Sociologist and educator. You may have caught me on TV or radio or read my work. Views mine. Verified when Twitter was still Twitter.
Joined June 2012
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#Book looking for a good home: a signed 1st/1st of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer winner & a favorite. Also an influence on my forthcoming memoir. Signed in person in 2012 after his Pittsburgh lecture. Includes provenance archive materials. Link:
ebay.com/itm/278015633548
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We have the ability, right now this very minute, to end hunger, poverty, and homelessness, and to give everyone free healthcare and a free university level education. Let that sink in.
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If someone shows you evidence that a bridge is about to collapse, you don't attack the messenger. You fix the bridge.
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Don't just focus on the question; question the premise it's based on.
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Thomas Paine, writing in Common Sense in 1776: “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
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According to Time, Cole Thomas Allen is registered to vote with no party preference. time.com/article/2026/04/26/…
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I used to like @Zoom, until I got autobilled for a renewal today that I didn't want and they flatly refused to refund me the day of the renewal, knowing the month they billed me for wouldn't even be used. Not going back.
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People don't realize this but there's an extinction level event happening at US universities right now. My old department at Harvard cut the number of new PhD students by 75%, most of those were American trainees.
American science is falling off a cliff.
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Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
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Your gentle note that there is no evidence of any transgender perpetrators in the Epstein files, but there was one transgender victim.
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25 Dec 2025
Both Democrats and Republicans are susceptible to misinformation, confirmation bias, and conspiracy theories. Always vet what you see and hear on social media with multiple reliable sources. Go for triangulation.
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes retweeted
21 Dec 2025
Teach your children that not knowing is not failure. It's the first step to understanding.
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Beautiful, life-changing work this man has done and is doing. Thank you, @GarySinise 🙏
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Every year, actor Gary Sinise takes more than 1,700 family members of fallen soldiers to Disney World for free.
This is absolutely beautiful. ❤️
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20 Dec 2025
There is so much information floating around online. Some of it is solid, some not so much. Please be sure to vet content before you you share with reliable and reputable sources and include links for verification.
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12 Dec 2025
A lot of people tell lies and conspiracy theories and then tell others to prove them wrong. No. That's not the way this works. If you're going to claim something, show sufficient hard evidence from reliable sources that definitively proves you're right.
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What they're doing is hijacking others' time and resources, often just to go down a rabbit hole of one denial, lie, and conspiracy theory after another. Don't fall for it. You've got better things to do.
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