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"Malnutrition is a factor in 45 percent of child deaths worldwide ... these deaths can be inexpensively prevented."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
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Opinion | This Problem Is Easy to Solve
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/opinion/hunger-trump-aid-cuts.html
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Some Saturday night music: Lexicon, by Vagabon.
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Vagabon - Lexicon (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Vagabon
https://youtu.be/JfvhimQyNgs?si=KbxsLBnyQgbGl_zJ
about 10 hours ago
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Meanwhile ... "With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html
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"We must be honest and admit that most of Christianity has focused very little on what Jesus himself taught and spent most of his time doing: healing people, doing acts of justice and inclusion, embodying compassionate and nonviolent ways of living." — Richard Rohr
cac.org/daily-medita...
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A Teaching to Be Lived Out
Father Richard considers how challenging it is to live out Jesus’ teaching on the Sermon on the Mount:  I am told that the Sermon on the
https://cac.org/daily-meditations/a-teaching-to-be-lived-out/
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Pitino can’t be happy with this defense
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"On the night of Sept. 21, 1965 ... Cleveland Indians manager Birdie Tebbetts sent him in to pinch-run for Larry Brown in the top of the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium. He wasn’t there very long. The next batter, rookie Richie Scheinblum, swung at the first pitch ..."
www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...
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Meet the man whose MLB career came and went in a single pitch
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6608539/2025/09/18/mlb-ralph-gagliano-record-book/
about 19 hours ago
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Some Friday night music: Phantom Limb, by The Shins.
youtu.be/XoMAbmZw3mI?...
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Phantom Limb
YouTube video by The Shins - Topic
https://youtu.be/XoMAbmZw3mI?si=v6Z0Cq34nJrIX0q3
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Stopped to get some groceries … a Tesla taking up 4 parking spaces near the front door is on-brand.
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Mapping out some of the thinking in Far Right circles concerning women and rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
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Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should-make-babies-not-vote-why-some-on-the-far-right-want-to-repeal-the-19th-amendment/
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Dorian Lynskey
1 day ago
For the last century many people have imagined what an American dictator might look like but none that I know of predicted that his approach would be to repeatedly say “Hello I would like to be a dictator.”
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Denise Wheeler
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Mike Johnson's response: “The reason many people refer to the Bidens as the Biden crime family is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains. Whatever President Trump is doing is out in the open."
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This seems symbolic of somethingorother. "Nobody can argue that that is not a failure."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...
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A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/432-park-avenue-condo-tower.html
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Bill Grueskin
2 days ago
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
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New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2025/11/05/sarasota-new-college-soaring-expenses-as-florida-targets-woke-waste/87017060007/
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Some Thursday night music: The Train to Zermatt, by Steph Strings.
youtu.be/HxZFcODmYkc?...
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Steph Strings - The Train to Zermatt (Live from Bakehouse Studios, Melbourne)
YouTube video by Steph Strings
https://youtu.be/HxZFcODmYkc?si=QmrY7tikVe_h8Y8Q
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"By its own admission, the Agriculture Department had ample funds to continue SNAP without interruption in November and to make its payments in full. But the program is one that Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have long sought to cut."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/snap-food-stamps-shutdown-trump.html
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"Built on the site where a large mining dam collapsed on January 25, 2019, releasing a torrent of mining waste and mud that engulfed numerous structures. The disaster killed an estimated 272 people."
www.dezeen.com/2025/11/05/g...
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GPAA designs details of Brazil memorial to "carry profound meaning"
A jagged entry pavilion and a suspended concrete sculpture are among the elements at a vast memorial in rural Brazil designed by local studio GPAA.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/05/gpaa-brumadinho-memorial-brazil/
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"The big issue we’re having now is finding workers," Tirres said. "God almighty, is it hard."
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Are We Living Through the End of Texas Farming?
The Trump administration’s immigration policies have made it much harder to find agricultural labor in the state—but that’s just the latest blow in a deepening, industry-wide crisis.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/is-this-the-end-of-texas-farming/
3 days ago
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News Eye
3 days ago
This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.
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"Earlier this year, findings from MIT Media Lab’s Project NANDA said that 95 percent of the companies that invested in generative AI to boost earnings and productivity have zero gains to show for it."
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Some Wednesday night music: Dream Baby Dream, by Bruce Springsteen.
youtu.be/eaZRSQfFo8Y?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream (Live)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
https://youtu.be/eaZRSQfFo8Y?si=lF3r7QqcSivlSKa-
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In addition to the atrocities of ICE. "Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states."
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/
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Acyn
4 days ago
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Sheila Liming
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Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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"More important to the story ... is the devastating loss of meaning that accompanies the death of a child ... The Brothers Karamazov is written in defiance of this loss of meaning—that is, the abyss it stares into, the night it seeks to fill with light."
www.newyorker.com/books/second...
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The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?
https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-light-of-the-brothers-karamazov#intcid=_the-new-yorker-homepage-bkt-a_51077449-f7f3-45dc-877d-569a1ebc353a_cygnus-personalized
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Some Tuesday night music: The Masterplan, by Oasis.
youtu.be/dPPi2D6GK7A?...
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Oasis - The Masterplan
YouTube video by OasisVEVO
https://youtu.be/dPPi2D6GK7A?si=0GSnZWCDAlJjYk4I
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"I think I need a new ballot—I filled in the bubble too emphatically."
www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dai...
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“That is not how anything grows.” — Andrea Gibson
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"If you’re analyzing lyrics while listening to Oasis songs, you’re doing it wrong."
www.stereogum.com/2327906/the-...
