UNICEF Convoy Hit by Israeli Gunfire, Deliveries Halted to North Gaza democracynow.org/2024/4/11/head…

New UCLA Civil Rights Project research reveals U.S. charter schools exhibit higher racial segregation compared to magnet schools in same districts. To see the full report click on this link: tinyurl.com/muzf8n8y

Duke announced that it would discontinue the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship program, a merit scholarship for Black students, in light of legal changes related to race-based admissions:
dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…

“The Israel-Hamas conflict is unique in that there are thousands of U.S. citizens caught up in it on both sides - hundreds, at least, in Gaza, and some 23,000 currently serving in the Israeli military.”

😳 npr.org/2024/04/01/124…

The Chicago Police who killed Dexter Reed lied when they claimed they stopped him for not wearing a seat belt.

The officers could not have seen into the vehicle given their location and the dark colored tints on Mr. Reed's windows.

chicago.suntimes.com/police-reform/…

“Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students graduating high school next month.

I absolutely co-sign this.

Lol

This seems a bit excessive for someone who is not the actual President of the United States.

“Despite heterodoxism’s claims to be a tribeless, iconoclastic way of thinking that gives it some special powers to get to the truth, it’s really just a different sort of ideological tribe, with the same biases, preconceptions, and vulnerability to audience capture as any other.”

“But a posture that approaches issues from the standpoint of overturning conventional wisdom [..] isn’t any more conducive to truth seeking than what the heterodoxists rail against, which is perhaps why these pieces are so often riddled with errors and misunderstandings.”

Not much 'racial realignment' in these new Pew numbers.

Thread: Want to think out loud about what I've seen and experienced since joining NPR a few years ago. I was hired during NPR's 'North Star' era when diversity was established as a priority. I'm an aging rural white man (58 years old). Never graduated college. Didn't see NYC...1/

“I think our policy has got to be very clear: not another nickel for Netanyahu’s right wing extremist government while hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face starvation,” argues Bernie Sanders. “That we… are continuing to supply 2000lb bombs… is unacceptable.”

“Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got,” says Mark Perlmutter MD, orthopedics hand surgery specialist and president of the World Surgical Foundation who just volunteered in Gaza. “This is dehumanization. The purpose of this is to kill a population.”

This Radley Balko piece about a Coleman Hughes essay and the larger problem with the FP and so-called heterodox thinkers pairs quite well. “The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers.”
theunpopulist.net/p/the-war-on-t…

#WednesdayWisdom from Nikole Hannah-Jones (Ida Bae Wells)

it continues to be so weird to me that so many heterosexual men link their heterosexuality to dressing like garbage