@[email protected] UPDATE: The Florida Department of Education will be visiting this teacher's school on Wednesday, May 17 to interview students about this incident.
This is not a joke.
Good morning, and happy Sunday! Here are some of the stories I am tracking in the news. Justices under scrutiny. So, it turns out it wasn’t just Justice Clarence Thomas we should be concerned about. Separate news stories broke about two of the other conservative male justices, putting further downward pressure on public trust of the entire institution.
"Not the odds but the stakes."
That's my shorthand for what we most need from election coverage in 2024. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
Dan Rather on the horse race:
"A horse race confers an equivalence upon all candidates. The only detail that matters is who is going to win — not all that might be lost. To view America through that lens today is an exercise in the absurd."
https://steady.substack.com/p/the-danger-of-horse-race-politics