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Madison Cotton

Bio: Madison got her Bachelors in creative writing in 2020 writing mostly fantasy and poetry. After a short period of running an editing business, she began writing and editing SEO Content and managing social media pages for non profits in Houston. With the ever-changing state of the world Madison is excited to begin writing again as a way to express herself and motivate her to keep up with current events.
Fashion

Following Fashion Trends is Decreasing People’s Individuality

Fashion trends are a great starting point for people who are into clothes and use their personal style as a way to express themselves. Due to the fact that they’re trends, people who try them out can rest assured that their style is widely accepted and a lot of people ...

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Music

Recession Music is in, It’s Time to Start Living Frugally and Building Community

Recession music refers to songs with lyrics about cutting loose, living freely, going to the club and dancing the night away. You can find songs like this from around 2008 after the housing market crash and probably around the time of the Great Depression as well. Nowadays, if you look ...

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Theater

Popularity Doesn’t Equal Talent: Influencers are Equating Money with Skill

It’s a pattern that once an influencer reaches enough fame, they break into creative endeavors like the music industry, Hollywood, Broadway and more. With these industries being so exclusive and hard to break into, it makes sense that once someone has access to money, they pursue their passion. But what ...

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Politics

TikTok is a Better Job Market than Corporate America

Why do so many people want to be influencers? Around 2016, when makeup reviewing was taking over YouTube and Instagram, the average makeup-enjoyer’s feed was filled with beauty reviewers receiving gifts and being paid by brands to talk about new releases. This glamorous lifestyle was of course, curated in part ...

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Sports

Free Swim Lessons Should be Offered in School as Reparations to Black Families

During slavery and Jim Crow, black people were barred from learning how to swim as a means to handicap them and have them remain reliant on their owners and limit their freedom. After slavery and segregation ended, black people were terrorized by white pool-owners for taking up spaces in supposedly ...

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Latest NewsMusic

US Academic Groups Sue White House Over Planned Deportations of Pro-Gaza Students

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (Mesa) have sued the Trump administration to block the deportation of foreign students who have voiced pro-Palestinian sentiments. This comes after the detainment of Columbia University graduate and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, and Indian post-doctoral student ...

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Fashion

The Office Siren Trend Shows that Gen Z is Most Comfortable Online and Not In-Person

The office siren phenomenon online is sparking debates about why Gen Z doesn’t understand why some clothes are inappropriate for the office. This conversation has to do with a lot of things: media literacy, modelling, boundaries and more. The content that Gen Z is consuming is fed through the lens ...

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Politics

How to Build Community Without Excluding Autistic People

Autistic people can be great community members when given the chance to show up for others. That requires direct communication and understanding from non-autistic or allistic people that the autistic brain is wired differently than the allistic brain and that autistic emotions show up differently than the emotions of allistic ...

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Latest News

Trump Expected to Sign Executive Order Dismantling the Department of Education

Today, Thursday March 20, President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order shutting down the Department of Education (D.O.E.)  and returning all education-related decisions to the hands of the state.  To begin this process, Education Secretary Linda McMahon slashed the D.O.E.’s workforce in half in compliance with the ...

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Sports

Proper Stretching Technique Should be Taught in Mandatory P.E. Classes

Those who began working out later in life and weren’t student athletes might not know that there are techniques for weightlifting, exercising and stretching that ensure the exerciser gets the most from their workout and doesn’t harm themself.  These techniques are crucial to ensuring the safety of the person working ...

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Music

Musicians are Making Songs to Clearly Suit TikTok, Changing the Scope of The Music Industry

TikTok started as a dance app that allowed any sound to be used as background for users’videos. Overtime, the app has grown to feature much more than dances, although they remain ahuge part of the posts on the app. Nowadays, any soundbites from movies, tv and radio shows, podcasts and ...

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Latest News

Trump Calls for Impeachment of Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Order to Deport Venezuelan Immigrants

On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump made a post on his social media site,Truth Social, calling for the impeachment of the U.S. District Judge James E. Boasbergafter the judge issued an order blocking deportation flights. Trump invoked the AlienEnemies Act of 1798, previously only used during wartime to deport members ...

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