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Sally Field memorized the First Amendment as a child. The Oscar winner says she now understands "it like never before," stressing that "this fragile thing called democracy needs to be protected."

What's a video that defines Peak Woke?

Who was the ace of your favorite team when you first started watching baseball?

Tom Steyer: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them off from team sport. It’s like, no we’re not”

The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns

BY ANY MEANS!!!

The living memory of the Holocaust is fading away and with it the moral authority of the Jews. Thus we see efforts to recast the Jew as the new (but also the original) Nazi. (You see, Hitler knew, and was trying to prevent Gaza.) The living memory of the civil rights movement is also fading. The Supreme Court found that affirmative action violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment in 2023. Donald Trump rescinded the executive order that created affirmative action in 2024. The Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the VRA responsible for the maintainence in power of a large contingent of the Congressional Black Caucus. And thus we see right-wing influencers attacking the sacred martyr of the movement, Martin Luther King, in ways that would have been unthinkable in prior decades. For good or ill, we can now see about the present what we had no trouble seeing about the past now that we stand at end of what seemed like a permanent regime of consensus reality and in a state of conflict in advance of the consolidation of a new one: it is constructed out of a consensus imposed by authoritative institutions of acculturation and socialization. The 1619 Project was an opening salvo in this struggle.