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A history lesson - a cautionary tale.
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Revolutionary War heroine honored on POW Recognition Day
On National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, a new marker was placed on a family monument at Union Cemetery to honor Elizabeth (Dunkin) Porter – a woman whose sacrifice helped shape America’s b...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A history lesson - a cautionary tale.
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Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15.
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The Department of Defense deemed a story about baseball hero and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's time in the Army as "DEI" and deleted it.
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15.
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🗞️ NEW: Bakar Mohamed, a zTrip IRIS driver and #StandUpKC leader, spoke to Ryan Hennessy at @kctv5.com on the fight to #SaveOurTransit and protect hundreds of jobs for IRIS microtransit drivers and union transportation workers.
March 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🗞️ NEW: Bakar Mohamed, a zTrip IRIS driver and #StandUpKC leader, spoke to Ryan Hennessy at @kctv5.com on the fight to #SaveOurTransit and protect hundreds of jobs for IRIS microtransit drivers and union transportation workers.
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Cartoon by David Sipress.
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cartoon by David Sipress.
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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As Trump gets ready to take office, here's the stats:
• Inflation: 2.9%
• Unemployment: 4.1%
• Mortgage rate: 7%
• National debt: $36.2 trillion
• Global views of U.S.: 54% favorable
• U.S. satisfaction: 19%
• Freedom index: 83/100
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
• Inflation: 2.9%
• Unemployment: 4.1%
• Mortgage rate: 7%
• National debt: $36.2 trillion
• Global views of U.S.: 54% favorable
• U.S. satisfaction: 19%
• Freedom index: 83/100
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The America that Trump is inheriting is in pretty good shape, actually
Here are the benchmarks for how the country is doing as he begins his second term.
www.msnbc.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
As Trump gets ready to take office, here's the stats:
• Inflation: 2.9%
• Unemployment: 4.1%
• Mortgage rate: 7%
• National debt: $36.2 trillion
• Global views of U.S.: 54% favorable
• U.S. satisfaction: 19%
• Freedom index: 83/100
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
• Inflation: 2.9%
• Unemployment: 4.1%
• Mortgage rate: 7%
• National debt: $36.2 trillion
• Global views of U.S.: 54% favorable
• U.S. satisfaction: 19%
• Freedom index: 83/100
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Save this! We’ll be reminding them!
January 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Save this! We’ll be reminding them!
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NBC News: President Biden will end his term with a relatively healthy labor market as the U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%.
January 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NBC News: President Biden will end his term with a relatively healthy labor market as the U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%.
Utmost respect for Ann Telnaes. My mom was a journalist many years ago, and I know she would be horrified by the silencing of journalists.
Ann Telnaes deserves praise for sacrificing her job at the disgraced Washington Post in service of journalistic independence
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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January 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Utmost respect for Ann Telnaes. My mom was a journalist many years ago, and I know she would be horrified by the silencing of journalists.
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Interesting development: The Atlantic is boosting staffing, including poaching senior staffers from WaPo, to cover the incoming Trump regime. The owner is Laurene Powell Jobs, not sucking up to Trump like so many of her rivals!
I gifted this article.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
I gifted this article.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
The Atlantic Beefs Up Politics Coverage Under Trump (Gift Article)
The magazine is recruiting from a crosstown rival, The Washington Post, to bolster its political staff.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Interesting development: The Atlantic is boosting staffing, including poaching senior staffers from WaPo, to cover the incoming Trump regime. The owner is Laurene Powell Jobs, not sucking up to Trump like so many of her rivals!
I gifted this article.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
I gifted this article.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
My dog, many times, shows me how I feel. I will keep a lookout for ways to make the world a better place (unless there's a squirrel to chase).
December 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM
My dog, many times, shows me how I feel. I will keep a lookout for ways to make the world a better place (unless there's a squirrel to chase).