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Frannie Block

New York

Reporter at The Free Press

Articles

  • 1 week ago | thefp.com | Frannie Block

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  • 1 week ago | thefp.com | Frannie Block |Madeleine Rowley

    The federal agents wore bulletproof vests and masks over their faces so that only their eyes were visible as they swarmed toward a meatpacking plant in Omaha, Nebraska, last week. One agent wielded a crowbar and a large steel beam in case they needed to break down the doors. They scoured the back corners of the production floor, finding workers who were still wearing their hairnets and helmets.

  • 2 weeks ago | thefp.com | Frannie Block

    Reading, Writing, and Racism: The Three R’s of Philly Public Schools A history and social studies curriculum asks students to ‘replace’ the national anthem after ‘critically examining race and racism.’ World history students in Philadelphia’s public high schools begin a unit about “The Gilded Age and Progressivism” with the question: “What do you need to overthrow oppression?” The answer outlined in the class curriculum skirts any complexity about the era in the late nineteenth century and...

  • 3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Frannie Block |Gabe Kaminsky

    Trump and Musk Are Getting Divorced. What Happens to the Kids? The tech right, an influential group of MAGA-friendly Silicon Valley types, will now have to pick a side. No one seemed too surprised that it happened. Though almost everyone was surprised how the once buddy-buddy relationship between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk blew up on Thursday. At the start of the week, Musk was politely voicing his differences of opinion over policy.

  • 4 weeks ago | thefp.com | Frannie Block |Olivia Reingold

    The Democratic Socialists of America Don’t Know If They Should Condemn MurderA split inside the far-left group over the shootings of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky has spilled into New York’s mayoral race. Last Wednesday, a 31-year-old progressive activist allegedly shot and killed two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., in cold blood. As one of them, Sarah Milgrim, a 26-year-old Jew from Kansas, tried to crawl away, the gunman continued shooting at her.