Harvard Law Black enrollment dropped by more than 50% since SCOTUS banned affirmative action last year. Just 19 first-year Black students this fall, the lowest number since the 1960s.
Meanwhile, Legacy Admissions—in which 75% of white students admitted are not academically qualified—stays in tact.
We are witnessing a historic rise in white supremacy policy.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/affirmative-action-repeal-and-rising
The planet Jupiter glowing in thermal infrared, as seen by the Gemini North telescope. The gas giant gives off more heat than it receives from the Sun.
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA M.H. Wong
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Could it be that some Americans are starting to see themselves as the rest of the world has been seeing them for decades?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-is-america-not-a-fluke/
A bit chilly this morning
Feels like -2.0.
At two and a half hours it is very long.
Buy worth every minute of it.
Society of the Snow on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/y9aw