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I believe that not only cursive writing, but cursive writing with a pencil on scratchy low-quality paper helped kids learn to read and spell. That muscle effort plus the slow painstaking creation of each letter while saying the sound of the letter in your head or outloud—and then blending it into the next connected letter—how could this not be helpful?

Melanie Sturm's avatar

I’ve been blown away by the quiet messages I’ve received — especially from people in the theater world — saying “Thank you for saying what I can’t.”

That’s exactly why I wrote Think Again: What I Learned in My Theater Board’s Gender Debate.

It’s not just about pronouns or policy — it’s about how to speak up persuasively when the stakes are…

Think Again: What I Learned in My Theater Board’s Gender Debate
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Yet another example of the kind of coverage that is so distractingly wrong that it makes it hard to focus on the supposed bigger issue. I continue to be mystified by editors who feel they need to do stuff like this

The New York Times gets ever more Orwellian in its effort to rewrite the story of Kilmar Abrego García's tattoos

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Wrote this for

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I Tried to Cover a May Day Protest. Antifascists Had a Problem With That.

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Roy Ben-Tzvi's avatar

This made me emotional and simultaneously angry that even when we are slaughtered we have to share our story in detail to get sympathy, it’s so backwards

James Goodrich's avatar

As you may know my wife works in an OR at a major hospital, I’ll leave it at that for now. She was scheduled to work yesterday,Wednesday, and has been dreading it being the day after Election Day. Well the stars aligned and as we all know Trump won. I will add she was forced through DEI brainwashing through her work also. So at work yesterday she had called me a couple times telling me how crazy things in work were. There were two nurses sobbing, tears and all flowing. Many were openly saying t…

That is horrific. What Jill sees from her FB "friends" - is the same.

These women are completely brainwashed. It is scary.

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James Goodrich's avatar

I agree with you Dr. Malone, they are brainwashed and the reality is the media and government have colluded for it to happen, very scary stuff.

Sheila Secrist's avatar

Yes they are. I got into a wasted discussion on fb with someone who hated Trump said I was full of bs when I said voting Democrat was voting for transgender medicine and surgery for children without parental approval. They didn't have a clue what their party is pushing and refuse to even research anything. That's the real problem - they refuse to even research truth. The hardest thing the last 8 years has been realizing almost half this country doesn't even recognize evil when it's right in fro…

Joan Custer's avatar

I totally agree ⁉️

I realized after Helene hit my neighborhood in Aiken SC and I discovered a 79 year old lady in my neighborhood had been alone for 5 days without power and was running out of food until she finally called out the window to someone walking on the sidewalk and asked if she would come and talk to her. After she talked with her she walked around to where I lived and told me about her and it broke my heart and I immediately went to help and continue to do so as she has no one, no ca…

Ben Stafford's avatar

Your story sounds so familiar to ours with our next door neighbor here in WA. Our neighbor is 86, lives on her own, has one friend that visits her everyday (which is so sweet), but watches nothing but CNN all day long. She goes to church every Sunday but her church is now half pro-trans and is falling apart. Half of the church (one of the oldest, largest churches here), including several assistant pastors, just walked out a few months ago. She still attends, but is heart broken because she does…