Friday, June 22, 2018
More Babies Are Born at This Time
An excerpt from Romper -
Babies Tend To Be Born At One Certain Time, According To A New Study, & This Could Be Why
By Jen McGuire
A study of child birth by researchers out of the University College London in the United Kingdom was published in the medical journal PLOS ONE earlier this month. Specifically researchers looked at whether there was a time of day when most babies might be born. And after analyzing more than 5 million singleton births (which sounds like an excerpt from Bridget Jones' Diary, but I digress) in England between 2005 and 2014, they found their answer: yes. Around 4 a.m., in point of fact.
https://www.romper.com/p/babies-tend-to-be-born-at-one-certain-time-according-to-a-new-study-this-could-be-why-9550101
For Those of Us Who Care
Since Melania Trump's jacket said "I really don't care"...
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) June 21, 2018
I set up https://t.co/GL1FF0KpBs
Click the link and it'll take you to a site where you can donate to 14 awesome groups helping immigrants all at once. Feel free to RT if that's your jam. pic.twitter.com/TPc4y4ZUfh
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Juneteenth
An excerpt from Vox -
Why celebrating Juneteenth is more important now than ever
It’s time for America to truly grapple with its legacy of slavery.
By P.R. Lockhart
As the Civil War came to a close in 1865, a number of people remained enslaved, especially in remote areas. Word of slavery’s end traveled slowly, and for those who were largely isolated from Union armies, life continued as if freedom did not exist.
This was especially the case in Texas, where thousands of slaves were not made aware of freedom until June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued an order officially freeing them. Their celebration would serve as the basis of June 19 — or Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating emancipation in the US.
Ironically, while Juneteenth has become the most prominent Emancipation Day holiday in the US, it commemorates a smaller moment that remains relatively obscure. It doesn’t mark the signing of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which technically freed slaves in the rebelling Confederate states, nor does it commemorate the December 1865 ratification of the 13th Amendment, which enshrined the end of slavery into the Constitution. Instead, it marks the moment when emancipation finally reached those in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy.
In many ways, Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the US has always been delayed for black people.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/6/19/17476482/juneteenth-holiday-emancipation-african-american-celebration-history
Why celebrating Juneteenth is more important now than ever
It’s time for America to truly grapple with its legacy of slavery.
By P.R. Lockhart
As the Civil War came to a close in 1865, a number of people remained enslaved, especially in remote areas. Word of slavery’s end traveled slowly, and for those who were largely isolated from Union armies, life continued as if freedom did not exist.
This was especially the case in Texas, where thousands of slaves were not made aware of freedom until June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued an order officially freeing them. Their celebration would serve as the basis of June 19 — or Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating emancipation in the US.
Ironically, while Juneteenth has become the most prominent Emancipation Day holiday in the US, it commemorates a smaller moment that remains relatively obscure. It doesn’t mark the signing of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which technically freed slaves in the rebelling Confederate states, nor does it commemorate the December 1865 ratification of the 13th Amendment, which enshrined the end of slavery into the Constitution. Instead, it marks the moment when emancipation finally reached those in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy.
In many ways, Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the US has always been delayed for black people.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/6/19/17476482/juneteenth-holiday-emancipation-african-american-celebration-history
Hostages
An excerpt form the New York Times -
Trump’s Small Hostages
By Frank Bruni
Why don’t we call the terrified children whose incarceration is riveting the country what they are at this point?
Not migrants. Not detainees. Not pawns, although that comes closest to the mark.
They’re hostages.
President Trump is using them as flesh-and-blood bargaining chips, hoping that their ordeal and reasonable Americans’ disgust with it will get him what he wants. This isn’t some theory that I’m basing on the whisperings of unnamed administration officials whose candor the president can dismiss as fake news put out by a maleficent media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/donald-trump-immigrants-children.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Trump’s Small Hostages
By Frank Bruni
Why don’t we call the terrified children whose incarceration is riveting the country what they are at this point?
Not migrants. Not detainees. Not pawns, although that comes closest to the mark.
They’re hostages.
