"This is not zero tolerance. It’s zero-humanity. It’s wrong."
—Only in Trumpland are sitting Senators blocked at the door — of Trump-authorized make-shift Child-Detention facilities.Are we a country of Laws, or an insider club of wantabee kings and depots?Sen....
View ArticleThe Brutality of Prison Life: Where the undercurrents of the American Dream...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:It’s hard to escape the fact that American life, and the political life which reflects it, seem to be getting more brutal, crueler, month by month, even as the...
View ArticleAmerica, You are better than this
America, you are better than this. Over the past 200 years, every time life in some other part of the world became unbearable or dangerous, you led the world in welcoming people with open arms. While...
View ArticleThreatening the American Dream
Andrea came to America from Peru when she was 11 years old. She now serves in the US Air Force. Javier came to America from Mexico when he was 5 years old. He now is the CEO of a technology investment...
View ArticleUpdate on The War on Poverty: Poverty is Winning
Last week, I awoke to the strange headline that Trump’s economic team declared the War on Poverty“largely over and a success.” This must have come as surprise to the over 40 million Americans living in...
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These Revolutionary Times: on Being the Change through Civil Resistance
These Revolutionary Times is a project of The Political Revolution. Each Sunday, we focus on a small selection of papers, articles, and essays published in various publicly available sources that...
View ArticleTake A Knee
As you approach the grave of any soldier who died defending America, take a knee. For the courage and clarity of Colin Kaepernick, and his protest against police abuse, take a knee. For Michael...
View ArticleCompassion (and help) needed
Hello to the Kos Community. I'm usually the type of person who reads what everyone else writes, and shares the posts I feel are most important with my friends and family. Therefore I am reaching out...
View ArticleA Meditation on 9/11
Seventeen years on, take a moment to remember September 11th 2001, where youwere, what you thought, how you felt. Remember the nearly 3000 innocent peoplewho lost their lives in a senseless, evil, and...
View ArticleThe underdog story and the American Dream
The story of Cinderella is much much older than most people probably realize. Not exactly “a tale as old as time,” but it’s actually predates the New Testament old. At least some version of the...
View ArticleEconomy and Ecology: One and Inseparable. (Part II of Compass in the Storm)
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Introduction: What are we to say of a great nation, the wealthiest the modern world has ever seen, that can no longer dream of, much less enact, “big things,” even...
View ArticleTrump Desperate to Juice Economy as Only Hope to 2020 Election; Better to...
By Karen Rubin, News & Photo FeaturesAndrew Yang, entrepreneur candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, says he intends to fight what he predicts will be widespread unemployment and...
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Choosing to Dream...
How powerful is the “Dream”? For those who are born to it, it feels like an old blanket, warm to the touch with comfort to spare. For those in search of it, it is like a beacon drawing them closer....
View ArticleWhoops! That's not America in Trump's 'American dream' ad
I wish I could take credit for this, but it’s The Daily Beast that picked up on a minor flaw in President Donald Trump’s “American Dream” campaign ad released Monday: That’s not America.In the...
View ArticleTurning Long Island’s Housing Discrimination Disgrace into Affordable Housing...
By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.comLong Islanders are appropriately mortified by Newsday’s expose into ongoing housing discrimination that builds upon, rather than erases, the earliest...
View ArticleLosing the American Dream, Real Estate Agents expose the industry
Several real estate professionals expose in detail some dirty big secrets in the real estate business that is causing the loss of the American Dream.Our home used to be the American DreamxxYouTube...
View ArticlePompeo’s Safer World: North Korea, NRA, Russia, Trump’s Iran OR How Americans...
When America was a 1776 infant drinking the milk of human kindness, speaking child-like about the necessity for a peculiar institution, while failing to understand the necessity for a 1791 Bill of...
View ArticleD. Brooks attacks Sanders on class war: instead, workers to school forever...
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Conservative columnist David Brooks had a particularly obtuse and narrowly focused hit piece on Senator Bernie Sanders in Friday’s New York Times, and I felt I had...
View ArticleThe emotional story of America
America needs a spiritual awakening. Imagine two married people, one the breadwinner and the other the housekeeper. They have many fights, where they get very emotional, and the breadwinner does most...
View ArticleU.S. immigration policies push foreign tech workers to pursue Canada instead
Tech workers would rather go to Canada than the U.S., suggests new trends. As the current administration cracks down on immigration, foreign tech workers are finding it more difficult to get work visas...
View ArticleRichard Thripp for Congress (Florida’s 6th District): WJXT News4Jax Voter's...
My answers to the WJXT News4Jax TV station's Election 2020 Voter's Guide. Enjoy! June 27, 2020 Name: Richard ThrippSeeking which office: U.S. House, 6th districtParty affiliation: DemocraticAge:...
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Joe Biden pledges to "Reverse the damage Donald Trump has done" to America
—Joe pledges to reverse the damage Donald Trump has done to America's foundation.The foundation he describes as: Democracy and Equality for all people.Joe Biden: Trump erodes America's foundation. This...
View ArticleJoe Biden offers the sort of 'presidential' Fourth of July address America...
On the morning of Independence Day, clinched 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took to social media with a short but powerful video that speaks not just to the storied history of our...
View ArticleTrump told Americans a whopper before he was elected on his taxes. He also...
Sometimes, the truth comes from strange places. This morning, President Trump retweeted the kind quiet part out loud, the belief that many conservatives have but would prefer you not to think about. In...
View ArticleThe End OF A Beautiful Dream
Everything important and original starts from a dream. It can be sad but all dreams must end. This is the nature of a dream. We must wake up. Ride it out. Live it as best we can until it brings us...
