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07/22/2025

Former President Barack Obama suggested during an appearance on his wife's podcast earlier this week that men need gay friends to learn "empathy and kindness" while preparing for potentially fathering a son who identifies as gay or non-binary.

Appearing during an episode of "IMO," a podcast hosted by former first lady Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, the former president discussed with the two how best to raise boys.

At one point during their hour-long discussion, Barack Obama — who noted he was raised by a single mother — suggested that boys need male figures in their lives other than their fathers to provide perspective, and then immediately pivoted to explain the influence one of his gay professors at Occidental College had on him.

"No matter how good the dad is, he can't be everything, and then that boy may need somebody to give the boy some perspective on the dad," Obama said.

"One of the most valuable things I learned as as a guy was I had a gay professor in college, at a time when the gay folks still weren't out, who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant."

Stories have emerged in recent years suggesting the former president may have homosexual inclinations, such as a 2023 story from the New York Post, which obtained an unreacted 1982 letter Obama wrote to his ex-girlfriend, Alex McNear.

In the letter, he claimed to have an "androgynous" mind and admitted to "mak[ing] love to men daily, but in the imagination," according to the outlet.

"In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination," a 21-year-old Obama reportedly wrote more than 40 years ago.

The former president's appearance on his wife's podcast comes amid speculation that their marriage is experiencing tension, especially given Michelle Obama's unwillingness to accompany her husband to either President Donald Trump's inauguration or former President Jimmy Carter's funeral in January.

Last month, Michelle Obama made headlines when she said on her podcast that she was glad she never had a boy because he would have been like her husband.

Toward the end of the episode that aired June 18, Obama bristled when radio host and guest Angie Martinez suggested she should have had a son in addition to their two daughters, Sasha and Malia.

“You should’ve threw [sic] a boy in the mix,” Martinez said to Obama, prompting her to respond, “I’m so glad I didn’t have a boy.”

“Because he would’ve been a Barack Obama,” she added.

“Baby Barack — it would’ve been amazing!” Martinez said, but Obama cut in, “Ooh, no, I would’ve felt for him.”

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07/22/2025

About that climate change and rising oceans.





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07/21/2025

Democrats Are Ripping Apart the Fabric of America, And Republicans Need to Step Up.

Before agenda-driven, partisan-fueled talking heads dictated what to believe, it was possible to have an intelligent political discussion without animus-incited division. But no more. For paradoxically, with mounting information to support well-reasoned discourse, many voters have become increasingly partial, gullibly believing their views are always right and competing perspectives are always wrong.

However, while such blind faith bias is bad enough, many have taken a step further, alienating friends and family by further degrading such an inflexibly absolute mindset into a good-versus-evil, relationally destructive conviction.

But when seeking explanations for why thoughtfully balanced and conflict-free political discourse has gone the way of dinosaurs and hula hoops, one factor stands out. Namely, by demonizing our current president and his supporters, progressive politicians and their media sycophants have become the primary architects of our ever-more fractured house divided.

Clearly, all but the most progressive true believers could fail to see how one-sided the legacy media’s political coverage has become. For in claiming the moral high ground as the self-righteous protectors of our democracy, the news they claim as fit to print no longer even approaches that objective standard.

In fact, according to the Media Research Center, the fawning legacy network coverage for the 2024 Democrat presidential ticket was calculated as 84 percent positive for Harris, 89 percent negative for Trump, 62 percent positive for Walz, and 92 percent negative for Vance.

Moreover, this lack of impartiality before the election has continued to provoke political discord well into Trump’s second term. This should not be surprising. For when hearing daily claims labeling the president as an existential threat to democracy, a racist, a fascist, and a criminal, many on the left have lost their objectivity and have become hate-filled vessels consumed by any and all things Trump.

And it is this hostility-reinforcing, ad hominem echo chamber, powered by the mainstream media and like-minded others, that has tarred Trump supporters with several of those same charges and more.

A small sampling of those stigmatizing attacks would have to include Hillary Clinton, who double-downed on an “important truth” in 2016 that half of Trump’s backers were “irredeemable” and, as racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, and Islamophobes, could fit into a “basket of deplorables.”

And after losing the presidential election, she further suggested that white women were spineless handmaidens in voting for Trump solely at the direction of their husbands.

Additionally, while still president in 2024, Joe Biden claimed Trump “has no character” and his guilty-by-association boosters are “garbage.” That same year, self-proclaimed “knucklehead” and soon-to-be anointed Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz, described Republicans as “weird people … that want to take your books away.”

And far more recently, Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett suggested that support for the president indicates a “mental health crisis” and that his supporters are “sick.”

Yet perhaps the most outrageous attack of all occurred shortly before the presidential election when a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden was likened to a N**i gathering. As MSNBC commented, “In that place, it’s particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hi**er, packed the Garden … [which is] once again turning … into a staging ground for extremism.”

