On the 20th anniversary of that very dark day for America, I’d never been embarrassed of my country before. I had in fact, never been more proud of my country until a few weeks ago.
Stung by its rout in Afghanistan, the US is doubling down on efforts to punish homegrown dissidents. But while the post-January 6 crackdown brought it into the public eye, the domestic ‘war on terror’ has been underway for years.
Grassroots canvas report reveals 173,104 votes were discarded and 96,389 votes were cast by someone other than the voter assigned to the vote in Maricopa County, Arizona's General Election.
“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN
Being young is weird, to put it bluntly, and a lot of it comes from not having the world quite figured out. Even well into one’s late teens and early twenties, the sufficient amount of life experience to be considered worldly hasn’t occurred to the vast majority of kids and it seems to be getting pushed back more and more.