Introducing Read & Resist, W's new daily briefing. Here are the stories, videos, and tweets not to miss this Tuesday.
started off the morning with a quick round-up of links to that day’s fashion- and culture-related news. Times have changed; in the week since a white police officer named Derek Chauvin, protests have erupted across the country, which seems to devolve more into a police state by the day.
Now, more than ever, it’s important to stay up to date, which is why we’re reviving “Chic in Review” as the slightly more radical “Read & Resist.” Here are the stories, videos, and tweets we’re hoping you don’t miss this Tuesday:As Trump described himself as an “ally of peaceful protesters” in the Rose Garden on Monday, reporters could hear police attacking peaceful protesters with riot shields, tear gas, batons, and rubber bullets. “The production, it turned out,” Evan Osnos writes, “had only just began.”“The governors of California, Illinois, and Michigan have all made it clear that they will not seek the involvement of federal troops in their efforts to handle disturbances in their states,” Jeffrey Toobin writes. “But that’s not the end of the story.”“This weekend, as protests against police brutality triggered disproportionate responses from law enforcement that only seemed to prove the point of the movement, the platitudinous word soup deployed from various brands online felt even more at odds with reality than usual,” E. Alex Jung writes in this overview of how brands have coopted the language of social justice.
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