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It Was Always Bigger Than That
250 years later, here's what actually got lost. I love this country. I don't love a flag, and I think a lot of people mix those two things up without realizing it.
The ADA Turns 36. The Work Isn't Done
Thirty-six years ago today, a civil rights law went into effect that said — in plain terms — disabled people belong everywhere. In jobs. In schools.
Solar Is Thriving. Trump Hates It
Honestly, I don't understand why Trump refuses to promote clean energy. It's the right direction for our future.
Duck AI Fell for a Fake News Story
There is a website called WKNA 49 that looks exactly like a local West Virginia TV news station. It has a weather ticker, a logo, a newsroom email, even a corrections policy.
Hamilton Saw This Coming
Hamilton clearly predicted Donald Trump in a 1792 letter to George Washington: “When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents … despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government [and] bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day — it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’
AP Photo/Jon Elswick The word "triumphal" comes from the Latin triumphus — meaning a great victory. Rome built them for military wins.
RFK Jr. wants to ban fluoride from U. S.
What if we replaced elections with a lottery? Random citizens instead of career politicians.
Haiti declared independence in 1804 — the first nation founded by people who freed themselves from slavery. The world’s response was not celebration.
This was posted on Trump’s personal Truth Social account — an AI-generated image of himself holding an assault rifle in front of burning rubble, threatening Iran over nuclear negotiations.
Luxembourg is now the second country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution! 🇱🇺✨ France was the first to do so, and I hope other countries will follow suit.
It’s disgusting that Trump is showing kids that video of himself after getting shot at a rally during the election season at Easter. What kind of man does that?
I applaud Virginia for passing 25 vital gun safety laws—a huge step for reform. However, I’m disappointed that assault weapons with under 15 rounds remain legal.
It is heartbreaking to see this happening. A 12-year-old should be hiding safely, not guarding a military checkpoint.
Photo: KL Murphy for NPR There are only 51 Rice’s whales left on Earth. They live exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico — that’s their whole world.
The Court says banning conversion therapy silences free speech. But every major medical group calls it harmful and discredited.
New research finds the U. S. has caused roughly $10 trillion in global climate damage through its emissions since 1990 — more than any other country.
The U. S. government just officially registered alien.
Wait—The U.S. and Iran Were Once Allies?
My blog doesn’t usually wander into geopolitics, but a couple of emails about the U. S.
It’s incredibly heartbreaking to see this today.
I try to avoid talking about politics here, but I have to say something abt this. “It can take years, even decades, for high-quality research to reach clinicians.
It’s honestly alarming that the US withdrew from the WHO last month. They are already cutting 2,300 jobs by summer.
What’s with Trump’s obsession with slapping his name on builidngs? Kennedy Center, Institute of Peace, & he now wants airports named in his honor.
TrumpRX launched this week with discounts on prescription drugs—but it’s not the only game in town. GoodRX and Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs have been doing this for years.
Gas dropped from $3.13 last year to $2.90 now. Thirteen cents. That’s what we’re celebrating?
35 Years of the ADA, and Hotels Still Can’t Get It Right
Published on Substack on 1/26/2026 The Americans with Disabilities Act will turn 36 later this year.