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Heather Casey
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Professor of Literacy Education. Writer, Reader, Teacher.
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May 30, 2025
In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations into his businesses would “take me down.” “I can’t be president,” he wrote, “but I can help Trump defeat Biden and I will.”
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May 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.
Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids
While RFK Jr. said coronavirus vaccines would be removed from the CDC schedule for healthy children, it’s still recommended in consultation with doctors.
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May 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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May 2, 2025:
May 2, 2025
Yesterday I identified incorrectly the messaging app newly fired national security advisor Michael Waltz was using at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday as the unsecure Signal app.
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May 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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In a moment when institutions are capitulating to the administration over diversity and race—

Im thinking of offering a condensed version of my short Columbia course on race, media and global history for this moment.

Would y’all sign up?
April 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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House Republicans just voted to rob 72 million Americans of their Medicaid coverage to give tax cuts to the rich. 😤

Give your House Reps a CALL BACK to let them know how you feel about their vote. 👉 5calls.org/issue/budget...
February 26, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Anyone can report incidents of censorship in school libraries and classrooms to us, and NCTE members have access to additional supports. Fill out the form here: ncte.org/report-censo...
January 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM