Prudence Carter
@prulcarter.bsky.social
sociologist. educator. leader. mother. lover of nature, music, art & all things beautiful. global citizen. views are my own.
We are living in an era when a vicious regime is bringing academic institutions and nations to their knees to elevate its self-interests at the expense of others’ humanity and inclusion in every facet of society. The clock has been turned back by more than half a century. Shame.
July 31, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We are living in an era when a vicious regime is bringing academic institutions and nations to their knees to elevate its self-interests at the expense of others’ humanity and inclusion in every facet of society. The clock has been turned back by more than half a century. Shame.
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Kudos to Jim Ryan for a terrific tenure as the President of UVA. Again, this is not normal. We should all be alarmed.
June 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Kudos to Jim Ryan for a terrific tenure as the President of UVA. Again, this is not normal. We should all be alarmed.
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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
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Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."
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Academics and economists have long warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and upend the global economy. Now that call is coming from inside the house. cnn.it/43RKTzK
May 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Academics and economists have long warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and upend the global economy. Now that call is coming from inside the house. cnn.it/43RKTzK
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The first screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance.
📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude (on X)
This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance.
📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude (on X)
May 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The first screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance.
📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude (on X)
This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance.
📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude (on X)
💔😭
Gaza’s youngest influencer, Yaqeen Hammad, was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on May 23rd. She was 11-years-old and documented life in the Gaza Strip. Her death is one of more than 15,000 children reported killed in Gaza since the war began in October 2023
Gaza’s youngest influencer, 11, killed in Israeli airstrike
Yaqeen Hammad, who posted videos on social media to share humanitarian updates and survival tips from Gaza, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on May 23
www.thetimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
💔😭
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“.. European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean.”
$JETS $XAL
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
$JETS $XAL
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
Europe Freezes US Travel as Lufthansa, British , Air France, KLM and More Slash Routes to Major Cities Including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago to Tap Soaring Demand Across Canada, Mexico, ...
European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and ...
www.travelandtourworld.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“.. European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean.”
$JETS $XAL
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
$JETS $XAL
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez—AOC—gives Congress and this nation the Word, a sermon we all should hear and heed.
There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
May 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez—AOC—gives Congress and this nation the Word, a sermon we all should hear and heed.
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On this anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s Brown v Board decision, vouchers are expanding rapidly.
“If you look at the history of the segregation movement, they wanted vouchers to prop up segregation academies,” a professor who studies school segregation says. “And now they’re getting vouchers in some of these areas to prop up these schools.”
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial…
propub.li
May 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
On this anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s Brown v Board decision, vouchers are expanding rapidly.
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Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%
That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw.
That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw.
May 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%
That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw.
That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw.
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The “fluoride removal” bit is a solution in search of a problem.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
May 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The “fluoride removal” bit is a solution in search of a problem.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
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In 2024, nearly 38 million children under five were acutely malnourished across 26 nutrition crises.
“We cannot respond to empty stomachs with empty hands and turned backs.” - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
Learn more: unicef.link/4klPVdc
“We cannot respond to empty stomachs with empty hands and turned backs.” - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
Learn more: unicef.link/4klPVdc
May 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In 2024, nearly 38 million children under five were acutely malnourished across 26 nutrition crises.
“We cannot respond to empty stomachs with empty hands and turned backs.” - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
Learn more: unicef.link/4klPVdc
“We cannot respond to empty stomachs with empty hands and turned backs.” - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.
Learn more: unicef.link/4klPVdc
A testament to the incredible potential of research and development. This gene-editing near miracle wouldn’t have been possible without federal support of science. This little one now has a chance at living a long life.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A testament to the incredible potential of research and development. This gene-editing near miracle wouldn’t have been possible without federal support of science. This little one now has a chance at living a long life.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
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Irony, it turns out, is not dead
Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Irony, it turns out, is not dead
A powerful stance
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A powerful stance
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
This.
If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?
May 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This.
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based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
May 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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My guess: The US-UK almost-a-deal may have reduced the average tariff rate Britain charges on American exports from 1% to 0.8%.
And the UK is only 3% of US trade.
"So if this sounds like small potatoes to you, that's because these aren't potatoes. These are tiny little peas."
And the UK is only 3% of US trade.
"So if this sounds like small potatoes to you, that's because these aren't potatoes. These are tiny little peas."
May 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
My guess: The US-UK almost-a-deal may have reduced the average tariff rate Britain charges on American exports from 1% to 0.8%.
And the UK is only 3% of US trade.
"So if this sounds like small potatoes to you, that's because these aren't potatoes. These are tiny little peas."
And the UK is only 3% of US trade.
"So if this sounds like small potatoes to you, that's because these aren't potatoes. These are tiny little peas."
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
May 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Pope Leo XIV is a fascinating choice on many levels—one filled with so many levels of symbolism. Also, thinking about how the rule of hypodescent lies at the core of U.S. racial logic, whether Blackness is embraced wholly or not.
May 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Pope Leo XIV is a fascinating choice on many levels—one filled with so many levels of symbolism. Also, thinking about how the rule of hypodescent lies at the core of U.S. racial logic, whether Blackness is embraced wholly or not.
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
“Hey, “Sinners” fans, fyi, the late sociologist and historian James Loewen wrote a classic text in 1971 entitled **The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White,” and it is a good case study of the “middleman minority.” Great teaching tool.
May 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“Hey, “Sinners” fans, fyi, the late sociologist and historian James Loewen wrote a classic text in 1971 entitled **The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White,” and it is a good case study of the “middleman minority.” Great teaching tool.