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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In this post, Bill Moyers conducts an important interview with investigative journalist Anne Nelson, who talks about her new book, SHADOW NETWORK: MEDIA, MONEY, AND THE SECRET HUB OF THE RADICAL RIGHT. Read this and you will understand the dark forces that are undermining our democracy and our…

When I Googled this topic, why were the first two sources VOX and the BBC? Why not the New York Times and other major traditional American news sources? To be fair, the NYT and the Atlantic was mentioned on the first page of the search but they were near the bottom of the page. VOX […]

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The New York Times published this editorial for its Sunday edition, accompanied by articles detailing the multiple failures of Donald Trump. This is my favorite line: “the lesson of the last four years is that he cannot solve the nation’s pressing problems because he is the nation’s most…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A government agency that has long been trusted as nonpartisan relies on public trust for the information it releases. When that agency is the Centers for Disease Control, public trust is essential to persuading the public that its advisories represent the work of scientists, unaffected by political considerations.…

Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: I am more and more certain that Trump and his racist gangs of violent thugs will attempt a coup when the polling results come in after November 3. A racist coup d’etat (or armed overthrow of the government) has, in fact, happened before here in the US: Wilmington NC,…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: James Hohmann of the Washington Post gathered interesting post-debate happenings. Joe Biden left Cleveland on a chartered Amtrak train and made a six-city whistlestop trip through areas of Ohio and a Pennsylvania that Trump won in 2016. Meanwhile, Trump continues to face negative responses and from Republican leaders,…

Originally posted on GFBrandenburg's Blog: I wanted to share an absolutely brilliant series of suggestions on how to deal with Trump’s nomination of Judge Barrett. The best parts are towards the end, so read all the way through! This is by Bill Svelmoe. I never heard of him before, but this is great. Drag…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Dana Milbank is a regular columnist for the Washington Post. He writes: America, this is not a drill. The Reichstag is burning. For five years, my colleagues and I have taken pains to avoid Nazi comparisons. It is usually hyperbolic, and counterproductive, to label the right “fascists” in…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: What if? What if Trump loses the election but refuses to accept the results? What if he continues to say, as he will, that the election was rigged? He has actually said that the only valid election is one that he wins. He has prepared the public to…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I just finished reading Michael Cohen’s new tell-all about his years as Donald Trump’s “fixer.” It is called Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump. Quite a lot of the book consists of Cohen flaying himself for being a lackey who happily did…