Adam Harris
@adamhsays.com
Writer exploring education, history, politics, and the South. Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America? | Now: Senior fellow, New America; Soon: Host, The Atlantic. Occasionally sharing poems.
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In December 2023, while education commissioner, Diaz wrote that, "sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists and no longer serves its intended purpose as a general knowledge course for students." By Jan '24, Florida's board voted to remove it as a core course. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/u...
Florida Eliminates Sociology as a Core Course at Its Universities (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
In December 2023, while education commissioner, Diaz wrote that, "sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists and no longer serves its intended purpose as a general knowledge course for students." By Jan '24, Florida's board voted to remove it as a core course. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/u...
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Perhaps more egregious than fraud is that states aren't required to spend all the TANF money they receive.
"Nebraska was sitting on $91 million. Hawaii had $380 million, enough to provide every poor child in the state with $10,000. Tennessee topped the list with $790 million." — Matthew Desmond
"Nebraska was sitting on $91 million. Hawaii had $380 million, enough to provide every poor child in the state with $10,000. Tennessee topped the list with $790 million." — Matthew Desmond
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Perhaps more egregious than fraud is that states aren't required to spend all the TANF money they receive.
"Nebraska was sitting on $91 million. Hawaii had $380 million, enough to provide every poor child in the state with $10,000. Tennessee topped the list with $790 million." — Matthew Desmond
"Nebraska was sitting on $91 million. Hawaii had $380 million, enough to provide every poor child in the state with $10,000. Tennessee topped the list with $790 million." — Matthew Desmond
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Surely this crackdown on fraud applies everywhere?
"One massive recent scandal over cash aid was in Mississippi. In 2024, the Biden administration notified the state it must pay back $101 million in welfare money that was misspent. Last year the Trump administration rescinded that penalty letter."
"One massive recent scandal over cash aid was in Mississippi. In 2024, the Biden administration notified the state it must pay back $101 million in welfare money that was misspent. Last year the Trump administration rescinded that penalty letter."
Influencer, White House welfare fraud claims are distorted, but the system has risks
Federal officials are targeting Democratic-led states over alleged safety-net fraud. Critics worry a drumbeat of unfounded accusations could undermine public trust.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Surely this crackdown on fraud applies everywhere?
"One massive recent scandal over cash aid was in Mississippi. In 2024, the Biden administration notified the state it must pay back $101 million in welfare money that was misspent. Last year the Trump administration rescinded that penalty letter."
"One massive recent scandal over cash aid was in Mississippi. In 2024, the Biden administration notified the state it must pay back $101 million in welfare money that was misspent. Last year the Trump administration rescinded that penalty letter."
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“We must either make up our minds to fight under the stars and stripes, wherever our services may be called for, or we must resign at once and free ourselves from that solemn oath,” he wrote to his Aunt Emily in April 1861.
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 AM
“We must either make up our minds to fight under the stars and stripes, wherever our services may be called for, or we must resign at once and free ourselves from that solemn oath,” he wrote to his Aunt Emily in April 1861.
Threaded about apathy and belief and hypocrisy last night then remembered that I’ve not talked much on this site about the book I’ve been working on!
It’s called Is This America. It’s the story of a Southern nation, a story about our immoral default and efforts to change.
It’s called Is This America. It’s the story of a Southern nation, a story about our immoral default and efforts to change.
January 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Threaded about apathy and belief and hypocrisy last night then remembered that I’ve not talked much on this site about the book I’ve been working on!
It’s called Is This America. It’s the story of a Southern nation, a story about our immoral default and efforts to change.
It’s called Is This America. It’s the story of a Southern nation, a story about our immoral default and efforts to change.
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It wouldn’t be a Northern problem, he thought. People only cared for themselves and their families and self-preservation. They would simply look away. Slavery—a violation of human liberty—and the enslaved were “abstract principles.”
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 AM
It wouldn’t be a Northern problem, he thought. People only cared for themselves and their families and self-preservation. They would simply look away. Slavery—a violation of human liberty—and the enslaved were “abstract principles.”
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But he wasn’t worried about Civil War actually happening. “I do not think it is the spirit of the 19th century to fight over an abstract principle and in event of a seperation, slavery must be but an abstract question to the people of the North,” he wrote to his mother in May.
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 AM
But he wasn’t worried about Civil War actually happening. “I do not think it is the spirit of the 19th century to fight over an abstract principle and in event of a seperation, slavery must be but an abstract question to the people of the North,” he wrote to his mother in May.
2) Frederick Douglass, on hypocrisy: “The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families,— sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate.”
January 9, 2026 at 4:11 AM
2) Frederick Douglass, on hypocrisy: “The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families,— sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate.”
“The wrongs under which the South is now suffering, and for which she seeks redress, seem to arise chiefly from a difference in our construction of the Constitution,” Benjamin began.
“You never, never can degrade them to the level of an inferior and servile race. Never! Never!” he ended.
“You never, never can degrade them to the level of an inferior and servile race. Never! Never!” he ended.
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 AM
“The wrongs under which the South is now suffering, and for which she seeks redress, seem to arise chiefly from a difference in our construction of the Constitution,” Benjamin began.
“You never, never can degrade them to the level of an inferior and servile race. Never! Never!” he ended.
“You never, never can degrade them to the level of an inferior and servile race. Never! Never!” he ended.