DESIGN
DESIGN
August 21, 2019
I'm suddenly obsessed with the idea of buying a new Tesla Model 3. Lord help me!
TECHNOLOGY
March 31, 2017
T-Mobile Presents T-Mobile ONEsie. This is brilliant! I just ordered ONEsie for myself! #Tmobile #ONEsie #JohnLegere
TECHNOLOGY
March 31, 2017
The Making Of T-Mobile ONEsie. It's meant to be an April fools joke, but the ONEsie is actually available for sale! #Tmobile #ONEsie #JohnLegere
TECHNOLOGY
September 07, 2016
Apple iPhone 7 Plus Jet Black 256GB. Finally a reason to buy a new device. Pre-order begins September 9th. I don't know if I can wait until September 16th for delivery! (Screen grabs with iPhone 6 Plus from the Apple Inc. keynote live on September 7, 2016) #Stoked #iPhone7Plus #JetBlack
DESIGN
August 18, 2016
POLITICS
August 11, 2016
This: ‘Voting is a manifestation of existing and proving that you exist. Because if you don’t vote you’re essentially invisible and you don’t effect the structure of your own life – or anybody else’s for that matter.’ -- Milton Glaser
POLITICS
July 15, 2016
HISTORY
June 24, 2016
On June 24, 2016 President Obama designated the site of the Stonewall uprising and birthplace of the modern LGBT civil rights movement the 'Stonewall National Monument.' This new monument is a testament to the diversity, inclusiveness, and individual freedom that make America great.
DESIGN
April 20, 2016
This: Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note.
Harriet Tubman in the late 1800s. Credit H. B. Lindsley/Library of Congress
Harriet Tubman to Appear on $20 Bill, While ‘Hamilton’ Mania Keeps Him on $10
The New York Times. By Jackie Calmes. April 20, 2016.
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note, according to a Treasury official, while the newly popular Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of the $10 bill.
Other depictions of women and civil rights leaders will also be part of new currency designs.
The redesigns, from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, would be announced in 2020 in time for the centennial of woman’s suffrage and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. None of the bills, including a new $5 note, would reach circulation until the next decade.
It was unclear whether details of the unexpectedly sweeping changes would mollify some women’s groups, who had excoriated Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew for reneging on his 10-month-old commitment to put a woman on the face of the $10 bill, which is the one currently in line for an anti-counterfeiting makeover.
But in the months of taking public comments on what woman he should pick, Mr. Lew evidently bowed to the Broadway-stoked mania around the $10 bill’s current star, Alexander Hamilton.
Instead, images of women are expected to grace the back of the new bill, with Tubman taking the top spot on a redesigned $20 further into the future.
When Mr. Lew announced in June that a woman was likely to front the $10, he thought it would be a feel-good moment for the Obama administration. That was before the rap musical “Hamilton” created legions of fans for the Founder who was already on the bill, not only among well-to-do patrons shelling out big bucks for tickets on Broadway but also among tens of thousands of teenagers memorizing the lyrics and obsessing over details of the first Treasury secretary’s scrappy life story.
It did not help matters when “Hamilton” and its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama this week. Mr. Miranda personally pressed Mr. Lew to keep Hamilton front and center, rallying Hamiltonians around the country.
But in advance of the announcement, a number of women took to media to say a win for the hottest Founding Father would be a loss for many women who pressed for someone of their sex on the bill.
“It’s yet another ‘wait your turn’ moment for American women,” political commentator Cokie Roberts wrote Wednesday in The New York Times.
Other women were not giving up hope, given the number of bills facing a revamp.
“It may seem like we have more important things to worry about, but all of us will be watching to see if they find other opportunities,” said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri.