On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on a climate case that could make or break efforts to stop rising temperatures before they reach the point of no return. Our planet is hotter than it has ever been, at any time, in the entire history of modern civilization. The six warmest years on record have all been within the last ten years, and world scientists agree unequivocally that fossil fuel emissions of green-houses gases, particularly carbon dioxide, is the cause.

When Dean J. Trantalis became Fort Lauderdale’s first openly gay mayor in 2018, he did more than make history. He transformed the meaning of representation in a city whose identity, economy and civic life are deeply connected to the LGBTQ+ community.

Veterans are standing in the middle of D.C.’s Memorial Circle at rush hour with banners denouncing plans for Trump’s arch. Their continuing protest, which started on Memorial Day, features a replica arch and urgent plea to “protect and defend the solemnity and honor of this hallowed ground.”

There is an old saying that all politics is local. In Wilton Manors, politics can sometimes feel even closer than that.

While taking unhurried strokes in the pool, I started asking myself, “Who are you, Brian McNaught?”

A man with a third grader’s intellect says all we need to regulate AI is a smart president. The same guy who will bark “hoax! hoax! hoax!” at climate change while Mar a Lago takes on water now insists that efforts to regulate AI are also a hoax. If Americans listen to this barking clown instead of scientists, engineers, and AI developers, we truly have entered Idiocracy, and we will get the killer robots we deserve.