@mcbias.bsky.social
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So many things to say but I just want to point to the example of “Latin American studies” being a useless major in the piece and make sure everyone knows Reading is 70% Latino? Denying Albright the chance to learn Lat Am studies is a kind of affront against the community
![As of the 2020 United States census, Reading had a population of 95,112. Of which, 68.9% were Hispanic/Latino, 18.9% were non-Hispanic White, 8.5% were non-Hispanic Black, 0.7% Asian, 0.1% Native American or Pacific Islander, and 2.9% mixed or other. 32]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqllgdedbi7d5fr5augmnvq7/bafkreibnurhzhsir62m7xguu57kmhigzewsd5vlwmm6hqerakfvaq556py@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So many things to say but I just want to point to the example of “Latin American studies” being a useless major in the piece and make sure everyone knows Reading is 70% Latino? Denying Albright the chance to learn Lat Am studies is a kind of affront against the community
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I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
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Okay, this is fascinating!
MY LATEST: Many religions are heavily concentrated in a few countries.
Many religions are heavily concentrated in a few countries
Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more concentrated than that.
www.pewresearch.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Okay, this is fascinating!
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This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
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is the College Football Playoff committee biased towards the color red? my column
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
is the College Football Playoff committee biased towards the color red? my column
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school’s declining bowls is hilarious. dan wetzel assured me when he unalived the bcs that a diluted expanded playoff would have no effect on the bowl season
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
school’s declining bowls is hilarious. dan wetzel assured me when he unalived the bcs that a diluted expanded playoff would have no effect on the bowl season
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has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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This is pretty lovely from @baxterholmes.bsky.social: www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
How a legendary historian is quietly fueling OKC's championship rise
As OKC GM Sam Presti formed a Thunder team built for a dynasty, he was inspired by a man who has been working on the same project for more than 50 years.
www.espn.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is pretty lovely from @baxterholmes.bsky.social: www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Yes. Deranged behavior to eat them at home. Why would I deny myself the one pleasure of the iron bird by destroying its context
Have you ever walked by biscoffs at the grocery store and thought “no. That shouldn’t be there. That is a sky food”
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Yes. Deranged behavior to eat them at home. Why would I deny myself the one pleasure of the iron bird by destroying its context
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"When Prophecy Fails" is gripping, an in-depth social study that has served as a key basis for the psychological concept of cognitive dissonance.
But a new study that examines the unsealed papers of one of the book's authors claims that Prophecy leans on lies and serious manipulation.
But a new study that examines the unsealed papers of one of the book's authors claims that Prophecy leans on lies and serious manipulation.
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"When Prophecy Fails" is gripping, an in-depth social study that has served as a key basis for the psychological concept of cognitive dissonance.
But a new study that examines the unsealed papers of one of the book's authors claims that Prophecy leans on lies and serious manipulation.
But a new study that examines the unsealed papers of one of the book's authors claims that Prophecy leans on lies and serious manipulation.
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it's that time of year again
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
it's that time of year again
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And it has indeed come to pass.
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
And it has indeed come to pass.
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I’m so tired of startups that hire tons of reporters away from solid gigs, and then are laying off people a short period of time later.
Don’t hire people if you can’t afford to keep them.
Don’t hire people if you can’t afford to keep them.
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I’m so tired of startups that hire tons of reporters away from solid gigs, and then are laying off people a short period of time later.
Don’t hire people if you can’t afford to keep them.
Don’t hire people if you can’t afford to keep them.
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Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
![Heritage also understood that time-pressed reporters were already adopting the horrid he-said/she-said style that plagues journalism today. If we got wind that some world-class Brookings scholar was due to release a book on, say, national health insurance that made an original contribution to knowledge in the field, someone at Heritage would quickly draft a short paper rehashing the same old talking points attacking national health insurance that had been around forever and release it the same day as the Brookings study. More often than not, we would get a story in the Washington Post the next day saying little more than this: “Today the Brookings Institution published a book, 3 tears in the making, advocating national health insurance, and the Heritage Foundation released a report on the same subject saying it would bankrupt the nation and lead to a deterioration in health quality.” Reporters never distinguished between the quality of one study and the shallowness of the other; they both got conflated and prevented the other side from getting traction on an issue.[vi] This method still works today.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiabn6zsn47fjy7fdtsz56sqyl22sg6werwfjmgi3f7tbemrfyucna@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
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Sounds like folklore, but for real: In one high-school tennis match in mid-1960s, in Pomona, whoever was serving had a big advantage. The smog was so dense you couldn't really see the ball as it left his racket. Most of the time people couldn't see the mountain range about 15 miles away. Good times!
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Sounds like folklore, but for real: In one high-school tennis match in mid-1960s, in Pomona, whoever was serving had a big advantage. The smog was so dense you couldn't really see the ball as it left his racket. Most of the time people couldn't see the mountain range about 15 miles away. Good times!
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Spicy MN Gov! 😆
COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository.
Find something interesting? Let us know: camaron@couriernewsroom.com
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository.
Find something interesting? Let us know: camaron@couriernewsroom.com
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Spicy MN Gov! 😆
COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository.
Find something interesting? Let us know: camaron@couriernewsroom.com
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository.
Find something interesting? Let us know: camaron@couriernewsroom.com
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
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Here's the thread I did on the Boston SNAP hearing today.
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I'm listening in to the hearing on the Motion for TRO in the Boston SNAP case. We're waiting for Judge Talwani to take the bench.
I'll try to do the Comey hearing at 4:00 ET if possible, but guessing these two will overlap.
I'll try to do the Comey hearing at 4:00 ET if possible, but guessing these two will overlap.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Here's the thread I did on the Boston SNAP hearing today.
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”