Media Bits and Bytes – May 13, 2025
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How to win a Pulitzer
How to win a Pulitzer
How to win a Pulitzer
Media Bits and Bytes – June 11, 2024
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A crisis moment for media
The Rise and Fall of Moms for Liberty
The Progressive
Reeling from school board losses, the “parental rights” organization is collapsing on itself.
Media Bits and Bytes – December 12, 2023
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More censorship, more surveillance, more media resistance
‘War Against the Children’
The New York Times
The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives.
More Police in Schools Than Counselors
LA Progressive
The nation’s schools are over-criminalized and under-resourced. U.S. schools have more police on hand than support staff.
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In Georgia, 1,400 Electric Bus Manufacturing Workers Have Just Won a Union
Jacobin
Electric vehicle manufacturing in the US is overwhelming nonunion, but 1,400 workers for an electric bus manufacturer in Georgia have just unionized. It’s one of the labor movement’s biggest victories in the South this century.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 9, 2023
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A not-so-civil war continues
Tidbits – Mar. 30, 2023 – Reader Comments: Attack on Public Education; Transgender Phobia; Guns, Schools, Children; Wisconsin; Florida; War in Ukraine; Nuclear Weapons; Travel to Cuba; April 4 – Dr. King’s Legacy; Building Socialist Alliances;
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Reader Comments: Attack on Public Education; Transgender Phobia; Guns, Schools, Children; Wisconsin; Florida; War in Ukraine; Nuclear Weapons; Fossil Fuels; Travel to Cuba; April 4 - Dr. King's Legacy; Building Socialist Alliances for Policy;
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 28, 2023
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Apocalypse is the new normal
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