Momofuku backs down from defending its 'chile crunch' trademark after outcry by small businesses apnews.com/article/momofu…

New from me: 'Beat them in a circle': Mark Robinson spoke out in favor of corporal punishment for kids, but won't say if the practice should be brought back in schools (some still paddled kids up until 2018

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Brava Moira Donegan

Finally read the Uri Berliner piece on NPR biasand I'm baffled by how little the enormous media controversy it spawned has resulted in scrutiny of its claims for factual accuracy. There are significant problems with the piece including obvious, verifiable falsehoods

Nicole Brown knew that her husband was going to murder her. She told people. She was failed not because domestic violence is “complicated,” or because “we can never know what goes on in a marriage from outside.” She begged for her life and was abandoned to her killer.

Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…

A Colorado town has spent more than $11,000 suing me and losing. I made a public record request about the former police chief. The town wanted to keep a memo secret, a memo that informed the chief he was going to be fired. 9news.com/article/news/l…

The fourth and final public 'drop-in' for the DuPont State Recreational Forest Master Recreation Plan took place on Saturday, April 6. See the latest plans: bit.ly/3PTngzI

'Pure happiness’ as Western North Carolina catches glimpse of solar eclipse. Love this report from BPR’s ⁦Helen Chickering⁩: bpr.org/bpr-news/2024-…

Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy as grave violation of human dignity apnews.com/article/vatica…

I traveled to the path of totality for the eclipse. It was truly one of the most beautiful, surreal, awe-inspiring things I’ve ever seen. I nearly wept. And I’m so glad I didn’t waste it being scared because someone hawking dick pills told me to be 😊 teenvogue.com/story/solar-ec…