The Big Fail

(New York MAGAZINE)

Student achievement has fallen off a cliff. And neither Trump nor the pandemic is to blame.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/public-education-failure-american-test-scores-trump-pandemic-liberals.html

 

Sabrina Carpenter condemns ‘evil and disgusting’ ICE video that uses her song

Pop star calls out White House’s ‘inhumane agenda’ after post that soundtracks immigration raids to her song Juno

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/02/sabrina-carpenter-ice-video

 

NAPHEESA COLLIER interviewed by SUE BIRD (a video)

https://youtu.be/8wFHCurXhVw?si=6YlfmHZt13bnFhve

COOL VIDEO.

 

https://youtu.be/Ml_oY_zTFJA?si=DEuN6cAvQJ3Hx4u0

Historian Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat On Understanding Trump and Autocratic Behavior (on Simon Rosenberg’s podcast which I watch/listen to regularly)

https://youtu.be/F5koz58DkBc?si=llW50QEoWuUmU5yl

A GUY younger than me (who isn’t?) in my apartment lobby pulled out a paperback copy of a Norman Mailer book to show me. I didn’t tell the guy I’d given all my books to the Salvation Army. But I thought maybe I’d kept at least one Mailer book. I had. I started re-reading The Armies of the Night last night. It’s about the anti-Vietnam War 1967 march on the Pentagon. It’s phenomenal. 

Sitting at the counter for breakfast (bowl of oatmeal, scrambled eggs and home fries, 2 cups of back coffee) at Joe Jr’s at 16th and Third Avenue. My frequent place after holding the sign.