President Trump is using them as flesh-and-blood bargaining chips, hoping that their ordeal and reasonable Americans’ disgust with it will get him what he wants. This isn’t some theory that I’m basing on the whisperings of unnamed administration officials whose candor the president can dismiss as fake news put out by a maleficent media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/donald-trump-immigrants-children.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
An App For Parents of Preemies
From OZY -
THIS APP GUIDES PREEMIE PARENTS THROUGH SCARY TIMES
By Daniel Malloy
No piece of technology can manage the emotional cyclone of the neonatal intensive care unit, but a new app launched in May by the March of Dimes charity can bring some order and a little more sanity to a harrowing time for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) fathers and mothers. My NICU Baby lets parents track their child’s progress — from weight to feedings to time in skin-to-skin contact with parents, known as “kangaroo care.” It includes a glossary of medical terms so you know what it means if your baby gets an endotracheal tube, and what that blue bili light does.
https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/this-app-guides-preemie-parents-through-scary-times/87052
THIS APP GUIDES PREEMIE PARENTS THROUGH SCARY TIMES
By Daniel Malloy
No piece of technology can manage the emotional cyclone of the neonatal intensive care unit, but a new app launched in May by the March of Dimes charity can bring some order and a little more sanity to a harrowing time for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) fathers and mothers. My NICU Baby lets parents track their child’s progress — from weight to feedings to time in skin-to-skin contact with parents, known as “kangaroo care.” It includes a glossary of medical terms so you know what it means if your baby gets an endotracheal tube, and what that blue bili light does.
https://www.ozy.com/good-sht/this-app-guides-preemie-parents-through-scary-times/87052
When Strangers Think They Know Better
An excerpt from the LA Times -
I am raising my daughter to speak three languages. A stranger demanded I 'speak English' to her
By ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ
I felt her staring at me on the playground as I called out to my daughter.
She must be someone’s grandmother, I thought. She must be curious, as people often are.
Then she took one step toward me — pink fingernails, dark blond hair — and opened her mouth, e-nun-ci-a-ting each word.
“Speak English,” she commanded. “You’re confusing the poor girl.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-speak-english-20180616-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
I am raising my daughter to speak three languages. A stranger demanded I 'speak English' to her
By ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ
She must be someone’s grandmother, I thought. She must be curious, as people often are.
Then she took one step toward me — pink fingernails, dark blond hair — and opened her mouth, e-nun-ci-a-ting each word.
“Speak English,” she commanded. “You’re confusing the poor girl.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-speak-english-20180616-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
Cadillac Ranch
https://d3p33vdscqvyo9.cloudfront.net/tronc/Los%20Angeles%20Times/2018/06/11/5b1eb05ce4b022d8f83748f9/5b1eb084e4b0c9822fbe035d_t_1528737927463_mobile.m3u8
Crooked Cop
From USA Today -
How a McDonald's receipt crippled an elite drug-fighting team
USA TODAY NETWORKBeth Warren, Louisville Courier Journal
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/18/police-corruption-cripples-drug-squad/712721002/
How a McDonald's receipt crippled an elite drug-fighting team
USA TODAY NETWORKBeth Warren, Louisville Courier Journal
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/18/police-corruption-cripples-drug-squad/712721002/
Eleven Separate Nations
From Business Insider -
This map shows the US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures
By Mark Abadi
http://www.businessinsider.com/regional-differences-united-states-2018-1
This map shows the US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures
By Mark Abadi
http://www.businessinsider.com/regional-differences-united-states-2018-1
Monday, June 18, 2018
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Whole-Grain Pancakes
From the New York Times -
Whole-Grain Pancakes to Make Any Morning Special
Hearty and nutritious, but still buttery and rich, these unfussy pancakes come together quickly and without any special equipment.
By Melissa Clark
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/dining/whole-grain-pancakes-recipe.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_li_20180616&nl=nyt-living&nl_art=8&nlid=38867499emc%3Dedit_li_20180616&ref=headline&te=1
Whole-Grain Pancakes to Make Any Morning Special
Hearty and nutritious, but still buttery and rich, these unfussy pancakes come together quickly and without any special equipment.
