This. General Strike by teachers and school staff.

How have we normalized the fact that innocent Americans can step onto a subway car or go to a grocery store or a synagogue or a church or a concert or a baseball game or a party or a car show or to work or to school and maybe they will just be slaughtered? bariweiss.substack.com/p/american-mad…

A mother had enough time to hear about the shooting, drive 40 miles (!), yell at the police to do something, get cuffed by them, talk herself out of the cuffs, and then jump the fence and rescue her kids...before the cops dealt with the situation. wsj.com/articles/uvald…

Red line marks the year (2004) the assault weapons ban was allowed to expire

The only person who actually ran into the school in Uvalde to rescue kids was an unarmed woman. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

77 years ago tomorrow the first nuclear weapon exploded. 40 years later, there were 70,000 nukes in the world. We survived Cold War & had chance to prevent another. But the nuke powers are now back at each other’s throats modernizing, threatening. Work/vote to end the madness!

This is such a good piece of explanatory journalism on a question that has been nagging me and I’ve seen answered nowhere else: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

"Organized labor is in an abusive relationship with the Democratic party." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What has been reported in the Twitter Files is news. History is going to make that clear. That journalists are hauled before Congress to be attacked for their reporting of that news should concern anyone who cares about journalism.

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" I call President Bush a terrorist. I call those around him terrorists, as well: Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales in the Justice Department and certainly Cheney. I think all of these men and women sit at the middle of an enormous conspiracy." Harry Belafonte, 2006

Good news for my hometown paper.

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Great news for CUNY students.

Calling all #NewmarkJ alum! We’ve launched a nine-month paid fellowship with The Guardian exclusive to our graduates. If you want to build hands-on skills to cover breaking news and conduct investigations, this is for you. Learn more at the link below. journalism.cuny.edu/2024/06/announ…

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It's impossible at this point. I teach college journalism. I was previously their target demographic. But I was injured by the COVID vaccine and gaslit by doctors and the MSM who essentially did PR for the government and for Pfizer/Moderna during the pandemic. Then they

If you’re the job applicant who was (correctly) concerned about AI use in Cleveland, please consider applying to The Baltimore Banner. We’re hiring for a breaking news reporter and reporters to staff up a new suburban bureau in a very newsy county. job-boards.greenhouse.io/thebaltimoreba…

Excellent reporting in the WSJ. I moved back to my hometown after twenty years away and it's heartbreaking to see how much farmland's been turned into soulless suburbs. We should make it tax advantageous for billionaires to buy up land and let young people without capital farm