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COMMENTS FROM FLORIDA GOVERNOR Ron DeSantis this past week, as he continues to insist that schools should reopen amid rising cases of coronavirus in his state , are simply absurd, plain and simple. DeSantis insisted that if certain businesses were allowed to open, including "big box" stores, that schools should have no problem doing so as well. "If fast food and Walmart and Home Depot...if all that is essential, then educating our kids is absolutely essential," DeSantis insisted on Thursday. There are two big problems with his comments . First, no one is saying educating children isn't an essential service. Of course kids need to be schooled — but do they need to be in a building in order to do that? Ideally, yes, that should be how things go. But in the midst of a deadly pandemic, where nearly 140,000 Americans have already died from COVID-19 so far , limiting the further spread of the pandemic should be the first goal. Opening schools will invariably result ...

THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE team from Washington D.C. — whose name will be avoided as much as possible in this blog post — announced on Friday, along with the support from the league itself, that it will begin a "review" of the team's name, for being offensive to Native Americans and Indigenous People in the United States. The pressure from Nike, FedEx, Pepsi, and other corporations seems to be the driving force behind the review. For some, the writing is on the wall — a name change is inevitable. From The Washington Post : The team offered few details of what the review will entail, but one person familiar with the discussions between team owner Daniel Snyder, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and other league officials said that the review is expected to result in a new team name. “You know where this leads," the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "They’re working on that process [of changing the name]. It will end with a new name. Dan has b...