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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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where i create from
December 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Penelope waiting for Odysseus

ink on scratchboard
2013
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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oc | Charlotte

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December 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than
- visibility of boats & asylum > visas
- general vibes about integration
- elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions

This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.

"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Popularism is flawed because “voters support X” does not mean “voters will support candidate who supports X.” It’s not what issues you support as a candidate; it’s what those issues say about you.
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
www.volts.wtf
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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The Roots That Bind Us got another fanart and I'm FREAKING OUT!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭 I am beyond blessed, truly 😭 Done by Wiktor Kozyra, thank you so so much!!!!
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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me using my humanities education to analyze the background when christopher anderson asks me to pose against this wall
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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One of the most striking things about youth suicide rates is how much they differ between states. A sixfold difference is massive!
ojjdp.ojp.gov/statistical-...
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I signed this. Do right by your writers, @propublica.org.
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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More than 600 Americans faced professional consequences for saying things deemed insufficiently reverential after the death of Charlie Kirk. And then there was Rob Reiner.

Read @parkermolloy.com's infuriating forensic analysis:
The Rules of Grief
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.
www.readtpa.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Earlier this year, Matt Yglesias and Hakeem Jeffries urged progressives to shut up about immigration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Yglesias said "bad groups" were pushing Dems left on immigration and would help Trump's numbers.
How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
The cost of playing defense on immigration
What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🍌 Google's Nano Banana Pro is here, making spotting AI images even harder. We're at a point where anything you see online could be AI, which makes fact-checking your feed more essential than ever.

🎞 Our video: youtube.com/shorts/3M-BH...

#NewsLiteracy
#AILiteracy
Spotting AI images just got harder with Nano Banana Pro #AILiteracy
YouTube video by News Literacy Project
youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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In fact, the explanation for their actions from the regime and others is that "things happen."
The white guys regularly shooting up churches, schools, malls, movie theaters etc... are not *terrorists* and there are no calls to deport them and their families. Interesting.
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
Happy Holidays! 40% OFF ALL Haymarket Books
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd! For one-stop shopping, check out our eleven curated gift bundles: each includes 5 books for $5...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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This reminded me so much of the men in my family shooting the breeze: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLy... - I smiled all the way through.
Zohran Mamdani: New York's New Mayor Pops In
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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hello #Portfolioday!

✧ i’m Pickle, illustrative artist & character designer in the United States - talents include drawing jewelry, cloth & beautiful people ✧

✧ i’m open for work in 2026 ✧
email 🌌 [email protected]
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October 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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New borrowing limits for graduate programs and the elimination of Grad PLUS Loans have left universities scrambling to figure out how to help students pay for their education. www.insidehighered.com/news/busines... #collegedebt #edusky
Grad Programs Brace for Loan Caps
New borrowing limits for graduate programs and the elimination of Grad PLUS Loans have left universities scrambling to figure out how to help students pay for their education.
www.insidehighered.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM