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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Fires Editorial Cartoonist Critical of Trump: Here’s Why That Should Scare the Shit Out of You
Two weeks ago, Rob Rogers, an award-winning and beloved editorial cartoonist who’d been working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 25 years, revealed that a number of his recent cartoons had been “killed”—which is what happens when an editor decides not to publish a journalist’s work. This is not a particularly uncommon occurrence; the relationship between…
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Miss. School District Axes To Kill a Mockingbird Because It Made Some People ‘Uncomfortable’
As further evidence that the United States is descending into an authoritarian state, a school district in Mississippi has removed Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird from a junior high school reading list. Biloxi, Miss., administrators pulled the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum this week after getting complaints from parents. The decision made was an…
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NJ High School Reprinting Yearbook to Include Students Wearing Pro-Trump Shirts
Earlier this week, a New Jersey high school teacher was suspended after the school yearbook was edited to remove Donald Trump logos and slogans from the clothing of two high school students. Now the school has announced plans to reprint the yearbook to correct the intentional changes. Wall Township School Superintendent Cheryl Dyer sent a…
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NJ High School Teacher Suspended Over Photos Altered to Remove Trump References From Yearbook
A New Jersey school district has suspended a teacher after yearbook photos of two high school students were edited to remove Trump logos and slogans from their clothing. According to NBC Philadelphia, Wall Township School Superintendent Cheryl Dyer confirmed that the yearbook’s adviser was suspended Monday pending an investigation. It is still unclear as to…