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In this column, Kristen Mulrooney writes letters to famous mothers from literature, TV, and film whom she finds herself relating to on a different level now that she’s a mom herself.

Dear Alison,

I am forever thinking about the time Katherine Heigl made some negative comments about your character, saying that you were painted as a shrew and a killjoy, and that you and your sister seemed “humorless and uptight” while the men in your lives got to be “lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys.”

After letting my indignance about those comments stew for over a decade, I am writing to you today to adamantly defend your honor, because I think you were painted with all the right shades of patience and resistance, all of your lines drawing boundaries exactly where they needed to be. The problem wasn’t the painting—the problem was the way we’re primed to view women, and honestly, I hate it.

In a world of bullies, no one is secure Polling seems to be swinging President Joe Biden’s way, for what that’s worth. While he’s out in the field promoting his accomplishments, Donald Trump is stuck in a New York courtroom. The problem for Biden is that Trump’s courtroom antics are getting the headlines. Trump is the living embodiment of conservative disrespect for the rule of law when applied to them: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” Trump models himself after mobsterJohn Gotti, says Tim O’Brien, Senior Executive Editor at Bloomberg Opinion, and has compared himself to Al Capone.

The BBC announced three new Doctor Who original novels to celebrate the new season, with Millie Gibson reading one of the audiobooks.

The LiveJournal community, circa 2005

The university café where English adjuncts hold their office hours

My tenth-grade ELA class when I ask them to write one (1) poem

The subject line of Submittable email notifications

Bard College

Any and all bars named after Oscar Wilde

Literary Twitter

The reception for the Nobel Prize in Literature the year Bob Dylan won

An MFA workshop forbidden from writing any more poems about birds

English professors walking by the new $80 million STEM building

The comments section of a think piece about the TV show Dickinson

Coffee shops with horoscope-themed drink specials that have run out of oat milk

Poets surreptitiously checking for their names in the “Notable” section of The Best American Poetry anthology

The Best American Poetry anthology

The Moleskine display at Target

The Ticketmaster waiting room minutes before Taylor Swift tickets are released

As part of a revamped and expanded weekly podcast series, David Sirota explores how the DNC crushed 2024 primary challengers — and might have hurt Biden’s reelection chances.

The current media storm surrounding a school in Brent, where a pupil took legal action against their school for alleged Islamophobia, has led to outcries from liberal and Tory commentators alike about the sanctity of secularism. What it reveals, however, is that Muslim school pupils have become the undeserving target of a reactionary political elite […]

The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban.

The post Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens appeared first on The Intercept.

‘You get this really delicious thing that is almost universally loved’: as Los Angeles sleeps, Harriet the bread baker thrives

- by Psyche Film

Watch at Psyche

Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power

- by Mark Vernon

Read at Aeon

No sooner had I finished my comment on the irrelevancy of economics but I had confirmation — albeit unwittingly — in this morning’s Financial Times.  There on the editorial page was a short column by Soumaya Keynes talking about the rise of Hank. For those of you not on the cutting edge, “Hank” stands for […]

Top level discussions between Georgian government officials and their party’s oligarch founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili, provide insights into the motivation for resurrecting a draft law that prompted two nights of rioting last year, reports Will Neal

While Ukraine has struggled to maintain vital supplies, Russia has lost all momentum and is pushing for a timeout just as things are set to dramatically change, writes Paul Niland. Here's what will happen next

John Mitchinson explores why are we so fascinated by the odious, uncancellable, Mr Punch

THAI communities from Port Macquarie to Grafton will gather together for the Songkran, or Water Festival, to celebrate Thai New Year on Sunday 21 April at Harbourside Markets alongside Coffs Harbour’s Jetty Beach. “A parade through the markets, celebrating the beginning of the festival, is a highlight of the day,” Robyn Lawrence, who has close...

The post Songkran music, dance and Thai culture celebrated in Coffs Harbour appeared first on News Of The Area.

COFFS HARBOUR artists Janet Besançon and John Thiering describe their decision to collaborate on creating works of art as “an ambitious thing to do”. The pair of friends decided to “let go of the preciousness” that can come with being a solitary painter and “see how we’d go working together on a piece”. Advertise with...

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You can say that about a lot of things, can’t you? This example is about that impeachment trial yesterday from Steve Benen: More than a month after House Republicans impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, despite the GOP’s inability to find any evidence of him committing high crimes, the articles were finally delivered to the Senate on Tuesday. Republicans in the upper chamber responded by demanding a full impeachment trial. They didn’t get one. As NBC News reported, the Senate Democratic majority dismissed both of the articles against the DHS chief just hours after the proceedings began. The speed of the impeachment trial was an embarrassing blow to Republicans who had threatened to gum up the Senate and delay the proceedings in a bid to highlight what they argue is Mayorkas’ failure to secure the border and stop the flow of thousands of undocumented migrants at the border. However, Democrats, who control the upper chamber, easily dispensed with the pair of impeachment articles — as well as several motions to adjourn the Senate.

Wisconsin Rep.Mike Gallagher was once considered a major rising star in the GOP. Dar I say he might even have been a Great Whitebread Hope along the lines of a similar looking former Wisconsin superstar, Paul Ryan. But he decided to quit early and tomorrow is his last day. Why?  With just days until he leaves his seat in Congress, Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., could be shedding some light on the reasoning behind his early resignation Gallagher announced in February he would not seek re-election after he was just one of a small handful of House Republicans to oppose the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Then, in March, he said he would be resigning his seat, effective April 19. In one of his last acts in Congress, Gallagher — who represents Wisconsin’s 8th District — chaired a Tuesday hearing of the House Select Committee on China concerning the country’s possible connection to fentanyl overdose deaths in the U.S. After the hearing, Gallagher spoke with reporters about the hearing and the end of his time in Congress.

The Opposition leader (as of writing), Peter Dutton, has demanded a national apology from all Australian rape victims to his Senators. ”I understand that rape can be traumatic, Jen Morrison was good enough to drop by the party room and... Read More ›