Extra, Extra
Misaligned: “The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Iran and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries Monday against a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for the return of Ukrainian territory. The resolution passed overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly.” WaPo (Gift Article): U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war. NYT (Gift Article): U.S. Clashes With European Allies at the U.N. Over Ukraine.
+ Polishing the Apple: “The announcement echoes one Apple made in early 2018, during the first Trump administration. At that point Apple also promised 20,000 new jobs as part of a $350 billion spend in the US, alongside a new campus in Austin which is still under construction. The company successfully appealed for tariff exemptions for some of its products, and a new US investment may be a way to secure further protection from Trump’s new charges.” Apple responds to tariff threat with a $500 billion US investment plan. “If committing $500B over 4 years sounds familiar, it’s because it is familiar. It’s the exact same amount of money over the exact same time frame (the length of Trump’s term, obviously) that was promised by the group that announced the ‘Stargate Project’ a few weeks ago.” Some analysis from M.G. Siegler: The Art of the Old Deal.
+ Children of the Scorn: “The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president’s mass deportation effort, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.”
+ Killing Us Softly: “‘Roberta Flack underplays everything with a quietness and gentleness,’ the writer and folklorist Julius Lester once observed in a Rolling Stone review. ‘More than any singer I know, she can take a quiet, slow song (and most of hers are) and infuse it with a brooding intensity that is, at times, almost unbearable.'” Roberta Flack, Virtuoso Singer-Pianist Who Ruled the Charts, Dies at 88.
+ Ai Yai Yai: “Leah Langley-McClean, a wedding dress designer in Nashville, recently had a customer come in with a unique ask: She presented a photo of a floor-length white gown with an asymmetrical neckline, no sleeves and no back. The dress defied the laws of physics, McClean told the bride-to-be.” AI ‘inspo’ is everywhere. It’s driving your hair stylist crazy.
+ Breaking the Silence: ” Let’s pause of a little human “inspo.” Kamala Harris gave a short but pointed speech as she accepted the NAACP Chairman’s Award. Jane Fonda called this our documentary moment in her SAG lifetime achievement acceptance speech. “We actors, we don’t manufacture anything tangible, what we create is empathy.” And Democracy Docket’s Marc Elias responded to an Elon Musk attack with an open letter. “I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”
