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Here's what what we're talking about on Leid Stories today: whatever you have a strong, thought-out opinion about and want to share with others.

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What if?... Biden's memory lapses and jumbled words turned out to be much more than we knew?

︎Are you beginning to see Obama's return in a different light?

︎Will the Democratic Party leadership endorse the leadership of Kamala Harris, or will she be forced out?

︎Is Obama a possible stand-in for Biden?

︎Constitutionally, must there be new elections for a Biden successor, however temporary?

︎Can the president be ordered to submit to physical and psychological tests in the interests of the people and the country?

︎Who makes the call on the president's fitness for office?

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today:

What qualities did you have as a child that you're glad you still have as an adult?

︎Who or what inspires you?

︎Were you on a wrong path, but made a dramatic turnaround because of a major event or a particular person in your life?

︎Did you develop a different reading of life early but were not understood?

︎What were you like as a child or growing up that caused your parents endless worry, even despair, but turned out to be one of your best character traits or attributes?

Free Your Mind Friday!

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today:

What qualities did you have as a child that you're glad you still have as an adult?

︎Who or what inspires you?

︎Were you on a wrong path, but made a dramatic turnaround because of a major event or a particular person in your life?

︎Did you develop a different reading of life early but were not understood?

︎What we're you like as a child or growing up that caused your parents endless worry, even despair, but turned out to be one of your best character traits or attributes?

It's been 54 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on a balcony of the  Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. 

Dr. King had gone to Memphis to support sanitation workers on strike for equitable pay, safer working conditions, and better job opportunity -- and to begin to organize national advocacy efforts around the issue.

Black workers and King had struck a decisive blow against economic apartheid in America. Why did it die?

︎How will / should history recall Putin's actions in Europe? Explain.

It's been 54 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn, where he had gone to support sanitation workers on strike for equitable pay and safer working conditions.

In the passing years, it seems King and other stalwarts of the civil rights movement have faded into distant memory, their work, their sacrifices, their lives and accomplishments fading into the past, too.

Have we "gotten over" them? Have we "moved on?"

Who / what caused the "shortage" of black judges  -- conveniently noted by many jurists and legislators as the appointment of Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court is being considered?