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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?

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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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“Dear Members of the Pulitzer Prize board,

My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.

On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderl…

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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

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🎯Spot on

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Wrote this for

(whose readers seem to hate me a lot less this time!)

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

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Do you back RFK Jr. in his effort to BAN all pharmaceutical companys commercials on national TV?

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If you go into a bar and pay for a sign that says “fuck the Jews” and proudly show it everywhere and post it on your social media - you can expect that all of normal and polite society says fuck you back and wants nothing to do with you.

This isn’t cancel culture - this is you’re a vile pig.

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🚨BREAKING

RFK Jr is preparing to ban Pharmaceutical Ads on TV..

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I rarely agree with Piers Morgan but

This is 1000% accurate

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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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Sweden has announced it plans to deport immigrants who have acquired Swedish citizenship but have failed to integrate into Western society. Do you agree with Sweden’s decision?

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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…

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John's avatar

Shoulda listened to Henry Ford back in the early 1900's. He saw what was going on with the FED etc.

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They should have listened to McCarthy who said that we never beat the NAZIS in WW2 at all! He was right! Nixon saw it too, just like JFK did. I think Reagan did too, that's why they attempted to kill him. I sure hope someone is keeping Trump and Kennedy safe! They are the future of our Country. I so want them to run together as Independents,....if we even have any elections. I'm not sure we will! Together those two men could turn this whole Country around,..... :)

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says she doesn't have to explain why her family has been cashing their dead grandmother's Social Security checks since 2004.

"Our family business is our family business."

Sure. Until your family business is defrauding the taxpayer,

DOGE has already fixed the problem and promised to claw back as much as possible.

When is someone going to be arrested?

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Eric Holder illegally ran guns to the Mexican cartels as AG and not a single court issued an injunction

President Trump tries to lawfully deport cartels and courts do everything they can to stop him

This is why Americans are furious

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DC Draino's avatar

I’ll be honest, I don’t think Covid-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab

I’m serious

I actually think it was intentionally unleashed

A carefully engineered bioweapon designed to cripple the booming American economy, facilitate orwellian medical tyranny, and provide cover for mass mail-in ballots that would help Democrats steal the 2020 election

And I’m not alone