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@EmilyBobrow

Journalist (mostly for The Economist); cultural critic; bemused observer

New York
Joined October 2012
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  1. Jan 6

    So US citizenship works like Judaism; matrilineal route to being kosher. Also many opportunities to feel varklempt

    TED CRUZ CAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT! I worried on @ his Calgary birth, But his mother was a US citizen, so he was born a citizen.
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  2. Jan 6

    Can't quite believe the fed gov't spent $1.5b on abstinence-only sex education under George W Bush

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    Jan 3

    Wha?

    An armed people are a free people. If our forefathers were not armed before the American Revolution we would all be speaking English today.
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  4. Jan 5

    Hm, might need to see the data on this one

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    Jan 5

    NYT fashion editor: Well, that went well I think.

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  6. Jan 5

    Voter behavior and essentialism: Parents of daughters support Hillary Clinton more than parents of sons

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  7. Jan 5

    A state representative starts waiting tables in order to pay off her college debt

  8. Jan 5

    Real bipartisan support for background checks, among other measures

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    Where Americans stand on various gun proposals:
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    Jan 5

    Obama: "We do not have to accept this carnage as the price of our freedom."

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  10. Jan 5

    Why cops should not double as school disciplinarians: “They were doing things with kids that you’d not believe”

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    Jan 4

    Rubio on Obama gun plan: “You can pass all the gun laws in the world...It will not stop the criminals.” By same logic, why pass any laws?

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  12. Jan 4

    Finally read this profound piece from Eula Bliss on the uncomfortable comfort of whiteness

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    24 Dec 2015

    Outstanding article from on and what the musical/hip-hop album says about America.

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  14. Jan 2

    In 2013 median wealth of white households was 13x the median wealth of black households; widest gap since 1989

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    Jan 1

    “From 2010 to 2012 the police killed black men ages 15 to 19 at a rate 21 times” that of white men the same age.

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  16. Jan 1

    "Bravery is easy, when you defend yourself from others; humanity is more difficult: it's when you defend others from yourself"; via

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  17. Jan 1

    We can't "make the future good...unless we are willing to make the past right” grim story of a lynching

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  18. 31 Dec 2015

    Good lord, this. Happy new year! (HT )

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  19. 31 Dec 2015

    Definitely worth a read.

    My old piece on how Cosby made white people feel good about race & gender, delaying acknowledgment of rape claims:
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  20. 31 Dec 2015

    Surely a full-piece would do twice the job. Also, gross.

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    Sponge bikini is designed to absorb pollution from the sea:
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