Gayle Turner
@gmturnerphd.bsky.social
Philosopher of ed. Studies social and economic determinants of educational outcomes. Professor emeritus, Appalachian State University. Now: back to the PNW where I came from. Stories in books change lives. http://gayleturner.net
Dr. Erica Schwartz becoming the first Black woman to lead the CDC is historic, but representation & accountability must go together. Trust must be earned by defending science, protecting the CDC’s independence, and putting public health above political pressure. I’ll be watching. #DrUB
as if millions of statisticians suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoTrump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)
There may well be active duty troops in the Middle East right now who have family members locked in ICE jails. Congress authorized Military Parole-in-Place specifically to avoid this situation. But the Trump admin has shown little care to families caught in this situation.
AILA@aila.org · 10h ago"President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda." https://bit.ly/4br4M4m
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
Congress has a choice to make. Either we can decide to protect the top 6% of all earners in America and cut benefits for seniors. Or we can decide that everybody pays the same share and protect Social Security forever into the future. - @warren.senate.gov
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Yes. Bring back "social shame and cultural pressure." People need to at least pretend that others exist and have value, even if they don't actually believe in the value of other people. Pretending would be good.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d agobring back shame www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Tell your US senators to amend the Sunshine Protection Act from permanent DST to permanent ST, for health! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...
Tell Congress to Ditch Daylight Saving Time with Permanent Standard Time!
Tell your members of congress to oppose the Sunshine Protection Act, and to sponsor the Sunshine for our Kids Act. Ditch Daylight Saving Time and Save Standard Time!
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Why are Bari Weiss and David Ellison manipulating the news to protect child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices? Possibly connected to how Weiss pushed to hire Epstein friend Peter Attia?
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayOne more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
The Free Speech Brigade going after Americans "for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission". (It was never about free speech and I sincerely hope that every single media outlet is aware of this now...) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
If we weren't so broken, divided and led by corrupt rapists, this would be the biggest story of the week. But barely a blip. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.
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NEW: Todd Blanche doesn't believe in the rule of law, and John Cornyn and Thom Tillis don't care. Blanche's Sunday night moves should not save his nomination. The reaction from the pair of soon-departing Republican senators is not oversight and not principled. Tonight, at Law Dork:
Todd Blanche doesn't believe in the rule of law, and John Cornyn and Thom Tillis don't care
Blanche's Sunday night moves should not save his nomination. The reaction from the pair of soon-departing Republican senators is not oversight and not principled.
lawdork.com
The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
Minnesota! 📣 Ever think about what the $4.4 billion of federal taxpayer dollars spent on mass deportations could buy instead? We did. Wednesday, we're launching a tool that shows the economic tradeoffs of Trump's immigration + deportation assault on our communities. Get a peek here 👇
The cost of mass deportations in states like Minnesota—and what federal tax dollars could be funding instead
This week, EPI will release a new tool showing the cost of mass deportations to taxpayers in every U.S. city, county, and state. For the first time, the actual economic tradeoffs imposed on all taxpay...
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A few hot takes on the letter, which I will refer to as Compact 2.0: 0) I appreciate the shift from outright extortion to (theoretically) open-ended questions. 1) Nevertheless, both the framing of the questions and wording of several rest on a thin evidence base and unexamined assumptions.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d agoMe on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
"Billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one’s wealth counts more than another’s vote" - Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Todd Eddins
A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court
In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.
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Trump's compact with colleges and universities was simple enough: embrace the ideology of MAGA and include it in your curriculum and you will get preferential access to federal funds. Any school taking this deal doesn't deserve to be called a university.
After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter
The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.
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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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There are long-form, science-driven and forward-looking policy-relevant analyses that explain what made Covid so difficult to confront, assess institutional failures (& successes), and dive in to intentional efforts to undermine pandemic response for short-term political gain. Airtime is a choice.
Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2y agoIt's publication day for "Asymptomatic" via Johns Hopkins U Press. The book explores the paradox of asymptomatic transmission and rationale for proactive steps to confront future pandemics: bit.ly/asymptomatic...
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d agoA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
More on the campaign to oppose Amendment 5 in MO which would repeal the state income tax & create an immediate, multi-billion dollar budget deficit w estimated cuts to state public education totaling as much as $1.4 billion while giving the top 1% a massive tax cut. @crooksandliars.bsky.social
Missouri Is Taking The Scenic Route To Killing Old And Poor People
Missouri is essentially asking its citizens to starve themselves in an effort to make their rich a little richer.
crooksandliars.com
The backlash made Google pause the feature that made it easy, but it's of course still possible, and now put in everybody's heads. It was so hard for Google to predict the harm. Asking experts is a struggle for tech companies 🤪 www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...
Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky
Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.
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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6d agoI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
To be clear: Senate Republicans are caving on a deal that gives Donald Trump and his family immunity from tax audits potentially worth $100 million.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3d agoBREAKING: Todd Blanche reaches a deal with the GOP senators blocking his AG nomination, signing an order to end the “anti-weaponization” fund.
The National Park Service is warning that Trump’s proposed “triumphal arch” would ruin just about everything near it. trib.al/adhrEFV
Park Service Delivers Brutal Verdict on Trump’s “Triumphal Arch”
The National Park Service is warning that Trump’s proposed “triumphal arch” would ruin just about everything near it.
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