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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Daily Howler on Mitt Romney and Betsy DeVos

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Proponents of "education reform" also tend to control the narratives, and the supply of facts. The things you're allowed to ...
Monday, January 9, 2017

Globalism vs Nationalism: We Are Not the World - WSJ

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The new nationalist surge has startled establishment parties in part because they don’t see globalism as an ideology. How could it be, ...

FEXIT Vote Roils United Federation of Planets

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Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam, Klingon for "Today is a good day to die." by Norm Scott reporting from Risa Reports have reached our...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

Aim Of School Choice Is To Limit Choice - Norm in The WAVE

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Published Jan. 6, 2017 http://www.rockawave.com/news/2017-01-06/School_News/Aim_Of_School_Choice_Is_To_Limit_Choice.html Aim Of S...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

UFT Chapter Leader workshop on changes to ADVANCE - UPDATED

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UPDATED - additions in blue. A CL on the MORE listserve went to the Manhattan training on Tuesday. Here is what he reported- also see po...
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Monday, January 2, 2017

Bill Ayers on "Let's Talk Fascism" - and a Happy New Year to You

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Anyone want to do a pool on guessing the date when we can declare we have entered a state of fascism? The winner gets an exit visa to Cana...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Matt Taibbi -- Something About This Russia Story Stinks - Rolling Stone

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On one end of the spectrum, America could have just been the victim of a virtual coup d'etat engineered by a combination of Donald T...
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Arendt on totalitarianism Tells an Apt story for Current Times

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[In the 1930s] Large numbers of people felt dispossessed, disenfranchised, disconnected from dominant social institutions. The political...
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Cornel West and the Struggle Between Sanderistas and Clintonistas - Jacobin

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There is a lot of depth to this Jacobin piece on the assaults on Bernie and the Jill Stein supporter Cornel West, once a darling of Dem Pa...

Marcella Sills' petition to get job back tossed by judge - NY Post

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PS 106 was dubbed the “School of No” after the Post’s articles on its culture of student deprivation and administrative incompetence. The...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Fred Smith's Annual "Night Before Christmas"

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Fred brightens up everyone with his good cheer Christmas Eve 2016 This night before Christmas I have trouble rhyming. What’s been flyi...
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Monday, December 26, 2016

WAPO: Here’s the real reason Rust Belt cities and towns voted for Trump

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Another interesting piece from the WAPO Monkey Page which I am subscribing to. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/...
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Sunday, December 25, 2016

Must Read - NYTimes: How the Obama Coalition Crumbled, Leaving an Opening for Trump

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The 2016 Race...
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Sure, Let's Keep Trusting the CIA

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Mr. Nixon, the first C.I.A. officer to interrogate Hussein after his capture in December 2003, reveals gobsmacking facts about that de...