BREEEEEE NEWSSSSOOMMMMMMMEEEEE (also, credit for that soon-to-be-historical photo goes to Adam Anderson.) You can watch the video here. I have watched it maybe a thousand times. She is a perfect human being. She should be on all of our money.
This is a far more sobering video, although incredibly powerful, and I don’t know anyone worth knowing who wouldn’t joyfully trade the (wonderful) celebrations and (significant) accomplishments of this last week if it meant that Emanuel AME had a normal, quiet Bible study on June 17th, so maybe cool it with the “Obama’s best week ever” stuff.
I know we’ve already talked about this, but the HORROR of this situation in the Dominican Republic is so vast. People toss around accusations of things being “like the Nazis” with great regularity, but retroactively stripping citizenship from an ethnic group is literally one of the first things the Nazis did.
Scalia may be wrong, the mantra went—as it always does!—but he is intelligent and witty.
This is an odd sense of wit. Scalia is not just wrong. He is wrong in the same way that the thousands of anonymous conservative Twitter accounts with default egg avatars swarming liberal politicians and pundits are. He writes his dissents using the same jokes and the same arguments. If Scalia’s ostensibly witty writing displays a keen legal mind, then we are witnessing the blossoming of a new age of legal scholarship in Hillary Clinton’s at-replies. Because Antonin Scalia is, essentially, a Twitter egg.
Friend of The Toast Nicole Pasulka on Desert Hearts, which was not perfect but still very important:
Welcome to the world of Desert Hearts—a film adaptation of Jane Rule’s 1964 novel Desert of the Heart. Before The L Word gave us six seasons of TV about a group of lesbian friends and lovers, before Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon robbed and killed a sadistic mobster and escaped in a cherry red pickup truck, before every awkward “lesbian kiss” on primetime TV, there was this affirming, optimistic romance. Desert Hearts was one of the first movies to centre on a female love story that allowed the women to be together, and it was a revelation when it was released in 1985. Before then, most on-screen lesbians had fallen prey to some combination of murder, suicide, vampirism, nervous breakdown, or heterosexuality.
What it’s like to be in recovery from an eating disorder during Ramadan:
“It’s becoming an issue that’s growing among young girls from south Asian communities, including Muslim girls,” Ahmed tells BuzzFeed News. “One thing I noticed while I was researching this was that social services didn’t have a clue about ethnic minority girls dealing with eating disorders.”
According to Ahmed, some eating disorder units are also “ill-equipped to deal with young South Asian girls with eating disorders”, often because it was “less likely these cases would be picked up” as statistically, they would be less likely to be reported, and because of “ingrained stereotypes about south Asian culture” in some hospital wards.
Mallory’s dad wrote this really great thing in Christianity Today about Charleston:
I have gone to church my whole life. I have never wondered if someone might enter the church and kill me or kill those I love because of the color of my skin.
I have heard that verse from Isaiah many times. I have always taken it as a metaphor—“no weapon formed against you shall prosper.” Who would form a weapon against me? But weapons formed against the people of Mother Emanuel brought them from Africa, and kept them in slavery for 250 years, and declared in the U.S. Constitution that for census purposes they were 3/5’s of a person—“almost” a person; then kept them out of schools and out of voting booths and out of offices and out of the front of the bus and out of neighborhoods. And kept them out of churches, countless churches, in obvious ways and subtle ways.
lolll choire is on it
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I have watched the second episode of True Detective season two, and you shall hear more about it shortly!
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