What a headline. This is, of course, exactly why the Supreme Court was packed with “conservatives”.

“The Supreme Court Has No Reason to End Affirmative Action. They’re Doing It Anyway.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/supreme-court-end-affirmative-action-unc-harvard-why.html

Off to the races!

«Earlier on Monday, Bloomberg reported that Twitter had restricted most of its Trust and Safety staffers from accessing internal content moderation tools.»

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/11/01/twitter-safety-head-acknowledges-surge-in-hateful-conduct-amid-reports-of-company-limiting-access-to-moderation-tools/

Well, for the upcoming Twitter apocalypse, I am:

• @tarheel
• @tarheel
• @tarheel@mastodon.technology, although that one, unfortunately, is shutting down

Twitodon.com to map your Twitter self over to mastodon. Helps other people find you.

Famous historical Black-owned business.

«Things went horribly left for NC Mutual in 2016 after a former investment manager was indicted for participating in a scheme that bilked the insurance company out of more than $34 million, federal department of justice officials announced in 2020 after the indictment was unsealed.»

https://indyweek.com/news/durham/nc-mutual-will-cease-operations-this-month/

https://zoeempowers.org/, y’all (I haven’t read the article yet, so who knows if it supports my point; Ok, he’s talking at a higher level, but still):

«Washington Post columnist regurgitates nonsense about crime and “Democrat-run cities”

Marc Thiessen spins facile Fox News talking points into an opinion column»

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/washington-post-columnist-regurgitates

Maybe worth posting this while everybody goes bonkers over Hu Jintao. Don’t know if it’s true or not:

“Girls who were rebellious.” 🙂

«“Regiments were recruited from slaves, some of them captured as early in age as 10 years old, also the poor, and girls who were rebellious,” said Terri Ochiagha, an expert on colonial and postcolonial Nigeria at the University of Edinburgh….»

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/real-warriors-woman-king-dahomey-agojie-amazons-180980750/

Really good personal stories with relevance to today (of course). Recommended; glad I watched it.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/munich_the_edge_of_war

Some good ideas in here. Capers! Coriander! Not so sure about the fish, but I’m willing to try.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/10/18/black-people-spaghetti-symbolizes-connection-ingenuity/