@cjtrone
I like to ride my bicycle 🚴♀️I also work on student loan debt issues in Wisconsin and college access/affordability nationwide. Executive Director at debtsmarts.org and fairopportunityproject.org. #studentdebt #collegeaccess
Higher earnings, career advancement, and a curiosity for learning all drive interest in graduate education, but high costs and student debt undermine the perceived value of graduate degrees. Our report examines the ROI of graduate education: bit.ly/3NaFnzn
#HigherEducation #AcademicSky
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The Onion. Probably Wisconsin’s finest product. Besides fried cheese curds.
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
A son of sharecroppers, a Freedom Rider, a moral force in Congress, John Lewis taught us that democracy is not a state, it is an act. When we see injustice, we do not look away. We get in good trouble. And we build bridges despite adversity. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Congressman.
Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
My daughter teaches immigrant high schoolers in Minneapolis and this is a fraught time. Please help if you can.
The NYT has numbers on the cuts at the Dept of Education.
Almost 800 people have been cut at Federal Student Aid. That's a lot larger than I expected. And IES has been gutted.
Just listened. Thank you for such timely and detailed reporting.
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
A woman in a red shirt struggles with a tool. Another woman is kneeling. There's an upside-down bike between them. They're in a living room.
Mary (Mary Tyler Moore) does a little bike repair with roommate Rhoda (Valerie Harper, kneeling) in an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Mary!
#BornOnThisDay December 29 (1936-2017)
“Paper Trails is designed to help users discover new research and ideas, though it’s not powered by an AI algorithm. It’s a crowd-sourced platform where users can post links to papers from any field, peruse summaries of those papers, create shelves and comment, review or rate papers.”
"Mr. Trump's countenance was orange, his manner coarse, accent harsh, and wig ginger. No one could ascertain his income, as the number kept changing at his own report."
“I’ve never felt this way before,” she said, her cheeks flushed and her eyes wet with tears. “I told you not to eat so much Culver’s before we went sledding,” he replied.
Jane Addams and Hull House were a lifesaver for my scrappy Irish-American grandmother and great aunt.
Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.
#peaceprize
#tacos
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
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A lot has happened this year. If you'd like a recap of what's happened to education research and statistics, here's my attempt. This might be a good one to listen to on your commute today. (Audio play button below headline. 16 minutes long.) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
“Expanded AP availability has no effect on college enrollment or graduation for most students.”
Nature made everything prettier yesterday.
Such a popular play in the playbook. Academic cuts, terrible season at Wisconsin and they double down on extending the coach’s millions. Win or lose, he gets richer.
Happy Chompsgiving!
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
This article’s title made me laugh out loud. “You could just have friends” is probably the better solution to most modern problems.
I teamed up with @janineannett.bsky.social for this perimenopause or Thanksgiving quiz up @mcsweeneys.net
Turns out there is a surprising amount of overlap.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...
