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[npr]

When Will the Government Run Out of Money?

[theatlantic]

On Affirmative Action, the Court Tackles a Deceptively Simple Question

You could say that the whole point of something like the Equal Protection Clause is to take race off the table,” Chief Justice John Roberts mused from the bench yesterday.

Many Americans believe just that—that the central command of the Equal Protection Clause is to produce a system where race doesn’t matter and we don’t have to think about it.

Many other Americans, however, believe that the point of the Clause—of the whole Fourteenth Amendment, in fact—is to bring about real equality, not as goal or a motto but as a fact. And if government has to take account of race to do that, so be it.

Both groups contain people of good will. And neither group can understand a word the other says.

The gap was on display Tuesday at the Supreme Court, when the justices heard argument in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. Schuette asks a deceptively simple question: Can the people of a state, by majority vote, make it unlawful for colleges and universities to use race-based affirmative action in admissions—which is perfectly legal under the Constitution?

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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Follow the link above to see how Alexa Schirtzinger intends to help save alternative and local journalism.

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“Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?”

The NBA’s Jason Collins has now become the first openly gay athlete playing in one of the four major sports in North America.

Read more behind the monumental ’Sports Illustrated’ cover story.

(via theatlantic)

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Children demonstrate how to use bulletproof backpacks as shields in Aurora, Colorado. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters

Read the whole story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/26/us-bulletproof-uniforms-gun-control

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Mars rover draws a penis.  How did NASA program the potty humor of 12-year-old into this thing?  I wonder if it's farting all over the place too.  Technology is amazing.

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Oh hi. We're talking about Tumblr with ONA in SF. Come join us.

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A.K.A.: South Carolina politics reporter.

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Riverfront Times, September 22, 2011 Art director: Tom Carlson, illustration: Tim Lane

This is part of a story I wrote in the current issue of UK graphic design bible Eye magazine. See excerpts plus images that aren’t in the magazine story here.

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[visualinguist]

The Dispossessed: May 2nd, 2012

Illustration by Brian Stauffer

[nprfreshair]

Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life.

Maurice Sendak has died. We’re changing the entire show today to remember him. This quote is from his most recent Fresh Air appearance last year. (via nprfreshair)

[onaissues]

“We were slow to get into the digital space because we always were free and print had always been our product. Then we took a nosedive when the economy went bad and with Craigslist on the scene. We began innovating because we didn’t have a choice. Our survival depended on it.”

Tiffany Shackelford, Executive Director of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) and ONA DC organizer. Poynter highlights how alt-weeklies are finding new uses for their content online, with examples from across the country. 

Read more: How some alt-weeklies are innovating their way out of a crisis | Poynter.

(via onaissues)

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