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Craig Prentiss@cprentiss.bsky.social |
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Religious studies professor, compulsive movie watcher, Fulbright alumn, recovering doomscroller
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Radley Balko
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
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Craig Prentiss
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Friendly reminder that Reagan's approval ratings were above 50% the entire year of 1984, and in the upper 50s by June.
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Craig Prentiss
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Does somebody want to cheer me up & persuade me the Dems will have a brokered convention and someone capable of changing the dynamics of this race will emerge to defeat this pathologically lying narcissist? Because nothing tonight indicated Biden's capable of tipping the scales back in his favor.
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ApocalypticaNow
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Marcellus Williams was cleared by DNA evidence and the prosecutor is trying to vacate the conviction, but the state of Missouri still scheduled an execution date for him. Please sign and share this petition
innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...
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Craig Prentiss
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History also strikes me as disproportionately impacted by both AP and "early college" credit courses departments are pressured to accept. The ease with which these are earned diminishes the # of first year students in intro classes which has a "downstream" effect.
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Radley Balko
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After the death of Tyre Nichols, Memphis enacted a policy prohibiting police from conducting pretextual traffic stops. The Republican state legislature and governor just enacted a preemptory law overturning the policy, and prohibiting any city in Tenn. from passing a similar one.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
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We need to vastly increase the amount of available research funding in the humanities. As the # of applications to the program illustrate, there is a huge need and demand. We can't fund only 5% if humanistic inquiry is going to survive. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Phil Lewis
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A Tallahassee Police Department officer can be seen on body cam pouring out a sealed bottle of liquor and tossing it in Calvin Riley's passenger seat, before arresting him for a DUI.
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Radley Balko
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Terrific piece on a dangerous, deeply cynical phenomenon at the intersection of police militarization and the growing appetite for political violence.
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Eileen Clancy
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"Everyone’s a sellout now" Naomi Klein is quoted (via The Guardian) saying the biggest change in the world since 1999 is "neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security."
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Tom Scocca
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Milquetoast acceptable conservative David Brooks just injecting a straight racist-panic talking point into his column because that's how fast the respectable discourse has agreed to go that way
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Craig Prentiss
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While this terrified me, I think it's the most honest analysis of where we appear to be headed that I've read in a long time. wapo.st/3Gr2B0t
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Mötley Jëw
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We keep hearing that college sports like football and basketball “subsidise” academics”- if that were true the schools with the best football & basketball teams would have things like free tuition for all students or better pay for profs, or advanced classrooms etc - but none of that is the case.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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If this country succumbs to dictatorship, a key factor will be the fact that elite newsrooms are still worried Spiro Agnew will rise from the grave and say mean things about them.
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Rob Townsend
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"It turns out that your parents were wrong. English majors – and others in #humanities fields often seen as even less “marketable,” like philosophy and film studies – can get great jobs right out of college." t.co/Hols05tRKf
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