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HOST: Welcome to “What School Form Did I Just Sign?”—a game where parents must keep track of all the paperwork they are required to fill out by their children’s school. Our contestants are Lindsey, a mother of three kids who attend three different schools, and Dave, a divorced dad whose son lives with him every other week. Okay, folks, first question: What book did you order your kid from Scholastic?

DAVE: That’s easy: a nonfiction book about whales.

HOST: I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. Lindsey?

LINDSEY: A biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

HOST: That is also incorrect. The correct response is “a cupcake-scented gel pen set and matching narwhal notebook, costing over twenty-five dollars.”

LINDSEY: Really? I told Sydney she had to order a book.

NATO's shocking 'Humour in online information warfare' working paper reveals a sinister strategy, encouraging cyberbullying and doxxing as tools of war, unraveling the disturbing reality of meme-driven manipulation in online spaces.

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In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who echoed it in his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” Sadly enough, justice delayed (and possibly denied) is once again front and center in America as we face the specter of Donald Trump and his insistence on eternally evading the reach of the law. What’s at stake isn’t just the fate of the former president, but an essential aspect of democracy. The Georgia Case Recently, the country was privy to attempts by Donald Trump’s lawyers to delay, if... Read more

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It’s a year and one day since you died. At times, I feel your presence. I listen to your music every day. I miss you.

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Israel hoped that Gazans would rush in their hundreds of thousands to the Sinai Desert. They did not. Then began speaking of “voluntary migration." Still, Palestinians stayed. Now, they've agreed to invade Rafah, a last-ditch effort to orchestrate another Nakba.

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To understand Trump’s continuing hold over his fans, we have to ask: Why do they find him so funny?

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Step 1
Go to your local specialty market that is more than five but less than twenty miles away to procure your ingredients.

Step 2
Stop by the meat counter and address your butcher by first name. If you are not on a first-name basis with your butcher, this recipe will not work.

Step 3
Maintain eye contact as you ask your butcher to cut your meat “Toledo style.” Any butcher even passingly familiar with the Toledo style of butchering will know what this means.

Step 4
Purchase a dozen farm-fresh eggs, a bottle of rye vinegar, one liter of cranberry oil, the expensive brand of beef broth, a bag of organic carrots, and a sprig of chervil. No substitutions.

Step 5
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Step 6
Beat your eggs using your Kitchenaid Stand Mixer’s bazooka attachment.

Step 7
When your eggs achieve a frothy consistency that resembles the breakers at Mykonos at magic hour, stir in the dry ingredients.

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