McGuire When Hunter first walked into my after-school coding club, they were shy and a bit standoffish. I could sense their discomfort, yet I also saw a willingness to give this new experience a try. I quickly learned that Hunter, who has hearing issues, dyslexia, autism, and ADHD, had endured persistent bullying for years. This only intensified after Hunter came out as non-binary. Hunter went into a deep depression and struggled to make friends and connections.
When Donald Trump announced Pete Hegseth as his pick for secretary of defense, the initial public reaction was, understandably, something along the lines of, “A Fox News host is going to run the Pentagon?” It was only in the following days that the media fleshed out the public’s understanding of Hegseth and shone a light on one of his most prominent and controversial facets: his deep involvement with the Christian nationalist movement. As I dug into Hegseth, something deeper struck me.
A lot of people are telling me they’re overwhelmed and taking a break from the news. They can’t obsess on Trump again like they’ve been doing for years. It’s bad for their mental health to read his word salad every day during their lunch break. It’s too much to watch MSNBC flip out about Trump selecting an anti-vaxxer as a top health official. Or an alleged pedophile to lead the Justice Department. Trump’s voice and image on CNN turn a perfectly good day into a bad one. And on and on.
In red states as well as blue, voters passed ballot initiatives to tax the rich, fund long term care, and provide paid leave.
This was just a battle,” Woodland Park-based evangelist Andrew Wommack wrote last week, triumphant in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory. “The war is yet to be won. The left is not going away, because they’re inspired by the devil – and the devil has never quit!”
Antisemitism is the canary in the coal mine.
The Christian film series “God’s Not Dead” has released five installments in the past ten years. (Most of my friends balked when I told them this.) The most recent, “God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust,” directs the series’ faith film scope towards national party politics – and its creators hope that their fictional narrative can create a real-world impact in this election.
On November 7, the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Superintendent will announce a list of schools to be closed for the 2025-26 school year. During the next nine days, the school board and the Superintendent will meet with affected school communities to provide “counseling and care” as they explain how the closures will affect them. On November 21, the school board will vote on the Superintendent’s recommendations to close the named schools.
