#trump #election2020 #texasshooting #ohioshooting #racistchants No mass shooting had been so clearly a hate crime, that was initiated by Trump, more so than the one from El Paso. By now, we all know what happened. A lunatic, white supremacist, male, drove to a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, to try to kill as many Mexicans as possible. That same day, another lunatic, white supremacist, male did the same thing in Dayton, Ohio. And where did their guidance come from? The very President of the United States. The "greatest...

#judges #election2020 #courtsystem Back in May, I wrote about how we're so focused on the immediate news and are completely missing out on the long-lasting changes the Republicans and the Trump administration are perpetrating in the background. The most impactful and least talked about is how our Federal Court system is being shaped for decades to come. The most recent episode from NPR's Embedded show is taking a look at the very real implications of our missing the forest for the trees. Though the show is focusing on...

#trumpthehack #trump #election2020 Back in April, I wrote how Trump was a Hacker in the true sense of the word. I wrote that Trump had found very effective bugs in our media ecosystem that allowed him to bypass the very safeguards that were created to people like him off the medium. Hacker Trump didn't stop there, he continued to hack his way through our country's checks-and-balances. He did this through various tools and methods his predecessors had used in the past, though not all at once, and used...

#mueller #election2020 #lnsc #acloserlook I enjoy watching the late-night show's satirical take on the day's news. They are mostly sharp and entertaining. Because most of the hosts are left-leaning, they tend to satirize the Republicans more than the Democrats. The jokes and lambasting are tough, but they've mostly been true. And while true, they are lacking the necessary criticism to make them an effective force for change. Thus, all of the work and effort spent on these monologues are turning into nothing but echo-chambers for the viewers. Take...

#muellerreport #election2020 Robert Mueller and his band of merry men (and women), spent nearly 2 years investigating Trump, his campaign and Russia. The output of that investigation was a 450-page report. The report was broken into two volumes, volume 1 focused on conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia and volume 2 focused on obstruction of justice. On the first subject, Mueller was clear in his conclusion, there was no conspiracy between the campaign and Russia and Russia's government interfered in our election. Sure, volume 1 included a...

#muellerreport #trump #election2020 Today, Robert Mueller finally testified in front of the US Congress. This is one of the only times I have ever heard him speak. The first time was when he held a press conference to talk about his non-appearance of this very appearance. The testimony progressed both, as I had expected, and with a few surprises. First, the democrats and the republicans both played their game. The game of the democrats was to point out each one of the facts in the report Mueller provided...

#iran #trump #2020election The chaos that often surrounds our current American administration has made itself evident several times, but none more so than the current diplomatic booby trap the Iranians have laid before the US and Europe. After the UK government, under direction of the US government, stopped and seized the Grace 1 cargo ship off the coast of Gibraltar in early July, tensions between Iran and the UK have raised to a boil after Iran returned the favor by seizing 2 of its oil tankers on Friday....

#subconsciousmind #biasindata #studies #baitingheadlines And so are people with a Mercedes Benz... It's true, recently I was learning about how easy it is for us to fall prey to catchy headlines. Headlines that tell us what we want to hear, or that strengthen our points of view... hence the cheeky post if you are a dog-owner :) You have all read the headlines to which I'm referring. "Drinking xyz is good for your heart", "Chocolate helps you lose abc", "People with 123 are happier", etc, etc. At a...

Times change, and as they do, they force us all to view our past with the insight of 20/20 vision. In the midst of time, however, this insight is almost impossible. Ever since the start of civilization, children have played an important role in the prosperity or hardship of a family. Male children have, in the past, been preferred because of their potential to help with labor-intensive chores. Whereas females, whom are generally not as physically strong, were considered to be a misfortune. By the time we reached...

Recently I have been listening to the latest season of Embedded. Embedded is a podcast series that initially began by digging deep on a single news story. It has since evolved into following a subject closely and doing an entire season based on that. For example, prior to this season, they did an entire season on Trump Stories. Most recently, the season was based on Mitch McConnell. There were five episodes and in each one they told one aspect of McConnell that when done left me angered. For...