So where does this conviction leave the rest of us — her marks, her enablers, her investors and former fans?

Ripe for the next huckster that comes along, probably.

By painting Holmes as a victim, her lawyers tried to exploit important new concern for victims of abuse brought about by #MeToo.They sought to cloak their case in feminism, but really they suggested that a women like Holmes didn’t have the wherewithal to run a complex scheme; the real culprit must have been a man. Luckily, the jury didn’t buy it.

The Elizabeth Holmes verdict is relevant to current tech discussions as it makes a call on where we legally draw the line between a non-techie CEO hyping their startup and actual fraud.

It is the latest in a long line of bifurcated, confusing messaging. On the one hand, cases are surging; on the other, the CDC shortens isolation times.

On social media, Americans are having fun with finishing the thought: “The CDC says…” General rule of thumb: If your policy is perplexing enough to inspire a meme format, you’ve made a mistake along the way.

The new guidelines will reduce economic and social disruption and shouldn’t endanger public health, though they won’t eliminate the risk of transmission by people who follow them.

Public diplomacy (hasbara) on behalf of Israel has thus been ineffective, as it ignores the resistance of those who believe that they already have all the answers and refuse to engage in critical thinking. It cannot compete with anti-Israel academics and biased journalists who are assumed to be objective.

Take a stroll through the streets of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem and within minutes you are bound to stumble upon any number of cultural centers funded by foreign governments… Conversely, you won’t find Israeli cultural institutes or councils spread across the globe.

The Abraham Accords were mentioned more than 700 times, and Israeli high-tech was mentioned 36 times, he said. “We established an initiative called ‘Israeli Wednesday’: every Wednesday we publish content that can be shared in order to promote Israel. When we form a critical mass of people working together, we’ll make a significant difference.”

…the term “Arab Jew” is as offensive as inaccurate. These Jews — as dhimmis — were never considered Arabs by their counterparts and were not afforded equal rights.

In recent years, there has been a concerted attempt by antizionists to rewrite Mizrahi Jewish history and disconnect us from our identity, culture and homeland.

In our traditional Jewish home, observing our Syrian-Palestinian heritage and culture came with ease. Jewishness and Arabness fit together cohesively — there was no contradiction. But outside our home, my faith and culture clashed.

Scientists are still learning how deep the layers of damage may go—how climate-altering gases waft from sun-drenched plastics, how plankton take up microplastics, which may well be altering their capacity to supply oxygen and sequester industrial carbon, pulling it down and away and into the sea.

Humans also consume plastic that fragments into beverages and food from packaging and inhale microplastic particles in household dust. Scientists are only beginning to assess what this means for public health.

“Plastic doesn’t ever go away,” Spring says. “These carbon polymers persist in the environment. Even bio-based plastics, which people think may be more benign, have the same carbon backbone and are as persistent unless they are biodegradable.

It was one of those things where I saw [the goblins] on the screen and I was expecting the crowd to be like, holy sh**! She did not, in a wizarding world, just throw Jews in there to run the f***ing underground bank. And everyone was just like, wizards!

As an adult, I’m trying to strike the right balance between feeling love for Harry Potter and also acknowledging the intentional and unintentional harm perpetrated by J.K. Rowling that undercut this relic of my childhood. Hearing someone like Jon Stewart actually address the issue, I’m glad to know I’m not alone.

In total fairness, goblin mythology as antisemitic tropes predates all of us, including JK Rowling. But across Harry Potter novels, JK uses her freedom to reinvent almost anything. But as Jon Stewart points out, the antisemitic tropes maintained.