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Everyone Needs To Take More Map Quizzes
10+ hour, 47+ min ago (331+ words) Welcome back to Saturday Night Social. It was recently brought to my attention that, among many millennials and Gen-Z’ers, there are a concerning number of individuals that don’t know—and have never known!—that Montenegro is a country. The cartographic slight…...
Texas Has a New Required Reading Assignment: The Bible
3+ week, 2+ day ago (301+ words) After years of treating school libraries like hazardous waste zones and banning books at a record pace, Texas has finally found a text it deems safe for the youth: the Holy Bible. To be clear, the Bible isn’t just making…...
Is Your Workplace Uptight Enough to Fire You over a Fetty Wap Quote?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (803+ words) jezebel.com Is Your Workplace Uptight Enough to Fire You over a Fetty Wap Quote? A school called it "inappropriate conduct" for a principal to be associated with a reference to Fetty Wap in the school yearbook. Call it a…...
Congratulations to UCF Grads for Booing Their AI-Obsessed Commencement Speaker
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (250+ words) Congratulations are in order for the graduating class of the University of Central Florida, for (a) graduating from college and (b) booing their commencement speaker every time she praised AI. Caps off! “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor…...
The Jobs Data Is Good, Bad and Trending Towards Recession. Got It? Me Neither
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (403+ words) How some things work never changes, but how job data works is clearly changing, and this is where the dreaded r-word rears its ugly head. But I’m not going to say it for fear of branding myself a Dalio doomer…...
Epstein Resignations Rock the Academic World, Including Harvard Director and Nobel Laureate
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (563+ words) “I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused,” Summers said to POLITICO in the fall, while “stepping back” from public life. “I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr....
The Time I Learned Greek Scholars Are Canonically Hotter Than Roman Scholars
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (244+ words) Hello, and welcome back to Saturday Night Social. It’s been a minute, but we’re reinstating our weekend post for random ruminations, absurd thoughts, and well-intentioned rage. To kick us off, I’m sharing a theory that I think about every time…...
Seems Bad! Texas Is Targeting School Districts Where Students Protested Against ICE
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (234+ words) “I will not allow Texas schools to become breeding grounds for the radical Left’s open borders agenda,” the AG said in a press release. “Let this serve as a warning to any public school official or employee who unlawfully facilitates…...
Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' After Flunking Psychology Paper in Which She Only Cites the Bible
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (632+ words) Jezebel remains as committed as ever to fostering a space dedicated to championing diverse voices and standard-setting journalism that challenges and exposes the powers that be. My entire life, I have hated math. Iâve never once needed to calculate…...
Congratulations to the High School Graduate!
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (230+ words) Congratulations are in order for Jeremy Allen White, who has finally received his high school diploma at the big age of 34. You probably know him from The Bear, or Shameless, or maybe from those Calvin Klein billboards, but the actor…...