Thus, armed with such generalized over-the-top smears aimed not solely at Trump but at his backers, Democrats have undermined respectful political discussion at least and divided our citizens at most.

The reason for this should be obvious. By sanctimoniously attacking voters for their support of Trump, the clear implication is that Democrats are good and Republicans are not. Such a suggestion breeds blind-to-truth self-righteousness in the former group and aggressive push-back resentment in the latter. And anyone with even the slightest understanding of human nature could have easily predicted that divisive result and its underlying cause.

People innately benchmark their adequacy not so much by any objective standard as by their self-assessment compared to others. So, slandering rivals is a zero-sum game that temporarily raises one’s self-worth by simultaneously lowering the value of those believing otherwise.

But the price paid for such value-enhancing attacks is great. This is so because verbally assaulting opponents is fool’s gold in that no one fundamentally gains in value by diminishing others. And more importantly, to maintain their self-esteem, Republicans unfairly condemned, resentfully push back, albeit far less negatively, against liberal detractors with critical labels of their own, further escalating the division between us.

Thus, as an understandable response to woke criticisms, MAGA tit-for-tat portrayals of Democrats as misguided, naïve, holier-than-thou gaslighters pale in comparison to far more hateful progressive descriptions of Republicans.

So, on both sides of the aisle, the end result of this ongoing, rigidly held name-calling feeding frenzy is that families and friendships have been torn apart, constructive debate has all but vanished, and bipartisan agreement has become nearly impossible.

But worst of all, we all know former President Abraham Lincoln’s prediction for a house divided. And if such expectation becomes a reality, our right and wrong obsessions will no longer matter, for if so, we all will lose.

The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by the owners of this social media page.

Neil Bright is a retired university professor, a former public school superintendent, and a New York State Teacher of the Year Finalist. He is currently a writer authoring numerous articles and three books, the latest of which is Rethinking Everything on personal growth and effectiveness.

07/21/2025

Along with New York, Minneapolis has socialist democrat nominated for mayor.

07/21/2025

BREAKING - Illinois Rep. Marcus Evans is furious that a squatter has moved in next to his family’s house and is demanding police remove them, without realizing it is his own policies that allow this.

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07/21/2025

Establishment Democrats Are Plotting Ways to Stop Zohran Mamdani: Report: “He can’t be the future of the party,” a Democratic strategist said.






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Fauja Singh’s Running Shoes to Be Preserved in a Museum!

World’s oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, gets global honour as his legendary shoes will now be exhibited in the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

These iconic shoes, worn during his marathons, are now a symbol of inspiration and endurance.

🔹 The museum has added his shoes to a special section celebrating “Extraordinary Lives”.
🔹 The shoes even carry his name: “Fauja” and “Singh” on the tongues of each shoe.
🔹 A powerful tribute to a man who redefined age and athleticism.

📍 A proud moment for the Sikh and Indian diaspora!

07/21/2025

Fauja Singh’s Running Shoes to Be Preserved in a Museum!

World’s oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, gets global honour as his legendary shoes will now be exhibited in the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

These iconic shoes, worn during his marathons, are now a symbol of inspiration and endurance.

🔹 The museum has added his shoes to a special section celebrating “Extraordinary Lives”.
🔹 The shoes even carry his name: “Fauja” and “Singh” on the tongues of each shoe.
🔹 A powerful tribute to a man who redefined age and athleticism.

📍 A proud moment for the Sikh and Indian diaspora!

07/21/2025

82 lakh rupees for national under-16 volleyball team and coaches.

Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) announced a cash reward of 82 lakh rupees for national under-16 volleyball team and coaches after their historic win at Asian U16 Volleyball Championship.

Each of the 12 players will receive 6 lakh rupees and the coaching staff will get Rs 10 lakh under PSB’s 2024 cash award policy.

The young Green Shirts made history with a dramatic 3-2 comeback against defending champions Iran.

Their unbeaten streak included victories over South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, and a dominant 3-0 semi-final win over India.

This milestone win reflects the team’s incredible skill in attack, blocking, and serving — and PSB’s timely recognition aims to inspire future champions.






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07/21/2025

Loved ones are searching for a Southern California woman who has been missing for over a week.
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07/21/2025

Canada Marriage Scam!

For 2 years, 24‑year‑old Harpreet Kaur from Surrey, Canada & her mother Sukhdarshan Kaur trapped 7 men across Punjab by promising marriage with a “Canada‑settled girl.”

They fixed engagements via phone/video calls, showed her Canada work permit to build trust, then demanded lakhs claiming they had taken loans to send her abroad.

Victims from Khanna, Bathinda, Moga, Raikot & more lost over ₹1.6 crore selling land, cattle, even taking loans.

Police arrested her mother, brother & an aide, while Harpreet remains in Canada.








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