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This page is from _Welcome to Kit's World, 1934: Growing Up During America's Great Depression_ from the American Girl book collection. The American Girl books have been a fun historical fiction resource we've used in #homeschool to explore different time periods.

Photo of a book page. The page is titled "Putting America Back to Work," but the paragraph of copy directly under the title is cut off. A black-and-white photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in front of radio microphones from NBC, CBS, BLUE, and possibly others is captioned, "President Roosevelt used the radio to tell Americans about many new programs and agencies that would help them. People began calling Roosevelt's programs the 'alphabet soup programs' because so many were referred to by their initials. People even called the president by his initials--FDR!" The central highlight of the page is a poster. Its copy reads, "NRA member U.S. - we do our part." In the middle is displayed a large blue eagle, with a gear in the foot claw to the left and three lightning bolts in the foot claw to the right. The description below reads, "Flying the Blue Eagle: One goal of the National Recovery Act (NRA) was to raise wages for workers. Employers who promised to pay workers at least 40¢ an hour could display aposter with the NRA symbol on it--a blue eagle. Soon there were Blue Eagle posters on buses and billboards, encouraging shoppers to buy only at 'Blue Eagle businesses.'" A black-and-white photo of three girls in dresses that spell out "NRA" is captioned, "These gilrs were eager to show their support of the NRA." A description of the TVA's activities is cut off to the right side.

Read my kids a book about the Great Depression & learned something new. There was an NRA (here, National Recovery Act) initiative to encourage people only to shop at stores that paid their workers a certain amount.

That sounds like an idea worth recycling (& an NRA I'd support).

Folks, I'm going to rob your houses unless you reach out to me and formally tell me you don't want your house robbed. Otherwise, it's perfectly legal and I'm not sure why you're so upset about this. Now, Bob, I notice you didn't fill out your 'opt out of getting kicked in the nuts' form last week...

strong 2nd this; it feels kind of decadent to be like "PAIN AT DA PUMP????" when there's still bombs flying

That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.

BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)

One thing this piece bizarrely doesn't consider is that one reason why Mamdani is being so "careful" is that, as a high profile progressive Muslim politician, he and the city he leads are now a target for the far right

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

I cannot imagine anything sadder than going to write a post on LinkedIn and then clicking the “rewrite with AI” button. If you aren’t confident you can meet the baseline tone of LinkedIn? I dont know, man.

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

the Dem party number is easily explained by the fact that bluesky is full of people who will crawl over broken glass to vote for Democrats in November and also hate Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries with every bone in their body

NYT: Rashida Tlaib’s Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democrats’ Talking Points

NYT search result showing no results for Andy Ogles

NYT when a Muslim congresswoman says “motherfucker”: This is a problem for Democrats

NYT when a Christian Republican congressman says “Muslims don't belong in American society”: 0 results

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

Trump just put in charge of Iran a guy considered to be a hardliner *before* we killed his father, mother, and wife. We helped cement his rule by blowing up a girls elementary school, scorching their skies, and cutting off their water. We should expect retaliation—and blame Republicans for it.

Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

*giggles in Michigander*

I see your TACO and raise you STAR:

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people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class.

I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.

I was raised Catholic and have long been jaded and frustrated by the folks who wear the label of “Christian” while acting in opposition to Jesus’ teachings and values.

Talarico and the preachers of Broadview give me hope.

we here in the Great American Left-Lib-Normie Popular Front of Electoral Solidarity and Civil Disobedience rightfully love Ilhan Omar, and I have zero doubt that her faith deeply informs her political choices on an everyday basis

Talarico, same thing. it's fine if you let it be.

again, cannot emphasize enough how many people there are like me in the south - i.e. white, left-leaning Millennials who have left the major Christian churches of the region due to their leaders using Jesus to be cruel to minorities and the poor - that Talarico will activate with this kind of stuff

Yes. 100% cosign.

As a Christian, I imagine you'd want to fight tooth and nail to prevent Maga from claiming the label. They are as far from it as possible and the association will soon teach people that "Christian" is synonymous with hate and oppression.

Democratic politicians are greatly underestimating the size of the bag the next president will be left holding.

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

The “shrill resistlib” yelling about how terrible Trump was in 2017 provided better political analysis than something like 98% of the entire pundit class.

the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”

You know the economy is bad when scammers are trying to get emerging writers and authors. Baby, you got off at the wrong exit.