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Another semester, another leadership failure. UWM Chancellor Mark Mone continues to speak with a forked tongue, carefully parsing statements to please all sides, while in practice aiding and abetting anti-Israel activists in breaking university rules.
Boycott and divestment campaigns helped end apartheid in South Africa. In the U.S., they’ve helped secure better pay for farmworkers and defeat Jim Crow laws. Moving our money collectively can be a powerful lever.
Unpredictable rain and extreme heat will impact all of us.
As the climate crisis impacts more and more people, it is becoming increasingly difficult — and increasingly perilous — to ignore. A shift in the way we think about community is necessary. We can no longer afford to consider our sheltered enclaves as separate from the plight of others.
If the left can frighten people with lies about Project 2025, the right should be able to frighten people with the truth about Rules for Radicals. Both books clearly represent good versus evil. Project 2025 is not the evil one.
It seems absurd to take the time to refute the preposterous claims about immigrants made by Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans in Wisconsin, including U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden and Sen. Ron Johnson. But the campaign of slander targeting vulnerable workers who milk our cows, pick our crops, build our roads and prop up our economy is genuinely dangerous.
Wisconsin looks good, but she may need 3% lead in national vote to win electoral college.
The highest official in the nation should be chosen by the majority of the people. The Electoral College process has the capacity to thwart that outcome and has, indeed, several times. It’s happening more frequently now.
The Rights for the TSA Workforce Act would make TSOs equal with other federal workers by guaranteeing crucial rights in law.
Mediocre Wisconsin looks good in comparison to tax hells to the west and south.
Inflation is not caused by greed, gouging, collusion or protectionism. It is not caused by rabid capitalists attempting to squeeze every last penny out of the consumer, or by ‘animal spirits’ run amuck. Inflation isn’t even an increase in prices! No, inflation is an increase in the quantity of money.
The decision Wisconsin makes today will reverberate through future generations. By expanding coverage for obesity medication, the Group Insurance Board can lay the foundation for a healthier, more vibrant state.
Prominent filmmakers cite past support and criticize reduced funding for local artists.
Strip away the banter, at which both candidates fought each other to a draw, and Trump emerged victorious from the debate. Trump’s vision of the future, and the allies he has chosen to help realize it, is far more optimistic than Harris’s bleak projection, and her terrifying allies.
There came a point in the debate that Trump went bonkers, and you could almost feel the GOP hopes that remained in the nation seep out and into the night.
Harris did the main thing she needed to do. She came off as presidential. She convinced anyone who had doubts that she could be commander in chief. She passed easily through the narrow window between angry and weak. She did great. And for the last hour of the debate Trump was Trump. He actually wasn’t any worse than he was against Joe Biden but this time the contrast was stark.
Takeaways from the Trump-Harris debate.
His recent speeches have been long and rambling over many disconnected topics. He slurred some words; he was factually way off the mark many times; and he wildly exaggerated scenarios. His incoherence raised the likelihood that he has some level of early dementia.
Polls indicate that other than the former president’s steadfast MAGA base, including evangelicals, so-called traditional Republicans and independents are starting to sour on his behavior.
Letting memories lapse with the passage of time allows a return to the false sense of security felt on Sept. 10, 2001. “It can’t happen here” is a sentiment Americans must never accept again.
Another semester, another leadership failure. UWM Chancellor Mark Mone continues to speak with a forked tongue, carefully parsing statements to please all sides, while in practice aiding and abetting anti-Israel activists in breaking university rules.
Boycott and divestment campaigns helped end apartheid in South Africa. In the U.S., they’ve helped secure better pay for farmworkers and defeat Jim Crow laws. Moving our money collectively can be a powerful lever.
Unpredictable rain and extreme heat will impact all of us.
As the climate crisis impacts more and more people, it is becoming increasingly difficult — and increasingly perilous — to ignore. A shift in the way we think about community is necessary. We can no longer afford to consider our sheltered enclaves as separate from the plight of others.
If the left can frighten people with lies about Project 2025, the right should be able to frighten people with the truth about Rules for Radicals. Both books clearly represent good versus evil. Project 2025 is not the evil one.
It seems absurd to take the time to refute the preposterous claims about immigrants made by Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans in Wisconsin, including U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden and Sen. Ron Johnson. But the campaign of slander targeting vulnerable workers who milk our cows, pick our crops, build our roads and prop up our economy is genuinely dangerous.
Wisconsin looks good, but she may need 3% lead in national vote to win electoral college.
The highest official in the nation should be chosen by the majority of the people. The Electoral College process has the capacity to thwart that outcome and has, indeed, several times. It’s happening more frequently now.
The Rights for the TSA Workforce Act would make TSOs equal with other federal workers by guaranteeing crucial rights in law.
Mediocre Wisconsin looks good in comparison to tax hells to the west and south.
Inflation is not caused by greed, gouging, collusion or protectionism. It is not caused by rabid capitalists attempting to squeeze every last penny out of the consumer, or by ‘animal spirits’ run amuck. Inflation isn’t even an increase in prices! No, inflation is an increase in the quantity of money.
The decision Wisconsin makes today will reverberate through future generations. By expanding coverage for obesity medication, the Group Insurance Board can lay the foundation for a healthier, more vibrant state.
Prominent filmmakers cite past support and criticize reduced funding for local artists.
Strip away the banter, at which both candidates fought each other to a draw, and Trump emerged victorious from the debate. Trump’s vision of the future, and the allies he has chosen to help realize it, is far more optimistic than Harris’s bleak projection, and her terrifying allies.
There came a point in the debate that Trump went bonkers, and you could almost feel the GOP hopes that remained in the nation seep out and into the night.
Harris did the main thing she needed to do. She came off as presidential. She convinced anyone who had doubts that she could be commander in chief. She passed easily through the narrow window between angry and weak. She did great. And for the last hour of the debate Trump was Trump. He actually wasn’t any worse than he was against Joe Biden but this time the contrast was stark.
Takeaways from the Trump-Harris debate.
His recent speeches have been long and rambling over many disconnected topics. He slurred some words; he was factually way off the mark many times; and he wildly exaggerated scenarios. His incoherence raised the likelihood that he has some level of early dementia.
Polls indicate that other than the former president’s steadfast MAGA base, including evangelicals, so-called traditional Republicans and independents are starting to sour on his behavior.
Letting memories lapse with the passage of time allows a return to the false sense of security felt on Sept. 10, 2001. “It can’t happen here” is a sentiment Americans must never accept again.