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THE PUBLIC EYE: Trump Now Owns White Supremacy

Bob Burnett
Friday September 29, 2017 - 09:40:00 AM

Even though despicable, Donald Trump's white-supremacist proclivities have an upside: Trump now owns white supremacy. That's an opportunity for progressives to do more than protest; it opens a window for social justice. Indivisible, and other resistance efforts, have based their grassroots organizing on a simple maxim, "total resistance to the Trump agenda." That's been remarkably effective; it's a major reason why GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare failed. But as Trump rolls on, the resistance must broaden to take on Trump's bigotry, his alliance with white supremacists. -more-


ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Medication is Only the Beginning

Jack Bragen
Thursday September 28, 2017 - 10:57:00 AM

In my development as a human being, I've had problems. However, as time passed, I have solved many of them, and some of them were hard to solve. Many of the problems had by many mentally ill people can not be addressed with medication. While medication could be a prerequisite, it does not address specific issues that we may have when we are stabilized. -more-