Tag: censorship
Exploiting Fears of ‘CRT’ and Other ‘Inappropriate’ Material, Some Schools Boards...
Many may have been assigned in high school the legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury's inimitable 1953 dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451.
If not, briefly, it's a...
Scared Republicans Cancel References to Race in Libraries and Schools
It's bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist "America First" caucus in the...
Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis Goes Full Orwell in Recent Education Legislation
Back in September, two months before losing the election to Joe Biden, when Donald Trump was repeating the fallacy either he win the election...
Climate Change Denial Extends To The EPA As Scott Pruitt Silences...
Perhaps people thought it was "fake news."
Two years ago, an article appeared in the Miami Herald about Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials being barred from using...
WTF? ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Makes MS Snowflakes ‘Uncomfortable’ (TWEETS)
For more than half a century, Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" has been a staple of eighth and ninth-grade English classes around the...
WATCH: JFK Talks About Importance Of Independent News Media While Making...
Former President John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) served America as its 35th elected Commander-in-Chief before having his life cut short by an assassin's bullet in...
Scientists Are Fighting The War On Science Along New Fronts (VIDEO)
One of the biggest stories of the newly christened Trump administration was that mere hours after being sworn in, President Donald Trump’s team purged...
Artist Who Painted Trump Nude Threatened With ‘Anonymous’ Lawsuit
Donald Trump and his supporters are up in arms again. This time it is over a nude painting of Trump that is about to...
NC Officials Tell Reporter To ‘Remove This Quote From Your Article’
As a lifelong North Carolinian, the three years since the Republicans grabbed complete control of state government have seen a lot of outrageous moments. But...
Al Jazeera Reporters Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison
Al Jazeera reporters Mohamad Fahmy, Baher Mohamed, and Peter Greste have been sentenced to three years in prison. The Canadian-Egyptian, Egyptian, and Australian journalists were charged with...
Award-Winning English Teacher In Connecticut Forced To Resign For Reading Allen...
Intellectual and academic freedom are dead and buried. Or at least that certainly seems to be the message coming from a school system in...
Kansas GOP Wants To Make Teaching ‘Harmful’ Books Illegal
As it turns out, Ray Bradbury may have been more prescient when he wrote "Fahrenheit 451"?than even he could have imagined. Bradbury's classic novel...
10 Things That Make Me Irate
In honor of the Great Philosopher Carlin, here are the 10 Things That Make Me Irate?right now:
10.?155 million males in America, and still very...