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When my parents got married, their marriage was illegal in seven states. That’s how recent this shift is: my (still living) parents could not visit some states for the first four years of their marriage.
In the 1950s, polling on interracial marriage was at 4% approval in the United States. Loving v. Virginia is 1967. We hit an above 50% approval rating for the first time in the 1990s. In 2021, 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.
I say this for everyone who thinks that we just have to go along with what the public things: we don’t. The public can change their minds. They have in the past.
We can just do the right thing and then not end up looking like a horrific bigot in a handful of years.
We can just do the right thing and then not end up looking like a horrific bigot in a handful of years.
May 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When my parents got married, their marriage was illegal in seven states. That’s how recent this shift is: my (still living) parents could not visit some states for the first four years of their marriage.
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100 days of Trump 2.0 and what do we have? Mass deportations, pardons for insurrectionists, federal purges, economic whiplash, and tariffs choking families.
This ain’t leadership—it’s vengeance in a suit. He’s not rebuilding America, he’s gutting it.
This ain’t leadership—it’s vengeance in a suit. He’s not rebuilding America, he’s gutting it.
April 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
100 days of Trump 2.0 and what do we have? Mass deportations, pardons for insurrectionists, federal purges, economic whiplash, and tariffs choking families.
This ain’t leadership—it’s vengeance in a suit. He’s not rebuilding America, he’s gutting it.
This ain’t leadership—it’s vengeance in a suit. He’s not rebuilding America, he’s gutting it.
The FOMO I have is unreal⌚️
“The thought of a Clockless life is like losing a favorite mechanical watch from our wrist, or like losing track of time itself.” Adam Gopnik writes about Christian Marclay’s addictive film masterpiece, “The Clock,” which is soon ending its run at MOMA.
For Watchers of “The Clock,” Time Is Running Out
Christian Marclay’s addictive masterpiece, soon ending its run at moma, offers an escape from our time into time itself.
www.newyorker.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The FOMO I have is unreal⌚️
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#Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease, but it has a cure! However, because of cost, treatment length, and availability of testing, not everyone can complete treatment. www.who.int/news-roo...
April 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
#Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease, but it has a cure! However, because of cost, treatment length, and availability of testing, not everyone can complete treatment. www.who.int/news-roo...
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Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
April 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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Nothing in politics is permanent, nor inevitable. “We spent centuries, as a society, building up democratic muscle, and we still have a lot of that muscle left,” the political scientist Steven Levitsky said. “I just keep waiting for someone to use it.”
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
www.newyorker.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Nothing in politics is permanent, nor inevitable. “We spent centuries, as a society, building up democratic muscle, and we still have a lot of that muscle left,” the political scientist Steven Levitsky said. “I just keep waiting for someone to use it.”
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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
April 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
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"The wealth drained from the South to the North “would be enough to provide infrastructure and supplies to provision decent living standards for the entire population of the global South”.
Speech at Fudan University in China. progressive.international/wire/2025-04...
Speech at Fudan University in China. progressive.international/wire/2025-04...
"China, unequal exchange, and the present world-historic juncture."
Professor Jason Hickel's speech to the Fudan University forum on "Socialist Perspectives on Global Governance in a Multipolar World."
progressive.international
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"The wealth drained from the South to the North “would be enough to provide infrastructure and supplies to provision decent living standards for the entire population of the global South”.
Speech at Fudan University in China. progressive.international/wire/2025-04...
Speech at Fudan University in China. progressive.international/wire/2025-04...