Buzzfeed has published a wonderful story by Ruby Cramer called “The Place Where Letters To Hillary Clinton Go.” It’s about 30-year-old Rob Russo, who is in charge of Hillary Clinton’s political and personal correspondence. He’s drafted 110,000 letters for her since 2008, and it looks like he’ll double that number eventually, because, since Election Day,…
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What Wendy Wore: MrB Was an Honoree
MrB received an award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press at the organization’s annual dinner on Tuesday. Honoree! #awarddinner #firstamendment #freedomofthepress #freedomofspeech #reporterscommitteeforfreedomofthepress #journalism A post shared by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on May 23, 2017 at 4:35pm PDT We attended the event last year, too; little did we know how much more…
Throwback Thursday: When Havoc Struck
As I’ve said before, there are fascinating stories to be found in the obituary sections of newspapers. I’m specifying “newspapers,” rather than the “news,” because if you’re not physically turning the pages of a print edition, it’s easy to miss anyone whose death doesn’t make the homepage of a website or the top of a…
The Helpers Included Mr. Rogers Himself
After a tragedy — when people wonder how to talk to kids about terrible things — a decades-old story told by the late PBS children’s-show host Fred Rogers will be cited again and again. That’s as it should be, because the message is timeless. The gentle man known as Mr. Rogers shared what his mother…
Wendy Brandes Jewelry in the New York Times
Thanks to super-cool journalist Rachel Garrahan for including me in her New York Times article called “In a Time of Stress, Jewelry Becomes Armor”! It’s about how women are gravitating towards jewelry that makes them feel strong … and it just so happens that the concept of female strength is at the very heart of…
Recommended Reading for Women’s Health Week
Mother’s Day marked the start of National Women’s Health Week, duly accompanied by a statement full of lies from the Pussy Grabber in Chief. The connection of National Women’s Health Week to Mother’s Day rubs me the wrong way, because what does it mean? Only mothers are women? Or is it that women’s health should…
ProPublica Wins a Fourth Pulitzer Prize
ProPublica won its fourth Pulitzer Prize yesterday! The public-service category’s prize was awarded for a story — done in partnership with the New York Daily News — about abuses of nuisance abatement laws in New York. The laws give police the power to evict people using their homes or business for illegal purposes, but they’ve…
ProPublica For the Win, With All the Receipts
During yesterday’s White House press briefing, Sean Spicer was asked about a story published by MrB’s organization, ProPublica, that morning. ProPublica’s Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw wrote that previously unreported changes to a trust document allow Trump to draw money from the supposedly “blind” trust for his more than 400 businesses, at any time, without…
Recommended Reading: The Coal Country Canard
Last week, Trump gathered a bunch of coal miners around him and announced the rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations, claiming that would help bring back jobs in the coal industry. In response, Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times this weekend about the myth of coal country. In case you missed it,…
If You Must Fly United, Remember Nan Kempner
United Airlines got itself into a world of trouble yesterday over leggings after an alert (female) observer tweeted that two teenage girls were barred from a flight because of their leggings, while a younger girl was forced to put a dress over her leggings in order to board. The social-media genius at United decided leggings…