Tuesday, July 20, 2021

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Have You Heard

  • College Behind Bars: the Case for Higher Education in Prison

    TweetIt’s the episode we’ve been looking forward to all year! Meet the winner of the 2021 Have You Heard Graduate Student Research Contest: Patrick Conway. When you listen to this episode, you’ll understand exactly why Patrick claimed...

    5 days ago

  • Not Your Parents’ School Desegregation

    TweetFive decades after Boston’s bitter battles over busing helped stall the push for school desegregation, the issue is once again a policy priority in Massachusetts. What happened? Chalk it up to a generational shift, a racial reckoning...

    19 days ago

  • Long, Hot Education Summer

    TweetSuddenly education is THE hot topic. But where there’s heat, light doesn’t necessarily follow. Jennifer and Jack discuss what’s missing from the coverage of the backlash against Critical Race Theory, as well as some stories...

    a month ago

Chicago Boyz

  • Good Eats #1

    For a number of years, I copied out interesting recipes by hand in a series of small books with lined pages and casebound covers. Many of them came from cooking magazines, such as Gourmet, but many came from the pages of various newspapers, to...

    2 days ago

  • Here’s Something Different and Fun

    James O’Keefe, of Project Veritas, will be playing the lead role (‘Curly’) in an outdoor production of of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!.  The production is ‘in solidarity with artists who’ve been cancelled.’ ...

    2 days ago

  • Pwosesis Ayiti A

    No reward for resistance; no assistance, no applause. — Neil Peart, “Lock and Key”   For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. — Paul of Tarsus, Epistle to the Romans La merde a frappé le ventilateur; my earlier...

    3 days ago

Centinel2012

  • Psaki and Big Tech BFF

    Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com on JUL 17, 2021 AT 9:52 AM “My Big Tech Buddies will make sure you will only see the information we want you to see” “Circle back” Jen Psaki wants social media to circle their wagons and censor...

    20 hours ago

  • Cuomo & Political Corruption

    Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Jul 19, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Governor Andrew Cuomo has used campaign cash to pay nearly $285,000 in bills from the lawyer defending him against sexual harassment allegations. This...

    21 hours ago

  • Trump & Tax Evasion

    Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jul 19, 2021 by Martin Armstrong The latest is that Trump could be criminally charged for tax evasion by paying for some benefit to an employee rather than salary. The Internal Revenue Service...

    21 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

  • Callers Explain Their Refusal to Get Vaccinated as Deadly Delta Variant Surges: 'BradCast' 7/19/2021

    On today's BradCast: It's not only Trumpers who are wildly misinformed when it comes to the COVID vaccines. Callers ring in today (many who claim they are not Trumpers) to explain their reasons...as deadly and misinformed as they may be. [Audio...

    11 hours ago

  • Birthday. Gift?...

    if (window.document.getElementById('post-13927')) window.document.getElementById('post-13927').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Sure, we put out an incredible amount of non-stop, independent, accurate, insightful...

    2 days ago

  • Sunday 'Critical Erase Theory' Toons

    Please support the work of political cartoonists if you can. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

    2 days ago

bluebird of bitterness

BlackListed News

  • Israeli spyware is found on cellphones of journalists

    Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using cellphone malware developed by a private Israeli firm, it emerged Sunday, igniting fears of widespread privacy and rights abuses...

    a day ago

  • Attn: Alexa Echo and Ring Owners

    On June 8, 2021 Skynet went LIVE. If you have an Amazon Alexa Echo or an Amazon Ring Camera then your devices have now been recruited with a default opt-in to support the Amazom SideWalk.

    a day ago

  • The US Government Threatens Tech Companies To Push Censorship Agendas

    The elephant in the room with the ongoing controversy about the Biden administration’s push for more internet censorship is the fact that both the US government and the Silicon Valley tech companies who are being pushed to censor are acutely...

    a day ago

Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Podcast: Oh the Places We Could Go!

    Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we take a deep dive into the Atlas Obscura database of unique places. There are tens of thousands of entries...

    43 minutes ago

  • Dr. Sidney Farber and "Jimmy" Statue in Brookline, Massachusetts

    Boston is famous for world-class hospitals and diehard sports fans. In 1948, those communities united to raise money so a young cancer patient could watch his favorite baseball team on TV. In the process, a charity was formed that more than...

    15 hours ago

  • Conca del Bertazzolo in Governolo, Italy

    In 1188, engineer Alberto Pitentino was commissioned to come up with a solution to the seasonal overflow of the lakes surrounding Manuta and make them stable. Water from the Minico and Po rivers created a system of lakes and swamps that was...

    17 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • Monday Afternoon Links

    Miscellaneous material to start your week.- John Paul Tasker writes that Canada needs to push hard to increase the number of vaccinated people to prevent a fourth wave of COVID-19. An anonymous COVID ward worker in the UK expresses well-justified...

    18 hours ago

  • Sunday Afternoon Links

    This and that for your Sunday reading. - Kelly Grant writes that the toll from COVID-19 includes driving many workers out of the nursing profession. And Kim Siever notes that while the UCP is driving nurses and doctors out of Alberta by shrieking...

    2 days ago

  • Saturday Morning Links

    Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Robert Booth and Heather Stewart report on Boris Johnson's insistence on lifting COVID-19 protections even as case counts rise in the UK. And Annette Dittert discusses how Johnson's government...

    3 days ago
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