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from The Atlantic Magazine
The viral youtube video was cued to begin at 42:23, the moment most likely to elicit incredulity. A webcam was tight on the face of Robin Broshi, a middle-aged white woman. She was upset. The edge in her voice sought to explain, to emphasize, to insist, that a wrong had been done. “It hurts people,” she said, “when they see a white man bouncing a brown baby on their lap and they don’t know the context!” ... I made a series of rapid assumptions about what I was watching. I surmised that Broshi was a college-educated, upper-middle-class progressive who sits on some sort of education council in the public-school system and owns copies of White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist. I surmised that she was calling someone out. And I surmised that her white, male target was offscreen rolling his eyes. All of which turned out to be correct. But I also felt confused. Why would a New Yorker in 2020 see an adult holding a baby with a different phenotype and presume something nefarious was afoot? Until recently, I would have expected that sort of retrograde attitude from the alt-right. Beleaguered curiosity prompted me to burrow down an unlikely rabbit hole: extended footage from several NYC Community Education Council District 2 meetings. I wanted to understand what seemed to be the latest confounding addition to the rapidly changing code of elite, “anti-racist” manners.
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Claims of attempted voter suppression are unfortunately fueled by President Trump’s habit of stream of consciousness commentary. There are real problems with a precipitous switch to all-mail voting in states that haven’t prepared the way, but the U.S. Postal Service isn’t one of them. In an effort to tamp down catastrophizing voices like the ones at the Democratic National Convention this week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy chose to postpone making any changes in postal service operations until after the election. This was immediately seized upon as proof of a voter suppression conspiracy in an election predicted to include a record-high number of mailed ballots. The post office conspiracy theory doesn’t hold up when put into context. Or more accurately, whether it holds up or not depends on your context.
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from USA Today
No list of incredible Idaho women is complete without a discussion of Sacagawea, the Shoshone teen who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805. Technically, this list doesn't include Sacagawea. It focuses on Idaho women alive between 1920 and 2020, as the USA TODAY Network marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment when women in the U.S. gained the legal right to vote. In commemoration, the USA TODAY Network is naming 10 American women from all 50 states and the District of Columbia who’ve made significant contributions to their respective states and country as Women of the Century. Even without Sacagawea, the list is rich with Idaho women who also trod adventurous paths. The 10 who made the list are American women with a record of outstanding achievement in arts and literature, business, civil rights, education, entertainment, law, media, nonprofits and philanthropy, politics, science and medicine and sports.
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