John Peter Petrone, Ed.D.

Opinion | Trump’s Ballroom Is a National ‘Desecration’

Trump’s Ballroom Is a National ‘Desecration’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

The East Wing is gone! 🤬🤬🤬 “It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it, but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of. It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.”-Donald Trump

“I Don’t Know”: The Three Most Dangerous Words Ever Uttered by an American President Trump’s open contempt for the Constitution, due process, and basic human rights isn’t ignorance. It’s autocracy—hiding behind lawyers and weaponizing fear to erode liberty.

“I Don’t Know”: The Three Most Dangerous Words Ever Uttered by an American President
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“When your truth cracks the walls of someone’s echo chamber, it’s not your volume that offends them—it’s that your voice wasn’t pre-approved by their algorithm.”

They Don’t Want a Country—They Want an Enemy By Dr. John Petrone – USAF Veteran, Former H.S. Teacher & Principal, Associate Professor, Citizen Defender of Democracy

They Don’t Want a Country—They Want an Enemy
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Trump’s War on Science Hits New Low: Slashing NOAA’s Climate Research Is a Death Sentence for Future Generations Gutting Earth systems research in a time of escalating climate chaos isn’t just negligence—it’s willful sabotage.

Trump’s War on Science Hits New Low: Slashing NOAA’s Climate Research Is a Death Sentence for Future Generations
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The Trump Tax on Humanity: While the World Burns, He Plays Games with Our Future Global crises fester as Donald Trump holds the world economy hostage—because chaos is his currency and cruelty is his brand.

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UPDATE! Trump and Musk`s War on America’s Veterans Just Escalated And I am Outraged!

UPDATE! Trump and Musk`s War on America’s Veterans Just Escalated
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Hands Off Our Democracy: A Nation Rises Today, the soul of America roared!

Hands Off Our Democracy: A Nation Rises
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The Midnight Massacre: Senate Republicans Just Voted to Burn America to the Ground ENOUGH!

The Midnight Massacre: Senate Republicans Just Voted to Burn America to the Ground
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We Didn't Serve This Country for Trump’s Tyranny My immigrant family served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. My uncle was MIA in Korea. I served during the Cold War. Trump dodged the draft—and dares to call himself a patriot.

We Didn't Serve This Country for Trump’s Tyranny
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Trump’s Parade of Power: Our Troops Deserve Better Than Marching for a Coward-in-Chief A draft-dodging demagogue wants to wrap himself in the flag and roll tanks through D.C.—not to honor the military, but to hijack it for his own authoritarian fantasy.

Trump’s Parade of Power: Our Troops Deserve Better Than Marching for a Coward-in-Chief
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Trump’s Ultimate Grift: How He Turned the U.S. Economy Into a Rigged Casino The tariffs weren’t about China. They weren’t about policy. They were about profit. While Trump threatened economic collapse, his allies shorted the market—then bought the rebound.

Trump’s Ultimate Grift: How He Turned the U.S. Economy Into a Rigged Casino
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The ‘SAVE’ Act Is a Knife to the Throat of American Democracy Legislated Voter Supression

The ‘SAVE’ Act Is a Knife to the Throat of American Democracy
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Tariffs, Tyranny, and the Ghosts of Smoot-Hawley: Trump’s America Is Repeating History’s Dumbest Mistakes Let’s get something straight: when you’ve slung wrenches on the flightline, sweated through road construction under a July sun, taught kids about the Great Depression, and led schools through real cri...

Tariffs, Tyranny, and the Ghosts of Smoot-Hawley: Trump’s America Is Repeating History’s Dumbest Mistakes
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We Didn't Serve This Country for Trump’s Tyranny My immigrant family served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. My uncle was MIA in Korea. I served during the Cold War. Trump dodged the draft—and dares to call himself a patriot.

We Didn't Serve This Country for Trump’s Tyranny
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I Served During the Cold War—What the Trump Administration Just Did Is a National Disgrace As an honorably discharged veteran of the United States Air Force who served during the Cold War, I know what it means to handle sensitive information.

I Served During the Cold War—What the Trump Administration Just Did Is a National Disgrace
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Get Off the Sidelines: A Plea to Clinton, Bush, and Obama We Need You Now More Than Ever!

Get Off the Sidelines: A Plea to Clinton, Bush, and Obama
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Defiance in the Face of Fear A democracy under siege does not fall all at once.

Defiance in the Face of Fear
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The Dumbing Down of America: How an Uninformed Electorate is Killing Our Democracy IMHO my Most Important Post

The Dumbing Down of America: How an Uninformed Electorate is Killing Our Democracy
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An Open Letter to President Zelenskyy: An Apology from A Majority of the American People Dear President Zelenskyy,

An Open Letter to President Zelenskyy: An Apology from A Majority of the American People
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Self explanatory 🤬🤬🤬

Trump’s Oval Office Humiliation: A National Embarrassment and a Gift to Putin There are moments in history that define a leader.

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Elon Musk says federal workers must justify their work — or resign In a sign that not every Trump official is on the same page, leaders at the FBI and State Department instructed employees not to respond.

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The Trump-Vance-Musk Regime Is Starting to Crumble – But Resistance Must Keep Growing Former Secretary of Labor, Professor Robert Reich has laid out the undeniable truth: Let’s be clear: The Trump-Vance-Musk regime isn’t just corrupt—it’s an active threat to democracy, human rights, an...

The Trump-Vance-Musk Regime Is Starting to Crumble – But Resistance Must Keep Growing
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The Death of Public Education and the Rise of the Authoritarian State? As a former high school US government, US history, and economics teacher, high school principal, and current tenured associate professor of educational administration at a public university, I have sp...

The Death of Public Education and the Rise of the Authoritarian State?
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The GOP’s Proposed Budget: A War on Working Americans, A Jackpot for Billionaires The GOP’s latest budget proposal is nothing short of an economic scorched-earth policy against working-class Americans, seniors, students, veterans, and the most vulnerable among us—all to bankroll gr...

The GOP’s Proposed Budget: A War on Working Americans, A Jackpot for Billionaires
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Title: Muskocracy Rising: The Billionaire Takeover of Government I have written on this topic multiple times, however yesterday`s appalling appearance by government lawyers in front of Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan has angered/motivated me to write again.We the Peopl...

Title: Muskocracy Rising: The Billionaire Takeover of Government
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Trump's War on Science: The Real Cost of an Anti-Intellectual Agenda It’s no secret that Donald Trump’s second term is shaping up to be an all-out assault on scientific research and intellectual progress.

Trump's War on Science: The Real Cost of an Anti-Intellectual Agenda
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A Tyrant Unfit to Lead: Echoes of 1776 in 2025 In 1776, our forefathers penned a document that would serve as a timeless indictment against unchecked power.

A Tyrant Unfit to Lead: Echoes of 1776 in 2025
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