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On Tuesday, West Bromwich Albion, a club that currently plays in the second tier of English soccer, tweeted a graphic that read “Together We Are Stronger,” an anti-racism message that it punctuated with the #blackouttuesday hashtag. When one now-deleted Twitter nobody called the team’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement “pathetic” and said he wouldn’t be renewing his season ticket next year, West Brom didn’t stutter. “You won’t be missed,” it wrote. West Brom, an English soccer club...

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The weeks following George Floyd’s death in the hands of the Minneapolis police have seen an unprecedented redistribution of wealth in the U.S., as celebrities, corporations, and regular folks have contributed out of their own pockets to city-wide bail funds, Black owned businesses, and other fundraisers aimed at uplifting and supporting America’s Black population. Many of these efforts have already amounted to huge success—the Minnesota Bail Fund, set up in Floyd’s home state, raised $2o million dollars in less...

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Planets, stars, and galaxies all spin along an axis of rotation. But does the universe itself also whirl around an axis, or several, albeit on a much larger scale? If it did, it would fly in the face of scientists’ most basic assumptions about the cosmos we inhabit. Now, one researcher believes his latest observations may provide evidence for this possibility. This notion that our universe was born with a spinning structure has been floated by scientists for years,...

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American police are rioting nationwide as protests against police brutality following the the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis continue. Amid this, fans of Korean pop music are logging on to disrupt the online battlespace. The latest volley involves fans posting K-pop videos and various blue animated characters under right-wing such as hashtags #bluelivesmatter, #alllivesmatter, #whitelivesmatter, and #MAGA, flooding them and disrupting the flow of racist and pro-police posts. K-pop fans emerged as a force to be reckoned with...

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