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When you’re bored, bake apple pie!
Two apple pies on top of a stove
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Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.
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I used to only be able to fuck up my shoulder doing strenuous activity. Now, with years of time and experience, I can fuck up my shoulder in my sleep.
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This infuriates me. The first question always seems like something any idiot will start by asking. The entire profession ought to revolve around the follow up.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d
I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
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The treatment of propaganda in Black Reconstruction is interesting in light of his earlier embrace of propaganda and discussion of art as propaganda in the 1920s.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d
B I BLIOGRAPH Y PROPAGANDA ( These authors select and use facts and opinions in order to prove that the South was right in Reconstruction, the North vengeful or deceived, and the Negro stupid.) Avery, Mrs. Myrta, Dixie After the War . Bowers, G. Claude, Tragic Era; The Revolution After Lincoln. Carpenter, Jesse T., The South as a Conscious Minority. Craven, Avery, Edmund Ruffin, Southerner. Herbert, Hilary A., The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences . Four Pe riods of American History. --, Why the Solid South, or Reconstruction and Its Results. Morton, Richard L., The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1 865-1 902. Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, American Negro Slavery. Pike, James, The Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Govern- ment. Pollard, Edward A., The Lost Cause Regained. Reynolds, John S ., Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1 865-1 877. Van Evrie, J. H., Negroes and Negro Slavery, New York, 1 863.

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What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

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Hang together so that you do not hang separately
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d
WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know
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Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he cast a long shadow of influence on its politics and culture, writes Robin Blackburn in his review of @andrewhartman.bsky.social's book "Karl Marx in America." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Triumphs and Travails of 
American Marxism
Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.
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by Daniel Kuehn

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Ultimately Itai I understand very well now what she considers reasonable and unreasonable viewpoint diversity but I still don’t know what you mean when you say “reasonable viewpoint diversity”.

by Daniel Kuehn

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She is looking at how viewpoint diversity efforts are actually practiced and advocated and laying out several reasons why that’s unreasonable and what the parameters and limits of viewpoint diversity actually are in light of higher values like academic freedom and free inquiry.
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So when she writes about how chemistry departments shouldn’t hire phlogiston scholars you think that rather than explaining principles about how disciplinary standards trump viewpoint diversity she is actually worried about strawman cases like that?
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Mokyr in particular is exciting to me. I’m not sure how much we’ll hear about it but he’s written a lot about the role of apprenticeship in technology transfer historically. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy*
Abstract. In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological
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Congratulations to Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt! A fantastic choice.

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified ...
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by Daniel Kuehn

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So you think viewpoint diversity should overrule disciplinary standards?! I think she’s pointing out that viewpoint diversity itself is obviously not some ultimate value. It has to be reasonable and justifiable. Which is why it’s so weird you act like she’s opposed to reasonable viewpoint diversity.
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I’m going to a workshop at UATX this December and I’m honestly excited to see this attitude in action. It seems so odd to me. I dunno.

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I don’t know if that means academia should be evenly split between conservatives and liberals or not, I honestly think that’s a superficial framing of the problem that’s beside the point. You want academic institutions that are open and select good ideas not that impose a certain political balance.
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Some characteristics should have no bearing on access and outcomes, like race and gender. Actively working to guard and promote diversity there obviously makes sense. But your views - your ideas, your answers, your logical steps, your evidence - should absolutely shape access and outcomes!
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These mostly seem reasonable (I’m not so sure about #5 but I may be misunderstanding) but it’s interesting to see people get mad about it.

I’ve never understood the fuss around viewpoint diversity and efforts to pursue it always seem badly justified.

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Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity
Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.
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Since she never said anything like “it is incoherent and an anathema to academic freedom to want a reasonable diversity of views” I’m having a difficult time figuring out what part you disagree with.
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I’m a bit puzzled - what exactly do you have a problem with here? The only one I think isn’t quite right is #5 (although I may be misunderstanding it). These seem like pretty on target points in general and certainly important in the case of “viewpoint diversity” as it’s operationalized.
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An opponent of strongmen is a good choice I think given current times but it’s been pretty surprising to learn about some of the things she supports. Seems like there were probably better alternatives. Granted I don’t think the committee was validating that stuff at least.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d
Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."
2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...
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Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."
2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...
www.democracynow.org
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Anyway it’s too close to be complacent but given what I saw in the general vs. now it’s encouraging.
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Trump always dominated billboard style “Plumbers for X” signs, I don’t think I saw any of those for Harris. This weekend I saw one “Farmers for Spanberger” billboard and none for Seals. I imagine tariffs and ICE are a factor. There were giant residential Sears signs just no specialized group signs.
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To and from the cabin this weekend, the ratio of Sears to Spanberger signs west of Culpeper was clearly lower than the ratio of Trump to Harris signs last year. Basically every spot that I remember having Harris signs has a Spanberger sign but a lot of places that had Trump signs don’t have any up.
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The median voter:
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The Portland frog and Pepe are evidence for the Hotelling-Downs model of politics.
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