«Susan of Texas (@SusanofTexas) Tweeted:
Reagan cut my war orphan benefits to give a huge tax cut to the rich and setting off a long trend toward inequality. That flag-waving hypocrite cut a dead soldier’s benefits putting his son and daughters through school. I was the only one of us 4 that finished college. https://t.co/8G67qUBiE8 https://twitter.com/SusanofTexas/status/1018105308193939457?s=17»

There’s a pinned post over on G+ that I should bring over. I’d like to see what happened to the median cost of college over this time.

Interesting little exchange here. (Roubini is a famously pessimistic economist. Keynes is the Einstein of economics. (I guess Smith would be the Newton?))

Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) Tweeted:
RT @AnnPettifor: Keynes (after 2 world wars): “We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personali… https://twitter.com/AnnPettifor/status/1017738383446216705?s=17

(Full quote follows.)

«Keynes (after 2 world wars): “We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved.”»

And then, somebody else said:

Andy Brown (@VoteAndyBrown) Tweeted:
@AnnPettifor Actually I think Keynes could not be more wrong here. Civilisation is a thin and precarious crust but it is preserved by ordinary people fighting for it and refusing to be conned by people like Donald Trump https://twitter.com/VoteAndyBrown/status/1018082440710164480?s=17

Source: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628085238/russian-influence-campaign-sought-to-exploit-americans-trust-in-local-news

«Another example: The Internet Research Agency created an account that looks like it is the Chicago Daily News. That newspaper shuttered in 1978.

The Internet Research Agency-linked account was created in May 2014, and for years, it just posted local headlines, accumulating some 19,000 followers by July 2016.

Another twist: These accounts apparently never spread misinformation. In fact, they posted real local news, serving as sleeper accounts building trust and readership for some future, unforeseen effort.

“They set them up for a reason. And if at any given moment, they wanted to operationalize this network of what seemed to be local American news handles, they can significantly influence the narrative on a breaking news story,” Schafer told NPR. “But now instead of just showing up online and flooding it with news sites, they have these accounts with two years of credible history.”»

 

This is what I want to see in every popular-media article about studies in psychology or social sciences: «This study was a preregistered replication»

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/find-your-passion-is-terrible-advice/564932/

(Actually, the first time I saw that, I stopped reading at “preregistered” and went “Yay!” in my mind.)

«Most of the stuff sent to disaster areas is inappropriate or useless. Get your wallet out instead so the professionals can buy what they need»

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/25/disaster-aid-cash-not-clothing-relief-hurricane-harvey

I’m sure this joke has been done before, but…

https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1017380078471319552

«I’d like “// this should never happen” on my headstone.»

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/266201/what-progressives-should-learn-from-maria-estrada-the-left-wing-anti-semite-challenging-the-california-state-assembly-speaker

«The entirely legitimate enterprise of criticizing Israel is being used by anti-Semites to launder their hate.

….
Identifying and casting out these bigots will not only marginalize the bigotry, but will also open up a constructive space for criticizing Israel that isn’t tainted by anti-Semitism.

….

Needless to say, Donald “Very Fine People” Trump and the Republican Party have not exactly passed this test with flying colors, and have repeatedly failed to ostracize bigots in their midst. Whether the chapters of Our Revolution that endorsed Estrada will do better remains to be seen.»

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/best-burger-america-tripadvisor

Oh, GREAT, now EVERYBODY’S gonna be there. At least nobody’s discovered Bull City Burger and Brewery yet.

Good podcast I listened to recently, covering a mostly-forgotten episode of history when Prince Edwards County in Virginia closed all their public schools rather than integrate. The more-or-less direct resistance to the integration required by Brown v. Board of Education lasted into the 1980s.

Source: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ywc/episodes/2018-07-02T09_32_13-07_00

«Lacy Ward, Jr., of the John Marshal Foundation, tells us about Barbara Johns, a sixteen-year-old girl who, in 1951, led a student walkout to protest her separate, and very unequal, public high school in Prince Edward County, Virgina.After leading the walkout, Barbara Johns contacted the NAACP, which took her case all the way to the Supreme Court, where it eventually became part of Brown v. Board of Education.Virginia has now designated April 23 as Barbara Johns Day.Join us for a fascinating, inspiring, and poignant tale about a woman who really does deserve her own day.»