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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 Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen,

Let me start by saying I would never doubt most of your claims to fame. First of her name? The records can prove it. The Unburnt Queen of Meereen? I saw it with my own eyes! Breaker of chains? Absolutely, it was some of your best work.

If I’m being honest, though, for a while, I wasn’t so sure about the whole “Mother of Dragons” thing. Even considering your plans for world domination, I still thought you were at your most delusional when you unironically declared that three fire-breathing dragons were your babies. I’m writing now to say I was wrong.

Baltimore's Francis Scott Bridge collapsed after one part of the structure was hit by a ship. The disaster is a perfect metaphor for the crisis Europe may face if Trump is re-elected, writes Alexandra Hall

Can the Kremlin respond to calls to limit Central Asian migration, when Russia faces a demographic crisis?

The temperature is climbing, the flowers are poking their little heads out of the dirt, and soon the sidewalk will be riddled with nothing but exposed feet. Yes, feet season is coming. It’s time to prepare.

It’s likely been a while since you’ve seen any feet up close, including your own, so it’s best to begin your preparations gradually. You can start by looking at hands. Hands are a bit like feet, except much more beautiful.

After familiarizing yourself with hands, let’s move on to toes. Not actual toes. God no. We’re not ready for that yet. But a baby carrot is shaped like a toe. Try looking at one of those. No, don’t eat it. It’s for demonstration purposes only. Do. Not. Eat—oh, fine, but just that one.

Now that you’ve looked at some hands and had a snack, you’re ready to look at some feet. Specifically, your own feet. Start by locating your toes. How do they look? Not so good? Stop, don’t shove them back inside your boots. It’s not boot season anymore. It’s feet season, and we’ll get through this together.

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Jared Leto/Wheel of Fortune, Velma, Elon Musk & Disney, One Piece, Smiling Friends, Doctor Who, and more!

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy

- by Keri Leigh Merritt

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These experiences – which are more of an illusion than a hallucination – can be a healthy part of the grieving process

- by Shayla Love

Read at Psyche

Josh King said police told him he was stopped simply because he had a 'nice car'

A recent survey of firms in the Eighth District suggests that consumer price growth is expected to keep slowing in 2024, though most firms also reported that they still have at least some ability to pass on higher costs.

The Labour party leader's long marginalisation of the Left cannot survive the realities of Government, argues his former advisor Simon Fletcher

There’s an upbeat mood among RMIT workers after an all-out strike for three and a half days in the week leading up to Easter.

The post Strike action heats up at RMIT University first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Whoever keeps posting Karl Marx quotes on the breakroom bulliten board needs to stop.– Management Engage yourself with consequential reflections about labor and class struggle in the 21st century with these (not just thought but also action-provoking) five superb books: — Anderson, Elizabeth. 2023. Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers […]

President Joe Biden’s handling of the Gaza war might impact the decisions of at least a quarter of Democratic voters in November.

The post 1 in 5 Wisconsin Democrats Said Gaza War Will Impact Their Primary Vote appeared first on The Intercept.

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That was a lie. Meidas Touch reports: David Zere, host of the MAGA Real America’s Voice show Breaking Point, kicked off a firestorm of social media misinformation Friday when he falsely claimed that disgraced former President Donald Trump had paid off the mortgage for the family of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller. Trump used the wake for Officer Diller, who was killed at a traffic stop on Monday, as a photo op, posing for cameras in front of a line of NYPD officers and railing against crime in the U.S.  “We have to get back to law and order. We have to do a lot of things differently. This is not working. This is happening too often,” Trump said, despite violent crime rates being lower now than they were during his presidency. Zere said in an interview with Jack Posobiec prior to the wake, “The story here is that Trump gave a donation to Tunnels to Towers, I believe he paid off the mortgage for this family.” Trump himself never claimed he would be donating to pay off Diller’s mortgage, but the lie quickly spread on social media following Zere’s interview.

We have lived under representative democracy for a long time now, and while it has had its victories and there have been good leaders, it’s fair to say that most of the leadership, most of the time, has been bad or even evil, and that representative democracy has failed its biggest test—managing climate change and environmental collapse.

This is a Green Age After the Collapse Article. You can read the others (this is the fourth), here.

The importance of feeling small and insignificant.

The post How a Total Eclipse Alters Your Psyche appeared first on Nautilus.

It appears to be on the table: Rep. Don Bacon on Sunday warned that “it’s possible” that Speaker Mike Johnson could face a vote to oust him if he moves to pass Ukraine aid in the House. “I’m not going to deny it,” Bacon, R-Neb., said when asked by moderator Kristen Welker on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether it’s possible Johnson could lose his speakership over Ukraine aid. “We have one or two people that are not team players. They’d rather enjoy the limelight, the social media,” Bacon added, though he did not name any members. “It’s a very narrow majority, and one or two people can make us a minority,” he said. Bacon favors some support for Ukraine and highlighted his partnership with Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Ed Case, D-Hawaii, on a Ukraine aid bill.

The company linked to the Baltimore disaster aims to use a 173-year-old “Titanic Law” to avoid paying big damages — after fossil fuel and other industries lobbied to stop reforms.

Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

The post Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting appeared first on Nautilus.

Australia’s defamation lawyers have today put out a press release naming Channel 7’s second favourite son, Bruce Lehrmann, their person of the decade. ”Up until recently we thought that Ben Roberts-Smith was the goose that laid the golden egg,” said... Read More ›