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Paul Brown
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I love people, open societies, photographs, music, wrenching on old Euro cars, gardening, and walking outdoors. Retired NPR journalist, still writing and exploring.
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Winston-Salem, NC, April 5, 10AM on. Join us to make a statement. We want to stop the stealing of our governance, Social Security, health care, and other national resources built up over centuries.
Hands Off! Winston-Salem, NC Fights Back · Mobilize
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** We are fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and da...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today's hero is Ruth Marcus, the outstanding, courageous longtime columnist, who refuses to continue working for the Washington Post after, she claims, it spiked a column critical of the rapacious Jeff Bezos, the paper's owner.
How far we are falling, and how quickly, in today's oligarchy.
Top 'Washington Post' columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.
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March 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Politico aside, no, there were not reasons good enough to outweigh the pressing responsibility to do the right thing for American society.
ABC/Disney was big enough to do it.
And opted to do a wrong thing.
December 21, 2024 at 8:12 PM
A perfectly beautiful Carolina Blue Sky on Bluesky from my perfectly average American neighborhood.
December 21, 2024 at 7:49 PM
December 14, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I like having a friendship old and solid enough that when I write to ask if I can call on the phone, they respond, “Can we talk at noon? I’m acting as if I’m doing housework,” and I can just write, “Yes.”
December 14, 2024 at 6:30 PM