Verizon has completed its acquisition of Tumblr parent company Yahoo, and is preventing Tumblr from participating in the day to save Net Neutrality next month on July 12, 2017. Tumblr can also no longer freely participate in political protest like it did before.
Furthermore, Yahoo senior VP and head of Media Brands and Products
Simon Khalaf
gave a speech at
the all-hands meeting at Tumblr last month, where he explicitly stated that
Black Lives Matter is among several communities that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers.
One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”
Julian E. Zelizer draws striking comparisons to the socio-political climate of the United States in1968 and in 2016, particularly as the the federal government falters to address police brutality. Read the excerpt below from “Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968?”:
The problem today is that politics might once again be moving in the wrong direction, not unlike what happened in 1968. Structural racism has to be addressed, but Obama is a lame-duck president with a Republican Congress that is unwilling to work on any legislative proposal that this White House sends them. The prospects of this Congress making progress on any kind of federal criminal-justice reforms are slim to none. And though Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has taken a much tougher stand in calling for criminal-justice reform and fighting for racial justice, she does not have an extensive record of dealing with institutional racism, and in the 1990s, she supported federal crime policies that only bolstered the law-and-order approach. Like Humphrey, she has shown a willingness to allow the political fears of the right push her toward a more conservative stance on these issues.
explanitorrie asked:
Hello! I just got a new Dahlia that i have put on my porch. I got it just a few days ago and i put it in a medium sized pot on a rather sunny part of my porch. I've been watering it every morning and evening and it's already shriveling!!! What should i do?
I have no experience with outdoor flowers…they are temporary enjoyment but people are still disappointed that they don’t last forever.
You might be overwatering it. I would cut the dying flower head back and wait to see if more flower buds emerge. The plant might also be in shock from replanting it.
