Janet D. StemwedelVerified account

@docfreeride

Philosopher, lapsed chemist, Forbes contributor. Previously: Scientific American, ScienceBlogs.

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined November 2008

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    This thread seems to have hit a nerve. Some answers to a few questions it provoked:

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    We only have until 1/28 -- 23 more days -- to make our voices heard!

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    The Title IX changes benefit harassers and hurt victims. telling it like it is in this thread 🔥🔥🔥

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    From the late 1960s, as the top rate of taxation on US personal incomes has steadily fallen, so has the growth-rate of the US economy as a whole. Meanwhile, workers' wages have been essentially frozen...

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    Taking my own field of data science as an example, some of the in-demand skills that I learned during my philosophy degree include logic, philosophy of science, causal inference and the ability to work with very abstract concepts. These are great for stats and programming too.

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    I wrote about a deeply personal issue that has been affecting my life for pretty much ever. This was incredibly difficult to write but it's very important that we start talking about it!

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    This is a good discussion of AOC's call for a top tax rate of 70-80%. Tl; dr: she's actually saying what top public finance economists have been saying for some time. Not at all outlandish. 1/

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    Curtis Cashour, a spokesman for Wilkie did not answer why the groups or speeches were omitted from his paperwork.

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    Confederate Veteran, the magazine of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, listed Wilkie as a "compatriot" in April/March 2010 – indicating he was still a member that year.

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    Wilkie was also required to list groups he had been a member of in the last 10 years. Wilkie did not list membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans or his chairmanship of the Confederate Memorial Committee.

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    Wilkie gave two speeches lauding Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy in 2009 and one praising Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy in 1995. None were listed in his section on public remarks.

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    🚨🚨 NEW: VA secretary Robert Wilkie did not list his membership in pro-Confederate groups or speeches to them on his confirmation paperwork despite submitting a sworn affidavit he disclosed all speeches, published works and group memberships.

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    FURTHER UPDATE: I called my insurance company to see if they could help. They transferred me back to the pharmacy without telling me who they were transferring me to. I hope Democrats win in 2021 and they pass a law burning this entire industry to the ground.

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    18 hours ago

    For the next three months my work is going to be up at the Tower building! I'm so excited and honored!

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    take a look around academia and see how many professors are married to women who they taught as undergraduate students

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    20 hours ago

    What does our 1st major bill, do? 1. Ban voter roll purging, increase voting rights 2. Expand automatic & online voter reg. + early voting 3. Give public matching funds for small-donors, reducing big $ influence 4. Mandatory independent redistricting to limit gerrymandering

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    This excerpt from 's "Thick" is so perfectly, casually brutal "..any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"

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    A general note for non-Native journalists: Just as US government officials (elected or appointed) don’t always represent the opinions/perspectives of the general public—it’s the same for Native nations.

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    It’s impt to talk to tribal government leaders, but they can’t stand in for “all X tribe thinks this.” In addition, Native tribes are independent sovereign nations, and are allowed to have differing opinions. The UK, Germany, and Italy are all “European” but have diff politics.

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