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It was no surprise. Instead, call it the October reveal. In the final days of the 2024 election, ugly rhetoric from Donald Trump’s campaign drew major national attention when a speaker made a racist joke about Puerto Rico as part of the ex-president’s Oct. 27 rally at Madison Square Garden. The event was an inevitable culmination for the Trump campaign, a six-hour pageant of divisiveness and bigotry that featured multiple speakers launching racist and misogynistic attacks on Kamala Harris.

This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. This past April, days before a Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting at a remote lakefront resort, the state’s largest power company dropped a bombshell. Entergy asked the five commissioners to vote—four months ahead of a schedule—on an ambitious resilience plan slated to cost nearly $2 billion. A Louisiana consumer watchdog group and the state’s refineries and chemical plants formally objected, saying the process was “unnecessarily fast-tracked” and that Entergy had provided “insufficient information” to evaluate the plan, which included replacing and strengthening utility poles and power lines and protecting substations from flooding. Despite these objections, Entergy’s plan was added to the agenda.

They are preparing their supporters to commit acts of violence and suppression no matter what the election’s outcome is.

In the architecture of American public life, the pillars of Judeo-Christian values are the very foundation that gives it strength, character, and resilience.

Self-government requires work.

It’s been a month since I lost my youngest boy to suicide.