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Convenience stores are not known for luxury. They replicate our base desires, stocking shelves with only the most essential food groups: salt, sugar, and alcohol. But what kind of person would look at a 7-Eleven and say, “You know what this place needs? A brunch item.”

Apparently, I am that kind of person. Ever since the internet has made a cult following out of the egg salad sandwich from Japan’s 7-Eleven, I have been dreaming about such a sandwich coming to America. Photos show perfect cross-sections of cut sandwiches, pearlescent whites peeking out from bright yellow egg salad, thick and rich between two slices of fluffy milk bread.

We’re still fighting fascism June 6 is my parents’ anniversary. As a Boomer, I remember the date first for that. My father was too young for WWII. But my late father-in-law was not. He arrived in Europe after the D-Day invasion, but fighting as an infantryman and a scout for the 100th Infantry Division marked him for life. His shelves were filled with books on the war, on Hitler and the Nazis. As a young man, how could the rest of his life compare with that experience? But he rarely discussed the fighting.   Post by @ajsandyman View on Threads   Post by @therickwilson View on Threads In his things after he died, we found a Bronze Star Ken never mentioned. I discovered the Pentagon gave them out like party favors to soldiers who’d been in theater a decade or so after the war. So it was not something he’d brag about. He valued another medal more. We brought him to a Democratic fundraiser dinner once where Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia was the featured speaker. (You remember him. He lost three limbs in Vietnam.) They’d invited veterans. Our table was full of men Ken’s age.

Over eight million voters live in ‘one-party fiefdoms’ as over 100 parliamentary seats have been held by one party for a century or more

A new episode of Tales of the Tardis will only premiere in the UK just before the season finale of Doctor Who on June 20th. What's it about?

Dear Members of the Search Committee:

Well, here we are again. I am sitting in my sunroom, listening to the robins, crows, and jays, and I’m trying to type out a list of all my achievements so that you will like me enough to invite me for a Zoom interview and possibly a campus visit.

I already have a teaching job at a small college in South Georgia. You may not know this, but the reason that I can’t leave the South is because I live in Florida (about thirty-five miles from the school where I have taught for the last fifteen years) and Florida is a “men’s rights” state, which meant that after I got a PhD and left my abusive ex, I wasn’t able to move anywhere without giving up custody of my children, which I would never do.

My job isn’t terrible, but I’m underpaid, and I’m looking for better opportunities. You may be wondering why I’m even applying for jobs if I can’t really leave the state of Florida. Good question. I’m applying because maybe my ex will die.

Just kidding.

News that a Russian polar survey vessel found a vast oil field off the coast of the British Antarctic Territory has caused significant alarm

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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Harley Quinn, Criminal Minds: Evolution, Reacher, The Last of Us, The Boys, Doctor Who, The Acolyte, and more!

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George Cottrell was Farage's Chief of Staff until he was found guilty of wire fraud in 2017. He's now returned to the Reform leader's side as an advisor

‘We feel taken advantage of,’ says Katarzyna Krzysztofik, a healthcare assistant (HCA) at the University of Leicester NHS Trust. ‘We feel like we’ve been used for a very long time, and now we are angry, disappointed, and sad.’ Krzysztofik has worked at the trust since 2018 and, for all six years, has been carrying out […]

Could inequality be morally justified in a system of equal opportunity? How Rawls’s vision for democracy holds up 50 years on

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Selfishness channels ambition, envy drives competition, pride aids the win. Does it take a bad person to be a good athlete?

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Nostalgia was, in Freud’s day, an illness steeped in the past. Today, it can be a joyful emotion that reframes the future

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Since the beginning of the conflict, about 90,000 southern Lebanese have been forced from their homes and at least 350 people have been killed

Ministers and civil servants condemned for lack of transparency and accountability with no one able to show actions "taken to hold leadership accountable"

The Australian National University in Canberra has expelled student Beatrice Tucker for comments made on ABC radio.

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On June 4, 2024, Australia’s minimum wage setting authority – the Fair Work Commission (FWC) issued their decision in the – Annual Wage Review 2023-24 – which provides for wage increases for the lowest-paid workers – around 0.7 per cent of employees (around 79.2 thousand) in Australia. In turn, around 20.7 per cent of all…

Australian ABC TV journalist Alison Horne was attacked  and she and her crew were verbally abused by Israelis participating in the Jerusalem Day march in what is the Muslim quarter, chanting “death to Arabs and singing songs about burning Arab villages down.” Muslims were cleared from the area for the march which took place under the Continue reading »

The board had proposed appending a statement that would have undermined a Palestinian scholar’s article. The students rejected it.

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