Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker:

For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simple to need a word, but equality is still the exception, not the rule.

Maybe we should call it egalitarianism, or even humanism. The problem with humanism is that it is often interpreted as being anti-religion, so I don’t think it’s inclusive enough. Regardless of what we call it, it just means treating each of us as uniquely human. The experiences of race and gender and class are very real and important, but they are also constructed and changeable. Our humanity is consistent and sacred.

Still, for some, it remains a mystery why women need a movement to distinguish our efforts toward equality. For me, it seems quite obvious.

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot more about what I actually care about.

It’s so easy to get caught up in the daily grind—work, earn, spend, repeat. But the older I get, the more I realize that the real luxuries in life aren’t necessarily the things we can buy.

They’re the things we often take for granted:

• Time
• Health
• A quiet mind
• Slow mornings
• Rest without feeling guilty
• A good night’s sleep
• Calm, “boring” days
• Meaningful conversations
• Home-cooked meals
• People you love
• People who love you back

None of this is particularly flashy. There’s no status symbol attached to most of it.

But honestly, that’s kind of the point.

Maybe the goal isn’t to have more of everything. Maybe it’s to have more of what actually makes life feel good.

Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died. She was 92.

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

Phil Schiller steps down from running App Store and Product Events:

Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events.

The 66-year-old executive, who was Apple’s senior vice president of marketing until leaving that job in 2020, made the latest change in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers:

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Bonn, the University Hospital Bonn and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior has identified supermagnetic macrophages in the livers of homing pigeons (Columba livia domestica) that appear essential for navigation when the Sun is not visible, pointing to an entirely new mechanism for animal magnetoreception.

Jamelle Bouie in a New York Times opinon piece:

The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself. And this is part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the most fanatical of his allies, like Stephen Miller, to end the American republic and supplant it with an authoritarian regime in which President Trump holds sovereign authority over the whole nation.

It is important to say, as well, that this is all out in the open, as plain as day.