View ArticleHey Salon, Chevy Chase Nailed the Fascist Aesthetic In Christmas Vacation 30...
My brain makes weird connections.Today my wife and I ended up watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and I happened to read this article at Salon about an hour later and the neural pathways in...
View ArticleTiffany Cross nails it: Their American dream was our nightmare. This is as...
Sometimes when a mirror is held in front of us, it is hard to believe. Tiffany Cross did that today. The American dream has been a nightmare for many.Tiffany Cross got it completely right.xxYouTube...
View ArticleTomgram: Ariel Dorfman, Liberty and Justice for All?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Over these last few years, here’s a problem that’s sometimes bothered me: how to...
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Relighting the Torch: Allen Ellison on Immigration and Strengthening Families
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden...
View ArticleWhat do you think that the ideal immigration policy for the US should be?
What do you think that the ideal immigration policy for the US should be?Personally, I think that the Democrats are moving in the right direction in regards to this, with Joe Biden’s proposed...
View ArticleBob Dylan, a Gatsby who won, turns 80 today
On the cover of ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ Bob Dylan sits on a stoop in a mod blue and purple silk shirt, unbuttoned over a t-shirt promoting Triumph Motorcycles. His hair is long for 1965. His mouth is in...
View ArticleThe American Dream meets the Climate Crisis at the Jersey Shore
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:The New York Times Magazine online ran a long and interesting article today, Sunday, August 15, 2021, an “update” on the implications of Global Warming for living...
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From Poverty to Politics: My Campaign for Virginia Senate
My name is Ben Litchfield and I am seeking the Democratic nomination for Virginia Senate District 27, which is centered around Fredericksburg, Virginia, just 53 miles south of Washington, D.C. If...
View ArticleZoomers: Last Chance for the American Dream
Is it just that they’re evil?Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was pulling no punches in calling out her six Republican colleagues on the Supreme Court in the student loan case, Biden v Nebraska. None...
View ArticleWe Left Our Hearts
We’ve Left Our HeartsSpecial part of the American Dream – Rags to riches, hero to crooner,Cheek to cheek, body and soul –You truly were no Tramp.Your strains too dear to loseMade us aware of our...
View ArticleUnlocking Democrats' secret weapon on the economy in 2024
News this week that the U.S. economy grew by a staggering 4.9% in the third quarter served as yet another reminder that, in spite of voters'dismal personal perceptions, the country's economic outlook...
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The End of the American Dream
Over the last few decades, the gap between earnings of people with and without a college degree has widened. This has occurred as a direct result of the dismantling of what was once the greatest...
View ArticleInvestopedia’s most fascinating financial term of 2023 by a long shot
The financial media website Investopediaposted the top 10 financial terms searched by its readers in 2023, and while some of them were dry (“Treasury Bill”) and others slightly sexy (“racketeering”),...
View ArticleThe American nightmare
Katie Britt claimed that the American dream has turned into a nightmare.Yes it has for those families affected by gun violence. Yes it has for those families affected by extreme weather related...
View ArticleAn obituary for a good friend
My good friend, Raoul, just died. He was a neighbor of mine who I slowly got to know over the years. He was an undocumented alien, and was boss of a crew that did road construction work that was so...
View ArticleWorking Florida Man Runs for Office, Wants Opportunity for All, Not Just...
Hi, I'm Bobby Brady, And I'm running to be the next Florida State House Representative for District 10. Like you, Florida is my home. 30 years ago, I bought my first home in Hillsborough County. I...
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A journey of hope and achievement.
My journey began in a distant land. Although, my origins might be imported, my roots are planted here. An immigrant surviving with just hope of the American dream. Had to pave my own road with hard...
View ArticleFamily Feud: Love, Labor, and the High Cost of Living
Starting a family in the United States has never been easy, but today’s climate presents an array of challenges that make this deeply personal dream feel increasingly out of reach for many. From...
View ArticleTalking Politics with My Son - Should we go back to the '50s? And THANK YOU...
This is not exactly election related, thought it kind of is. First, thank you thank you thank you Kossacks for helping make Talking Politics with Mom a success. I am so grateful to all the Kossacks...
View ArticleThe American Dream is Dead
While this may not be true for others, because we may have differing definitions of what the dream may have been, for me the idea of the American Dream is finished.I always thought the American Dream...
View ArticleWhy most Californians have given up on the American Dream
Seventy percent of the state’s residents think kids in the state will be financially worse off than their parents.By Mark Kreidler for Capital & MainIn 2024, California remains a land of plenty —...
View ArticleCongress Member Elect Yassamin Ansari Success's Story
Congratulations Democratic Congress Member-Elect Yassamin Ansari!--She’s Part of the U.S’s “Salad Bowl”-- January 1, 2025 America has often been called a “melting pot” where millions of...
View ArticleAmerica Chose Wealth Over Well-Being: How Billionaires Rewrote the American...
Yesterday, Congress certified the electoral vote count making a billionaire president again, starting after he’s sworn in on January 20th.Yes, we chose a billionaire. Again. After other billionaires...
View ArticleAmerica's taxes mock the American Dream
We’ve been told all our lives that America is a land of equal opportunity. We’ve been told that everyone has an equal chance of getting ahead—of landing a good job, making decent money, having a place...
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Fed-up Feds' Unions file Suit to protect Federal Workers from Trump’s Illegal...
——As reported here 6 hrs ago:r/fednews www.reddit.com/...US federal employee union sues over Trump administration plan to fire, reclassify government employeesSean...
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