The month ended with the news about Indiana's right-to-discriminate bill:
Dear conservatives: I know "your intolerance of my intolerance is the real intolerance!" sounds clever to you, but it convinces *no one else*.Which followed the Starbucks "race together" P.R. disaster:
By David Roberts
The people asking for a religious exception to generally applicable laws are the ones who spent decades railing against "special rights."
By Josh Barro
Jesus regularly ate dinner with thieves and whores, and you're telling me it's against your religion to bake a cake for a gay person?
By Keri Karandrakis
Being gay is natural. Hating gays is a lifestyle choice. - John Fugelsang
By Curt Rice
real talk:I thought that this time I would consolidate the tweets about education. Gosh, there are a lot of them:
By Disgruntled Haradrim
Starbucks CEO Schultz wants us to write political stuff on cups. He pays workers $7.62/hr. So I start here:
By Mike Klonsky
What if lawmakers supported schools that kids wanted to go to instead of passing truancy laws?And then there's the rest of the topics:
By Ira Socol
We put you in a game without asking if you want to play. We explain that the losers are doomed and if you don't follow the rules we call you a cheater.
By Sisyphus38
Have you seen any discussion about the fact that [Commom Core] tests are timed, so speed is privileged over other intellectual proficiencies?
By Alfie Kohn
Class size matters because children learn through relationships. These can't be realized in classes of 30.
By leonie haimson
Choice = a sorry substitute for equity and quality in a city and state that can't/won't uplift our schools & neighborhoods.
By Helen Gym
Is it weird that major companies like Coke & Google use emotion to tell their story & schools use grades & numbers to tell theirs?
By Justin Tarte
All this talk about grit [in education] is a bit like watching the Four Yorkshiremen skit by Monty Python.
By Lizzie Steven
By teaching kids to memorize mathematical facts we rob them of the pleasure of finding out on their own.
By Sisyphus38
"Grit." How to get kids to plow through anything put before them no matter how idiotic, irrelevant, or boring. Really folks?
By Sisyphus38
Expecting 8-year-olds to read at an adult rate isn't high standards. It's developmentally inappropriate:
By Steven Singer
If you think it's your duty to make children do what you want, then it follows that you must make them afraid of what will happen if they don't.
By Sisyphus38
When people refer to schools as 'delivery systems', it's hard to take their ideas on 'innovation' seriously.
By Adam Holman
Those who like to talk about “preparing kids for the real world” rarely seem concerned about preparing kids to improve that world.
By Alfie Kohn
Powerful, uncompromised morality worked with banning fracking and net neutrality. Now [we need] a moral fight for public education, against testing.
By zephyrteachout
I think this debate isn't about achievement or about quality. It's about being able to do education on the cheap.
By Sally Jo Sorensen
You can't get great people to become teachers by taking away their autonomy, respect, and creativity.
By zephyrteachout
"If they can do the worksheet, they don't need it. If they can't, it won't help them." – Marilyn Adams
By Alfie Kohn
Required: all adults who mandate tests should take them and publish their scores.
By Diane Ravitch
Every time my boss told me that I should be grateful anyone even wanted to sexual harass me, I lost a bit of myself. Every. Time.
By KillerMartinis
Ultimately people want to believe that they exist in a meritocracy and get angry when their luck or privilege is exposed.
By Sarah Siegel
A beautiful Paradise Tanager:
By Strange Animals
DIVERSITY IS GREAT BUT NOT AT THE COST OF QUALITY! As if we haven't sat through 1000 shittily-made white movies every year for decades. [Referring to the Deadline article that wondered if there weren't suddenly too many black people on television this season.]
By Saladin Ahmed
The Ellen Pao case teaches us it's risky to hire men. They create conditions that put company at risk and interfere with women doing their jobs.
By Phil Haack
Reminder that hiring women and minorities is not you taking "risks," it's just you not violating the Civil Rights Act.
By Susie Cagle
Some people say anyone who criticizes Netanyahu's policies is anti-Israel. Then does criticizing Obama's policies make one anti-American?
By Steven Greenhouse
- "I'm depressed" - "SHUT UP NO YOU'RE NOT, YOU ARE FIT FOR WORK YOU SCROUNGER" - "He was depressed" - "WHY WAS HE ALLOWED TO WORK?"
By Harry Stopes
By labeling some of America's most common jobs as low skill, we rationalize relegating workers to near-poverty wages.
By Century Foundation
There is a slippery slope between self-confidence and self-righteousness.
By Heather Davies-DeVoe
I've been thinking about privilege while writing this book. It's amazing how easy it is to think your baseline of okay is typical. Only nobody knows anyone else, really. And so the comfortable blame the poor for their poverty, whites blame blacks for their own oppression. Like wherever you happen to be on Maslow's pyramid is where everyone probably starts. We never question that.
By KillerMartinis
Why we walk in cities! How far 1 mile can take a pedestrian in a US city & a US suburb:
By Max Roser
"I believe in free speech, but..." is the censor's equivalent of "I'm not racist, but..." The "but" reveals the truth.
By Will Shetterly
ALEC is bad because of the likely outcomes of their policies. Not because they write model legislation. Model legislation is good.
