Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.
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FADE IN.
EXT. COUNTRYSIDE – DAY
Open on rolling hills of violently oversaturated green. The scenery suggests a temporal twilight zone, some time between 1745 and the present day.
Against all statistical likelihood, it is not raining.
We zoom in on any ginger AMERICAN actress getting off a tour bus. She steps directly into a pile of cow dung / a procession of priests / the Troubles.
An OLD MAN appears over the crest of a hill, accompanied by a SIMPLE-MINDED FOOL and a DOG. The OLD MAN stares across the hills in a wise and vaguely mystical way.
OLD MAN
The path is just a road that hasn’t found its way home yet.
“My kids’ kids, and probably their kids, are going to be paying for this,” said one official briefed on the U.S war on Iran.
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Since his first inauguration, Trump has been throwing charges at protesters and seeing what sticks. He always failed — until now.
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Research is uncovering the way music can calm the brain and there are techniques to help you amplify its emotional power
- by Stefan Koelsch
Since living requires choosing, we will always feel regret about the paths not taken. But what matters is the future we forge
- by Tasha Kleeman
Despite his high-profile controversies, Platner is still popular with Mainers. But leadership isn’t budging from its centrist pick.
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Lately, in work conversations, I find myself fighting a lifelong tendency to provide way more context than is absolutely required. If you ask me to okay your work, for example, I may respond with an essay on what delighted me about it. The teaching gene, plus the exuberance of writing and thinking clearly, compel me […]
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How do we develop our sense of space? Henri Bergson questioned the very fabric of our reality in his revolutionary work
- by Aeon Video
How did the most influential friendship in the history of psychoanalysis fall apart? The historic break-up of Freud and Jung
- Video by Aeon
In the early 20th century, Emmy Noether’s mathematics transcended the physical world. She longed to do the same herself
- by Julia Ravanis
“Jordan Wood was not a CD2 resident until very recently, and I personally look sideways at someone who moves into a district in order to run.”
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When I was six, I met my sister: her quiet question sparked a bond that took us from foster agency to home
- by Leslie Vooris