Just heard (3:57 PM EDT 04-17-2024 Uri Berliner, a dissident 25-year employee at NPR, quit today, publishing on Twitter/X a short, angry statement. The full text of his posted letter is: As reported here (and in many other media outlets, Berliner published a Substack article on April 9, calling out what he said was an … Continue reading Flash: Uri Berliner Quits NPR (Cabbage Wins)
For March 18th This post is adapted from: Tell It Slant, a Biography/autobiography by Emma Lapsansky-Werner, with Chuck Fager: Chuck’s first grandchild was born in September 1994, and named Amber Dawn. She and her mother, Chuck’s daughter Annika, lived in Martinsburg West Virginia. One early milestone on Amber’s road lay almost five hundred miles northeast, … Continue reading For March 17-18: The Best Friend & The Last Big Surprise
Enforcing school discipline can sometimes mean imposing tough penalties. — Writing something 50 times on the board? — Time-outs? — Detention after school? Naaah. Wishy-washy liberal mush. Michele Morrow, who hopes to be elected state superintendent of public instruction, says it’s time to get serious about public schooling in North Carolina: — How so? Maybe … Continue reading Is QAnon the Future of North Carolina Education?? It’s On The Ballot!
Bulletin: Trump Said Dems Will Rename Pennsylvania—and Even Weirder Things Donald Trump’s ramblings this weekend were truly deranged. Win McNamee/Getty Images Donald Trump’s gaffes are becoming more frequent and more indecipherable by the day. At a National Rifle Association gathering in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Trump made plenty of strange blunders in front of his … Continue reading But Why Stop with Pennsylvania??
