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![July 4th: What We Celebrate and What We Must Defend](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bir-c7rsnzi-400x284.webp)
This July 4th, as we celebrate, we must also realize the fact that our core principles as a nation are under attack and it is up to all of us to uphold them.
![Student Loan Debt Is a Crime Against America’s Future](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/kids-future-400x284.webp)
Student debt is a crime, weakening our intellectual infrastructure while maintaining and rigidifying racial and class caste systems inherited from the eras of slavery and indenture.
![Juneteenth Reminds Us America Is a Work in Progress](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/juneteenth-400x284.webp)
Every human being here deserves to find joy and to be truly free in their shoes and in their skin. Are we there yet?
![Imagining Juneteenth on Trump’s Air Force One](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/air-force-one-400x284.webp)
An imaginary, but not too far-fetched Juneteenth conversation aboard Air Force One in 2020.
![Celebrate This 4th of July by Pushing Back Against Fascist Attacks on Freedom](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/banned-books-display-1-400x284.webp)
Extreme, pro-censorship authoritarians are ringing in July 4 by calling for book bans. That’s un-American and wrong.
![On Being Human…](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/fc4z3l4suyc-400x284.webp)
Living on planet earth should be a fun experience, not one filled with violence, hunger, and subjugation. How do we get this across to our fellow humans?
![What Would Happen if America Elected a Wannabe “Dear Leader” Dictator in 2024?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/index-finger-gdd4101922_1920-400x284.webp)
As President Biden said, “We can't take democracy for granted any longer. … Make no mistake. Democracy is on the ballot...”
![Yusef Salaam: From Wrongly Convicted Member of the Central Park Five to Elected Office](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/yusef-salaam-400x284.webp)
Yusef Salaam has gone from being falsely accused and convicted of rape and murder—with Trump calling for his execution—to exonerated and winning his primary for New York City Council.
![Chief Justice Roberts, Apparently You Think There’s No Racism in America](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/supreme-court-2-400x284.webp)
Chief Justice Roberts, take off your robes and get off your ass and go out on the streets of D.C. and ask any Black person you encounter how the color of their skin has affected them.
![Climate Emergency: Meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet Is Destabilizing Its Internal Structure](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/greenland-ice-sheet-400x284.webp)
These observations and new research suggest that Earth’s remaining ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are far more vulnerable to climate warming than models predict.
![Why Do Republicans Embrace Policies That Create Poverty, Death and Disease?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/861899-400x284.webp)
Is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to hating on their citizens and worshiping poverty, death, and disease?
![What’s Really Going On With Trump’s Smoking Gun Bedminster Recording?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bedminster-2-400x284.webp)
Listening to the tape, you can hear comments attributed in the Special Counsel’s indictment. But then we get to what politicians like to call the red meat, the real stuff, and in Watergate parlance, the smoking gun.
![Forget Reaganomics. Bidenomics Is Turning Out to Be a Much Better Deal](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/reagonomics-400x284.webp)
Contrary to the relentless propaganda by FOX and Republicans, the results of Biden's economic policies (#Bidenomics) these past two years have been much larger growth and recovery than anyone thought possible.
![The Christian Fascist Elite’s Latest Confab in Washington](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ralph-reed-400x284.webp)
Far-right elites met in Washington to pine for a past of the simpler days of white supremacy and not being bothered at all by the lack of rights for anyone else.
![Joe Biden Announces $42.5B to Connect All Americans to High-Speed Broadband Internet](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Biden-Internetforall-400x284.webp)
Connecting Americans to high-speed internet is a key part of “Bidenomics”—Biden’s plan that “to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up—not the top down.
![Justice Samuel Alito’s Preemptive Rebuttal of ProPublica’s Exposure of His Billionaire Gifts](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/George_W._Bush_announces_his_nomination_of_Samuel_Alito-400x284.webp)
People—like Supreme Court Justices—who have things to hide, like expensive gifts from billionaires with business before the court, really don't like being exposed.