In NYT i explained that the fear of crime on transit, both real and imagined, is because public transit is one of the only times the public of all backgrounds, situations and incomes meet. Cars, despite being deadlier, keep people segregated as they exist at home and at work.
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Miles Bennett-Smith
@smilesbsmith
AP Gov Teacher. Ardent believer in the power of Public Education. Fervent Tim Tebow apologist. Amateur jogger.
Joined March 2011
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Today's front page: It’s time to reframe the conversation about mental health at Stanford. This week's edition of is dedicated to campus wellness because it's become clear: something needs to change. I am so proud of this team and the work they have created.
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The FBI decided not to break down the front door of a wealthy suspect's house—because he lived in an "affluent neighborhood" and agents wanted to preserve the "aesthetics" of the community.
During arguments today, Judge Millett assailed this "outrageous behavior by the FBI."
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And for all the idiotic efforts of people like to claim that MLK would somehow be opposed to Critical Race Theory, his whole career shows that he was a forerunner for it.
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Why don’t we hear about the high murder rates in cities with Republican mayors like Jacksonville, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City? It’s pretty simple: The national media covers bigger cities like LA, which have less than 1/3 of the murder rate, much more closely.
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This story is genuinely amazing. It should be in a museum somewhere, to illustrate all the dysfunctions of US politics & media in 2022.
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Based on conversations and survey responses with the Stanford community, The Daily’s Vol. 260 executive team and diversity, equity and inclusion co-chairs compiled ten takeaways that will inform our newsroom moving forward.
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Private schools already grade inflate so there's no real harm in public schools doing it but Im becoming irritated with the idea that to close the achievement gap we just stop measuring academic performance. That doesn't fly in college at all.
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Today in The Bee: “Students aren’t considered in critical decisions, yet they’re constantly being used as symbols for someone else’s agenda.” via
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An excerpt of my book, I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye, appears in the new . The excerpt discusses why my family has been public about my son Max’s suicide. You may preorder the book (publication date Oct. 26) wherever you buy books.
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I think there’s a lot of confusion about where unions are on vaccines and vaccine mandates. 1/
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Teachers unions opposition to a vaccine mandate seems bizarre, but it follows directly from some of the weird ideas in circulation on the education left nymag.com/intelligencer/
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I very much hope Luis is successful in his appeal and that someday our system of immigration enforcement can move beyond “well if we just try to make things really, really shitty, maybe people won’t want to come here?”
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Former @NAUTrackFieldXC
star Luis Grijalva (a DACA recipient born in Guatemala) will head to the US Citizenship & Immigration Services office in Phoenix to make one last effort in gaining an advance parole that would let him go to the Tokyo Olympics & return to the US after.
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Highly recommend this new FREE substack from — if you enjoy running, racing, tracks, Econ humor or hot takes you will enjoy the Second Best, At Best
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its not every day that the greatest shot in disc golf history happens
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Just mind-blowing that this dude thinks this isn't what teachers are already doing in classrooms across the country. He's erected his own strawman so he can look like the wisest man in America.
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"A teacher being willing to say truthfully, “I don’t know—let’s find out,” does not undermine that teacher’s authority in the classroom, and it can bring appreciation for how massive the world of knowledge is." @JoinPersuasion @glukianoff
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"The I.M.F. calculates that an urgent $50 billion investment — now! — primarily by rich countries to vaccinate people in poor countries would yield an astonishing $9 trillion in additional economic growth by 2025... That would be a return of about 267% per year over four years"
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Trillion dollar bills littering the sidewalk. Are we too shortsighted to see them? Or too debilitated to manage to scoop them up? nytimes.com/2021/05/26/opi
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DNA testing from a 1993 killing in Arkansas has revealed genetic material from a male other than the inmate executed for the murder 4 years ago katv.com/news/local/tes
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Systemic Racism Built Mississippi. Gov. Reeves Says It Doesn’t Exist. mississippifreepress.org/11705/systemic
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NOTHING will prepare you for the plot twist in this story below...wait for it.
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"Strange Fruit," a protest song about lynching made famous by Billie Holiday, was written not by an African American activist, but by a Jewish high school teacher from New York.
@CBSMMiller looks at the song's backstory. Warning, the photo that inspired the song is disturbing. twitter.com/CBSThisMorning
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My father’s final speech, given the evening before he was assassinated, 53 years ago today.
“I may not get there with you.”
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The college basketball version of Fight Club is an exclusive pick-up basketball game held weekly in Spokane that requires a group text from a Hall of Famer for entry. On Sunday Ball with Gonzaga alums:
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The Blackfeet Nation on Friday held a “street corner vaccination clinic” open to all. The clinic administered 103 vaccines to people, including those passing through Browning from Great Falls, Whitefish and Kalispell. #mtnews
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Number of members of immediate family: 5 (mother, father, two adult daughters, one adult son). Number of members of immediate family who played D1 basketball: 5. The remarkable Tinkles master the game and the post-game debriefs. #MarchMadness
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Coach Wayne Tinkle received more than 400 congratulatory text messages after Oregon State beat Tennessee yesterday.
Tinkle responded to every text. Then he went to email and began responding there.
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Nothing in college basketball is ever really easy. Especially not winning an NCAA Tournament game.
My column on Oregon State, coach Wayne Tinkle, and the magic of March:
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In a bid to break into the top tier, Paul Pollock has often broken himself.
on the struggle behind the Olympic journey, his hopes for Tokyo, regrets about Rio, and the day he first tried the super-shoes and took 5 mins off his marathon PB.
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1/Here's a Substack post about the Ivy Leagues, and our unhealthy obsession with them, and what that says about our society.
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WSJ opinion section: Texas got screwed by wind power
WSJ news section: No, that's not true.
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I took a road trip with Rush Limbaugh back in 1989, when I was a reporter at and he'd just gone national. He seemed to admit then that his words weren't to be taken seriously – at least by those who knew better.
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This is an extraordinary piece of research in the impeachment manager's case, among many others:
explains the same extremists who terrorized a Biden/Harris bus in October in Texas organized the insurrection at the capitol.
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Over 20% of people exonerated by DNA had falsely confessed. Yet many people are wrongly convinced that no one would falsely confess.
Innocent people, faced w/ police trickery or prosecutorial leverage due to excessive sentences, confess all the time.
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#SedleyAlley was executed in 2006 without DNA testing of the evidence in his case. More than a decade later, his daughter April is still seeking the truth in his case. nyti.ms/3aSp46D
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“I’m meant to be alive”: The remarkable story of Drew Robinson, now at ESPN: es.pn/3aGg6JJ
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This was ruled goaltending, then upheld on review. Many questions but the most important: why even have review if you’re going to get it wrong??
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Fortunate to work , where the term “world class” is put into action on a daily basis. All student-athletes, coaches, and staff are participating in the campus testing program as we prepare for spring competition. #GoAgs
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"This is the language of racism — slowing progress and willfully ignoring the conversations, strategies, and demands that have been put forward time and time again by Black students, professors, and alumni."
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This old quote from Hank Aaron in The NY Times obituary just left me speechless. I had not seen this before.
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