Daryn Glassbrook

Exactly. And we don't talk this way about people with type 1 diabetes or combat veterans, both of which are also tiny segments of the population.

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

A page of text from Nadine Gordimer's 1970 novel A Guest of Honour. An African head of state is talking about an increasingly isolationist American foreign policy.

A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer, published in 1970.

I wish this were true, but if he had really lost this much donor support , wouldn't he be fired by now?

Black and white photo of Irish author Edna O'Brien smoking a cigarette

Edna O'Brien

AMA and other medical associations are kicked out of CDC vaccine workgroups U.S. health officials have told more than a half-dozen of the nation’s top medical organizations that they will no longer help establish vaccination recommendations.

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Book cover of Television: Technology and Cultural Form by Raymond Williams.

I certainly hope the age of public broadcasting is not over.

How I think about the power of public broadcasting is largely shaped by this classic text by Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form, which challenges McLuhan's technological determinism on a number of points.

Growing up in rural Texas, President Johnson saw firsthand the struggles caused by limited access to doctors and hospitals.

He believed health care was a right, not a privilege.

Honored to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Medicare & Medicaid Act, signed into law on this day in 1965.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Good!

I would like to strike out Carleton. It's been a long time since I've read him and he might not be as good as I remember.

Is Sheridan LeFanu still underrated?

Otherwise I will go with William Carleton.

Last week, every House Democrat voted to force the DOJ to release the list and every Republican voted against it. Yes, there are probably powerful Dems on the list but only one party is part of the coverup.

Conservative groups in Alabama led people to apply to Project 2025, leaked database shows “I heard about Project 2025 through my time interning in Senator Tuberville’s office,” wrote one applicant.

“I heard about Project 2025 through my time interning in Senator Tuberville’s office,” wrote one applicant.

« Il faut appeler un génocide par son nom » : deux ONG israéliennes se prononcent sur l’opération de l’armée à Gaza B’Tselem et Physicians for Human Rights sont deux organisations phares de la société civile israélienne, à la pointe de la défense des droits humains. Elles publient conjointement, lundi 28 juillet, deux rapports qui concluent que l’armée poursuit à Gaza une politique intentionnelle de destruction de la société palestinienne.

« Il faut appeler un génocide par son nom » : deux ONG israéliennes se prononcent sur l’opération de l’armée à Gaza

This is something that has always bothered me. Athletes who "play through the pain" are celebrated as heroes. This is a toxic attitude that can result in long-term or potentially fatal injuries.

*Citizens, not Center

Also, in 2023 the Center for Renewing America had a deficit of $230K. The Heritage Foundation had a deficit of $7 million. Looks like someone could learn something about fiscal responsibility.

Russell Vought has spent his entire career on the staff of Republican politicians and in conservative think tanks.

He should have been told years ago that he has no f***ing idea what he is talking about.

Please help them if you can.

I'd be very careful in how you frame this acknowledgement. Britt is in no sense a "science leader." She was lobbied successfully to restore NIH funds & that's a good thing. But she also voted to confirm RFK Jr. & to codify the other DOGE cuts, doing immense harm to scientific research & teaching.

Does J.D. Vance become President in this scenario? Not sure that's any better.

The debate should be over the vehicle of removal: what's the best way to get him out? I still think the best legal basis is the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. A majority vote in Congress declares him ineligible, and the office is officially vacated.

Did you know Samuel Beckett used to drive André the Giant to school? Yesterday was the 32th anniversary of the death of Samuel Beckett, writer and pioneering experimental playwright (not to mention style icon)—and we’re celebrating by remembering a charming story fr…

Me, I'm more of an André the Giant guy. lithub.com/did-you-know...

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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It's time.

TIME FOR ACTION - NOT MORE LETTERS OF CONDEMNATION TIME FOR ACTION - NOT MORE LETTERS OF CONDEMNATION

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What kind of tradeoff is that? Maybe Manchin could have spent more time defending the Child Tax Credit to his constituents rather than lazily pandering to them.

Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

I don't get the squeamishness of some Dems & journos around the Epstein story. Since when have sex scandals not been a part of politics? This is a major sex trafficking investigation with lots of unanswered questions & it's being covered up by the President who was a close friend of the perpetrator.

Engineers transform dental floss into needle-free vaccine New method places inactivated viruses directly into mice’s gums

Y’all. They used dental floss on mice.... for vaccine delivery!!!
Not kidding. This is the type of research that keeps me so excited about science and innovation and why we should not be defunding science.
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