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2020 was, or is, a breaking point for many of us. This is your weekly dispatch on the historical legacies of injustice based on the news cycle and culture trends to understand what in the world is going on.
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Moved home: Welcome to The Confluence (opens the original)
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Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I stopped writing this newsletter many years ago now, still at the height of the pandemic, because I entered the corporate world. For five years, I was the climate writer and reporter at CNN. But the same week that President Trump was inaugurated, Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN, laid off hundreds of employees, and that included me. For a while, it was difficult not to take my lay off personally. I was the only person of color in the team, and my editor had
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