By David Kaib
The apparatus of white supremacy is sustained by its ability to tell a consistent narrative of white as radically, gloriously, human.
By DeRay Mckesson
All the draft-dodging war-mongering chicken-hawk neocons are outraged about the cowardice of Bowe Bergdahl.
By Frank Conniff
Shocking. Male and female academic job applicants' recommendation letters:
By Phil Baty
People always talk about how income equality depends on quality childcare, without addressing who's expected to provide it and for how little $$.
By Occubrarian Rachel
Words that, believe it or not, don't actually mean 'Black': Ethnic. Urban. Inner-City.
By Saladin Ahmed
women belong in the kitchen
men belong in the kitchen
everyone belongs in the kitchen
the kitchen has food
By Maeve Gimpl
My theory: Steve Jobs was a cutting, arrogant asshole AND a loving, generous person who wanted to make the world better. Aren't we all?
By Gina Trapani
I tried to talk my son Griffin (11) into taking a walk. He said, "a walk is just like standing there for 30 minutes, moving your feet."
By David Roberts
It is always extremely upsetting to see good people go for each other because of perceived ill intent, when you know everyone means well.
By KillerMartinis
A baby Polar Bear! They can weigh as much as a pound when they are born!
By Science Porn
If you say "35 MPH feels so slow on this road," what you should say is, "They really over-designed this road."
By Jeff Tyndall, AICP
Today the 2-year-old (boy) dressed up a doll and had her put on a "ballet show" for me. My first reaction was, "What a pretty ballerina!" Then I caught myself and added, "She must be strong and flexible to do such graceful dancing. I bet she works hard at it." Just a reminder that anybody who comes into contact with kids can help overturn deeply ingrained misogyny for the next generation.
By Occubrarian Rachel
"People can cry much easier than they can change." – James Baldwin
By Ryan Dalton
1962 Life magazine ad by ExxonMobil forerunner Humble Oil:
By SaskWind
Cinderella marrying the prince isn't a passive, antifeminist act. Loving and being loved are super hard when you grow up with abuse.
By Melissa Grey
Running for president is the worst. I'd vote for anyone who refused to do it and announced their candidacy the week before the election.
By Josh Gondelman
Traveling is the best education. You see the world through another lens. You realize your homeland isn’t the only reality, there’s many.
By Joshua Anderson
Despite my best attempts to read through the books I haven't yet, I can't stop buying new ones. Book glutton. Book Sisyphus.
By mollycrabapple
"Harassment is just the price you pay for being on social media." No, fuckface, it's the price we pay for YOU being on social media.
By Bastard Keith
Why do we say "underprivileged" when it's often "unprivileged"?
By David Brauer
"Book are machines for becoming other people. That is the magic of books. That is the point of books." – Scott Westerfeld
By Rachel Stark
"Redistribution" implies a natural income distribution disturbed by government, which is nonsense.
By David Kaib
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is 2015!...
By stefano mariani
How meaningful can a relationship with God be if there’s a threat involved?
By Hemant Mehta
“It’s just a toy!”
“…tv show!”
“…commercial!”
“…movie!”
“…joke!”
“…video game!”
“…ubiquitous, inescapable, tacitly accepted culture.”
By Katie Mack
FAFSA sounds like a militia of liberation fighters.
By Chris Steller
"The GOP isn’t anti-environment. Nixon created EPA!" = "The GOP isn’t racist. Lincoln freed the slaves!"
By David Roberts
Cities that added the most parking since the 1980s saw median incomes fall by 20 to 30%.
By Next American City
"We know...that cooperation...with the law begins with trust in it and not fear of it." – Phillip Attiba Goff
By Trust and Justice
Another day ruined by bar of soap's failure to deliver TV commercial promise of giggling hallucinated flowers slaying Bigfoot stink enemies.
By Bigfoot TheBigfoot
time flies when you're having fun. otherwise, timing flies would be boring.
By rachel axler
Just for fun: Get hired as a "Code Ninja."
Don't show up the first day.
When they say "We didn't see you at the office today."
Say "Exactly."
By kim gardner
Apparently the most innovative idea from tech in a decade is "Hey, I bet everyone actually wants to be a cab driver."
By Tom Conrad
What you say: "I'm a web developer." What people hear: "I can fix any computer problem you have. Ring me anytime."
By Daryl Ginn ✪
"Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides."
By Noam Chomsky Quotes
sometimes when i see anime clothes i just:
By reiji's boning tool
You can't ignore racism and raise anti-racist children. You have to tackle it head-on.
By Then Ms Murphy Said
"Suburban values -- anti-tax, anti-public-transportation, pro-safety -- translate into large police departments that need revenue from somewhere."
By Myecoll
People who spend money on things I don't value are just showing off. People who don't pay for things I value have no taste.
By Benedict Evans
Racism is a system of economic exploitation, not an attitude problem.
By Saladin Ahmed
What percent of radio news listeners need stock market updates more than weekly?
