The primaries are beginning. We outnumber every other voting block in the nation but that doesn’t matter if you don’t get off your ass and vote.
Get to the caucus, vote in the primaries and let’s make this happen. They laugh and say our generation is so apathetic and selfish that there is no way we’ll actually turn up. Please, let’s prove them all wrong. The future of this country belongs to all of us!
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January 27 marks the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of
commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era.
From 1940 to 1945, more than 1.1 million men, women and children were
killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. 90% of them were Jews. All
were innocent. Today, we remember
Conservatives get ticked off that anything other than the stereotypical—and largely fictional—cultural and social imagery of the 1950s might be used to represent the country they think is theirs. Hence the “Take America Back” political movement, which exemplifies the perceived loss of rights that comes with reevaluated ideas of equality and privilege.
A grand jury agreed that no one should be indicted for the death of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, who died inside a Texas jail cell this summer, a special prosecutor said Monday.
No one at the Waller County Jail, including officers, guards and jailers, will be indicted for the death of the 28-year-old. The grand jury will convene in January to review whether misdemeanor charges should be brought against the trooper that arrested Bland, Prosecutor Darrell Jorden said, according to the Associated Press.
Bland was pulled over by a state trooper on July 10 after allegedly failing to signal before changing lanes. Police dashcam showed Bland became confrontational with the trooper and was arrested for assault on a public servant.
Three days after her arrest, Bland was found dead inside her jail cell.
Waller County sheriff officials said in July they believed Bland wanted to kill herself and died in her jail cell by asphyxiation from a trash bag. District Attorney Elton Mathis, however, said authorities would investigate the death as a murder.
The case gained national attention as Bland’s family publicly questioned whether the woman’s death was a suicide. Public interest increased after a video of a hostile arrest was released, with officers holding Bland down as she yelled.
In recent years, it seems like a cottage industry of sorts has formed around bashing the Millennial generation as a bunch of narcissistic, lazy, entitled, coddled, uninformed digital junkies who just can’t deal with the real world. Though older generations have always complained about youngsters being in trouble, this animus towards Millennials seems rather unique, especially because, well, Millennials are rather unique.
They are the first generation to grow up in the digital era, and technology has advanced at breakneck speeds during their lifetimes. Older Millennials were just children when the internet was in its infancy, and have grown up with it, from AOL to Myspace to Facebook and the iPhone. It is the first generation that cannot imagine a time when there was no internet or GPS or cell phones to assist you in everyday life. (Certain Seinfeld episodes may even confuse younger Millennials, as they revolve around characters trying to find each other without cell phones or any other digital technologies.) The Millennial generation is also the generation that received those much-lamented participation trophies, and has apparently been so coddled by their parents and teachers and guidance counselors that they simply are “not ready for the real world,” which involves rejection and tough breaks.
With all that hate, it’s easy to forget sometimes that the Millennial generation is also the one that faces staggering levels of debt, a bleak job market (even when one does get a college degree, which has become ever more important), and the overall prospect of having a less prosperous future than one’s parents. While today’s 18 to 34 year olds are the best-educated generation in American history — 22.3 percent with a bachelor’s degree — they also have lower median earnings (inflation adjusted) than 18 to 34 year olds did in 1980, when just 15.7 percent had a bachelor’s degree. Furthermore, becoming the best-educated generation has made Millennials the most indebted generation. Back in 1993, while the oldest Millennials were busy playing Sega Genesis, the average debt per borrower in the graduating class was under $10,000; by 2015, that number had more than tripled to about $35,000 — earning the class of 2015 the honor of being the most indebted ever.
