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• 이번 판결은 Republican 주들의 선거구 획정권자들에게 선거구를 여러 조각으로 쪼개어 투표권을 무력화할 수 있는 권한을 부여합니다. • Voting Rights Act는 John Lewis의 피로 쓰인 정치적 평화 협약이었습니다. • Voting Rights Act 제2조의 상당 부분을 무력화한 US Supreme Court의 Callais v Landry 판결은, 정치적 평등을 위해 식당 카운터, 버스 정류장, 법원에서 인종차별주의적 백인 우월주의자들에 맞서 싸웠던 수천 명의 다른 미국인들의 피와 함께 그 역사를 지워버렸습니다. Continue reading...

• 대법원이 Voting Rights Act(투표권법)를 사실상 무력화함에 따라, 앨라배마의 흑인 의석을 대표하는 두 의원의 의석 유지 여부가 불투명해졌으며, 해당 의원들은 이번 결정이 미국을 “퇴보”하게 만드는 것이라고 말했습니다. • 수요일에 내려진 Louisiana v Callais 사건의 6 대 3 판결은 Voting Rights Act의 핵심 조항을 약화시켰으며, 이로 인해 공화당이 남부 전역의 소수자 다수 의석(majority-minority districts)을 없앨 수 있는 길이 열렸습니다. 이에 따라 Terri Sewell 의원과 Shomari Figures 의원이 위기에 처하게 되었습니다.

독점: Cambridge 연구에 따르면 사회적 환경적 스트레스 요인이 임신 중 신체의 건강한 기능 수행 능력에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 것으로 나타났습니다. 인종차별과 결핍으로 인한 스트레스가 흑인 여성의 출산 중 사망률이 더 높은 이유를 설명할 수 있다는 연구 결과가 나왔습니다. 연구진은 임신 결과 악화와 관련된 세 가지 생리적 경로인 산화 스트레스, 염증, 그리고 자궁태반 혈관 저항을 조사한 44개의 기존 연구를 검토했으며, 흑인 여성에게서 이 세 가지 지표가 더 높게 나타났음을 확인했습니다. 계속 읽기...

Though solar was initially blamed for loss of power, renewables have helped to insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle EastOne year ago today, all of Spain, and much of Portugal, suffered through a blackout of unprecedented scale and duration. In mere seconds, a cascading sequence of events burst through the grid and created Europe’s first “system black” event in recent memory.Traffic signals failed, mobile networks stopped working entirely, petrol stations could not pump fuel and supermarkets couldn’t process payments. Madrid’s metro came to a halt and people had to be pulled out of carriages. “People were stunned because this had never happened in Spain,” Carlos Condori, a 19-year-old construction sector worker, told AFP at the time. “There’s no [phone] coverage, I can’t call my family, my parents, nothing: I can’t even go to work.” Continue reading...

Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdownLabor unions, democratic organizations and community groups are organizing an economic blackout this year to commemorate May Day, International Workers Day, inspired by the economic blackout in Minnesota during the massive ICE operation in the state.May Day Strong events are being planned across the US, with organizers calling for “no school, no work, no shopping”, in protest of government policies they say put billionaires’ needs above those of workers. Continue reading...

• Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs on April 25, 2026, at GTC US, delivering 20 petaflops FP4 performance for training models up to 10 trillion parameters. • New chips feature 4.5TB HBM4 memory and NVLink 6 interconnect, reducing training costs by 40% for hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure. • Announcement bolsters Nvidia's 92% AI accelerator market dominance amid US export controls on China sales.

Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coupOn 17 April 1936, the bells of St Laurentius church in the Black Forest rang out to guide to safety a group of London schoolboys trapped in deep snow on a mountain hike gone very wrong. Ninety years on to the day, as the bells sounded again, there was hardly a dry eye in the congregation of British relatives and German villagers remembering the night that had brought together their parents and grandparents.The people of Hofsgrund risked their lives heading out with sledges and lanterns in the deadly weather to rescue the party of 27 and their teacher after two boys, fumbling though fog and frozen to the bone, had reached a farmhouse and told its startled inhabitants there were many more of them strewn over the Schauinsland mountain.The Daily Sketch from 20 and 29 April 1936 Continue reading...