Corey Spaley

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Men with insight, men in granite. A few in carbonite.

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it feels like a somewhat unpopular view these days but integration is an unalloyed good and should be pursued as vigorously as possible

5 years ago, when I was on the D15 Community Education Council (Park Slope to Sunset Park to Red Hook), we helped pass a historic diversity plan to change admissions procedure at the district's middle schools. We were told that we would chase families out of the system. Our critics were wrong.

What Happened When Brooklyn Tried to Integrate Its Middle Schoolswww.nytimes.com A new report found that many schools enrolled more racially and socioeconomically diverse groups of students without sparking a major exodus of families from public schools.

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I am convinced the Good columnists and the Bad opinion writers are separated by how each answers the following basic question: “was the United States a democracy prior to the 1960s”

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Mom: TikTok is poison. Kid: OK I'll go to the park. Mom: You aren't allowed. Kid: FINE. I'll go to the library Mom: So, the thing about that is

Why don't young people go outside and spend time off their devices and on their own? By the way they're not allowed in the park

Downtown Teen Curfew Remains This Summer Despite Mayor Johnson Saying He's Not A Fanblockclubchicago.org Here’s what you need to know if your teens plan to visit Millennium Park or Maggie Daley Park on their own this summer.

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains

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lol omg. Libertarians love to cite this F. Douglass article, "The Folly, Tyranny, and Wickedness of Labor Unions," to say that he hated labor unions. E.g., Damon Root reviewing Nick Buccola's book in Reason. I saw elsewhere Walter Williams cite it. But Douglass didn't write it! THREAD w/ receipts.

Frederick Douglass, Classical Liberalreason.com A fresh look at the political evolution of a great American

As a kid, I refused to eat Kix after one spoonful, (after demanding my mom buy it) because it tasted bland compared to Coco Puffs. When I asked to try Grape Nuts, both my parents and grandparents told me I'd hate it, but liked it quite a bit, despite being made from cardboard and carpet remnants.

I’m still hung up on grape nuts at 3 those things are an abomination

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Over spring break I read @iandunt.bsky.social's How To Be A Liberal "for fun" but it was exciting enough that I joined my co-authors @aselrod.bsky.social and @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com for this review.

An Arrow Against All Illiberalswww.liberalcurrents.com Ian Dunt's How To Be a Liberal is a history of liberalism's conflicted nature and a call to arms for a dynamic, inclusive liberalism.

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I made y'all a Good Friday cake.

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"More homebuilding is inherently redistributive: by driving down rents, it effectively moves wealth from rentiers to renters." resnikoff.substack.com/p/the-case-a...

The Case Against The Case Against YIMBYismresnikoff.substack.com A response to Michael Friedrich's "The Case Against YIMBYism."

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Star Trek was always woke

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DIG through the fridges to MAKE some sandwiches theres HAM and what looks like arugula

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Looking forward to Oppenheimer II: Oppenheimerer

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Since people were asking about the context of the "Sir, this is a Wendy's" statement in front of the Supreme Court... here it is, and no, I don't understand it any better now as when I was listening to it.

Question for the experts: was this the first time "Sir, this is a wendy's" has been said during oral arguments at the Supreme Court?

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I think liberals can and should support trans rights and freedom for Palestinians. Indeed, they must do so. www.liberalcurrents.com/frankly-illi...

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Together with our failure to meaningfully reign in Israel’s actions in Gaza, the total effect is to weaken liberalism globally, right when it is under coordinated attack https://www.liberalcurrents.com/americas-failure-to-defend-liberalism-abroad/

America's Failure to Defend Liberalism Abroadwww.liberalcurrents.com The US has failed to deliver on its promise of a rules based international order.

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I helped a little bit with the making of UNION, a documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and it premiered on Sunday night at Sundance. three years of filming, hard to believe! cool write up about the premiere if you're curious

Amazon workers’ unionizing crusade gets Sundance spotlightwww.washingtonpost.com The new documentary “Union” goes inside the labor fight inside the behemoth’s Staten Island warehouse: “We are the N.W.A. of the organizing world”

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Kelly Latimore's stunning new icon, Christ in the Rubble:

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Oh man. This one really hurts.

Well, dammit. RIP to Andre Braugher, one of the greatest actors — and perhaps THE greatest talker — TV has ever seen.

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"The truth of it all, [Edwin Aponte, former editor at Compact] says, isn’t in this theory or that. “People go where people accept them, or are nice to them, and away from people who are mean to them.” obvious if you're staring directly at it, but it's easy not to. inthesetimes.com/article/form...

Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Rightinthesetimes.com What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?

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Whenever people talk about how things are worse made now I remember Merle Haggard in 1982 singing ‘I wish a Ford and a Chevy would still last 10 years, like they should’ and I shudder a how much sheet metal we wasted on truly terrible cars

"Perhaps in the solidarities formed in this moment between Jews, Palestinians, and their allies around the world who believe in the inherent dignity and value of all people, we may at last build the movement we need." A call for peace and restraint in difficult times.

The Case for a Ceasefire - Dissent Magazinewww.dissentmagazine.org It is beyond our power to bring back those innocents whose lives have already been lost, but we can work to prevent the calamity that will surely follow if Israel continues to retaliate as it has so f...

Breaking

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I have many friends working on MENA policy in this administration. They need to search themselves. Is this really the best they can do to prevent what they know is about to happen? These are smart, good people. Show it before it’s too late. abuaardvark.substack.com/p/fa-invadin...

FA: Invading Gaza Will Be A Disasterabuaardvark.substack.com Israel does have a choice about how to respond. The US should shape it.

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Since today is Avery Brooks' 75th birthday, I'm going to resurface this story of mine on how Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and his work as Capt. Sisko is gaining fresh appreciation and paved the way for modern Trek shows like Picard. loom.ly/SSqpcYU

‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Paved the Way for ‘Picard,’ and Shaped Our Era of Serialized St...loom.ly "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" led to "Picard" and changed TV in the process, helping usher in our era of serialized storytelling.

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How are these getting dumber? “Democrats protested Jan 6 but they’re fine with people going up to the McDonalds cashier and asking for a drink with light ice”

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A New Yorker Of Distinction in my neighborhood is a deeply tan, mustachioed man who puts a boombox on a card table next to the small dog run in the evenings and jams some tunes. The dogs seem to enjoy it. Today he had a handwritten sign reading "please do not approach the bench when I am DJ'ing."