By Melissa Clark
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/dining/whole-grain-pancakes-recipe.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_li_20180616&nl=nyt-living&nl_art=8&nlid=38867499emc%3Dedit_li_20180616&ref=headline&te=1
Black Hockey Champion
An excerpt from the Undefeated -
The significance of a Stanley Cup champion named Devante
There’s no doubt that seeing a man who looks like that with a name like that – and his middle name is Malik – is an inspiration to black kids in D.C.
By Clinton Yates
You might call it the Devante swing.
At the start of the third period, the nearly 15,000 people inside Capital One Arena had resigned themselves to the fact that this might not be the night that the Washington Capitals get it done. The Vegas Golden Knights had scored twice to end the second and take a 3-2 lead.
Then, he struck.
After initiating the play on the forecheck, and Brooks Orpik kept the puck in the zone, Devante-Smith Pelly controlled it off his skate, then beat Marc-AndrĆ© Fleury glove side to equalize the skate at three goals each, and suddenly there was life. Fleury lay on the ice for a long time after that goal, appearing completely defeated. “The Great Dane” Lars Eller scored the go-ahead goal and just like that, it was party time.
The name Devante will be inscribed on the Stanley Cup.
It’s been quite the journey for the black man from Scarborough, Ontario, whom the kids call DSP. His career began with the Anaheim Ducks. Three teams and five seasons later, he’s hoisting the Stanley Cup and celebrating with his family on the ice.
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-significance-of-a-stanley-cup-champion-named-devante-smith-pelly/
The significance of a Stanley Cup champion named Devante
There’s no doubt that seeing a man who looks like that with a name like that – and his middle name is Malik – is an inspiration to black kids in D.C.
By Clinton Yates
You might call it the Devante swing.
At the start of the third period, the nearly 15,000 people inside Capital One Arena had resigned themselves to the fact that this might not be the night that the Washington Capitals get it done. The Vegas Golden Knights had scored twice to end the second and take a 3-2 lead.
Then, he struck.
After initiating the play on the forecheck, and Brooks Orpik kept the puck in the zone, Devante-Smith Pelly controlled it off his skate, then beat Marc-AndrĆ© Fleury glove side to equalize the skate at three goals each, and suddenly there was life. Fleury lay on the ice for a long time after that goal, appearing completely defeated. “The Great Dane” Lars Eller scored the go-ahead goal and just like that, it was party time.
The name Devante will be inscribed on the Stanley Cup.
It’s been quite the journey for the black man from Scarborough, Ontario, whom the kids call DSP. His career began with the Anaheim Ducks. Three teams and five seasons later, he’s hoisting the Stanley Cup and celebrating with his family on the ice.
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-significance-of-a-stanley-cup-champion-named-devante-smith-pelly/
Samuel Ranks Samuel
From the Undefeated -
Samuel L. Jackson RANKS Samuel L. Jackson
The film legend ranks his favorite characters of all time: 1 through 20
https://theundefeated.com/features/samuel-l-jackson-ranks-his-acting-roles/
Samuel L. Jackson RANKS Samuel L. Jackson
The film legend ranks his favorite characters of all time: 1 through 20
https://theundefeated.com/features/samuel-l-jackson-ranks-his-acting-roles/
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Not New
An excerpt from the Huffington Post -
The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color
The disturbing practice is as old as slavery.
By Sara Boboltz
But as shocking as it is to see nearly 1,500 Latino children housed in a former Walmart adorned with a sketch of President Donald Trump, it’s not the first time American leadership has endorsed the separation of families of color.
America has been a place where children are torn from the arms of their parents since the time of slavery. (Alarmingly, the Bible verse cited by Sessions, Romans 13, was also used to justify enslavement.) As soon as they were old enough to work, young black children could be sold off. In many cases, these children never saw their families again.
Later, the U.S. decided to pursue a similar approach with Native American children, sending them to government-run boarding schools en masse in the late 19th century. Col. Richard Pratt, who founded the first such school, believed the establishments would help Native Americans assimilate into Eurocentric American culture. He lived by a motto: “Kill the Indian, save the man.” The boarding schools lasted into the 20th century.
Trump’s policy, it seems, is just the latest iteration of American leaders invoking government authority to keep families of color physically apart.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-separating-families-of-color_us_5b241a78e4b0f9178a9d1866
The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color
The disturbing practice is as old as slavery.
