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

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

“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/2022/11/2…

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/Oklaho…

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). x.com/i/broadcasts/1jxXgeyMk…

STILL DANCING #DukeDUB

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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-the…

I get the sense a lot of Americans have a cartoony, Hollywoodized understanding of what life under authoritarianism is like. They don’t get that most censorship is self-censorship; most people just go about their normal, daily lives not talking about the things they shouldn’t.

Successful black communities and towns. A THREAD! Did you know that an entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park. The community was called Seneca Village. It spanned from 82nd Street to 89th Street.

Just your friendly neighborhood English teacher turned librarian here to remind you that literacy has always been political.

elmo was - famously - never seen with a collar gap

I have been thinking about rememory again. The way Toni Morrison calls it forth into the world of Beloved —less about memory but more about a thing that returns and haunts and rearranges you in an attempt to resurrect itself.

The new Superfine book accompanying the Met Museum exhibit on Black dandyism is really good. Striking photography and, more importantly, thoughtful essays on themes like distinction, disguise, and respectability. Impressive breadth, as it covers 300 years of style.

All The queer representation in the exhibition really warmed my heart. In fact majority of the contemporary art was by Black queer artists (Ike, Isaac Julien, Barkley), Josephine Baker, Gladys Bentley, disco queen Sylvester’s jacket… Black dandyism is queer theory!