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Amber Williams

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Assistant Professor at the University of Washington | studying racial attitude development | pop culture enthusiast | Rice 🦉and UMich 〽️ Alum | she/her/hers

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Let’s take care of each other today.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/12/2025
We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities. Here's how to reach out:
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Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases
Have you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, par...
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
There's also this assumption that once POC have attained some elite credential, then a world of resources and privileges suddenly becomes easily accessible. But that's far from true. Racial discrimination persists! academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...

Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market

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Racial inequality in economic outcomes, particularly among the college educated, persists throughout US society. Scholars debate whether this inequality stems from racial differences in human capital (e.g., college selectivity, GPA, college major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor-market outcomes a difficult endeavor. In this research, I examine employment opportunities for white and black graduates of elite top-ranked universities versus high-ranked but less selective institutions. Using an audit design, I create matched candidate pairs and apply for 1,008 jobs on a national job-search website. I also exploit existing birth-record data in selecting names to control for differences across social class within racialized names. The results show that although a credential from an elite university results in more employer responses for all candidates, black candidates from elite universities only do as well as white candidates from less selective universities. Moreover, race results in a double penalty: When employers respond to black candidates, it is for jobs with lower starting salaries and lower prestige than those of white peers. These racial differences suggest that a bachelor's degree, even one from an elite institution, cannot fully counteract the importance of race in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:
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Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Exclusive: Hegseth ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water in a mission led by SEAL Team 6. Ordering no quarter could legally perilous www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Federal judges block Texas from using redrawn congressional maps that would boost the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 18/11/2025
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction. The enablers have to feel it. weaintbuyingit.com
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We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14/11/2025
Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Trump's super-power is that he simply refuses to acknowledge political wounds that would instantly kill anyone with a modicum of shame. Which has worked well enough for him that many people have fooled themselves into believing he isn't wounded at all. But he is! He always has been!
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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Eric J. White @ericjwhite.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Using CRISPR gene-editing to permanently reduce cholesterol and triglycerides holds tremendous promise. It almost sounds like science fiction. Go science! www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...
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CRISPR gene-editing works to reduce high cholesterol in a new study
An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for heart disease.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It just keeps getting worse www.latimes.com/california/s...
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U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
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Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I'm really proud of this paper I wrote with my grad student proposing that children's racial biases are driven in part by racial differences in social status. Part of making the world a better place for children of color is ending racial inequity.
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The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood
Racial bias emerges early in a fairly consistent manner in the U.S. and in other societies in which group-based inequality is prevalent. Specifically, White children often show in-group preferences w....
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 11/10/2025
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
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KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2025
I have finished Andor 🥲🥲🥲 Easily the best series of Star Wars, and some of the best just tv in general
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Jeong Park @jeongpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Today was a sad day in Seattle journalism. As someone who read and followed Cascade PBS's work every day (for my job), they produced unique and compelling work week in and week out. This will be a big loss...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah
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Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I signed up for a gym and the contract said that they had the rights to my image “in perpetuity throughout the universe in any medium or format whatsoever now existing or hereafter created on any platform and for any purpose.” I was told that this was a standard contract 😳
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/08/2025
"If Trump had demanded that these schools agree that 1+1=3 in order to have their funding restored, you can be sure that the schools would have done so, while adding a sub-clause noting that they have only the highest respect for the concept of mathematical truth."
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Negotiating With Terrorists, Unsuccessfully
How to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23/07/2025
"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/07/2025
PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
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Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Wow - may he rest in peace ❤️
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Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The em dash is my favorite and now I’m self conscious about using it because apparently it’s an indicator that you used chatGPT 😭
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/07/2025
I really like how the Supreme Court is just letting Trump dismantle the Department of Education but wouldn't let Biden forgive student debt. Funny how that works.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
this came out yesterday. Times says: "We found that at key stages in the war, Netanyahu’s decisions extended the fighting in Gaza longer than even Israel’s senior military leadership deemed necessary."
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Amber Williams @amberdw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Happy Caturday 🥰
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If you read one thing today, please read this: It's about neglect, tragedy, collective memory, dignity and grief. It also includes the story of how my friend Charles worked to secure the burial of a fellow veteran he'd never met.
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There are few memorials for Chicagoans who died from heat in 1995. But there are remnants.
The closest thing we have to a memorial for people who died from the heat is not even in Chicago. It’s the headstone of the mass grave in Homewood.
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
There is a moment in SINNERS I think about a lot. A character tells a horrible true story, and the weight of it is crushing, because not only did that thing really happen but it could happen, again and again and again. And then he laughs and starts to sing. He smiles and laughs and sings.
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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I feel like I could be more productive if Harris were president b/c I wouldn’t constantly have to worry about America being dismantled and sold for parts
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Brian Shea @brianpshea.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Policies are one thing, but the most discouraging part of this current moment in the United States is the complete lack of empathy and humanity. I cannot fathom treating any human being the way they are openly cheering the dehumanizing mistreatment of the most vulnerable people in our population.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Congress has passed Trump’s “big, beautiful” nightmare bill, leaving the safety net in shreds to fund tax cuts for the rich
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House Passes Trump's Big Bill Cutting Taxes For Wealthy, Axing Health Care For Millions
Despite all the bad things Republican lawmakers said about the “big, beautiful bill,” the holdouts caved and delivered for Donald Trump.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I think most people severely underestimated how much fascism and kleptocracy would triumph through the surrender and default of forces that should have opposed it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/07/2025
Breaking news: The Senate narrowly approved President Trump's massive tax and immigration bill, extending tax cuts for wealthy Americans and cutting nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, SNAP and other programs. wapo.st/4esoFbg
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Senate passes Trump’s tax bill, sending it to House for final passage
The legislation extends trillions of dollars in tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implements new campaign promises, while spending billions on immigration.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/07/2025
USAID is shutting its doors today--marking the end of democracy, diplomacy, and decency all in one fell swoop.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?
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