Whitney Blankenship, Ph.D

Got most of my college dorm stuff using green stamps. Sheets, bedspread, appliances. There were a lot of stamps involved!

This makes perfect sense!

Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0

Oh man, I hope not…

Like red/wine or the burgundy. The burgundy would probably show less dirt.

I’m full time CC now and this definitely rings true!

Basically anyone running in the south is going to mention faith/religion regardless of the strength of said faith. It’s just expected.

This! Increasingly my institution treats faculty work as a traditional 40 hour work week. I plan on being strictly 8-5 this year; no weekend/evening work if I can avoid it. 5 more years to retirement.

Whatever we end up with is going to be awful; but this particular proposed map is ridiculous.

Some are calling for a boycott of CBS. But I think that’s a mistake. Colbert will still be on air for almost a year, so if anything, we want to triple his views!

Instead of turning away, we should be asking how to amplify voices like his.

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Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters.

Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me.

Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!

Former ed professor here w/30 years in secondary classrooms.Yes, colleges of Ed have problems just like every other dept. But blaming them for all that is wrong in education oversimplifies the complex problems schools face.

We are a cat household. Every piece of furniture was chosen b/c it would hide cat hair. I also have all sorts of scratch covers on the places they like to claw; scratchers are always rejected in favor of furniture.

Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.

That’s what sinks are for! We are in high peach season in Tx. Soooo good.

This event is going to be so cool! And the idea, cooked up with @noraslonimsky.bsky.social, is to do this format again in 2026. We're excited about it! And super grateful to this awesome line-up of scholars.

This ignores the fact that Austin is more than 2 hours away from Kerr County AND that Austin was also dealing with flooding as we’re Round Rock, Leander, Liberty Hill and others.

He’s a total asshat.

True, but voter suppression is alive and well thanks to Paxton

True, but the voter suppression is alive and well.

True, but I think I would rather have them just take concerns seriously! I’m on the campus wide AI committee so I keep pushing.

The comm college I work for has drunk the koolade big time. We had an AI certificate in place within a year. And any drawbacks/concerns of faculty are deemed the rankings of Luddites.

Only a about 6 mil out of ~30 mil. Many don’t vote, some due to said voter suppression, some b/c they don’t care or don’t think their vote is worth it.

Gerrymandering and voter suppression will do that.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Cynthia Olivera is a Canadian who’s been living in the US since she was 10 She’s in ICE custody, after being grabbed at her green card interview. The 45 year old wife & mother has been moved between facilities while her husband begs ICE to let her get on a plane to Canada. 🧵 They’re willing to pay. She’s willing to leave. But she can’t escape. This is why we call them concentration camps. There’s no due process. Some people go in and never come out.

Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview.

Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.

Here's a link to a short 2000-word open-source article about historical thinking I co-wrote with Carla L. Peck, James Miles, and Catherine Duquette.

Historical thinking: Trends, critiques, and future directions
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You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.

After a decade of drought flash floods are common even with just a little bit of rain. Alert systems were not up to snuff b/c $$. Add in NWS cuts and this was disaster waiting to happen. Multiple layers of blame on all levels.