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Election 2020
Racism on the Rise
Fascism on the Rise
Sci-Tech
The Pandemic

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Can a Dem beat Trump in 2020? Only if the Dems accept that only an old white man can beat an old white man.
Warren? Not a chance!

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This is the “we need more teeth!” moment for Dems.
Remember that scene in Jurassic World? This is similar

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We are not the same nation we were in 2016.
Can we go back? No.
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Why don’t we teach at risk youth risk management skills? The sooner the better
Code Makes sense.

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Less Fortnite,
more chess. Our children will thank us.

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There is such a thing as outrage fatigue
and I’m suffering from it. Normalization of the abnormal is the new normal.
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Gantry 5's Particles system makes it easy to configure content blocks.
Gantry Particles

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Layout manager has drag and drop functionality for easy modifications
Gantry Layout

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A built-in and versatile dropdown menu system with extensive controls
Gantry Menu
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What will it take to live off world?
It will be harder than you think How hard is hard

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What is this and why did I buy it?
Hint: It has 128 GB of storage

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IOS 13 for the Iphone is coming.
Am I excited? Yes

Every day I ask myself...

What happened today at the (Oval) Office?

Side Notes

Do principles always give way to economics? Gantry benefits from an extensive, and ever expanding, catalog of online and free documentation covering basic to more advanced topics.

Gantry 5 is packed full of rich features

How good is the economy really?

Never have so many been bought for so little

Trump's tax reform and the cuts that will pay for it.

Gantry is built with several modern web technologies, such as the twig PHP templating engine and YAML for human readable configuration files.

Dynamic CSS with integrated SCSS

Twig templating engine for PHP

YAML files for theme configuration

What happened?
The facts
Remember when?

Roger Stone’s Indictment

Big news at the time but that was before the Mueller Report

Roger Stone was indicted amid a frenzy of media speculation that Mueller was zeroing in on Trump’s any circle. Many speculated that Donald, Jr. or Jared Kushner would be next. And then nothing.

The little probe that couldn’t.

Trump's Tax return? Move along. Nothing to see here.
A built-in and versatile dropdown menu system

Drag and Drop Functionality

Gantry 5 benefits from an integrated menu system, with intuitive mobile support, and extensive controls.

Column Number and Width Controls

Alignment and Ordering Functionality
Cars had phones

Cord and all

The first “mobile” phone was the car phone. It was mobile in the sense that you could take it with you. That is, as long as you stayed in your car.

One soap. Many uses

MySpace was The Space

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