What Bari Weiss is doing to CBS in general and 60 Minutes in particular is an unforgivable attack on the freedom of US television news.

Less serious, but significant nonetheless, is the harm Weiss has wreaked on attempts by some US liberals to question groupthink in some quarters of academia, the media, and the nonprofit sector.

By her using the pose of a "radical centrist" questioning "woke orthodoxy" to strengthen right wing power in education and the media, she has made honest and productive debate about conformity and freedom of expression even more difficult than it already was.

I cannot abide her bad faith posturing!

Image: Bari Weiss, Honestly podcast, Texas Tribune Festival 2023 -- Presia Debauch -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ -- Flickr

#USCulture #BariWeiss #USEducation #USMedia

Wave Goodbye to the Last Normal Year for #AmericanSchools

Thanks to Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” the ’26–’27 school year will look wildly different.

By Adam Laats, June 01, 2026

"As schools send children home for the summer, we need to recognize a frightening fact: This could be the last year of public schooling the way we’ve known it. Donald Trump’s new school funding scheme, pushed through as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will kick in during the middle of the next school year, in January 2027. It’s going to create a financial tsunami for public schools. The real tragedy is that there’s no mystery to it: We already know what will happen, because the scheme is not really new at all. It brings us back to the bad old days, to the failed and inadequate divided school budgets from before the Civil War. Trump’s plan brings back the devasting problem that our modern public school systems were designed to fix."

Read more:
https://slate.com/life/2026/06/donald-trump-school-vouchers-education-funding-bbb.html

#TrumpSucks #USPol #BigUglyBill #DumbingUsDown #USEducation #PublicSchools

The Guardian | US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’ by Sanya Mansoor

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

Recent college graduates across several U.S. campuses have repeatedly booed commencement speakers who extolled artificial‑intelligence as the next industrial revolution, seeing the message as out‑of‑touch and threatening to their career prospects. A music‑industry executive, Scott Borchetta, urged students to embrace AI even as they jeered, while former Google CEO Eric Schmidt received similar hostility for likening AI’s rise to the advent of the computer. The backlash reflects broader anxiety: a 2025 Harvard poll found most young Americans view AI as a job threat, and a national NBC‑News survey showed only 26 % of voters see AI positively. Students argue that their costly degrees feel devalued when AI can perform tasks for a fraction of the price, and they call for executives to acknowledge their concerns rather than press ahead with hype. Even an AI‑driven name‑reading system at a Arizona community‑college graduation sparked boos when it mispronounced graduates, underscoring the pervasive unease about AI’s role in education and the workforce.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/26/students-boo-pro-ai-graduation-speakers

#aiartificialintelligence #graduation #students #useducation #usworkcareers #JacobPagel #ScottBorchetta #DonaldTrump #KamalaHarris #EricSchmidt