Brendan NyhanAn all-timer - he'll become a senior statesman! https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/01/2024-republican-primary-donald-trump-deus-ex-machina/672888/
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"The past two years have made me nervous about teaching Frederick Douglass because I don’t think the people in my community know the difference between teaching [Black] history &...critical race theory." https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA134-16.html
What Teachers Think of State Policies Limiting Their Instruction
The restrictions placed on how teachers can address race- or gender-related topics in the classroom may be leading to consequences for teachers' working conditions and for student learning. Teachers report that the limitations make it more difficult to engage students in learning, to support critical thinking skills, and to build empathy.
Drew Harwell"The Washington Post continued to run Twitter ads to boost views to its branded content campaigns on the platform late last month, despite one of its reporters being banned a few weeks prior"
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-1f66ce7b-9a47-400c-ac21-1c4efa4d5eba.html
I'm that reporter. It's now been more than a month since I was suspended on Twitter for sharing factual journalism. I miss a few people there, but the website has been easily replaced.
Mikael ThalenThe New York Times failed to properly scrub the metadata from audio recordings of Russian soldiers criticizing the Ukraine war & Putin over the phone.
Vice found that the phone numbers of those soldiers and their families had been exposed in the article's source code since September.
HalvarFlakeThe Google layoffs remind me: When I considered starting my first company I worried about "job security".
My then-girlfriend said:
"Big companies do not provide job security. They provide the service that you are the last person to know when the job is gone."
Wisdom.
Mike Masnick ✅I wrote about how some investigations by the January 6th committee effectively present the flip side of the Musk "Twitter Files" and actually show how Twitter effectively bent over backwards to give conservatives extra rights to violate the rules on the site. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/13/the-anti-twitter-files-january-6th-committee-report-shows-how-twitter-leaned-over-backwards-to-protect-trump-conservatives/
The Anti-Twitter Files: January 6th Committee Report Shows How Twitter Leaned Over Backwards To Protect Trump & Conservatives
For all the talk of the “Twitter Files,” as we’ve detailed, they’ve mostly been, at best, misleading, and frequently actively wrong. One of the big reveals, we were told, wa…
Julian OliverA nine-month investigation undertaken by the Guardian, Die Zeit and SourceMaterial found that 90% of rainforest offsets from the world's biggest provider are worthless "phantom credits". Bought by the likes of Disney, Shell, easyJet and Gucci, it seems they may even do more harm to our environment than good.
Videos taken by residents in Peru showed forced evictions, and their homes cut down with chainsaws for an offset project.
Mark Copelovitch"Alexander Hamilton Ignored Congress's Debt Limits And It Worked Just Fine
As we careen towards another needless debt ceiling crisis, it's worth noting that the whole concept of a debt ceiling can't be squared with the U.S. Constitution. Just ask Alexander Hamilton, who as Treasury Secretary blatantly violated Congress's debt limits, said it was his job to do so, and prevailed."
From @maxkennerly:
Seth CotlarThe religious dimensions of January 6 were almost entirely overlooked by the J6 report and have been under-covered by the mainstream press. This piece makes a strong case for seeing Christian Nationalism as a crucial dimension of the insurrection. And importantly, that religious movement has not waned or changed course in any significant way since it led the "spiritual warfare" at the US Capitol two years ago. https://religiondispatches.org/evidence-strongly-suggests-trump-was-collaborating-with-christian-nationalist-leaders-before-january-6th/
Evidence Strongly Suggests Trump Was Collaborating with Christian Nationalist Leaders Before January 6th
On December 22, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot released its report, reopening the question of what forces and figures incited the insurrection as we observe its two-year anniversary. Yet, as numerous observers have noticed, the Committee neglected (or, indeed,
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