"Tutitive Dare & Tactical Drive To Forge Ahead"
For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court turned away an opportunity to make life much worse for trans youth. By Ian Millhiser Trans rights protesters outside of the Supreme Court building in 2019. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Read More…
The fashion industry has created a sprawling informal disposal network across the world—that brings with it money, conflict, and environmental destruction. This story originally appeared on Grist and was copublished with El País. It’s reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program Read More…
A majority of the Massachusetts congressional delegation is pushing President Biden to remove Cuba from a list of governments that sponsor terrorism, a designation issued in the waning days of the Trump administration. In a December letter not previously made public, the members panned Trump’s inclusion of Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list Read More…
By Patrick Wall For Black students like Yanie, center, discussing their mental health and trauma in their lives can be especially difficult. A peer-mentoring program piloted last year by the East Orange, New Jersey school district — which Yanie participated in — aims to support students like her. (Sarah Blesener for Chalkbea When a friend Read More…
– Over the last thirty years, the efforts of parents, educators, and state leaders have laid the foundation for a pluralistic sea change in how we think about the education options available to families in the U.S. But over the last four, things went from incremental to warp speed. In 2023, 20 states added or Read More…
Post by Emily Palmer Husband: My wife is missing. She went to rescue people from the flood yesterday and did not come home … Police Station Sergeant: what is her height Husband: I’m not sure. More than five feet tall. Sergeant: Weight? Husband: Do not know. Not thin, not really that heavy. Sergeant: Eye color? Read More…
Post by Coleen E. Rodgers Sat A young couple moved into a new house. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside. “That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better soap powder. Her husband looked on, Read More…
Originally Answered: My teenager wants only an Apple phone, we tried to explain that we can’t afford it, she stopped speaking with us. What should we do? Tell her she can have one. Take her to the phone shop. Have her choose which one she wants. Colour, plan, data everything. Let her choose it all. Read More…
Post by Coleen E. Rodgers Thomas Fuller, an African sold into slavery in 1724 at the age of 14, was sometimes known as the “Virginia Calculator” for his extraordinary ability to solve complex math problems in his head. He was asked how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in Read More…
Follow Post by Emily Palmer This incident is from the resthouse adjacent to the Kombaru sanctuary in Karnataka. A leopard was chasing the dog. The dog entered the toilet through a window. The toilet was closed from the outside. The leopard entered behind the dog, and both got stuck in the toilet. When the dog Read More…
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