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Vika Zafrin retweeted
“Zora Neale Hurston said that Black folk have an urge to adorn,” @ProfHolloway says. “The more adornment we can give to the ceremony, the more memorable it is.”
A Homegoing to Remember
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Vika Zafrin retweeted
Extreme House Republicans are marching us toward a government shutdown.
They can’t even get an agreement among themselves.
The solution is simple: Stop playing political games with peoples’ lives.
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NYPD officers have made over *1 million* traffic stops since Mayor Adams took office.
Black drivers were ~9x more likely to get searched than white divers. gothamist.com/news/nypd-has-…
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Sylvia Poggioli’s sign-off has been right up there with Ofeibea Quist-Arcton in ‘Dakah’ and Terry Gross’s welcome to “FreshAIR.” The voices of @NPR
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For nine years, My Brother's Keeper Alliance has been helping address opportunity gaps boys and young men of color face in America. We caught up with Chris Crater, a senior associate with @MBK_Alliance, to reflect on #MBK's anniversary:
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The fear was that as Moscow got desperate it could target Moldova: Russian officials “are very embarrassed about the entire Ukraine operation & need a success somewhere,” Oleg Serebrian, Moldova’s deputy PM, said. “My personal fear is that Moldova is an easier target than Ukraine
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This is insane.
Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its Covid vaccine.
It only costs $2.85 to make.
Taxpayers paid 100% of Moderna’s Covid vaccine development.
We paid $2,500,000,000.
This is the people’s vaccine. Shame @Moderna_tx into changing course.
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"I draw doves, they paint over them," Vladimir Ovchinnikov said.
One Russian artist's quixotic fight against Putin's war machine, by @VALERIEinNYT. nytimes.com/2022/12/14/world…
Vika Zafrin retweeted
Today is World Diabetes day, November 14, the birthday of Sr Frederick Banting who discovered therapeutic insulin. He sold his patent to the University of Toronto for $1,believing it was unethical to profit from the life saving discovery.
Price gouging exists today in the US.
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TikTok just suspended this video because of mass reporting claiming I violated the community guidelines. Seriously?! Man, they don’t want this point out there.
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“While some Republican members who opposed the law have already been criticized for praising projects made possible by it, these letters went a step further, going out of their way to argue for even more spending back home.”
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As Russia's military commissariats begin rounding up reservists for the front, we're seeing fairly clear -- if inevitably anecdotal -- evidence that the call-up is falling hardest on the communities already hardest hit by the war, particularly ethnic minorities.
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Ukraine is winning with the help of Western weapons and money, not because of them.
Ukraine is winning because it knows what it's fighting for. Russians don't.
Ukrainians fight for their homeland, their freedom, their right to live in their own country and rule it as they see fit