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12/11/1975
NFL football player David Kopay becomes first major-league athlete to come out as gay

"The narrator’s own reminiscences of the last century, 'the cinema century,' unfurl a vast cultural memory of moviegoing as a lost form of community, even shelter-taking....The cinema produces a kind of magic, which we might call the magic of the frame. And Seeing Further, in line after gorgeously elaborated line, tracks the struggle to produce that magic for oneself."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/books/review/esther-kinsky-seeing-further.html

“It’s not an individual problem, it’s everyone’s”: Matt McGorry shares his experience with Long COVID
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/12/09/its-not-an-individual-problem-its-everyones-matt-mcgorry-shares-his-experience-with-long-covid/

Court ruling could mean that more liberal Murdochs may have say in content from world’s most powerful conservative media empire
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/09/murdoch-succession-case-rightwing-legacy

"In other words, be alert for things of unexpected worth that would require you to expand your expectations or stretch your capacities."

The outlook for today’s commercially cultivated coffee species is grim. One promising solution is growing wild in our forests.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/climate-resilient-coffee/

Plans of deportation and trade wars should concern farmers, yet they backed him by a three-to-one margin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/trump-immigration-trade-policy-farmer-votes

Brian Thompson’s killing in broad daylight was shocking and also sparked a torrent of outrage over US healthcare
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/09/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-arrested

12/10/1948
UN General Assembly passes Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt instrumental in its passage