2026 Election Results: Live : NPR
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." [1]
American voters have rejected the continued Trumpism of the country by voting into office newly elected Senators, Congressmen/Congresswomen and Governors who believe in Democracy and upholding the U.S. Constitution. There is much work to do in building back up what was recklessly torn down since Inauguration Day 2025. There are illegal wars to address, inflation to corral, healthcare losses to recoup, immigrants to liberate, rights to restore, corruption to uncover and a country to reunite and give back to "We The People."
America must listen to and follow what doctors prescribe and advise patients before, during and following illness. Start with a healthier political diet with good mental and bodily exercise. Reducing stress and anxiety. Getting the recommended sleep and rest for restoration of physical, mental and emotional strength.
Today, America awakens to restoring the hope and outlook addressed in the final line of a memorable presidential speech during wartime:
"that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
Liberation Day by George Saunders | Goodreads
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
Review by Michael Burke
“Liberation Day: Stories” is his latest collection. He once again shows why many consider him to be the finest short story writer practicing today. The imagination, creativity and dark humor are driving while questions are posed about our behavior. Personal freedoms are looked at in stories such as “Liberation Day,” where three characters are attached to a wall and obligated to perform for a wealthy man and his friends. In “Elliot Spencer” we see a man being brainwashed and cleansed of his memory so that he may serve in the employ of a political group. “Ghoul” examines Hellish underground amusement park workers who may or may not have been told the truth about their fate. In Saunders’ most overtly political story, “Love Letter,” a elderly man explains to his son how democracy lost so many freedoms when it did not take “clownish leaders” seriously.
Not every story here is political or sci-fi / fantasy. In “Mom of Bold Action” we are in the mind of a mother out to seek vengeance for a relatively minor attack on her young son. She goads her husband into exacting retribution on a possible suspect. She feels bad about the consequences for the man in question… but her guilt has its limits. In “Mother’s Day” there is a showdown in a hailstorm between two women, long time rivals, who have only ever seen the other as undeserving of the man they both loved.
Every story here is a gem, every tale thought-provoking and entertaining. Highly recommended reading.
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