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Watching Democrats blame Arab Americans for losing to Trump twice….is, to put it mildly, amusing.

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

Affirmative Action Repeal & Rising White Supremacy

The latest Harvard data is a daunting reminder that racist policies are not only systemic in our higher education systems—they're getting worse

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid

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

The Macquarie Dictionary Australian word of the year for 2024 is #enshittification. Congratulations to @pluralistic (are congratulations appropriate, idk?) https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2024/
Word of the Year 2024 - Macquarie

Each year, the Macquarie Dictionary calls together a selected Committee to discuss the new words and definitions that have entered the Macquarie Dictionary over the year. The aim of this is to select one of these to be awarded the Committee’s Choice Word of the Year. As part of this process, our editors create a

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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/

There’s No Denying It Anymore: Trump Is Not a Fluke—He’s America

The United States chose Donald Trump in all his ugliness and cruelty, and the country will get what it deserves.

The Nation

A bit chilly this morning

Feels like -2.0.

My ★★★★★ review of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/69Y2J7
A ★★★★★ diary entry for Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022)

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

Society of the Snow (2023)

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.