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Carina Curto
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Professor of applied math and brain science at Brown University.
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Chappell Roan won best new artist at the Grammys, cementing her rocket-ship ascent as one of pop’s biggest rising stars. She was nominated for six awards, including the “big four” all-genre categories. nyti.ms/4hIDyXE
February 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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"When you are selecting not only for loyalty, but defining that loyalty to mean affirming morally odious values and factually absurd premises, you are reducing your hiring pool to the shallowest part," Jonathan Chait writes:
Trump’s War on Meritocracy
The president who blames every problem on DEI is staffing the government with underqualified loyalists.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Birthright citizenship is “as close to a national self-definition as we have; it is our legal DNA,” David W. Blight writes. “One cannot overstate the gravity of Trump’s proposed action, nor the historical ignorance on which it stands.”
Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee
The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
January 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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“Kamala,” by @kadirnelson.bsky.social, would have been the cover of the November 18, 2024, issue of The New Yorker, had Kamala Harris had won the election. Read about the cover that never was: nyer.cm/0syMCVN
January 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
non-vegetarian vegetable soup
January 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Totally agree with this:

"A 2015 report on the integration of immigrants by the National Academy of Sciences found that “birthright citizenship is one of the most powerful mechanisms of formal political and civic inclusion in the United States.”"

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
Birthright Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment Defined America. Will Trump End It?
The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born equal under the law. That might be about to change.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM