U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon sets a tentative trial date of August 14 for the Trump classified documents case. The case will be heard in the federal Southern District of Florida, a federal jurisdiction known for its “rocket docket” that pushes to begin trials much faster than other jurisdictions. The procedural order requires that all pretrial motions be filed by July 24 and sets...
College Board Learns Lesson: Takes Stand Against Florida on AP Course Content
The College Board sent out a nationwide notice to public educators today finally taking a stand against the Florida Department of Education’s demands for modified Advanced Placement (AP) course curriculum. Learning from their prior missteps in bending to Florida’s will regarding the content of AP African American Studies curriculum, the notice states that requested changes to exclude...
Are you hoarding our nation’s secrets in your bathroom?
No? Then this battle isn't yours to fight. Put your wallet away. Stop sending this man your hard-earned money, he can pay his lawyers on his own. Put your guns away, he's not worth the time you'll serve in prison.
It *Really IS* a Battle for the Soul of the Nation
There’s a. lot. going on these days. Feeling like the mighty walls of our democratic republic are crumbling down all around you? I get it. I feel it too. Did any of us really expect anything else to happen? We’ve lived on borrowed time, it seems, with merely the facade of a just and fair and representative government. I wish I could pinpoint the moment in history when it stopped...
Eyes Turn to Smartmatic v. Fox Following Dominion v. Fox Settlement News
Breaking news erupting in alerts on all my devices early this Tuesday evening indicate a settlement has been reached in the Dominion v. Fox defamation case. It’s a bit disappointing for those who were hoping this case would wage on and stand sturdily on some idealistic principals of truth in journalism. Truth matters. $787.5 million matters more. Originally set to begin on Monday, the trial...
Dear Florida: An Open Letter
Dear Florida, I’m writing to you today from a place of great heartache. I know I’ve been rather distant in recent years, and the divide between us continues to grow deeper and wider with each passing day. We had a good run back in the day. The thoughts and memories of your sunshine, your glorious palms, beautiful ocean views, and fabulous sunsets and sunrises kept me going and got me...
Criminal Defendant Donald John Trump!
At roughly 2:30 p.m. today in a lower Manhattan courtroom, Donald J. Trump was officially arraigned on criminal charges related to hush money payments made to a porn star in 2016.
Fox ‘News’: Where Money Talks and Ethics Walk
Court filings in a defamation case brought against Fox News Network by Dominion Voting Systems reveal that neither prominent network personalities nor top network executives believed Trump’s claims of voter fraud yet decided time and time again to spread those lies on air. Not once, not twice, but for years. Fox News will probably spin their perpetuation of false accusations and narratives...
Let’s talk about freedom and the choice between ‘normal or crazy’
Anyone else who listened to the Republican response to the State of the Union address feeling a little like you’d been dropped into some sort of bizarre Opposite Land? The response, delivered by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, seemed rife with obvious examples of projection and gaslighting. Though one statement, above all, rang loudest in its unintended universal truth: “The dividing...