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Ted Millar is a writer and teacher. His work has been in featured in myriad literary journals, including Straight Forward Poetry, Better Than Starbucks, the Broke Bohemian, Caesura, Circle Show, Cactus Heart, Third Wednesday, and The Voices Project. He is also a contributor to Liberal America as well as hosting the podcast "The Left Place", available on all major podcast outlets.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Florida Wastes No Time After SCOTUS Gives A Pass On Gerrymandering
Republicans know most Americans find their policies odious, so in order to win, they cheat through voter-I.D. laws, voter suppression, and plain old policies designed to do one thing--rig the system in their favor.
Regardless of the form it takes, Republicans are perpetrating a concerted campaign to disenfranchise Democrats and minorities who vote for them.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 30, 2019 Phony ICE-Run University Trap Continues Unabated
ICE has been luring immigrants to phony colleges since 2013. Instead of stopping it, the Trump administration has doubled-down. It's time to abolish ICE.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 3, 2019 A Message To Democrats: Do Not Engage In The Circular Firing Squad
This is the time for Democrats to unify, not take positions in a circular firing squad as many did during the 2016 presidential cycle. Unless we want to see Trump re-elected in 2020, we need to be unified, not just appear so. Any cracks in the facade will weaken the whole establishment.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 14, 2019 Trump's Simple Re-Election Gambit--War With Iran
Although Trump's prognostication about Barack Obama starting a war with Iran was incorrect, Trump is planning on doing what he accused Obama of intending now that the House of Representatives is in full impeachment-inquiry mode and the tide of public opinion is beginning to turn against him.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 21, 2020 Republicans Block More Election Security, Paving the Way for Russia
Here we are, four months from selecting a nominee to take on Donald Trump, and it appears Russia is, once again, Trump's cheerleader.
U.S. intelligence officials warned members of Congress as much in a briefing last week that precipitated Trump's accusing acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, of "disloyalty," and firing him.
SHARE Monday, February 24, 2020 Republican National Committee is Sending Out Phony Census Forms
Most people are probably unaware official government forms don't get mailed until next month, so the Grand Old Republican Party is taking advantage of their ignorance by mailing out mock-census questionnaires resembling actual census forms.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2020 Thanks to COVID-19, Universal Basic Income is a Thing Again
Far from a panacea, Universal Basic Income, coupled with a federal jobs program, has the potential to reinvigorate the economy and our lifestyles.
As we jettison jobs in this current crisis--some that may never return--we need to do something progressive to keep the economy humming and people secure.
In light of the mess we're in, conversations about it are resuming.
Could we see it nationwide within our lifetimes?
SHARE Thursday, January 16, 2020 Trump Admits Pimping Out US Military To S. Korea and Saudia Arabia
If you're a veteran or current member of the U.S. military, would you mind being rented to another country?
How would it feel to be a soldier for hire, fighting not for the country you signed up to defend, but another, for someone else's political agenda?
Last week, Donald Trump bragged about accepting $1 billion from Saudi Arabia and South Korea in exchange for American military protection.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 28, 2020 The Supreme Court Just Put Immigrants In the Crosshairs--Again
In August, the Trump administration ramped up its next phase in the war on immigrants when it decided to deny green cards or visas to immigrants who rely on public benefits like SNAP benefits, Medicaid, and Section-8 housing.
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 to permit this "public charges" policy to proceed.
SHARE Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Trump Administration Now Weaponizing Migrant Psychotherapy Notes
Some licensed Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) psychotherapists are violating migrant children's trust by submitting confidential session notes to ICE, which then use the information against the children in immigration court to deny them asylum status and deport them.
SHARE Friday, January 10, 2020 Detained Migrants Must Now Submit To DNA Tests
Amid the horrors to which we have already subjected them, migrants must now submit to DNA tests in an ever-expanding web of discrimination.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 13, 2018 Think We Can't Afford the Green New Deal? We Can't Afford Not To
We can't broker any more dithering when it comes to the climate. Cries of "We can't afford a Green New Deal!" are not only ridiculous; they're hypocritical. If we can afford handing the wealthy and corporations a $1.5 trillion permanent tax cut, we can afford an FDR New Deal-style economic overhaul that will transform our energy grids away from fossil fuels.