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The Approval Matrix: Week of June 21, 2021

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.

Graphic: New York Magazine
Graphic: New York Magazine

Photo Source: ABC7 NY (whoever wins, homeless-to-hotels); CDC/Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS (COVID Deaths); New America/Wikimedia (Khan); Heji Shin, Courtesy of the artist and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NY/LA (Wish); Casey Serin/Wikimedia (2008); Don Pollard/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (Cuomo); CNN (Amanpour); Raph_PH/Wikimedia (vaccine skeptic); C-SPAN (McGahn); The New Yorker Union (New Yorker); Peloton (Peloton); Jake Polonsky/Courtesy of Sundance Institute (The Sparks Brothers); Emilee Chinn/Getty Images (GOAT); Gofundme (cicadas); chrissyteigen/twitter (apology tour); TNT (Durant); ASSOCIATED PRESS (caterpillars); homecomingnewyork/instagram (food crawl); Linda Oswald/Facebook (dog); NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal (slip n’ slide); CSIRO/Wikimedia (mice); Google Maps (coyote ugly); Mac Eightyfive Pascual/Facebook (HTML); NBC News (lobster diver); Jennifer Lopez/Youtube (making out).

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The Approval Matrix: Week of June 21, 2021