Cole Stratton
@ntstratton
reader, writer, thinker, student, teacher. media, technology, history, economics, culture, ecology, philosophy, peace, justice.
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Moves in Florida to control public education mirror past fascist strategies in ways that are disquieting for American democracy, a historian argues | Analysis trib.al/VgW1Gk8
Police killed more people in 2022 than any other year in the past decade. 1,186 people were killed by police in 2022. Black people were 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people, and 1.3x more likely to be unarmed. mappingpoliceviolence.us
Food security and climate change: a critical warning for humanity- Thread synthesizing peer-reviewed research, current news, market intelligence analysis & more. #CodeRed #ActNow #ClimateCrisis #foodblogger #foodsecurity #news 1/x
U.S. prison employees have abused female inmates in at least 19 of the 29 federal facilities that have held women over the past decade, a Senate investigation has found. nyti.ms/3VPt4Lk
I wrote about Brittney Griner’s wrenching prison conditions. Trigger warning. But so important also that we not look away. thenation.com/article/societ…
The recent work linking historical redlining to internet speed/price options is so disturbing. As I’ve said before, segregation is a technology that allows you to do something by race efficiently via geography (in this case, offer inferior service). American racism is undefeated.
The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/
The US military launched at least 251 foreign interventions from 1991 to 2022. This is according to a report from the US government's own Congressional Research Service. I went through the data and created a map showing just how vast the meddling is: multipolarista.com/2022/09/13/us-…
🧵 Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market before and after government-funded “urban renewal.” The Maxwell Street Market was the largest open-air market in the US, covering over nine square blocks in the primarily Black, Latino, and immigrant neighborhood of the Near West Side.
"Here is a quick fact: Black mortgage applicants in Mississippi earning more than $150,000 a year are denied at higher rates than white applicants earning $30,000 to $50,000." blackenterprise.com/black-owned-sm…
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Black-Owned Small Businesses in the Deep South are the Backbone of the Region. It’s Time They Had...
A Black entrepreneur and Top Chef contestant from the Deep South shows what’s possible when banks invest in people who look like him.
It's shameful how we remove some kids from homes & put them into the foster care system b/c their parents can't afford to provide for them, but then pay strangers to provide for those kids instead of supporting the parents. Punishing those struggling with poverty makes no sense.
$15 minimum wage is an outdated demand. $30 is a living wage.
There is no ‘teacher shortage’. There are thousands of qualified experiences teachers who are no longer teaching. There’s a shortage of respect and proper compensation for teachers allowing them to actually teach.
When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.
I spent a decade working in counterterrorism. The rhetoric we are seeing from leaders of my party — the Republican Party — is *directly* fueling violence and a spike in domestic terrorism. This is not a partisan observation. This is a public safety warning.
To ask teachers to be on the front line of mass shootings, the front line of a pandemic, and the front line of the struggle against inequality all while underpaying them and systematically underfunding the education system is both cruel and a recipe for societal collapse.
One of my favourite things I ever learned is that women did not start dying in childbirth in high numbers until the 17th century, when male doctors took over from midwives. Midwives prioritised the life of the mother over the child all through the Medieval period 1/
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