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Yesterday — 29 May 2026Main stream

Supreme Court Says Death Row Inmate Can Challenge Exclusion of Black Jurors

29 May 2026 at 03:03
Terry Pitchford was convicted in 2006 for his role in the murder of a shopkeeper by a 12-member jury that included one Black member.

© via Joseph Perkovich

The Supreme Court decision means that Mr. Pitchford, 40, who has served death row for more than 20 years, is entitled to a new trial.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Genetic Scores are Booming. But Will Anti-Discrimination Laws Cover Your DNA?

As predictive medicine advances, legal scholars warn that decades-old federal guidelines could set up a potential clash between your genes and your job.

© Biophoto Associates/Science Source

A scanning electron micrograph of human chromosomes. Polygenic risk scoring, increasingly popular in personal medicine, uses an individual’s genome to estimate that person’s likelihood of developing a specific disease.

Man Charged With Hate-Crime Killing of Gay Dancer Claims Self-Defense

28 May 2026 at 04:04
Dmitriy Popov was 17 when he stabbed O’Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old dancer, at a gas station. Mr. Popov has been charged with murder as a hate crime.

© David Dee Delgado for The New York Times

Dmitry Popov testified at his murder trial, arguing that he killed O’Shae Sibley in 2023 in self-defense.

Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters

Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost Democrats a majority-Black district.

© Wes Frazer for The New York Times

People march for voting rights on the famed Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in May.

fun with flags

By: fivestone
17 April 2024 at 17:02

有个新闻,我这一年闲聊时经常提起。从各方面都切合了我的审美。

2022 年 12 月 18 日,乌克兰国防部在 twitter 发文,感谢来自 52 个国家的军事及个人援助,视频中列出了这些国家的国旗。其中,没有大陆的五星红旗;有台湾、有香港,而代表香港的旗子,是时代革命运动中的黑紫荆旗。

(视频里有 8×7=56 面旗子,推文里说是 52 个国家,其对应关系,大家有兴趣可以连连看。)

随后,香港官方各种抗议,具体后续不了了之。原始的推文已经被删除。

这些国旗的出现,可以追溯到 2022 年 6 月,在基辅独立广场(Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev)上的一个展示项目。

从网上搜的图片可以看到,中间有一小段时间,是已经挂上了台湾国旗,但还没有挂上黑紫荆。第一批在乌克兰参加志愿者的台湾导游「莊育瑋」,也在这个期间,就去合影

后来黑紫荆旗怎么挂上去的,无从考证。但是很容易想象:有个来自香港的家伙,也在乌克兰做志愿兵,看到挂了台湾旗,就跑去说:我来自香港,所以你们也要挂香港的旗帜啊,就挂黑紫荆吧!


这个事情让我觉得很嗨的原因,在于:以往涉及国旗的场合中,那些对于个体,构成被迫的身份绑定,甚至是负担的层面,在这个事件中,消失了。参战的志愿者,可以凭借自己的意愿,来决定我所属的「国家」的旗帜,应该用什么样的方式展示。

而且,我们经常面对的,同一类身份的人,在另一个层面上意见不一致,而带来的割裂感,这里似乎也消失了。

就是说,理论上会有这样的情况:一个爱国小粉红,也去乌克兰参战,看到这种场面,坚持要改成五星红旗、或者红紫荆旗,怎么办?——但现实中,真会有这样的人,去乌克兰参战吗?没有啊。只有几个脑残,跑去俄罗斯那边当炮灰

即使有中国大陆籍贯的人,在乌克兰做志愿者(我相信是有的),也不介意国旗被改成什么样吧。这样的人,看到黑紫荆旗,会与之争吵吗?不会的啊。大概只会为此感到欢乐。

这种在现实层面实现的同温层过滤,感觉很好。

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