School's out for summer! This means students of all ages have some time off from learning and more time to participate in other things. 

Summer is the perfect time to volunteer. With so many unique volunteering opportunities, there is sure to be something that fits your interests. 

In addition to helping better the lives of others, volunteering can also be a great opportunity to explore what you may want to do as a future career. 

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Below, a few volunteer opportunities to look for this summer that will pack your time off with something worth doing.

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You probably want to spend some time soaking in vitamin D in the summer, so finding outdoor volunteer opportunities is ideal during this time of year. 

Park, beach or forest cleanups are a great opportunity to clean up your community and also spend some time outside. 

With a quick online search, you will more than likely find cleanups that are happening in your area.

You can also get your friends together and organize your own cleanup. 

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Word of mouth can go a long way, so you may be able to gather a pretty large number of people to clean your local parks and/or beaches.

Museums are often looking for volunteers to assist staff and also share knowledge with visitors. 

There are many different types of museums, so you can choose one to volunteer at that aligns with your interests. 

Volunteering at a museum can help you in your future career endeavors if you choose a setting that matches your goals. For example, if you have an aptitude for science, look for different science-based museums to volunteer for.

Hospitals often look to volunteers to interact with patients, answer phone calls, run information and provide support to nurses. 

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Giving some of your time to assist in a hospital setting can be very rewarding and fulfilling.

If you see yourself having a career in the medical field someday, this is a great way to get your foot in the door.

There are Boys & Girls Club locations throughout the United States looking for volunteers. 

If you enjoy working with children, this could be a great volunteer opportunity for you. You could make a lasting impact on young children that they will remember for a long time.

You could also volunteer at a summer camp or program. 

If you love animals, look at an animal shelter to volunteer.

Some common responsibilities of volunteers are cleaning cages, filling food and water bowls, walking dogs and simply spending time with the animals.

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Other places you could volunteer if you want to work with animals are a local aquarium or a zoo.

There are lots of charity walks/runs that happen throughout the year that raise both money and awareness for certain causes. 

Scour the web for any walks that are happening in your area over the summer.

If there aren't any walks happening in your area, you could organize your own and raise money for a cause of your choosing.

Did you play sports during your growing-up years? 

If you did, this experience likely had a lasting impact on you. Maybe you even had a coach that made a big difference in your life. 

You could help provide a positive experience for young athletes by volunteering your time and assisting a sports team.

Whether you head back to your local high school to help the football team get ready for the season, work with a Little League baseball team or volunteer at a sports summer camp, volunteering can help you get involved in sports again and help young athletes reach their full potential.

If you've got some extra time on your hands this summer, and you're extra ambitious, you might want to start your own organization.

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The options here are endless. You could sell a product you make and donate the money to a group you are passionate about. You could organize a 5K run or a golf tournament to raise money for a cause. 

Any small thing you do could turn into a huge impact and potentially be something you continue for years to come.

Food drives are a great way to help the less fortunate in your community. 

To organize a food drive, you'll first have to determine where the food will be donated and then decide how the products are going to be collected. 

Make sure to advertise your food drive around your community leading up to the day(s) it is held so you can get the most donations possible for the organization you are supporting.

Students across the country are given summer work to complete on their time off from school. 

Being that their summer work is generally focused on the next year of learning, they may need a little extra assistance learning the new topics coming their way. 

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Additionally, motivation to get schoolwork done is hard enough for students during the year, but it's even more challenging during the relaxing summer months.

If you excel in a certain school subject, offer free tutoring services to kids this summer.

You'll be filled with joy when you see your guidance helping a young student succeed.

When Democrats and their allies in the media broach the topic of Project 2025, the theme music for the Imperial March (Darth Vader's theme song) might as well start rising up in the background. 

But that's where the desperation of the Dems has landed in this critical moment for the party and its likely presidential nominee, Joe Biden. The incumbent is fighting for his legacy as forever being known as either the guy who defied all odds to vanquish Donald Trump again... or go down as the first president to be cast aside after a mutiny from within his own ranks. 

So what is Project 2025 exactly? It's a 900-page vision for the next Republican administration drawn up by the Heritage Foundation if Trump wins on Nov. 5. It includes, in the broadest of terms, reducing federal bureaucracy and restricting abortion and illegal immigration, among other anti-liberal ideas.

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Liberals have quickly pounced and seized on the proposal in a desperate, yet unintentionally hilarious, attempt to turn Project 2025 into the official platform of a potential Trump administration and the GOP in general.

"We can always rely on Donald Trump for one thing: to lie to the American people in pursuit of power. We saw that on the debate stage when he set a record," Biden claimed while reading from a teleprompter during a recent campaign speech. "Together, we must defeat him."

But wait... didn't Trump disavow Project 2025 without ambiguity recently? 

Yep. 

"I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it," Trump said earlier this month. "I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them."

Well, that's pretty definitive, right?

No matter. The media has a narrative to push, and no statement from Trump calling the Project 2025 "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal" is going to change that in their eyes.

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Enter Rachel Maddow, the G.O.A.T. of the Russia collusion hoax that destroyed any ounce of credibility she had left while fancying herself as a "journalist." 

"He’s trying to get rid of the American system of government, and that means getting rid of a government that does anything other than serve him, and that's what Project 2025 is all about," she said on an appearance on ABC NEWS' "The View," which was surely quite comfortable for the MSNBC host.

"Trump and his movement, they are not running against Democrats. They’re running against democracy," she continued, like a broken record playing on an endless loop. "They're running against the democratic process. They want to radically change the kind of system that we have, the government that we have," 

To bring some sanity to all of this, conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday and was confronted by social media troll Eric Swalwell, who in his spare time serves as a Democratic congressman. 

The exchange was patently epic.

"I think it is important that you're here as one of the leading conservative voices in the country," Swalwell said to Shapiro. "And the country has, in the last couple weeks, talked about and Googled 'Project 2025... It's one of the most Googled search terms right now." 

What Swalwell failed to mention is that Biden's X account had literally urged its followers to do that. But no matter. 

Swalwell then asked "on a scale of zero to 100 percent" — just how much Shapiro advocated the Project 2025 platform.

"I think, like President Trump, I haven't looked all that deeply at Project 2025," Shapiro said in response. "But it seems that Democrats on this committee — sort of like Peter Pan and Tinker Bell — if they say 'Project 2025' enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again."

Ouch. And accurate.

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The state of the 2024 presidential race has obviously taken a drastic turn in the past two weeks. Trump went from leading by a small margin nationally to Democrats fearing a landslide defeat on Nov. 5 after Biden's train wreck debate performance in Atlanta. 

"Joe Biden was 9 points up at this time the last time he was running. Hillary Clinton was 5 points up [in 2016]. This is the first time in more than 20 years that a Republican president has been up in this part of the campaign," Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) noted this week. 

"Donald Trump is on track, I think, to win this election, and maybe win it by a landslide, and take with him the Senate and the House," he added.

The huge problem for Democrats -- along with their friends in the media -- is that trust has been completely blown in light of Biden's debate performance and obvious mental decline on display to the country that night. And when the party and most of the press attempt to go back to the old MEGA-MAGA-REPUBLICANS-ARE-AN-EXISTENTIAL-THREAT-TO-DEMOCRACY card by trying to link Trump with policy proposals he has rejected in the strongest of terms, it's the boy who cried wolf of cautionary tales. 

Because by perpetually calling Trump a racist, a xenophobe and portraying him as a non-fictional Darth Vader with extreme intentions despite his first term never illustrating anything close to it, maybe, just maybe... the very key voters you're attempting to court may call it for exactly what it is: B.S.

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