One of the things I love most about teaching freshman seminars in sociology is that I get to witness so many lightbulb moments in class--moments where students connect the dots and suddenly see new meaning in things that they've recognized but maybe not fully understood about the social world.

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Noting the gap between the infected and the well, the Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion to help the uninfected join this exciting development in which Microsoft is so precariously invested."

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This. We're only 3 weeks into the semester, but I'm already super impressed with the first-year undergrads in my Kids & Society seminar. They read! They write! They think critically! And they've done an awesome job using social science research to interrogate the stereotypes of "kids these days."

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Journalists all across the PNW laid off by McClatchy today, a damn bloodbath. Some are people I’ve worked with, some are calling me crying because their mentors no longer have jobs. Journalism is so needed. Cutting investigative reporters, city reporters… Idaho & Washington will be worse off.

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Being pro-immigration and anti-ICE means being pro-immigration and anti-ICE, even when it's Milo.

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