Dec. 6, 1925: The New York Daily News runs a "person on the street" feature sampling the opinion of Harlem's Black population about the Rhinelander divorce of a rich white husband and biracial wife. Among those quoted are 34-year-old Zora Neale Hurston, later a famous writer. 1/2

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

He's been showing who he is for 50+ years.

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

Wunmi Mosaku has long been one of the most quietly powerful performers working today, but with her commanding turn in Sinners, she steps into the spotlight as a clear and compelling contender for Best Supporting Actress.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

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A fifth college now - Eastern Oklahoma State receives $16 million. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

Rick goes thru the potential specifics of the deal which are byzantine and designed to avoid paying taxes and we should also be talking about how bad these deals are for us as a citizenry when corps do massive deals that allow them to enrich a handful of already rich people at the cost to **us**

A bit more than >50% of the number of Japanese Americans interned during WWII.

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

here's my life advice: If there's a mildly politically aware teen in your life, gift them an onion subscription. Every once in awhile I hear quips from the teenager who I've gifted an onion subscription and it's the best thing.

Now more than ever, etc. Thrilled and proud to unveil, with the great @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social, our lists of the best films of 2025: www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The most important theorist to American conceptions of "freedom of speech" is John Stuart Mill, who spent decades as a colonial administrator and leader in India & did not believe that his ideas about liberty applied to colonial subjects and this seems relevant to how universal his ideas truly were

Extremely informative thread on the operational chains of command for the Caribbean boat bombings, and the potential turf battles that may have contributed to Adm. Holsey's departure as SouthCom commander. The "-terrorist" part of narco-terrorist is load-bearing in many ways.

A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"

Trump wants to prevent people who worked in fact-checking or combating misinformation from entering this country. That should tell you everything you know about his relationship to the truth. www.theverge.com/news/838489/...

Ken Burns really did kill “Hamilton” with this documentary, once and for all

my favorite list boxd.it/55x7g

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, prolific actor known for his roles in “Mortal Kombat,” “Last Emperor” and “Man In The High Castle,” has died at 75

Today I will try to raise some funds for places and initiatives I support and that need continual support. It was my birthday on Tuesday but I was traveling all day. I’ll add to the list throughout the day.

Please support and share. A thread of initiatives to support.

Steve Jobs himself would not give his kids unlimited computer access. The number of peeps in Silicon Valley who would pay extra to sign their kids up for this would blow people’s minds. So may of my friends in tech are seriously critical of AI and want their kids to think for themselves.

NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students: At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same

Ozturk read a prepared statement outside the courthouse

Hi from Rümeysa Öztürk's hearing before Chief Judge Casper in federal court. This is solely scoped to whether her SEVIS record should be restored, i.e. whether she can work and be a student.

My weekly email to my congressman.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

This is a cool project that NYPL is offering: Teen Photography Kits - www.nypl.org/education/te...

Foucault discusses this in Archaeology of knowledge The need for the contextualization of smaller and smaller categories to layer a deeper understanding of meaning . And how manipulating that our of context was an epistemological danger wielded for control

discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either

So 70s era LA smog was a good thing? www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Seminole State College - a public community college - has received an unrestricted $17 million gift from MacKenzie Scott. It his her fourth multi-million dollar donation to an Oklahoma college in the last two weeks. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

I don't think they can say that which is why they don't. Some of them don't have a problem with what he is saying. The entire caucus should have been up in arms on their COLLEAGUE Ilhan Omar's behalf. They haven't been.

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

"African workers training billion-dollar models make less money per hour than it costs to buy a bottle of water in some cities. In Kenya, Sama, an OpenAI contractor, pays $1.32 to $2 an hour. In Nigeria, local annotation shops pay between $1 and $3 per hour.

"Outsourcing firms don’t say it directly, but the business logic is simple: Africa provides skilled digital labour at the lowest price the global market can legally get away with. On the ground, though, this “digital work” is much closer to a sweatshop." techsafari.beehiiv.com/p/robbing-pe...

Economist is trying to get at “salience” of costs — housing and child care for example. Yes. That’s why a COLA doesn’t exactly make people feel better. I also want to say it’s the friction involved in accessing it. It’s SO HARD to buy things we need, full stop.

I really appreciate them taking anxiety and fear seriously. As we know, I thought people failed with the during the last election. The messaging that “incomes are high and markets are strong” really shat on people’s experience of friction.

You have to think of housing and child care IN TANDEM and I feel strongly about that.

Jenn killing this convo on affordability on 1A