Dani Robbins

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Professor of Practice, Nonprofit Leadership, Governance & Strategy; Veteran Nonprofit Exec; Advocate, Activist & Ally; Strategist, Speaker, Blogger & Author

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The Biden campaign said it would not suggest questions for future interviews.

Radio Host Who Was Fed Questions by Biden Campaign Leaves Philadelphia Stationwww.nytimes.com WURD said that the interview with President Biden was not up to its standards and that the host, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, had resigned in a mutual decision.

They must feel threatened.

They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

What the media predicts is often wrong. As evidenced by: Elections in France: Projections show voters rejecting the far right www.npr.org/2024/07/07/n...

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

The Kamala Harris calculus: What do Democrats gain or lose?

Opinion | The Kamala Harris calculus: What do Democrats gain or lose?www.washingtonpost.com A lot of commentators might have to eat crow.

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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If a school district replaces regular class with study so kids who leave DURING THE SCHOOL DAY for private religious training won’t miss anything, these not-really-non-profits are taking learning time from students who go to school for, you know, school. www.dispatch.com/story/news/c...

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The New York Times

The NYT has proved lately that it is possible to have no shame

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Seth Masket

Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.

The NYT felon article is as dumb as the I Don’t Vote one. What is going on over there?!

@ABC, why are you rerunning an interview you didn’t show the end of?

There are times when the path of least resistance is the one that leads to total disaster. This increasingly looks like one of those times. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

Opinion | One by One, the Reasons to Stick With Biden Are Failingwww.nytimes.com A memo to the faithful: It’s time to let go.

Opinion | Notes From a Formerly Unpromising Young Personwww.nytimes.com I managed to find my way in life despite being expelled from high school. Could young people in the same situation today do the same?

Florida pilot project uses community voices to combat rumors “the pilot revealed that some immigrant communities are dealing with huge unmet information needs. “There's information inequities, there's paywalls, there's language barriers, there's literacy barriers,” Friedhoff said.

To fight bad information, a project taps trusted messengers in immigrant communitieswww.npr.org As news outlets contract and falsehoods circulate online, researchers want to know if trusted community messengers can help link people to quality information.

This Fourth of July, let’s bear in mind that what many Americans value in this country is its inclusion and protection of everyone, regardless of their beliefs.

“Despite what the Christian nationalist movement would have you believe, America was not founded as a Christian nation. Nor is it one today. In a pluralistic country, neither the Bible nor Judeo-Christian values are universal” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Your Religious Values Are Not American Valueswww.nytimes.com Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.

“Trump should drop out not because it would be good for Republicans, or good for Democrats, but because it would be good for America. Everyone who isn’t a cultish devotee of Trump knows it. And every one of them should have the courage to say it.”

still the only correct take

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“We the People” in 2024 means something a lot different than it meant in 1789. #4thOfJuly #FourthOfJuly

‘We the People’ includes all Americans – but July 4 is a reminder that democracy remains a work in progresstheconversation.com The meaning of the Constitution’s preamble, which begins with the words ‘We the People,’ has evolved over time as voting rights have expanded.

I love Biden and yes. “A new-generation candidate could bring a jolt of energy to the ticket. It would give so-called double haters, voters unhappy with the rematch between an 81-year-old president and a 78-year-old former president, a possible new place to go this November.”

Should Biden Quit? Democrats Weigh Potential Rewards and Steep Riskswww.nytimes.com Picking a new nominee could give Democrats a jolt of energy. But it could bring division and a crash-course campaign with no room for error.

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It really is a tough choice between spending the next four months generating cringe but effective propaganda about how pretty and tough the first female president who is also Black/Asian is, versus spending those months trying to convince voters dementia isn’t a word in the dictionary

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History is so important, and the reason so many don't want it told. When you put together the stories, from Colonial times to the present, with data points like Wilmington and Tulsa, white supremacy becomes a through-line that, rather than an aberration, is a force we always must monitor and resist.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.www.washingtonpost.com How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

A Jewish Teen’s Diary Recounts Pain and Resilience in a Nazi Ghettowww.nytimes.com In an online exhibition, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the account of Yitskhok Rudashevski. He was 13 when the Germans took over Vilnius, Lithuania.

Biden, besides being a good man, has been a truly consequential president. He deserves to be remembered as the leader who saved the country from Trump in 2020, lifted us from the dark days of the Covid pandemic, passed critical legislation .. and, in the end, knew when and how to say goodbye.

Opinion | The Question President Biden Needs to Ask Himself. Now.www.nytimes.com Trump fears that Biden will demonstrate the difference between a leader who puts the country first and a leader who put himself first.

“It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system. It sees itself as the enforcer of the separation of powers, but not itself subject to that separation.”

The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

Opinion | God save us from this dishonorable courtwww.washingtonpost.com An egregious, unconscionable ruling on presidential immunity from the Supreme Court.

In Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s words, it’s “a five-alarm fire that threatens to consume democratic self-governance and the normal operations of our government.” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Gives a Free Pass to Trump and Future Presidentswww.nytimes.com In a step toward monarchy, the bedrock principle that presidents are not above the law has been set aside.

To pretend that Trump is fit for public office, Republicans have had to give themselves over to corrosive denial.

asking Democrats to show MAGA-style devotion to their leader is a dubious strategy both ethically and practically. There is nothing to admire in the way Republicans have fallen in line behind Trump; it’s been a moral catastrophe.

Opinion | There’s No Reason to Resign Ourselves to Bidenwww.nytimes.com The president’s team should stop gaslighting us.