Throughout history, several authoritarian and totalitarian governments solidified the power of their leaders by developing what is called a “cult of personality.” A cult of personality can be described as a collective positive perception of a political figure that’s built out of unwavering praise and propaganda in that figure’s favor. They are grounded in fanfare […]
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If you were asked to conjure a mental image of a rock star, what would you imagine? Would you see a skinny, shaggy-haired man in a tank top shredding a solo on an electric guitar? Perhaps you’d see someone in tight pants and bombastic clothing belting their falsetto in front of a sold-out arena crowd.
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The content of this article is satirical and represents a work of fiction, or Fake News. The characters within are fictitious. Aired on September 2 – As a member of the Town Council, Jeff Dumont voted to impose more COVID-19 restrictions on the people of Ball, even when nearly every city and town in our parish
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Being that the month of May is both Mental Health Awareness Month and the lesser-known National Teen Self-Esteem Month, there’s perhaps no better time to pay special attention to the mental health situations of ourselves, our loved ones, our friends and our youth. This May, as was the case with the last three, is an
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The content of this article is satirical and represents a work of fiction, or Fake News. The characters within are fictitious. On Friday, the Mississippi Senate passed a controversial bill that will keep many commonplace books from being taught in the state’s public schools. Dubbed the “Liberate Our Learning” bill, it will ban or severely restrict
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The content of this article is satirical and represents a work of fiction, or Fake News. The characters within are fictitious. It’s eight o’clock here in New York and you’re in The Toole Shed. I’m your host, Ryan Toole, and tonight we’ll be talking about the biggest breaking stories in American and world politics. The top
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The content of this article is satirical and represents a work of fiction, or Fake News. The characters within are fictitious. A federal grand jury convened Wednesday to unanimously indict social media superstar Alex Albot on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. Those charges include wire fraud, racketeering, battery, aggravated assault, bribery, disorderly conduct, vandalism, public intoxication,
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What’s Happening Steven Eugene Washington, a Black man with autism, was only twenty-seven years old when a Los Angeles Police Department officer gunned him down in the streets of Koreatown. According to the resulting police report, the unarmed Washington was initially approached by two officers in a police vehicle in response to a loud noise
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The “system” spoken of in the term “systemic oppression” is a devilishly intricate piece of machinery. In the American sense, it was forged from several centuries’ worth of enslaving, lynching, miseducating, litigating, suppressing, redistricting, policing, and a litany of further -ings that I haven’t the time nor the energy to list. It is the time-tested
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Though the month of March, and, with it, Women’s History Month are drawing to a close, there are still several ways to continue learning about and celebrating the countless women that have made and are making our world a better place. Now that a cold and erratic winter has given way to a sunny spring,
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