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A rotating guest column in which writers reexamine critically unacclaimed works of art.

Weekend at Bernie’s is about being wealthy in America: babes, boats, fraud. According to my mother, Weekend at Bernie’s qualifies as a movie, not a film. In 1989, when the movie hit theaters, it flopped. The critic Roger Ebert said the twist wasn’t funny enough to carry the story forward. He hated it. But what he didn’t see, may he RIP, was that the one-note, unapologetically crass materialism was worth the rental price of seeing it through to the end.

Dear parents,

We are thrilled to have your child on our summer baseball team. We have a few apps we use to help keep things organized around here, so parents, players, and coaches are all on the same page.

First, you’ll need to register for TeamSplinter. Be sure to use the team code, which is W&TGHG7896M. If that doesn’t work, try GIOUGKJHT()(&^^*666. If that doesn’t work, try rebooting your router. Actually, you know what, just ask your kid to show you how to do it.

Next, please make sure you’re on GameUpdater because TeamSplinter won’t display the score. We have state-of-the-art fields, lights, and bleachers, but for some reason, we don’t have functioning scoreboards. After you download GameUpdater, find the name of our team, the name of our opponent, and then enter your child’s date of birth, their blood type, and the locations of any known birthmarks to log in.

As Britain officially labels them terrorists, Palestine Action members speak out from the shadows of a new crackdown.

The post Voices From the Terror List: Palestine Action Members Speak Out After UK Ban appeared first on MintPress News.

From Gaza to New York, displacement is no accident, it’s a weapon. This State of Play episode features Murad Awawdeh on ICE militarization and explores how U.S. and Israeli tactics around forced displacement intersect.

The post How Displacement Became a Tool of US and Israeli Power appeared first on MintPress News.

‘All of this is only mine through you.’ Time and identity collapse in a trans poet’s evocative message to her former self

- Video by On Being

Watch on Psyche

While the U.S. backs Israel, Gaza’s civilian population faces mass starvation and death. Journalist and author Chris Hedges traces the roots of this unfolding atrocity.

The post Starvation as a Weapon: Chris Hedges on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

- by Nicholas E Low

Read at Aeon

Time slowed and adrenaline kicked in. The creature studied me, just another element in nature

- by Melanie McGrath

Read on Psyche

A phenomenon that captured the imaginations of generations of bathers may be key to understanding planetary formation

The post The Dawn of Bathtub Cosmology appeared first on Nautilus.

Many scientists portray psychopathy as a brain disorder, despite a lack of evidence

The post What We Still Get Wrong About Psychopaths appeared first on Nautilus.