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I failed to see what that look in my daughter’s eyes actually foreshadowed: a new America, under Mr. Trump, where Hispanic children would be in serious danger.https://nyti.ms/2yx8Uj0 

The New York elite toasts the downfall of the wild child's favorite child.https://nyti.ms/2K5mb7V 

It takes work for America to hold on to its values. Individuals must push back when those values are threatened — especially when that threat comes from the commander in chief.https://nyti.ms/2K44VzJ 

Our culture wars may be fueled by a desperate search, common to all lost souls, to find meaning anywhere we canhttps://nyti.ms/2Ml7x9l 

No matter their story and immigration status, shame and guilt are what Hispanic children are taught to feel in America. The depth of psychological and emotional abuse perpetrated against them by institutions and people is unfathomable.https://nyti.ms/2MgWOfT 

Mathematical models have shown that the largest whales ever measured, at 109 feet, are theoretically the largest whales that can existhttps://nyti.ms/2Mg1OBA 

The New York elite toasts the downfall of the wild child's favorite child.https://nyti.ms/2K2azme 

Facebook has filed thousands of patent applications since it went public in 2012. One of them describes using forward-facing cameras to analyze your expressions and detect whether you’re bored or surprised by what you see on your feed.https://nyti.ms/2yBiBNl 

Trump didn't spawn the Republican Party's rank nativism. He just perfected it.https://nyti.ms/2tlsJFa 

A lot about an animal’s biology — how quickly its heart races, how long it lives — can be predicted from its size. The mathematics that describes how biology changes across scales is called allometry (it's also used to explain economies and traffic jams).https://nyti.ms/2MkfOKq 

Questions for single women in their 30s considering kids: Does having a baby matter more to you than finding a partner? If, 10 years from now, you found herself with a child but no partner or with a partner but no child, which would be the worse outcome?https://nyti.ms/2todQSx 

Prophets of impending calamity are rarely thanked for their efforts, especially when they turn out to be right.https://nyti.ms/2Mip5Tr 

The obstacles to uncovering sexual abuse in the Catholic Church are not unlike those in Hollywood, but with an additional, exacerbating factor: victims' commitment to the church can be absolute and life-defininghttps://nyti.ms/2Mk5GkO 

Sometimes, when you read a book, it feels as if the author has been waiting decades to speak to you. “Stone Butch Blues,” which turns 25 years old this year, has that power.https://nyti.ms/2tmIefU 

From @surlybassey: I finally read Feinberg's “Stone Butch Blues” in February. Every so often I would look up and say to my boyfriend, “she’s writing about strike breaking!” or “this scene is a perfect attempt to explain the racial politics of organizing!”https://nyti.ms/2yx8Pfc 

Facebook has filed thousands of patent applications — including one for a method to predict when your friends will diehttps://nyti.ms/2toYm0g 

Facebook’s patents show a commitment to collecting personal information, despite widespread public criticism of the company’s privacy policies and a promise from its chief executive to “do better.”https://nyti.ms/2K6I32w 

"Many of the people now rapidly trying to destroy what took generations to build and maintain won’t be around to see the aftermath. But we will, and so will our children." #NYTLettershttps://nyti.ms/2tmLs32 

The perfect soundtrack for my grief https://nyti.ms/2K3HGpF  by @OBrienLedger