By Sara Boboltz
But as shocking as it is to see nearly 1,500 Latino children housed in a former Walmart adorned with a sketch of President Donald Trump, it’s not the first time American leadership has endorsed the separation of families of color.
America has been a place where children are torn from the arms of their parents since the time of slavery. (Alarmingly, the Bible verse cited by Sessions, Romans 13, was also used to justify enslavement.) As soon as they were old enough to work, young black children could be sold off. In many cases, these children never saw their families again.
Later, the U.S. decided to pursue a similar approach with Native American children, sending them to government-run boarding schools en masse in the late 19th century. Col. Richard Pratt, who founded the first such school, believed the establishments would help Native Americans assimilate into Eurocentric American culture. He lived by a motto: “Kill the Indian, save the man.” The boarding schools lasted into the 20th century.
Trump’s policy, it seems, is just the latest iteration of American leaders invoking government authority to keep families of color physically apart.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-separating-families-of-color_us_5b241a78e4b0f9178a9d1866
Friday, June 15, 2018
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Monday, June 11, 2018
Lynchings in the Media
An excerpt from the NY Times -
How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings
By Charles Seguin
From the late 1800s well into the 20th century, thousands of people, mostly black and poor, were murdered by lynch mobs that sometimes burned their victims alive, castrated them or cut their bodies up into little pieces that were passed around as souvenirs.
Southern newspapers justified these horrors by calling lynching victims “fiends,” “brutes” or “ravishers,” leaving their guilt unquestioned. Lurid details of supposed rapes of white women by black men, often entirely fabricated, were recounted in Southern papers to justify, or even to incite, lynchings.
In a landmark move, The Montgomery Advertiser recently apologized for its role in justifying and promoting lynching. But many Northern papers were just as complicit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/northern-newspapers-lynchings.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings
By Charles Seguin
From the late 1800s well into the 20th century, thousands of people, mostly black and poor, were murdered by lynch mobs that sometimes burned their victims alive, castrated them or cut their bodies up into little pieces that were passed around as souvenirs.
Southern newspapers justified these horrors by calling lynching victims “fiends,” “brutes” or “ravishers,” leaving their guilt unquestioned. Lurid details of supposed rapes of white women by black men, often entirely fabricated, were recounted in Southern papers to justify, or even to incite, lynchings.
In a landmark move, The Montgomery Advertiser recently apologized for its role in justifying and promoting lynching. But many Northern papers were just as complicit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/northern-newspapers-lynchings.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Honored When Dead
An excerpt from the NY Times -
Earlier this year in the White House, Trump signed a proclamation for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and lauded him for his choice to “courageously stand up for civil rights of African-Americans.”
That is precisely what Colin Kaepernick and the N.F.L. players are doing, and they are condemned for it just like King was. In 1966, Gallup found that nearly two-thirds of Americans held an unfavorable view of him.
King wrote in his 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail”:
“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”
Again, this is what the players are doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/bull-connor-colin-kaepernick.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Earlier this year in the White House, Trump signed a proclamation for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and lauded him for his choice to “courageously stand up for civil rights of African-Americans.”
That is precisely what Colin Kaepernick and the N.F.L. players are doing, and they are condemned for it just like King was. In 1966, Gallup found that nearly two-thirds of Americans held an unfavorable view of him.
King wrote in his 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail”:
“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”
Again, this is what the players are doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/bull-connor-colin-kaepernick.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Brilliant
From Buzzfeed -
People Who Have Kids Will 100% Appreciate The Following 21 Inventions / Ideas
Just brilliant.
By Krista Torres
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/xx-things-only-people-with-kids-will-truly-appreciate?utm_term=.xn2L3maW7k#.pkrymv8QG4
People Who Have Kids Will 100% Appreciate The Following 21 Inventions / Ideas
Just brilliant.
By Krista Torres
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/xx-things-only-people-with-kids-will-truly-appreciate?utm_term=.xn2L3maW7k#.pkrymv8QG4
Sunday, June 10, 2018
The Village Idiot
Angela Merkel's office has released this photo taken today at the G7, which tells you a lot about how things went. pic.twitter.com/IXX6K3ayys— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 9, 2018
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