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Rep. Delia Ramirez told The Intercept she will introduce legislation to stop Trump from restricting birthright citizenship.

The post Democrats to Introduce Bill to Block Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship appeared first on The Intercept.

Thanks for coming to the read-through of my new film. There’s pizza and pasta for after—that’s right, the good stuff, so that should keep you in the seats. Even if my dialogue isn’t quite al dente enough for your taste, the spaghettini will be.

Which is maybe a good time to remind everyone—well, thanks again for coming and sharing your thoughts, I want and need your thoughts, feedback, reaction, takes, and any lines or ideas you may have, but also, it’s a good time to set the table I think for the kinds of notes I need at this fragile stage of the project.

You are all here because you are willing to say the hard things, which is definitely what I need, as I said in the email.

But looking at all of you now, um, and with the trip to the shaman a bit further in the past, the voice in my head is saying that I am not so interested in what you don’t like about the piece.

The part about wanting all your feedback, while true, is more sort of true. I really mostly hope you laugh in the right spots.

Washington claims China is creating genetically engineered cyborg soldiers. But with no proof, critics say the U.S. is exploiting the fear to launch its own dystopian biotech program.

The post The Pentagon Is Using a Fabricated Chinese Threat to Build Genetically Engineered Soldiers appeared first on MintPress News.

A Massachusetts court found that the ICE detention of a former UMass student was likely politically motivated, after a complaint from the Zionist organization Betar appeared to trigger his arrest.

The post Zionist Militant Group Responsible for ICE Arrest of Pro-Palestine Former Student appeared first on MintPress News.

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‘Everything interesting comes from some sort of imperfection.’ A sculptor amplifies the deep weirdness of the human form

- Directed by Ben Berman

Watch on Psyche

A difference in sexual appetite is a common source of tension for couples. Don’t ignore it – turn toward it with curiosity

- by Ann O’Brien

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Plants around the world are adapting their reproductive strategies to survive on an increasingly urban planet

The post Plant Sex and the City appeared first on Nautilus.

Mired in campaign debt after losing her election, Kari Lake is still raking in cash from small donors.

The post An Astounding Number of Kari Lake’s Donors Want Their Money Back appeared first on The Intercept.

In nearly four decades of working in international affairs, I have never seen anything like it. By ‘it’, I refer to the size of the gap between what we claim to be and what we actually do — as brutally reflected in the selective blindness of most Western governments on Gaza. This has profound practical […]

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Dear Students,

Again, my sincerest apologies for offering Classics and Contemporary American Culture this semester. When I pitched this class to the English department chair, I believed Harris would win and we’d spend the semester making interesting literary connections to her sober policy choices. I didn’t foresee that the canon itself would leer at our nation’s pathetic descent into discount fascism.

God knows how many more years of this nightmare we’ll have to endure, but this class is mercifully at an end. Here are the answers to the final exam. Feel free to grade yourselves, and then take full advantage of the open bar at my desk during final office hours this week.

1. Compare the characters at the end of Our Town to ourselves on January 19, 2025. Is Emily right when she says that the living didn’t know how good they had it?

No.

2. Where is Dorian Gray’s portrait, now that it has left the attic?

Giving a presser on the new, Qatari-Royal-Family-gifted Air Force One.