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The Attack on Public Education and What We Must Do (Jared Yates Sexton/Dispatches ...)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 20:10

Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A Collapsing State:
The Attack on Public Education and What We Must Do  —  We are deep, deep into the war on public education and it's past time we look at history and begin to fight … On Thursday scores of college students in Florida walked out in protest of Governor Ron DeSantis's increasingly aggressive attacks on public education.

Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs (Associated Press)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 20:10

Associated Press:
Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs  —  1 of 3  —  The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis.

Lee County, Florida, Republican Party Passes Resolution To Ban Covid-19 Vaccines (Bruce Y. Lee/Forbes)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 20:00

Bruce Y. Lee / Forbes:
Lee County, Florida, Republican Party Passes Resolution To Ban Covid-19 Vaccines  —  If the Lee County Republican Party has their way, the state of Florida will be banning the use of Covid-19 vaccines.  Yes, you heard that correctly.  Based on a majority vote, the Party has passed a so-called …

Watching Tucker Carlson for Work (Clare Malone/New Yorker)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 19:50

Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Watching Tucker Carlson for Work  —  According to Kat Abughazaleh, a researcher at Media Matters for America, “You don't know Fox News until you are watching it for a job.”  —  On a recent episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a prime-time show on Fox News, Tucker Carlson introduced his first guest …

Arizona governor seeks ethics review of former attorney general (Washington Post)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 19:35

Washington Post:
Arizona governor seeks ethics review of former attorney general  —  The complaint to the State Bar of Arizona follows new details about how Mark Brnovich withheld records debunking claims of election fraud  —  By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker

From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump's turf (Washington Post)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 19:25

Washington Post:
From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump's turf  —  The Florida governor's show of force this weekend was part of his increasingly open encroachments into the former president's longtime support base and ideological terrain  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. …

Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech (Douglas Belkin/Wall Street Journal)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 19:20

Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech  —  Similar reporting systems have encountered pushback around the U.S.  —  A group of Stanford University professors is pushing to end a system that allows students to anonymously report classmates for exhibiting discrimination …

A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline (ProPublica)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 19:05

ProPublica:
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline  —  Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man's land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can't investigate …

Longtime Trump backers flock to DeSantis event (Alex Isenstadt/Politico)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 18:35

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Longtime Trump backers flock to DeSantis event  —  The group of Ron DeSantis' top donors and supporters gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., this weekend includes some longtime backers of former President Donald Trump.  —  The Florida governor's three-day retreat at the Four Seasons hotel …

Doctor Describes and Denounces C.I.A. Practice of 'Rectal Feeding' of Prisoners (Carol Rosenberg/New York Times)

Sat, 02/25/2023 - 18:30

Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Doctor Describes and Denounces C.I.A. Practice of ‘Rectal Feeding’ of Prisoners  —  In a hearing at Guantánamo Bay, an expert gave a graphic public depiction of torture after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Over the years, the Central Intelligence Agency's use …

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