The Gray Sage
@walterdgreason.bsky.social
Historian. Economist. Professor. UX Designer.
Mars Blackmon told the world how hip hop and basketball were connected. #graphichistory
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Mars Blackmon told the world how hip hop and basketball were connected. #graphichistory
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Ok, I was going to do a full read-through and then write something up and thread it here but I find this absolutely fascinating...
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review
Many college students prefer to type their lecture notes rather than write them by hand. As a result, the number of experimental and quasi-experimental studies comparing these two note-taking mediums ...
link.springer.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ok, I was going to do a full read-through and then write something up and thread it here but I find this absolutely fascinating...
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
(PS - if you don't have access to this I can email it to you)
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“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
True, but it also was based on an economy food plan "designed for temporary or emergency use."
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He and his crew left the state-owned property on Rosa L Parks Boulevard, where they had been working on the proposed 9-mile tunnel from the state capitol to the airport after months of safety and financial issues with Musk’s company.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
Local contractor employees stop Music City Loop work - Nashville Banner
Willie Shane and his crew walk off the Music City Loop project, citing safety concerns and payment issues with The Boring Company.
nashvillebanner.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
He and his crew left the state-owned property on Rosa L Parks Boulevard, where they had been working on the proposed 9-mile tunnel from the state capitol to the airport after months of safety and financial issues with Musk’s company.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Ethiopia’s ancient Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted for the first time in 12,000 years. 🌋
What have we done to displease the gods?
www.cbsnews.com/news/volcano...
What have we done to displease the gods?
www.cbsnews.com/news/volcano...
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Grateful for all of the love I have received.
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Grateful for all of the love I have received.
The work continues to shape my life.
In 1970, a new Thanksgiving Day tradition, called Day of Mourning, began in Plymouth. A Wampanoag man named Wamsutta (Frank) James organized a demonstration to bring awareness to the concerns of the Indigenous community including the way Native people had been written about in history.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The work continues to shape my life.
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Leonard Peltier: National Day of Mourning Address, 2025
YouTube video by hate5six
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning/"Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. More on Indigenous resistance: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning/"Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. More on Indigenous resistance: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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This Thanksgiving—observe the National Day of Mourning.
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
Thanksgiving and the National Day of Mourning
As injustices upon Indigenous Americans perpetuate, we must act to counter that systemic oppression
www.qasimrashid.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This Thanksgiving—observe the National Day of Mourning.
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
From 1819 to 1969, US Govt stole tens of thousands of Indigenous kids—forcing them to convert to Christianity & stripping them of their identities. Resistance was met with violence. Sexual abuse was rampant.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/thanksgivi...
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Creating Freedom Movements made a beautiful post honoring Alice Wong, whose impact on our lives, communities, spirits, & Disability Justice is as powerful as it is immeasurable
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Creating Freedom Movements made a beautiful post honoring Alice Wong, whose impact on our lives, communities, spirits, & Disability Justice is as powerful as it is immeasurable
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
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So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
So ... the government just forced us all to have referendums on *existing* Māori wards because Local Communities Deserve Choice, but now they're unilaterally abolishing our regional councils because they don't like the Choices we made?
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Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva #nzpol
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva
"The coalition government has escalated discrimination against Māori, spread misinformation, and overridden constitutional norms," says Lady Tureiti Moxon.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Māori health leader Lady Tureiti Moxon delivers complaint to UN in Geneva #nzpol
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This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
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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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“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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Who controls the past
The BBC is restricting access to its archives
app.the-tls.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.”
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“District Judge Sara Ellis issued a sweeping, 233-page written opinion…” noting that “federal immigration agents unleashed “indiscriminate” force… across the Chicago area… and defended the aggressive tactics by repeatedly lying, deceiving the public and making claims disproven by their own evidence”
The feds repeatedly lied and misled the public during Chicago's immigration crackdown, a federal judge ruled in a scathing opinion. blockclubchi.co/3JVoFWJ
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“District Judge Sara Ellis issued a sweeping, 233-page written opinion…” noting that “federal immigration agents unleashed “indiscriminate” force… across the Chicago area… and defended the aggressive tactics by repeatedly lying, deceiving the public and making claims disproven by their own evidence”
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A couple of my local libraries have restroom posters with the locations of certain topics. Librarians and libraries are fantastic and necessary.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A couple of my local libraries have restroom posters with the locations of certain topics. Librarians and libraries are fantastic and necessary.
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This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
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The Secretary of Education just appointed five new members to the powerful National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI)--the organization that approves accreditors. Expect NACIQI to play a major role over the next several years.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Secretary of Education just appointed five new members to the powerful National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI)--the organization that approves accreditors. Expect NACIQI to play a major role over the next several years.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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the price of populism
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the price of populism