John Norton
@johncnorton.bsky.social
Education writer and editor. Former investigative reporter. Blue Southerner. Love dogs and cats. Read science fiction, crime and mystery, history and science. Father of Laurah, a podcaster and author of Lay Them to Rest.
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"The modern school librarian is an advocate for joyful reading and meaningful learning opportunities in 2025." @middleweb.bsky.social
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Making the Most of Your Modern School Librarian
Today's school librarian is an advocate for joyful reading and a supporter and provider of many meaningful learning opportunities, writes Jennifer Sniadecki.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"The modern school librarian is an advocate for joyful reading and meaningful learning opportunities in 2025." @middleweb.bsky.social
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"Please do something, President Trump,” Regina Foley, a registered Republican who voted for Trump three times, wrote.
Donald Trump Straight Up Rejected One Of His Supporters' Concerns About The Cost Of Living
"Please do something, President Trump,” Regina Foley, a registered Republican who voted for Trump three times, wrote.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Please do something, President Trump,” Regina Foley, a registered Republican who voted for Trump three times, wrote.
Speaking of sourcing... this from Google AI:
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Speaking of sourcing... this from Google AI:
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A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out.
Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/BZC3lZB
Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/BZC3lZB
October 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out.
Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/BZC3lZB
Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/BZC3lZB
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Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
More little street libraries needed!
October 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
More little street libraries needed!
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In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
A Chuck Lorre vanity card (637-Young Sheldon), originally posted 12/12/19. Tinted for easier reading. Prescient?
October 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A Chuck Lorre vanity card (637-Young Sheldon), originally posted 12/12/19. Tinted for easier reading. Prescient?
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Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
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Trump’s Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/t...
Trump's Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ | TechCrunch
A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trump’s Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/t...
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‘The cruelty is the point, @ as @adamserwer.bsky.social wrote
Students are feeling the ripple effects after a summer of unrelenting immigration raids during which one of their own classmates was deported. Many carry identification cards at all times now, in case they are confronted by immigration agents.
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A student deported and a summer of raids leave a school reeling
Students are feeling the ripple effects after a summer of unrelenting immigration raids during which one of their own classmates was deported.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
‘The cruelty is the point, @ as @adamserwer.bsky.social wrote
More great reporting on our western North Carolina disaster by ProPublica. A teacher couple featured here. #edusky
NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.
But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
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But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
More great reporting on our western North Carolina disaster by ProPublica. A teacher couple featured here. #edusky
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Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"
September 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"
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President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
September 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers:
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”
FUN WITH AI: Let's play "Whose arm is it?"
What's fun is that this stock image service wants $10 for this one!
What's fun is that this stock image service wants $10 for this one!
September 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
FUN WITH AI: Let's play "Whose arm is it?"
What's fun is that this stock image service wants $10 for this one!
What's fun is that this stock image service wants $10 for this one!
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With MAGA Republicans continuing their ghoulish campaigns to terrorize communities, crush dissent, and tear families apart, it’s more important than ever that we stand up, speak out, and make some good trouble. Join us on Thursday: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
July 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
With MAGA Republicans continuing their ghoulish campaigns to terrorize communities, crush dissent, and tear families apart, it’s more important than ever that we stand up, speak out, and make some good trouble. Join us on Thursday: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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We’re training a million Americans to lead a local resistance movement. This is how we dramatically ramp up defiance and non-cooperation tactics society-wide, whether it be at corporations, education, the media or neighborhoods. One Million Rising launches in three days and we hope you will join us.
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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July 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We’re training a million Americans to lead a local resistance movement. This is how we dramatically ramp up defiance and non-cooperation tactics society-wide, whether it be at corporations, education, the media or neighborhoods. One Million Rising launches in three days and we hope you will join us.
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MechaHitler isn’t a flaw—it’s a feature.
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and other techno-fascist billionaires subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology, believing they’re meant to rule us.
The endgame of Big Tech’s social media and AI is totalitarianism—surveillance, wealth, control.
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and other techno-fascist billionaires subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology, believing they’re meant to rule us.
The endgame of Big Tech’s social media and AI is totalitarianism—surveillance, wealth, control.
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed it to be 'politically incorrect'
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July 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
MechaHitler isn’t a flaw—it’s a feature.
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and other techno-fascist billionaires subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology, believing they’re meant to rule us.
The endgame of Big Tech’s social media and AI is totalitarianism—surveillance, wealth, control.
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and other techno-fascist billionaires subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology, believing they’re meant to rule us.
The endgame of Big Tech’s social media and AI is totalitarianism—surveillance, wealth, control.
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"AI will not replace us, it will control us. Unless we program human oversight into it's internal biasis it will replace our financial religious and judicial beliefs," a WIRED reader said in response to this article. What do you think?
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
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July 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"AI will not replace us, it will control us. Unless we program human oversight into it's internal biasis it will replace our financial religious and judicial beliefs," a WIRED reader said in response to this article. What do you think?
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My first @wired.com piece: I asked over a dozen of the US's largest health insurers whether they would continue to cover currently routine shots for children if the RFK Jr. appointees on the federal vaccine panel were to stop recommending them. Only one said yes: www.wired.com/story/insure...
With RFK Jr. in Charge, Insurers Aren’t Saying If They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids If Government Stops Recommending Them
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board could stop recommending some routine childhood immunizations, leaving insurers to decide whether to still cover them. For now, most are remaining tight-lipped.
www.wired.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My first @wired.com piece: I asked over a dozen of the US's largest health insurers whether they would continue to cover currently routine shots for children if the RFK Jr. appointees on the federal vaccine panel were to stop recommending them. Only one said yes: www.wired.com/story/insure...
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Elon Musk is attempting to manifest his "America Party" into reality. Hard-launching the party, which he first posted about through a poll on X, would involve filing official paperwork, such as FEC forms, and signing up to petition in individual states.
He has not done any of that.
He has not done any of that.
Meet the America Party, Elon Musk's Harebrained Third-Party Scheme
Elon Musk is attempting to manifest his “America Party” into existence. But who will join him?
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July 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Elon Musk is attempting to manifest his "America Party" into reality. Hard-launching the party, which he first posted about through a poll on X, would involve filing official paperwork, such as FEC forms, and signing up to petition in individual states.
He has not done any of that.
He has not done any of that.
Great coverage of our local library controversy...which is gaining national attention. #edusky #bannedbooks #booksky @ryanestrada.com @readswithrachel.bsky.social
Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content.
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Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content.
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Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content
Yancey prepares to exit library system. Grassroots group hires law firm to counter those plans, which they say violate rights, waste money.
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June 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Great coverage of our local library controversy...which is gaining national attention. #edusky #bannedbooks #booksky @ryanestrada.com @readswithrachel.bsky.social
Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content.
carolinapublicpress.org/71307/last-d...
Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+ content.
carolinapublicpress.org/71307/last-d...
A huge crowd and a peaceful, joyous, resolute day. Fantastic energy! Met lots of ex-Trump supporters. 😂
June 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A huge crowd and a peaceful, joyous, resolute day. Fantastic energy! Met lots of ex-Trump supporters. 😂
As someone said, great job of social distancing.
Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.
June 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As someone said, great job of social distancing.