By Chris Steller
Blue footed boobies:
By Strange Animals
The argument that it's uniquely politically difficult in the U.S. to win good public benefits because whites hate non-whites seems plausible enough to me. But surely that also entails that private employment and everything really (also controlled by whites) is not going to deliver much either. To believe otherwise is to think a white boss forms his politics based on hatred of non-whites but this won't affect hiring/pay practices.
By Matt Bruenig
"Americans are confused about who's rich," says the media that treats Wall Streeters as struggling but teachers as living high on the hog.
By David Kaib
By the time I'd managed to collect an infinite number of monkeys nobody made typewriters anymore.
By boothby graffoe
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. – Terry Pratchett
By Paul Thomas
I constantly confuse William Morris and Phillip Morris. Hilarity ensues.
By Maggie Koerth-Baker
The hardest part of design isn't design, and the hardest part of coding isn't coding. The hardest part is influencing people.
By Aza Raskin
"Talking about race proves YOU'RE the REAL racist" makes as much sense as "Talking about a house on fire proves YOU'RE the REAL arsonist."
By Saladin Ahmed
Globally, growth of per-capita consumption (2-3% per year) has become a much bigger factor than growth of population (1% per year).
By Kees van der Leun
Every celebrity who comes outta the closet after finding success should give $100k to a peer who's always been out & never given a shot because of it.
By Janine Brito
Let's be very clear: lethal injection has been devised for the sensibilities of the witnesses, not the person being killed.
By Christopher Hayes
Wife dabbles in art:
By Rabih Alameddine
Bill Kristol blames hip-hop for the racist frat video. What a shock - the biggest Iraq War advocate goes after the wrong target.
By Frank Conniff
The city manager of Ferguson just resigned. Imagine if every police department in America was investigated… Ferguson is NOT unique.
By Michael Skolnik
Police should consider themselves 'guardians,' not 'warriors,' says Laurie Robinson, co-chair of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
By Vera Institute
For the love of God, try to avoid describing women as "females." You ALWAYS sound like a Ferengi:
By Spacekatgal
Meanwhile, I wonder how it's possible for low-wage workers putting in three jobs to lean further in than that. Lean into what, the abyss?
By Elizabeth Stoker
If you are currently working on ways to bring advertising to a wristwatch, now would be a great time to rethink your life choices
By Marko Karppinen
This is insane. My landlord won't accept "great exposure" as rent when we all know it's a perfectly acceptable alternative to payment.
By erin whitehead
The conventional 50% discount on the face value of food stamp sales suggests cash would be so much more helpful.
By Matt Bruenig
What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? Probably get hella bored & start answering rhetorical questions.
By Aparna Nancherla
The mistaken belief that marijuana is a gateway drug has destroyed far more lives than marijuana ever has.
By Alan Mills
Afternoons are evil sleep traps. It's the EASIEST time to sleep, but if you do sleep, you wake up feeling empty and concussed.
By Rainbow Rowell
Petty, capricious use of government power and corrupt extraction of revenue: Ferguson sounds a lot like the Founders' complaints against King George.
By Christopher Hayes
Is NPR's morning news ever not marketplace?
By William Lindeke
Can you imagine if [a magazine] printed "10 best sex positions for boys"...??? blugh. So much accepted infantilizing of women.
By Emily
Color is incredibly fucking relative:
By Edward Sanchez
There are more men named David running large companies than there are women named anything.
By Daniel Victor
If you are wondering why so many programmers are pedantic jerks, we become who we work with. The computer is the ultimate pedantic jerk.
By Jeff Atwood
The point of white supremacy is not to be mean to black people, it's to take their stuff. It is not about bad manners. It's about plunder.
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ben Carson says people choose to be gay. I can see how he'd believe that since he's a brain surgeon who chose to be an idiot.
By Frank Conniff
Can we talk about how messed up it is that the way to get white people interested in SWAT abuse is talking about dead dogs & not dead black people?
By Arthur Chu
It’s not a solution, but you could ameliorate some of the problems of the Greater St. Louis area by dissolving and merging municipalities.
By Jamelle Bouie
Many say they can’t afford to marry. Weird. Love and marriage no longer like a horse and carriage, but require a house and carriage. Media effect?
By Isabel Sawhill
In the broad sweep of history, what percentage of humanity’s problems can be traced to insecure, macho guys demonstrating their toughness? 98%?
By David Roberts
"What is modern about genocide & mass violence is the embarrassment about it." – A. de Swaan
By Steven Pinker
Hey men: If hearing about the sexist crap women have to put up with bothers you, perhaps you could lean in to reducing the amount of sexist crap.
By Janet D. Stemwedel
lol, the U.S. married-couple child poverty rate is *higher* than the Nordic *single-mother* child poverty rate:
By Matt Bruenig
My suspicion: what is *experienced* as a need/desire for "something more" can usually, in practice, be satisfied by community. If everyone was part of a real community, was loved & valued, was part of a meaningful larger project, I think the need would dissipate.
By David Roberts
If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.
By Elizabeth Warren
Privilege constantly manufactures trauma out of personal inconvenience while trivializing the trauma of others, as mere inconvenience.
By jesse williams
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
By Kurt Vonnegut
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Satan is awesome:
By Ryan Broderick
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