One Day: Repeating One of Our Nation's Biggest Atrocities
J.L. Thurston Jenni Thurston J.L. Thurston Jenni Thurston

One Day: Repeating One of Our Nation's Biggest Atrocities

In a place where the land is hot, and dry, and spends all the daylight hours baking in a sun that feels two inches away, there’s a large building full of young boys. The place was once a shopping center, a big gray building made of stone. Surrounding it is a tall chain link fence topped with barbed wire. Like a prison, but it’s not.

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Life After Hate
Mike Vinopal Mike Vinopal Mike Vinopal Mike Vinopal

Life After Hate

It starts as acceptance for someone who has felt alone and has never felt part of something greater than themselves. Someone who’s never felt a part of their family, their school community, society at large, well this is a person at their most vulnerable. And there are a great many individuals out there that feel this way right now as you are reading this. Acceptance into a group, no matter how hateful or backwards their ideologies may seem, is still being accepted. And if it’s for the first time, the euphoria is as powerful as any drug and ten times more addictive.

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Don't Be A Biff
Contributor, Mike Vinopal Mike Vinopal Contributor, Mike Vinopal Mike Vinopal

Don't Be A Biff

Regardless of what the actual reality is, all generations need to see the error in thinking this way and speak up to people that express sentiments such as these. Break the mold. Change the future. Create examples of compassion and kindness for younger generations, who may then escape unmarred by such outdated thinking. 

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David Himmel David Himmel David Himmel David Himmel

A Dark Prediction

I predict that President Trump is going to continue to meet his campaign promises swiftly and with(out) malice. And once he's done everything he said he would do, he'll resign.

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