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6:30 a.m. I awaken from sleep with the unparalleled energy of someone who has an entire school-sanctioned day to humiliate their offspring.

6:55 a.m. Peering into my closet, I select the skinniest jeans I own—seriously, I haven’t worn these since before my preteen was born. No matter. I squeeze my unforgiving middle-aged body into them while double-checking that I still have the breathing capacity for yelling at middle schoolers every ten seconds.

7:30 a.m. I bound to the kitchen to pack my child the smelliest lunch possible, ideally some combination of tuna salad and egg salad. Naturally, I make sure to tuck in a note including several giant drawn hearts and “I LOVE YOU!!!”s. I sign off using the name my child used to call me when they were three years old.

8:15 a.m. We arrive at the school parking lot and gather by the bus for head counts. I immediately announce myself to everyone as my child’s parent, being sure to enunciate their full (including middle) name.

“The term ‘TACO,’ short for Trump Always Chickens Out, has been used to describe how markets tumble on the president’s tariff threats, then rebound when he gives way.” – New York Times

GRAPE - Gift Received, Announced Pardon Early

PORK - Presidential Order Rewarding Kleptocracy

CHEESE - Classic Hillbilly Elegy, Earning Stablecoin Emoluments

BACON - Barron Accepted, College Officially Normalized

EGG - Executive Grift-Golfing

MILK - Maliciously Ignorant, Like Kennedy

MACKEREL - Musk Around: Conceal Ketamine, Ecstasy, Ritalin, Ephedrine, LSD

Susan Abulhawa risked her life to enter Gaza and document Israel’s war on Palestinians. When she tried to share the truth at Oxford, they cut her speech. Now she’s speaking out.

The post Susan Abulhawa: Censored at Oxford After Witnessing Gaza Genocide appeared first on MintPress News.

“A national psyche is loosened when someone is allowed to publicly flaunt the agreements we have all made with one another.”

The Desperado: They get a dreamy look in their eyes, then, before you know it, swoop in quick as a bandit and shove their tongue down your throat.

The Zombie: Their lips are stiff and dead, and you want to whisper, “Pucker up, you lifeless weirdo,” but you can feel yourself become infected, the passion slowly draining.

The Lollipopper: They suck on your tongue like a child sucking on a Tootsie Pop. You want to say, “Hey, that’s bad, stop that,” but you can’t speak, because your tongue is vacuum-locked in their death grip.

The Kubrick: Toward the end of a long, intense make-out, you realize their eyes are open—and you get the creeping sense they’ve been open the whole time.

The Escher: You try to get solid contact, but the angles are just wrong. Their head is strangely tilted, and their lips don’t obey the laws of Euclidean geometry. Nothing makes sense.

Does the blank page look unconquerable? Blackout poetry can give you a creative jumpstart. This short video explains how

- Directed by Andrew Lavers

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Inside the surveillance tech fueling Trump’s deportation machine.

The post How Student Protesters and Immigrants Became Targets of Trump’s Surveillance Tech appeared first on The Intercept.

Wracked with unknown fear, I’d never been able to sleep through the night. Then I went scuba diving

- by Lindsay Lee Wallace

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- by Chelsea Wallis

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Optical advances yield an unprecedented look at the corona dancing around our nearest star

The post A Clear View of the Sun’s Fireworks appeared first on Nautilus.

Our appetite for fish can alter their bodies, minds, and behaviors

The post How Fishing Could Change the Evolution of Fish appeared first on Nautilus.

What bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal about the ocean’s past and future in times of climate chaos

The post These Tiny Beautiful Fossils Tell the Future appeared first on Nautilus.

The Trump administration doesn’t want a protectionist college system. They want a destroyed one.

The post Marco Rubio Is Attacking American Education. International Students Are His Pawns. appeared first on The Intercept.