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NYC Chancellor of Schools Richard Carranza mandated training intended to purge Department of Education employees of the implicit biases endemic to whiteness https://nypost.com/2019/05/20/richard-carranza-held-doe-white-supremacy-culture-tra

The biggest story in America can't be told by the American press precisely because the American press is one of the venues where that story is unfolding (This story is

A major problem with the letter is that it would not have been possible to mention, even in passing, the collapse of the Russiagate narrative -- nor the reliance of

"Asking to see the data" is one of the white defensive strategies that Robin DiAngelo identifies as indicative of "White Fragility" Intersectionalists and MacKinnonite feminists are in many ways mutually

I overheard someone talking about the end of standardized testing in the UC system. She spoke about how hurtful and even traumatic it had been for her to be a

Wait, are the Karens the ones flouting the rules? I thought they were the ones enforcing them...https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/why-amy-cooper-called-the-cops.html All the feminist encomia on behalf of difficult, rambunctious, bossy, bitchy

In reply to petition signed by 108,000 demanding closure of schools NYC schools chancellor Richard Carranza said schools would remain open until “108,000 epidemiologists” did the same.https://twitter.com/TeacherArthurG/status/1239218913663123457 Afte

NYC politicians and health officials urged New Yorkers to go to movies and participate in parades, characterizing concerns about coranvirus as “misinformation” https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/NY-has-10-times-the-coronavirus-cases-CA-has-Wh

These dispatches from folks who have never opened an NYT piss off Dem partisans but are valuable. They show how pedestrian and ill informed most people are about politics and

There is tremendous pathos in Biden’s run: a man suffering from age-related cognitive decline, practically assured not to survive his first term if he wins, and yet stubbornly persistent at

The reporting shows the intensity of the pressure the journalists were under from student activists who believe photos cause trauma — which is the core of the problem.https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/1194703889783758860 The problem