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i love furniture restoration videos because they show how quality is important and you can get some really beautiful, overlooked furniture if you learn certain skills
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December 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
i love furniture restoration videos because they show how quality is important and you can get some really beautiful, overlooked furniture if you learn certain skills
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Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.
What.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
What.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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The University of Alabama on Monday suspended two student magazines — one appealing to women, another to Black students — saying they ran afoul of guidance from the Justice Department on DEI programs.
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
Officials told staff members at two student-run publications, called Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice, that they were not compliant with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo on diversity programs.
nyti.ms
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The University of Alabama on Monday suspended two student magazines — one appealing to women, another to Black students — saying they ran afoul of guidance from the Justice Department on DEI programs.
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The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2025 – Part Two larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/23/t...
The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2025 – Part Two
My end-of-year “Best” list posts continue… I publish a regular series called SEL Weekly Update, and I thought it would useful to readers and to me to review them and highlight the ones I thi…
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2025 – Part Two larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/23/t...
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How I love these
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How I love these
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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Here is a very brief summary of how DEI supporters unintentionally prevent instructional equity
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
One Major Flaw With DEI (from an Ex-DEI Manager)
This may not seem like a good time to deal with some of the problems with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) management as a lever for instructional equity.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Here is a very brief summary of how DEI supporters unintentionally prevent instructional equity
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
Here is a very brief summary of how DEI supporters unintentionally prevent instructional equity
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
One Major Flaw With DEI (from an Ex-DEI Manager)
This may not seem like a good time to deal with some of the problems with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) management as a lever for instructional equity.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Here is a very brief summary of how DEI supporters unintentionally prevent instructional equity
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
open.substack.com/pub/nerdsfor...
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Ed. Dept. Tells More Than 250 Civil Rights Staff They've Been Laid Off www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Ed. Dept. Tells More Than 250 Civil Rights Staff They've Been Laid Off
The layoffs come just days after the agency began a new round of staff reductions during the shutdown.
www.edweek.org
October 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Ed. Dept. Tells More Than 250 Civil Rights Staff They've Been Laid Off www.edweek.org/policy-polit...