In case you’ve also been documenting your lockdown Zooms with family and friends: an ode to the screenshot.
In case you’ve also been documenting your lockdown Zooms with family and friends: an ode to the screenshot.
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Luke Mogelson reports on his day with the insurrectionists inside and around the Capitol.
No one seemed quite sure how to proceed. “While we’re here, we might as well set up a government,” somebody suggested.
↩︎ The New Yorker
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For many people, the physical ramifications of a year-plus of isolation will be temporary. For some, the toll will be deadly.
A recent study found that self-reported symptoms of “body-focused repetitive behaviors,” such as skin-picking, nail-biting, and hair-plucking, have increased during the pandemic. When people are suffering insi…
One of the pandemics inside the pandemic: cruiseline employees tumbling into depression during their extreme version of lockdown.
One of the pandemics inside the pandemic: cruiseline employees tumbling into depression during their extreme version of lockdown.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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Since April, police in the US are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters.
Since April, police in the US are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters.
↩︎ The Guardian
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Darren Walker: The ideal of democracy is the greatest threat to the ideology of white supremacy.
Our founding aspirations were just that: aspirations. It’s been the work of generations—from Frederick Douglass and Fannie Lou Hamer to Harriet Tubman and Bayard Rustin—to realize these aspirations.
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“Our current state of affairs is a paradox.” Balancing the need to talk about 1/6 with the worry of inspiring other wrongdoers.
“Our current state of affairs is a paradox.” Balancing the need to talk about 1/6 with the worry of inspiring other wrongdoers.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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