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The Price of Mercy: How the Legal System Criminalizes Being Poor
Imagine losing your job, your apartment, and your children – not because a jury found you guilty of a crime, but because you didn’t have twelve... Continue reading
Posted in Humanity, In the News, Story
Tagged bench warrant, criminal justice reform, Emily Galvin-Almanza, Failure to Appear, hall of justice, hungry judge, junk science, Lawrence O’Donnell, ms now, Partners for Justice, potential vs threat, poverty trap, public defense, sports fan, The Last WOrd, The Price of Mercy, Today Show, uber, white privilege
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Right or Left? How History Decides Which Side of the Road You’re On
If you’ve ever landed in the UK, Australia, or Japan and felt that brief moment of panic watching cars come at you “the wrong way,” you’re not alone.
But here’s the part that surprises people: the United States and France both drive on the right – and that’s not a coincidence. In fact, their shared... Continue reading
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Tagged ambidextrous, Australia, blueprints, Britain, British colony, common man, Conestogas, defensive driving, elite, engineers, france, freight wagons, history, identity, Japan, left-handed, Napoleon, Netherlands, outlier, Poland, political survival, practical, railway, right-handed, self-defense, side of the road, South Africa, UK, united states
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The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act: A 5-Year Bridge to Stop the Healthcare Collapse
Last month, the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in California crossed $2,800, and in cities like San Francisco, that number is closer to $4,500. At the same time, a handful of people in this state added billions to their net... Continue reading
Posted in Humanity, In the News
Tagged ballot, Bernie Sanders, big beautiful bill, big ugly bill, billionaire tax, billionaire tax act, california, Eric Swalwell, federal cuts, food assistance, Gavin Newsom, healthcare, healthcare as a right, healthcare budget, medi-cal, medicaid, medicaid cuts, Medicare for All, National Wealth Tax, one big beautiful bill, one big beautiful bill act, ongoing tax, payment plan, support schools
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The Lion of Paris: How Abdol Hossein Sardari Saved Thousands of Jews from the Nazis
History has a habit of focusing on the loudest voices, but often, the greatest acts of heroism... Continue reading
Posted in Humanity, Story
Tagged 1979 Iranian Revolution, Abdol Hossein Sardari, Amir Abbas Hoveyda, anti-Semitic, Aryan, diplomat, Holocaust, holocaust heroes, humanity, ideology, iran, iranian history, Iranian Jews, Iranian passport, Iranian Schindler, jewish history, Jews, Jugutis, loophole, Muslim, Nazi, Oskar Schindler, Paris, Persians, pseudo-science, Schindler's list, World War II
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The Great Alignment: Three Paths, One Human Heart
Today is a day that hasn’t happened in a century. In a rare cosmic and cultural coincidence, Fat Tuesday, Lunar New Year, and the start... Continue reading
Posted in Humanity, In the News, Story
Tagged beads, culture, dragon dance, faith, Fat Tuesday, heritage, king cakes, Lunar New Year, Maya Angelou, prayer, pre-dawn meal, Ramadan, red envelopes, reflection
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The Blueprint of Hope: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson
Posted in In the News, Story
Tagged A&P, apology, barack obama, boycotts, Chicago, civil rights, Coca-Cola, Cuba, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., economic justice, Fidel Castro, Fighting Shirley, Geraldine Ferraro, Grant Park, Gulf crisis, human shields, I Am Somebody, international peace, Kermit the Frog, Martin Luther King Jr., Monica Lewinsky, NAACP, Operation Breadbasket, Operation PUSH, peacemaker, Pepsi, Poor People’s Campaign, Presidential Medal of Freedom, protest, psychological breakthrough, PUSH-Excel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, rainbow, Rainbow Coalition, Rainbow Connection, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. William Holmes Borders, Robert Goodman, Saddam Hussein, SCLC, Selma, Sesame Street, Shirley Chisholm, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Sr., the rejected, Unbought and Unbossed, White House
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The Presidents’ Day Patchwork: Why Your Holiday Depends on Your Zip Code
Tomorrow is Monday, February 16, 2026. Are you wondering, Who is off on Presidents Day? For some of us, that means a glorious morning of sleeping in and searching for mattress sales. For others, it’s just another 9-to-5, and perhaps a trip to the post office or bank. But for the history nerds among us, it’s a day to argue about where... Continue reading
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Tagged abraham lincoln, advertising, alabama, arkansas, boxing, bury the hatchet, calendar, california, christmas eve, clinton, curse, curse breaker, Daisy Gatson Bates, Daisy Gatson Bates Day, Declaration of Independence, delaware, Dutch, elections, English as a Second Language, ESL, Farewell Address, february, federal holiday, first president, florida, george washington, Governor DeSantis, history, holidays, indiana, James K. Polk, James Madison, jeopardy!, John Tyler, left-handed, lefties, lincoln, long weekend, marketing, Martin Van Buren, november, obama, oil painting, pedantic, political holiday, presidents day, presidents day sale, presidents trivia, punctuation, reagan, Return Day, Ronald Reagan, speeding ticket, state holiday, Teddy Roosevelt, The Curse of Tippecanoe, third monday, thomas jefferson, three day weekend, trivia, U.S. citizen, U.S. Semiquincentennial birthday, Ulysses S. Grant, washington's birthday
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The Punctuation of Liberty: When the Period Is No Longer Enough
The legal battle between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Senator Mark Kelly reached a constitutional boiling point this week. The stakes were significant: executive authority, military discipline, and the First Amendment... Continue reading
The End of Uber? When “Stranger Danger” Turned Into an App
For decades, one rule was drilled into everyone’s head: don’t get into a stranger’s car.
Not as a suggestion. As a survival instinct.
Then, almost overnight, an app showed up and said: Actually, go ahead – it’s fine now.
Not... Continue reading
The Super Bowl Sideline Shift: A National Rehearsal for What’s Next
Posted in In the News, Sports
Tagged 60 Minutes, adriana monsalve, americanness, asl, authority, bad bunny, Barbara Walters, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, bilingual, Condoleezza Rice, Diane Sawyer, Dianne Feinstein, double sideline strategy, floodgates, glass ceiling, halftime show, harry potter, Hillary Clinton, J.K. Rowling, Kamala Harris, kaylee hartung, Lady Gaga, language, laura rutledge, lead interviewer, legacy, LSPR, Madeleine Albright, maria taylor, melissa stark, Mike Macdonald, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, nbc, new england patriots, normalization, PRSL, Puerto Rican Sign Language, puerto rico, RBG, representation in sports, Ricky Martin, san francisco, San Francisco icon, Sandra Day O’Connor, seattle seahawks, secretary of state, senator, sidelines, Spanish, super bowl, Super Bowl LX, supreme court, telemundo, the neck, The VIew, turn the head, vice president, visibility, woman anchor, woman president, women, Women in Leadership, World News
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