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Behind ISIS’ war on Muslims: Their agenda is to stoke hatred of Islam in the West

via NY Daily News:

The Orlando shooting also offered a reminder that one of the most important ways of fighting terrorism is thinking more intelligently, as Americans, how best to respond to it. That is the one thing we can truly control, and so far we haven’t been doing a good job, with anti-Muslim bigotry — and now violent attacks on American Muslims in places like Houston, New York City and Minneapolis — on the rise.

This, we should always remember, is precisely the point of terrorism: to provoke target populations to do things they otherwise wouldn’t. ISIS, in other words, hopes to change the character of our nation.

In this respect, though they claim to speak for Muslims, ISIS and its ilk actually want to increase hatred for Muslims in the West. After all, if even a tiny minority of, say, French or American Muslims feel less fully accepted as French or American citizens, then ISIS will have a better chance of attracting even just a few more disaffected individuals to its ranks.

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Winona

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Literally.

You literally said all those things. https://t.co/6VX5AfR7gL https://t.co/U8LfWdPU7x

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 3, 2016

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Privilege: Sometimes You’re the Caterpillar, and Sometimes You’re the Snail

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Make America Great Again for the People It Was Great for Already

via The New York Times:

It’s not just that factory jobs were more plentiful or that women and minorities were largely kept from positions of power. Large national programs that radically changed the country kept America great specifically for white men. New Deal-era systems like Social Security and unemployment insurance; rules that demarcated minimum wages and maximum work hours and protected unionization; and the G.I. Bill at the end of World War II substantially transformed the country and created a booming middle class. But they all purposefully left out most women and minorities.

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Best Dressed: 2016 Met Gala

Best Overall

Kate Hudson

Rachel McAdams (that lip!)

Bella Hadid (those socks!)

Julie Macklowe

Halsey

Willow and Jaden Smith

Honorable Mentions

Kate Bosworth (killer hairpiece)

Jenna Lyons, Lena Dunham, Jenny Konner (nothing new, but I can’t help myself)

The Men

Michael B. Jordan

Wiz Khalifa

Odell Beckham Jr.

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New Nappy Roots

The 40Akerz Project is not really new, but it’s new to me. 

My two faves, so far...

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#SquadGoals at Marc Jacobs Fall 2016

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Formation

This. Hat. (Well, the whole video really.)

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What America looks like without gerrymandering

(via The Washington Post)

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Prints by Lucky Hand Press from College Park, Georgia

Buy them here.

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#WizWearsCoolPants

Yes. Yes he does. Thanks, Kanye, for pointing that out.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the politics of forgetting

via The Atlantic:

“In the Democratic Party, there is, on the one hand, a candidate who seems comfortable doling out the kind of myths that undergirded racist violence. And on the other is a candidate who seems uncomfortable asking whether the history of racist violence, in and of itself, is worthy of confrontation.

These are options for a party of amnesiacs, for people whose politics are premised on forgetting. This is not a brief for staying home, because such a thing doesn’t actually exist. In the American system of government, refusing to vote for the less-than-ideal is a vote for something much worse. Even when you don’t choose, you choose. But you can choose with your skepticism fully intact. You can choose in full awareness of the insufficiency of your options, without elevating those who would have us forget into prophets. You can choose and still push, demanding more. It really isn’t too much to say, if you’re going to govern a country, you should know its history.”

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Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium

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At work as at home, men reap the benefits of women’s “invisible labor”

via Quartz:

"Women have long been designated the default housewives and mothers in the corporate world, writing farewell cards, buying snacks, and planning events. They’re more likely to get the coffee, buy birthday cakes, clean up after meetings, and take notes. When women don’t help with this “office housework,” they run the risk of violating people’s role congruence expectations. On the flip side, men are more likely to be called out and rewarded for doing such tasks, as they are perceived as being outside their daily work expectations.

The time women spend on these necessary but unrecognized chores taxes their energy, undermines their workplace authority, and reduces the time they could be spending on more socially and professionally recognized and valued work.

Meanwhile, men who collaborated with women didn’t suffer any penalty. In fact, they were four times more likely to succeed. Sarsons’ working conclusion? Women get almost no credit at all for collaborating and are tacitly perceived as subservient employees. Their gender, essentially, renders them assistants by default.”