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The Alternative Number Ones: Oasis’ “Wonderwall”
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://www.stereogum.com/2327906/the-alternative-number-ones-oasis-wonderwall/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/
5 days ago
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Denise Wheeler
5 days ago
Well done, Virginia! The state's first female governor.
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Virginia elects Democrat Abigail Spanberger as state's first woman governor
Spanberger’s campaign asked voters to weigh in on Trump’s second term and promised to address cost-of-living issues.
https://19thnews.org/2025/11/abigail-spanberger-virginia-first-woman-governor/
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My morning reading: Take Me With You, by Andrea Gibson
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"Behind the closed doors of the courthouse, he set aside decades of institutional precedent by not gathering the court’s seven justices to debate the legislature’s request in person, as chief justices had historically done for important matters."
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1762052406&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Shumater
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@hallieshoffner.bsky.social
files paperwork in bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, who has gone 8 years without holding a town hall: “What we know about Tom Cotton is that he doesn’t care about the state of Arkansas."
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Some Monday night music: Wildflower Wildfire, by Lana Del Rey.
youtu.be/bg2Nk0LX9Mg?...
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Lana Del Rey - Wildflower Wildfire (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Lana Del Rey
https://youtu.be/bg2Nk0LX9Mg?si=9eSlA2ZyklJxe7Ry
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"Why are the keys to our future in the hands of those who have the longest commutes from their heads to their hearts?" — Andrea Gibson
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Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet — Andrea Gibson, Poet, Writer, Activist, Author, Performer - Andrea's New Book "You Better Be Lightning" Available Now
Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet, Earth Poem
https://andreagibson.org/homesick-a-plea-for-our-planet
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Emma Vossen, a Tolkien scholar: "Those who wish to oppress need to see themselves as underdogs (i.e., Hobbits) to justify their actions and values to themselves. It’s very similar to the way the far right uses and abuses the bible to justify their actions."
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk Really Doesn't Get 'The Lord of the Rings'
Musk has recently used Tolkien references to push anti-immigration messaging, as has the Department of Homeland security. They've got it all backwards.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-and-the-trump-administration-really-dont-get-tolkien/
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Jacob Harris
6 days ago
All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums
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Some Sunday night music: Angel From Montgomery, by John Prine and Emmylou Harris.
youtu.be/QXo3K8l-uDc?...
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John Prine & Emmylou Harris - "Angel From Montgomery" (Live)
YouTube video by John Prine
https://youtu.be/QXo3K8l-uDc?si=IX0AwyUaJzDStMln
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"When a war ends, what does that look like exactly? Do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? Does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother?" — Andrea Gibson.
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My afternoon reading: The Idiot, by Elif Batuman.
7 days ago
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"One of her most memorable quotes [Dorothy Day] is remembered by is 'The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.'" —
@brcremer.bsky.social
benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/blesse...
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"Blessed are you who hunger, for you will be satisfied."
https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/blessed-are-you-who-hunger-for-you-will-be-satisfied
7 days ago
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Some Saturday night music: I Prefer Your Love, by St. Vincent.
youtu.be/kL2pZG6r2yM?...
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I Prefer Your Love
YouTube video by St. Vincent - Topic
https://youtu.be/kL2pZG6r2yM?si=TG0Owb5XBixCuzY8
7 days ago
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"In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock spires in Nambung National Park in Western Australia ... Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles (Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Goh)
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"I've struggled with anxiety for most of my life, and anxiety’s close friend is normally depression because by the end of the day you're so exhausted from the adrenal burnout that you just kind of plummet and get really sad."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/m...
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Jennifer Lawrence Regrets Everything She’s Ever Said or Done
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/magazine/jennifer-lawrence-interview.html
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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Some Friday night music: Forgive You, by Leon Bridges.
youtu.be/PoNsVhMM_oE?...
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Leon Bridges - Forgive You (Official Audio)
YouTube video by LeonBridgesVEVO
https://youtu.be/PoNsVhMM_oE?si=3zT_sC3Z6e9D1co-
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"As Walker noted during a preview for Monuments, creating the sculpture offered a space to meditate upon such Confederate statues and the power, values, and myths they have carried throughout history—and, in return, a moment to redefine all of that."
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Artist Kara Walker Transforms Toppled Confederate Monument Into Haunting Sculpture
“There’s a healing aspect to doing this show.”
https://mymodernmet.com/kara-walker-unmanned-drone-monuments-exhibition-moca/
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"For ICE, it will create a closed loop: Local authorities apprehend immigrants. Private contractors deliver them to either a local jail (paid to house detainees) or a detention site run by a private corporation."
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ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas
A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-building-a-24-7-shadow-transportation-network-across-texas/
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Some Thursday night music: Crystalized, by The xx.
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The xx - Crystalised (Official Video)
YouTube video by The xx
https://youtu.be/Pib8eYDSFEI?si=bvyPD_4m7wve0xUp
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"Finding this Galton study came as a relief to Nick. Now at least he knew that there had been other people lacking mental imagery who’d lived normal lives, so it wasn’t a disease, or a symptom of a brain tumor."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/some-people-cant-see-mental-images-the-consequences-are-profound
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Some Wednesday night music: Showbiz, by Muse.
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Showbiz
YouTube video by Muse - Topic
https://youtu.be/HLa9eO3oNsw?si=LEN1vc1lrKFf91ZU
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"Amid outbreak, [Louisiana's] state surgeon general stopped state promotion of all vaccines."
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Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5576494/louisiana-whooping-cough-pertussis-infant-deaths
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