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How Tech Can Help or Hinder People With Disabilities rolst.cc/3vXTNgA Written by @nickcharles61 of Nick Charles

As I was preparing my remarks for tonight’s national vigil for victims of gun violence I got several texts about the latest shooting, this time in Las Vegas. I look forward to the day I can write a speech about gun violence as history and not a headline.

I am an Israeli Jew. This is probably the worst week of my life. And yet today of all days it bears repeating: the only way to end this cycle is by working for freedom and dignity for all. For all. On all sides, our blood is the same color and our tears taste the same.

@MarkJacob16 @mame6432 I don’t know why people believe Kristen Welker is going to be any better or different from Chuck Todd. She was a big pusher of #butheremails and, in addition to Dana Bash, was one of the reporters dined by Team Trump at a steakhouse in Milwaukee. She’s a MAGA.

🧵:Check out our panel discussion titled “All in: Building an Inclusive Digital Ecosystem” that TF hosted last week. As diversity, inclusion, and accessibility continue to be vital, our panel moderated by @nickcharles61 discussed ways to improve equity in technology.

Fifty years today, hell was unleashed on the working people of Chile. Nixon and Kissinger couldn’t abide a democratically elected socialist president so Chile’s peaceful road met with a brutal response. Chilean author Ariel Dorfman is your read of the day. thenation.com/article/world/…

My favorite story of the Women’s World Cup is these women succeeding in spite of the lack of resources they have. Their country needs to get behind them financially. The success of women in sports is often undermined by lack of investment.

So, the federal government can’t communicate to social media companies because that somehow violates the free speech clause of the Fist Amendment, but the government in Florida can actually fire teachers if they mention the word “gay” and that’s cool with the First Amendment?

For your consideration on the 4th blackpast.org/african-americ…

4 on 4 Tournament Champions! Junior Division *Eamon Nordsvan *Elan Charles *SeanNordsvan *Aric Little *Pearson Stevenson

Affirmative action doesn’t use racial quotas. It most certainly doesn’t help only black and brown folks. It isn’t keeping Asian applicants out of colleges. Most universities don’t even use it. More in this explainer from @TeresaWatanabe and @howardblume. latimes.com/california/sto…

"There is a boldness to black pregnancy, an insolence to it. it disrespects the order of things. The frank audacity—to publicly parade the intention to continue to exist within a nation that has monetized your disappearance—is itself [an] act of defiance." bit.ly/46uWtAm

This is a basic misunderstanding of what journalism is. It is absolutely our job to discern what is accurate and what is not. It’s like saying a plumber’s job isn’t to find water leaks.

Journo students — you could spend an hour trawling the internet for story ideas. Or you could spend that same hour talking with a community member and leave with 5+ banger story ideas that no one else has and a new source for life. Try it. Trust me.

This is a huge victory for voting rights and democracy. Every voter in our country deserves to have their voice heard without being discriminated against because of the color of their skin. trib.al/1W9wui9

I think we have to be willing to risk falling apart for the things we love sometimes and Gael Monfils really fucking loves tennis.

Dear media reporters: please don’t do with Tucker stories today what a lot of political reporters did with Trump stories in the past. Don’t call his statements ‘provocative’ etc. Call them racist. Call them bigoted. Call them what they *actually* were. Don’t sanitize them please.

7 years ago I wrote this piece with a broken heart. The Prince and the Black Girl by Lisa B. Thompson newblackmaninexile.net/2016/04/the-pr…

"When you arrest a woman…you got her, her three kids, her grandma, an aunt — everybody’s incarcerated when a woman goes to prison. So, the impact is huge, and we never seem to talk about that." wordinblack.com/2023/04/black-…