No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are being transformed into indoctrination centers where critical ideas and imagined futures are held in contempt, transformed into apparatuses of censorship and hopelessness. Derided as a haven for critically informed social criticism, the far-right wants to reduce teaching and learning to what might be called cloning pedagogies, designed to clone...
Beloved Australian children's entertainers 'The Wiggles' have released an album of EDM versions of their classic children's songs and people love it.
Deep State supporters like Senator Lindsey Graham are so committed to keeping the unconstitutional surveillance system of the American people in place, they will lie and make up any fictitious scenario imaginable to retain it.
Major League Baseball, as has been mentioned over and over the past several years, has a real problem with its umpires. Ump shows are sprouting up in big league ballparks all over the country and they are seriously detracting from the games. (Don’t get us started on the uniforms and all of the arm injuries.) […]
LeBron James was not happy with Lakers head coach Darvin Ham during game 4 of the Nuggets-Lakers playoff series. With the Lakers up 15 in the fourth quarter, an angry LeBron was seen yelling at the refs after they called out of bounds on him. LeBron, who felt he hadn’t touched the ball, begged Ham […]
Comedian/Actor Andrew Santino was the latest guest on New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce (Presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment) and the stories were flowing like wine. Nearly an hour and a half into the episode, Andrew Santino told the story of Travis Kelce’s teammate, Patty Mahomes, crushing Coors Light like water at one […]
A Moroccan asylum seeker has claimed stress made him 'lose his mind' moments before he stabbed a pensioner to death in the street.
Stacker compiled a list of seven moments where Asian American and Black American solidarity paved the way for broad-stroke freedoms.
Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm.
Former President Donald Trump faces a lose-lose situation as he and his legal team grapple with the question of whether he should testify in his criminal hush money case, a legal strategist says. Jury consultant Steve Duffy told the Independent Wednesday that Trump can't win if he takes the stand in the ongoing Manhattan trial but takes a big risk if he does not. “Jurors generally don’t react well to criminal defendants not testifying, because it just leads to speculation about, 'Why – what do...
The New Mexico School Superintendent Association along with multiple schools and their superintendents have filed a lawsuit in Curry County against the New Mexico Public Education Department in regard to the departments implementation of its new administrative rule, School Instructional Time Requirements.
"What Kind Of American Are You?" Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, War, What's It Good For? We have only seen a handful of movies in a theater over the last decade. Ever since the kids grew up, there hasn’t been a reason to spend too much for too little. Regal Cinemas in Oaks was the place to go in the old days. It had 24 theaters and was always packed. You could never get a parking spot close to the venue. The restaurant near the theater always had a line and...