In an email that DHS later walked back, the Homeland Security secretary asked the Pentagon to “direct the military on the ground in Los Angeles to arrest rioters.”
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A small Irish hip-hop act is exposing the reach of the Israeli lobby—one canceled gig at a time.
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“There were beheaded children, burned bodies, a sea of mangled civilians.” Gaza surgeon Dr. Tahir reveals what Western media won’t: the full horror of Israel’s war.
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“The Pentagon significantly escalated the federal response to the immigration enforcement protests in Los Angeles on Monday, mobilizing a battalion of 700 Marines and doubling the number of California National Guard troops in what officials described as a limited mission to protect federal property and agents, even as President Trump described the situation as ‘very well under control.’”
— New York Times
We all know the protests in LA are turning violent. Even our SWAT teams are scared they might get hit with a STOP FASCISM banner.
In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot. Some of history’s worst atrocities can be attributed to certain people trying to control other people’s movements, whether by capturing them, herding them into prison camps (concentration camps, strategic hamlets, model villages), enslaving and transporting them, or warehousing them in besieged countries or regions while barricading the borders of anyplace to which they might want to flee, often... Read more
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
I stopped writing when I no longer recognized my world. What a profound betrayal to rifle through your everyday belongings—your thoughts, your days, your life—only to find that nothing quite fits.
So, what changed?
Fair question. Should I make you a list? I love a good list, but rarely finish one. I can’t possibly finish a list of this magnitude, which is more like a to-don’t (at least not all at once) list. But I owe you something. An assay. Let me give it a try.
In the past five years, my family and I have crushed that Holmes and Rahe stress scale:
Sometimes you feel like a fist.
Other times, you feel like the ashtray after a party
no one invited you to.
Both are fine.
Just don’t throw the fist
or eat the ashtray.
You can cry.
It doesn’t make you weak.
It just means you are hydrated.
Anger is a hot beast.
Pet it. Name it.
Put it on a leash
before it chews through your math teacher.
Breathe in like the world owes you money.
Breathe out like you’re never getting it back.
Do this five times
before setting anything on fire.
Use your words.
Not your fists, your feet,
or that disturbingly accurate drawing of the principal
you keep hidden in your desk.
You are not your feelings.
You are the cracked cup holding them.
Still useful.
Still capable of holding tea. Or rage.
But preferably tea.
Ahead of Tuesday’s gubernatorial primaries, Stand With Crypto threw a party for three candidates fond of the industry.
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- by Fasil Merawi
See a city through a visitor’s eyes to capture feelings you’ve lost, or never had – it’s the vicarious construal effect
- by Elena Seymenliyska
The gist of a scene or place can subtly alter our very sense of being, an affecting quality captured by Monet’s paintings
- by Pablo Fernandez Velasco