NW Arkansas Progressive
@NTXProgressive
Life long Dallasite now living the good life in NW Arkansas
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04-09-2008 15:18:05
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Last week, I reported on the forceful police crackdown of the UT Dallas 'Gaza Liberation encampment' for D Magazine and detailed the arrest of history professor Ben Wright. Today, D Magazine published an important essay by Dr. Wright. Read it.
dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…
Asking the press to get it right on Trump’s threat to democracy is not remotely the same as being in the tank for Biden. To equate the two makes everyone dumber.
Greg Sargent conducts this argument — with examples — better than anyone I have read so far. newrepublic.com/article/181353…
We need to consider what might be lost in rush to shutdown protests.
For democracy, the right to protest isn’t merely a virtuous talking point for politicians. It is as essential as the vote if we are to hold power to account
My essay in The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I agree 100% and I appreciate you and Ryan Hall, Y’all marvelous coverage last night and appreciate you kept us all safe and that means 'high risk' was a success we were all forewarned and stayed safe! Thanks from #NWArkansas that was right in line !
Many large news organizations as well as smaller, nonprofit startups, were well-represented in Monday’s Pulitzer Prize winners. But as Rick Edmonds notes, for-profit metro newspapers and their digital sites were virtually shut out this year.
poynter.org/commentary/202…