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The chaos in the House of Representatives continued on Thursday, as Republican representatives almost seemed to want to outdo the dysfunction of the beginning of the week. After losing two roll-call votes on the House floor, Representative Jim Jordan briefly endorsed empowering Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry to take the reins, a move that would allow the House to function normally and consider legislation. But Republicans emerged from a fraught three-and-a-half-hour meeting insisting that... Читать дальше...

It’s Day 16 without a House speaker, and congressional Republicans are no closer to electing someone to replace Kevin McCarthy than they were two weeks ago. Meanwhile, tensions appear to have reached a breaking point.

Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell cut a deal with Fulton County prosecutors on Wednesday, pleading guilty to six misdemeanor charges in the Georgia election interference case just one day before her criminal trial was set to begin.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has long downplayed the January 6 riot that claimed five lives, has denounced a peaceful protest on Capitol Hill as an “insurrection” and demanded that the police preserve surveillance footage of the protesters.

A smog has blanketed the sky, and the soil’s bounties have begun to dry out. Gone are brilliant neon-orange Indian mangoes, grass-green grapes meant for champagne, Greek lemon trees with their soft perfume. Scarcity has made palates incurious, leading to a nativist turn in national appetites: Think pallid plates of fish and chips in England, a country that once hummed with curry houses sitting along a vibrant Brick Lane.

My heart is a streak of cloud
Across a moon that
Shatters in the lake it lights.

It is also this palace with
Its pilasters and sconces
Pulsing to old music.

A Roadmaster ventricle
Pumps 28 cents per gallon
Sunsets of greenhouse gasses.

A dandelion root airbound
Fractures courtyard lobby
Pavers trod by descendants

Of enslaved Africans
And of serfs from Grodno
To Taiwan with telltale

Names like the blacklisted
Sympathizers haunting
Balcony and loge. Читать дальше...

No one could prohibit the sunshine.
All the churches were shut.
Families headed to the water.

Little fear, rest, I said to my child,
the waves crash too far out to be interested
in you. Keep on with your story in the sand.

You live with mama in a cave.
Shells are food this holiday.
Bundle feathers to burn so we won’t freeze.

Fire is a resource that can’t be saved.

“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” Thus spake 34 signatories of the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine on the night of Hamas’s October 7 massacre of 1,400 unarmed civilians. Now the undersigned have gone underground. You can still find the letter on the website of The Harvard Crimson, but not any sign of which groups endorsed it. The Crimson explains: “This statement was co-authored... Читать дальше...

Same same old same changing same,
rain turns into sleet, sleet into snow,

I mark my place in the comic book,
I play it down to the end, I sleep,

can’t sleep, my trouble is I don’t
let go of things easily, easy, I tell myself,

go easy, and if you can’t go easy, go as easy
as you can. In the café on Cornelia Street

Nolan Strong and the Diablos’ “Mind Over Matter”
placed into the audio system, inside

Rimbaud’s season in hell Jesus
walks on the ebony waves of an emerald river. Читать дальше...

Representative Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker of the House was always a long shot, but his allies may have doomed him.

Much of the coverage of Joe Biden’s speech in Israel on Wednesday has understandably focused on a warning. “Justice must be done,” Biden said, hours after arriving in Tel Aviv. “I caution this: While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it. After 9/11, we were enraged in the U.S. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”