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For years we’ve known Donald Trump had a unique habit of flushing documents down the toilet. In the Oval Office, Trump liked to tear up papers after he finished reading them, which meant staffers had to literally tape them back together in some cases. Other documents ended up in a White House fireplace.

The January 6 committee has done a superb job of ferreting out former President Donald Trump’s various schemes for keeping himself in power after losing the 2020 election, and the American press has done an excellent job of summarizing and explaining each of the committee’s alarming discoveries. I have noticed, though, that frequently, nearing the end of an article describing one or another of Trump’s hair-raising plans to subvert the U.S. electoral process, the writer will say something to the... Читать дальше...

Republicans, and white conservatives, have long been hostile to public schools. School desegregation drove white evangelicals to become the strongest Republican demographic. Ronald Reagan promised to end the Department of Education in 1980. Trump put Betsy DeVos in charge of the Department of Education, precisely because she was a leading proponent (and funder) of defunding public schools, and funneling it to religious schools. During her confirmation hearings it became clear that she knew nothing about education... Читать дальше...

When Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Twitter this week that Democrats “blocked my effort to try & force Soros backed prosecutors to put dangerous criminals in jail,” it may have sounded like a non sequitur coming amidst the Senate vote on the Inflation Reduction Act. As part of his remarks on the Senate floor explaining his opposition to the IRA, he claimed to be speaking for people who live in communities where “violent crime is rampant and you’ve got some crazy prosecutor that refuses to put people in jail... Читать дальше...

Five months pregnant, Diana Apresa and her husband Michael Romo were in a difficult spot, forced to make a decision that would reduce their annual income by more than a third. Diana needed to quit working for the small handyman business they owned in Phoenix, Arizona to lessen her physical stress. “Being a pregnant woman fixing stuff and moving ladders is not ideal,” she said. 

To be a famous instance
of myself

on some occasions
to which

from a safe distance
I would be able

to refer.

Was that what I wanted?

Is this
one of those?

Wedding Procession of the Virgin, Giotto, 1305

I was too young to know anything
about what I didn’t know.
And this is what you want

for your daughters? To go along
with the script and pay
with their lives. I’m young

and my son was once older than I
was when I was and he wasn’t yet.
He’s gone and not gone.

That’s what myth does, it stops
time to allow people to change
into costumes with different colors

and faces. Each mask
a girl... Читать дальше...