🇻🇪 Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”
🧪 Palestinian refugee Omar Yaghi was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry alongside Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for their work developing a new form of molecular architecture, which has the potential to limit the impacts of climate change.
Art & culture
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After decades of protests, Vogue publisher Condé Nast will no longer feature animal fur in any editorial content or advertising
Under new guidelines from its parent company, Condé Nast, Vogue will no longer feature “new animal fur in editorial content or advertising.” The guidelines allow for some defined exceptions, like Indigenous practices.
The decision also impacts other publications owned by the media conglomerate, like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ. As the leader in fashion publication, though, the change is significant for Vogue, and comes after persistent pressure from anti-fur and animal rights activists.
“Elle” banned fur from its international editions in December 2021. Fur farming is also banned in countries including the U.K., Austria, and Italy.
Why is this good news? While activists wish it had come sooner, the announcement from Condé Nast represents a critical turning point in the fashion media landscape due to its global reach and influence. Vogue, in particular, has historically glamorized fur, so this shift is important.
Federal authorities ordered a Vermont man to an ICE check-in — 200 friends and neighbors joined him in support
When federal authorities ordered Juan De La Cruz to check in with ICE, his family feared the worst. When they arrived at the local field office, they were greeted by about 200 friends and neighbors there to show their support.
De La Cruz applied for asylum in 2017, and said the show of support his family received shows why he wants to remain here: “It’s my community.”
One neighbor expressed alarm that “someone like Juan” that’s been “taking all the right steps and being a member of the community who is giving back and following all the rules and is still being kind of punished by the system he’s trying to work through,”
Immigration officials assured the family that he could stay in the U.S. while his asylum case proceeds, with in-person check-ins every six months.
“Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, you are not the rain.”
My newest proactive mental health support has looked like blocking an hour for lunch and exercise — it’s done wonders for my brain and breaking up my screen and desk time!
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