Jim Barrows 🇺🇸
@jmbarrows.bsky.social
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Background: Released in 1959, Mingus Ah Um is by American musician Charles Mingus. The cover features a painting by S. Neil Fujita.
🇺🇸 Democracy
⚽️Real Madrid and Bayern Munich
☕️Cold brew
🤖Science fiction
🎷Jazz
🗽Cities
🎨 Abstract Expressionism
Background: Released in 1959, Mingus Ah Um is by American musician Charles Mingus. The cover features a painting by S. Neil Fujita.
"College-educated professionals tend to pursue social justice goals “in ways that don’t cost anything or risk anything for us or require us to sacrifice anything ourselves,” sociologist Musa al-Gharbi said"
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Why the Left’s Calls for Social Justice Don’t End Inequality
A sociologist explains why he believes that liberal elites aren’t succeeding at helping the disadvantaged.
now.tufts.edu
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"College-educated professionals tend to pursue social justice goals “in ways that don’t cost anything or risk anything for us or require us to sacrifice anything ourselves,” sociologist Musa al-Gharbi said"
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Please read this outstanding short speech by @ryanenos.bsky.social about American civil society and the fight against authoritarianism.
Paradoxes in the Defense of Democracy
Remarks on “The State of Democracy in Trump’s America: Year One”
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Please read this outstanding short speech by @ryanenos.bsky.social about American civil society and the fight against authoritarianism.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a family connection to the Trump admin's ICE actions sweeping the country — her nephew's mother was arrested by agents in Revere, Massachusetts this month.
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White House spokeswoman Leavitt now has a family connection to an ICE arrest
Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area woman who is the mother of Leavitt's nephew, is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana.
www.wbur.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a family connection to the Trump admin's ICE actions sweeping the country — her nephew's mother was arrested by agents in Revere, Massachusetts this month.
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“When the economy slows, the folks that are hurt most are almost always vulnerable groups.” And that context leads me to be doubly worried by the recent sharp rise in Black women's unemployment.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“When the economy slows, the folks that are hurt most are almost always vulnerable groups.” And that context leads me to be doubly worried by the recent sharp rise in Black women's unemployment.
"In an age of instant smartphone photography, what draws people back to a machine from another era?"
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The machine that captured a million memories
Once a curiosity, now a nostalgic escape from digital overload.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"In an age of instant smartphone photography, what draws people back to a machine from another era?"
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"In an increasingly chaotic climate, urban agriculture could improve food security, generate clean electricity, reduce local temperatures, provide refuges for pollinators, and improve mental and physical health for urbanites, among other benefits."
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A surprisingly powerful tool to make cities more livable
Urban farms and gardens ease food insecurity, boost mental health, and create communities.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"In an increasingly chaotic climate, urban agriculture could improve food security, generate clean electricity, reduce local temperatures, provide refuges for pollinators, and improve mental and physical health for urbanites, among other benefits."
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My sister is a nurse. My oldest daughter is a nurse. My wife is a lab tech. And...and one time...I was a nurse. Don't tell my family...or the hundreds of thousands of other families...that nurses...and those in the health field...aren't "professionals."
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My sister is a nurse. My oldest daughter is a nurse. My wife is a lab tech. And...and one time...I was a nurse. Don't tell my family...or the hundreds of thousands of other families...that nurses...and those in the health field...aren't "professionals."
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.
You're Goddamn right we're professionals.
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The hottest clubs in NYC these days are volunteer trash pickup groups https://gothamist.com/news/the-hottest-clubs-in-nyc-these-days-are-volunteer-trash-pickup-groups
The hottest clubs in NYC these days are volunteer trash pickup groups
The Pick-up Pigeons flocked to Cypress Hills last month, where they collected heaps of litter from streets and sidewalks.
The city's notoriously filthy streets are giving rise to a new generation of volunteer groups that want to make neighborhoods across the city a little cleaner. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The hottest clubs in NYC these days are volunteer trash pickup groups https://gothamist.com/news/the-hottest-clubs-in-nyc-these-days-are-volunteer-trash-pickup-groups
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BRING $$$$ OR GTFO
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
BRING $$$$ OR GTFO
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
Master Developer of Seaport Square hasn’t completed Seaport Common, a public park under construction for 12 years. District Hall, closed. Harbor Way, half-baked.
But on a lot already permitted for a future tower, we’ll soon have “igloos” for rent and pickleball courts ($100/hr).
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Across the country, women of immigrant backgrounds are winning elections, building power and reshaping democracy from the ground up.
Immigrant and First-Generation Women Are Changing What Leadership Looks Like in America
Immigrant and First-Generation Women Running and Winning Elections Are Changing What Political Leadership Looks Like in America
msmagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Across the country, women of immigrant backgrounds are winning elections, building power and reshaping democracy from the ground up.
