Ok, after Day One of actively using Twitter, I’m sold.

Here are five great links I read today from Twitter that I wouldn’t have read otherwise (they wouldn’t have shown up, even in my Google Reader, which pulls from about 50 different blogs and news sources).

Study shows college professors are not as liberal as people think

Black Americans waited twice as long as white Americans to vote last November

Organizing workers outside traditional unions is needed, but the current models are unsustainable

Climate activists publicly wonder “What do we do when the Democrats suck?”

Talking about female candidates’ appearance, whether positive or negative, hurts their chances of winning

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