Trump. He will not take away our healthcare, like Trump and the Republican party seeks to do. He will not kiss up to the so-called "religious" right. He will not try to prevent you from exercising your constitutional rights. He will not call climate change a "hoax". He will not prevent you from getting an education. He will not ignore a pandemic.
But as optimistic we must be Biden will defeat Trump, we must not be complacent. We must keep pushing Biden to the left so this ship headed for the cliff can be turned around.
It's about values.
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