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"Access is a fragile currency in Washington; solidarity is too often spent last. But women in journalism have never had the luxury of silence, and they will not begin now."
Trump’s War on Women Journalists Reveals His Fear of Truth
Trump’s War on Women Journalists Reveals His Fear of Truth: “Quiet! Quiet, piggy.” We will keep telling the truth about Trump and Epstein.
msmagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Access is a fragile currency in Washington; solidarity is too often spent last. But women in journalism have never had the luxury of silence, and they will not begin now."
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Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
New threats from Trump:
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
"Here’s the thing: Individual states — either through their legislators or their citizens wielding ballot initiatives — have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because they determine what powers corporations have."
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This grassroots rebellion can decapitate Supreme Court's catastrophic mistake
Several of you have told me that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that c...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Here’s the thing: Individual states — either through their legislators or their citizens wielding ballot initiatives — have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because they determine what powers corporations have."
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"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment...The three factors...are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes..."
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
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November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment...The three factors...are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes..."
Eligible U.S. small businesses are invited to apply for one of the initial 250 grants through the Amex Shop Small Grants Program. #SmallBusinessSaturday
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American Express, Founder of Small Business Saturday®, Expands Small Business Support with New $5 Million Shop Small Grants Program
American Express, Founder of Small Business Saturday®, Expands Small Business Support with New $5 Million Shop Small Grants Program
www.americanexpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Eligible U.S. small businesses are invited to apply for one of the initial 250 grants through the Amex Shop Small Grants Program. #SmallBusinessSaturday
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"From painting over Washington D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural to temporarily scrubbing the stories of Navajo Code Talkers in World War II from federal websites, scholars and activists say stories of nonwhite history, even recent history, are being erased at rapid speed."
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Scholars say Trump administration is trying to erase America's non-white history
From painting over a Black Lives Matter mural to temporarily scrubbing web stories of Navajo Code Talkers, scholars and activists say the Trump administration is trying to erase non-white history.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"From painting over Washington D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural to temporarily scrubbing the stories of Navajo Code Talkers in World War II from federal websites, scholars and activists say stories of nonwhite history, even recent history, are being erased at rapid speed."
www.npr.org/2025/03/29/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/29/n...
"This is precisely what Simone does on “Baltimore,” turning it into a love song to a city experiencing rapid, racialized socioeconomic decline."
Tainted Love: On Nina Simone’s ‘Baltimore’ thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tainted-love... #Music via @mitpress.bsky.social
Tainted Love: On Nina Simone’s ‘Baltimore’ thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tainted-love... #Music via @mitpress.bsky.social
Tainted Love: On Nina Simone’s ‘Baltimore’
“Baltimore” is a love song to a city, tainted by both Simone’s personal experience there and its social and economic struggles.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"This is precisely what Simone does on “Baltimore,” turning it into a love song to a city experiencing rapid, racialized socioeconomic decline."
Tainted Love: On Nina Simone’s ‘Baltimore’ thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tainted-love... #Music via @mitpress.bsky.social
Tainted Love: On Nina Simone’s ‘Baltimore’ thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tainted-love... #Music via @mitpress.bsky.social
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
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Noth American Grand Prize Winner: Moakley Park.
Resilient waterfront park in Boston, USA, integrating coastal marsh restoration, stormwater management, and native plantings to enhance biodiversity and public access, by Stoss Landscape Urbanism.
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Resilient waterfront park in Boston, USA, integrating coastal marsh restoration, stormwater management, and native plantings to enhance biodiversity and public access, by Stoss Landscape Urbanism.
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Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction Reveals 20 Winning Projects of the 2025 Holcim Awards
Explore the Holcim Awards 2025 finalists, featuring diverse sustainable architecture projects from Asia Pacific to North America.
www.archdaily.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Noth American Grand Prize Winner: Moakley Park.
Resilient waterfront park in Boston, USA, integrating coastal marsh restoration, stormwater management, and native plantings to enhance biodiversity and public access, by Stoss Landscape Urbanism.
www.archdaily.com/1035453/holc...
Resilient waterfront park in Boston, USA, integrating coastal marsh restoration, stormwater management, and native plantings to enhance biodiversity and public access, by Stoss Landscape Urbanism.
www.archdaily.com/1035453/holc...
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President Trump has called for Democrats to be executed for sedition. The voters expect Democrats to come to the table with a real counter-proposal and negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise. That’s doing politics the right way.
-Ezra Klein, New York TImes
-Ezra Klein, New York TImes
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
President Trump has called for Democrats to be executed for sedition. The voters expect Democrats to come to the table with a real counter-proposal and negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise. That’s doing politics the right way.
-Ezra Klein, New York TImes
-Ezra Klein, New York TImes
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Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.