NPR editor's critique, departure shows it needs balance That’s the charge made in a recent piece by now-former NPR senior editor Uri Berliner, who penned a critique of the network for The Free Press, a center-right publication. After the article made a big ... 04/18/2024 - 2:50 pm | View Link
Quotations from Chairman Maher Katherine Maher has a golden résumé, with stints and affiliations at UNICEF, the Atlantic Council, the World Economic Forum, the State Department, Stanford University, and the Council on Foreign ... 04/17/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
NPR Editor Resigns—And Takes Shot At CEO—As Conservatives Crusade Against Alleged Bias Following an essay published last week in which an NPR editor criticized the network’s “lack of viewpoint diversity,” former President Donald Trump and others called for the network to lose its public ... 04/17/2024 - 6:08 am | View Link
NPR suspends whistleblower who exposed taxpayer-funded network's liberal bias NPR has suspended a whistleblower editor who exposed the network's liberal bias, as its chief grapples with old tweets revealing her hatred of Donald Trump. Editor Uri Berliner sparked a storm ... 04/16/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
‘As blobby as it gets’: Why NPR CEO’s resume has conspiracy theorists convinced she’s in the CIA NPR’s new Chief Executive Officer Katherine Maher, who was hired in January, came under fire this week when right-wing activists resurfaced tweets she made about the Black Lives Matter protests ... 04/16/2024 - 9:53 am | View Link
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hits the Trump trials in New York City and reports like only he can. He interviews many people from a crowd of true diversity, which is practically a rainbow of all the different mental illnesses. There are too many zingers to repeat them all here, but it is so funny that even Trump would fill his Depends five times over from laughing so hard.
But seriously, who do you think will win, the bleach blonde with the big jugs or Stormy Daniels?
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“Israel, early Friday morning local time, launched missiles in a retaliatory strike against Iran,” ABC News reports.
“The missile launches follow Iran’s attack last Saturday, where the country sent a volley of more than 300 uncrewed drones and missiles toward targets throughout the country, Israeli military officials previously said. All but a few were intercepted by Israel and its allies, including the United States.”
CNN: “Iran’s air defense systems have been activated in several provinces of the country.”
Bloomberg reports Israeli officials notified the U.
“In its first week, Donald Trump’s criminal trial is forcing the former president, a man who famously surrounds himself with sycophants, to sit quietly and listen to the unfiltered opinions of those typically kept at arm’s-length: People he might call his ‘haters,'” Politico reports.
“During jury selection, Trump has heard himself described by those under consideration as racist and sexist and a narcissist.
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I) said he could beat both President Biden and former President Trump in a hypothetical match-up Thursday, The Hill reports.
Said Ventura: “If I had ballot access in all 50 states and I were allowed to debate, I could beat these two major party candidates.”
Colorado will distribute $24 million in one-time funding to public school districts and charter schools impacted by the unprecedented influx of immigrant students who arrived after the annual October headcount that determines districts’ state funding.
Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed the bipartisan bill, HB24-1389, authorizing that money to be distributed this fiscal year from the State Education Fund.
The Colorado Department of Education now will determine how much school districts receive using a multi-tiered funding model that’s based on how many new-to-the-country students they enrolled following the count.
“What is going on now really has been quite substantial and unusual in terms of scope, and these thousands of new students coming require services,” said Rep.