Incredible excerpt from Freakonomics.
Do people with Black-sounding names get rejected for job interviews due to racism?
Or is it simply that employers think people with Black names are poor, uneducated and unreliable? 🤔🤔🤔

H‑E‑B > Publix, and it’s not particularly close.

Why did the Arlington Public Library (TX) director meet with several local church officiants? Where did the Pride book displays go? A dive into an on-going battle at the APL: bookriot.com/arlington-publ…

This Dana Milbank report from Nevada is one of the most horrifying things I have ever read washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

i dont want to soften the past unduly, but the gap between the dogwhistle rhetoric of fox in, say, 2007, and what they're putting on now is kinda terrifying

There are a lot of people on the national stage who are seeing our brand of baseball for the first time.

We make contact. We run the bases hard. We do the little things.

We don't care if you don't like it.

#ForTheLand

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Found a way to make this family road trip more exciting.

A myth that school districts are providing litter boxes for students has been referenced by 20 political candidates - but there's no truth to the rumor, exposing the dangers of online misinformation. Maura Barrett has more.

A school board candidate in a suburban Austin school district — whose campaign slogan is “ABCs and 1-2-3s, not LGBTs and CRTs” — has thoughts on special needs education.

This man does not present the news. He doesn't even bother to look up basic facts on—or lies about—those he rants about.

His show provides new enemies every night for viewers to target and direct their rage.

There are many different words for this. 'News' is not one of them.

WATCH: False rumors claiming schools are making accommodations for students who identify as cats are gaining momentum as a GOP talking point.

Ben Collins explains what's actually going on for MSNBC.

Here's a thread of the 20 politicians who've falsely claimed this year that schools are accommodating who kids identify as cats, putting litter boxes on campus for them

From a review of a new book about American journalism by @sulliview, with whom I am in full agreement. washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/…

Too many journalists, worried about their reputations for neutrality, are still doing their jobs the same old way. 'It’s not good enough.'

NEW:
We found 20 right wing candidates and elected officials who’ve publicly claimed this year schools are accommodating kids who identify as cats, letting them only talk in meows or installing litter boxes

It’s an obvious hoax, but they keep saying it

nbcnews.com/tech/misinform…

Of course.