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#BreonnaTaylor #SayHerName Today is another injustice. We see it. We know it. We reject injustice and stand for our sister.

@MerriamWebster So cross your t’s and check your tittles

Here are some words for things you didn’t know had names ⬇️ philtrum | the vertical groove on the median line of the upper lip ferrule | the protective point or knob on the far end of an umbrella tittle | the dot over i or j

@MaryGElliott @DrugGovoruna @SketchesbyBoze Same

@DrugGovoruna @SketchesbyBoze I always want pulchritude to mean stinkiness most foul.

How many of these standard SAT vocabulary words do you know? Abnegation Anathema Antediluvian Apocryphal Bourgeois Capricious Circumlocution Deleterious Effulgent Impecunious Legerdemain Malediction Ostensible Pellucid Pulchritude Surreptitious Timorous Vociferous Zephyr

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’” Superb read: themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/ten…

Although not a mass shooting, on this date (Apr 19) in 1995, a white supremacist and gun rights zealot bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 167 people (including 19 children) and injuring at least 592 others: 💔😡💔 #DisarmHate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_…

@FmmDoom @loverbello101 @MxniMxy The fact that the OG said NOTHING about black men yet you made it about that is the whole point. We talk in about what is happening to BLACK WOMEN period.

@loverbello101 @MxniMxy

Dr. Cerina Fairfax Pastor Tammy McCollum Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Ashly Robinson (aka Ashlee Jenae) Qualeshia “Saditty” Barnes Davonta Curtis Barbara Deer Ashanti Allen In two just weeks 😭💔🕯️🕊️ #BlackFemicide

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

STILL DANCING #DukeDUB

Win wall’s ELITE

I ❤️ NY

Fascinating paper just published in Science. The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more. Their central finding challenges a common belief. Intensive, single-discipline training at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time. By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top. An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence. Link to the paper in the first reply.

My goal as a journalist is to report carefully on the best, most practical social policy ideas that can change the world, and this is easily the most exciting one I’ve had the opportunity to cover this year. I hope you'll read it 🧵↓

Between dust and life at summer’s end themarginalian.org @brainpickings

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Just got the finished copy of FOR THE SUN AFTER LONG NIGHTS — our book on #Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. It's so surreal to see it in its finished form after yearly 3 years of work. Pre-order here and I hope to see you at one of our book events: bookshop.org/p/books/for-th…

@StatisticUrban @morme1 Which is to say “poverty” is not the natural state. 👀👀🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

@morme1 Many of the native tribes on the west coast did indeed get lucky. The first white people there wrote that "in all the world the like abundance is not to be found"

Poverty is the natural state of man. Hunter-gatherers lived in dire, brutal conditions under constant threat of death from forces they could not predict, understand, or control. Prosperity is a bizarre historical anomaly that had to be wrestled from nature tooth and nail.

@agranato42 Love this! Where can we read a paper?

I am on the legal academic job market! My job talk paper is on how courts in tax, corporate, and bankruptcy law spheres value business interests systematically differently, such that the same asset is "worth" different amounts of money depending on the substantive underlying law.

@MerriamWebster 😂😂😂😂

'Nonplussed’ means “perplexed,” but since the mid-20th century, ‘nonplussed’ has increasingly been used to mean “unimpressed” or “unsurprised.” This use, though often considered an error, has made the confident deployment of this word a fraught issue for many.

@RobynDMarley_ Before Jack and Jill 1 and all the like - was using a paper bag it was “how many generations removed from slavery” and be sure 1 did not qualify 😣the talented 10th has a highly problematic backstory indeed

I wished we had more black viewers for #TheGildedAge because this season they’re tapping into classism and colorism in the black community and I want to engage in healthy discourse. I didn’t realize emancipated slaves were looked down on by those who were born free like wow…

@ChefSuziGerber Salt and sugar on a sandwich? Nova yuck 🤢

What’s healthier: Option 1: a UPF, which is a big green salad with chopped veggies, and 2 TBS of dressing with < .01gram of some flavor & color to increase vegetable intake. (NOVA 4 mixed food) Option 2: Whitebread, with salt, sugar, bacon and cheese. (NOVA 3 mixed food)