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My book is not my baby — but the two do have a lot in common
I remember in my first year of motherhood the way I felt my world grow smaller and more intimate, the pace of my life grow slower and more focused. When my husband would come home from coaching and consulting meetings, networking events, and the workshops he facilitated, he would find me ensconced in the tiny world of our home, wrapped up in the milky sweetness of the baby. The private, domestic realm became my primary realm during those early months of motherhood, when I would walk around and around our small apartment with my baby wrapped to my chest, murmuring “shh, shh,” over and over again, like a mantra, or a prayer. Her heart beating against my heart, recreating womb-like conditions on the outside.
Supreme Court's Samuel Alito problem compounded by Donald Trump's immunity case
Public outrage continues this week in response to the disturbing New York Times report that, in the days after the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, a symbol of support for the insurrection was displayed at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The justice has half-heartedly tried to deflect blame onto his wife with some convoluted tale involving her bickering with the neighbors, but in the end, there's no real evading the conclusion: The Alitos publicly hat-tipped the fascist effort to overthrow democracy because they backed Donald Trump's attempted coup. Now there's a growing chorus of people, including Senate Democrats, calling on Alito to recuse himself from all coup-related cases, including one involving Trump's claims to be "immune" from prosecution for his attempts to steal the 2020 election.
"Trump is all dominance, all the time”: New research reveals "his most formidable political asset"
Despite his many policy successes both at home and abroad, President Biden is consistently losing to Donald Trump in the key Rust Belt battleground states polls. These are states that Biden will presumably need to win a second term in office. President Biden also appears to be losing support among key members of the Democratic Party’s base such as Blacks, Latinos and Hispanics, and young people.
"Crazy haywire": Massive coral reef bleaching driven by climate change
"Crazy haywire" are not words one usually hears from an official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), yet that is how Derek Manzello recently described the record-high temperatures threatening to decimate the world's coral reefs. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the coordinator of the NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch Program said that more than three-fifths of the world's coral reefs (60.5%) had started bleaching due to high ocean temperatures.
"Coercive climate" of Silicon Valley's AI boom fuels "troubling" sex parties, researcher says
Female researchers in artificial intelligence and machine learning are calling for greater transparency into what they allege is a culture of sexual coercion in Silicon Valley. On Sunday, computational neuroscience and machine learning expert Sonia Joseph took to X (formerly Twitter) to describe a "dark side" of startup culture — including "heavy LSD use" and sex parties held by mainly male tech and entrepreneurial elites that involve mock-violent role playing with female participants.
To galvanize voters, the Biden Administration must reject half-step on marijuana reform
During the 2020 presidential campaign, then-candidate Joe Biden repeatedly pledged to decriminalize marijuana and automatically expunge marijuana records – identifying these issues as barriers to racial equity. As we lead into the 2024 election, President Biden still hasn’t fulfilled that promise. Instead, Biden is pushing watered down marijuana reform...
How Amal Clooney advised ICC prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas leaders
Amal Clooney was among a group of lawyers based in the U.K. to advise the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor in issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders — Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, and Ismail Haniyeh.
"His career is effectively done": Experts assess footage of Diddy's assault on Cassie, his apology
Sean "Diddy" Combs, once a prolific and successful rapper and producer, has faced steadily mounting lawsuits alleging a troubling history of violence, including sex trafficking and sexual assault. In March, federal agents raided his homes in Miami and Los Angeles in connection to the sex trafficking investigation. The latest piece...
"Very underwhelming": Legal experts question Trump defense strategy, lack of big-name witnesses
Legal experts say they're closely watching how Trump's defense team will address the falsified business records at the heart of the case as the trial extends into a sixth and expected seventh week. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, with prosecutors saying that audio recordings,...
British court says Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US over espionage charges
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder wanted by U.S. authorities for spying, might not have to go to America after all, CNN reports. Two senior judges on the UK's High Court to granted Assange permission to appeal his extradition on the grounds that as a foreign national from Australia, his right to free speech on U.S. soil was not guaranteed. American prosecutors had tried unsuccessfully to assure the court that Assange would enjoy full rights and not be discriminated against.
What is pasteurization? A dairy expert explains how it protects against foodborne illness
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Recent reports that the H5N1 avian flu virus has been found in cow's milk have raised questions about whether the U.S. milk supply is safe to drink. According to the federal Food and Drug Administration, the answer is yes, as long as the milk is pasteurized.
"That is madness": Pope Francis condemns Texas migrant crackdown, rejects "conservative" Catholicism
Is the pope Catholic? Following a rare interview with an American TV channel, in which the pontiff spoke out against closed minds and a "suicidal" opposition to reform, traditionalist critics are likely to double down on their claim that Francis is betraying the faith with his rejection of dogma. Speaking...
"I sense Matthew's around": Courteney Cox says she feels her late "Friends" co-star's presence
Courteney Cox recently shared that she still feels a connection to her late "Friends" co-star, Matthew Perry, who passed away in October of 2023 at the age of 54. "You know, he's just so funny. He is genuinely a huge heart, obviously struggled," Cox said of Perry during a recent sit-down with CBS Sunday Morning, per Entertainment Weekly. "I'm so thankful I got to work so closely with him for so many years. He visits me a lot, if we believe in that.
"This happened with Vietnam too": "The Sympathizer" star Alan Trong on the power of anti-war protest
Fiction reflects reality in HBO’s “The Sympathizer,” in a way that feels both eerie and timely, where a young anti-war journalist reports on the effect of a war on innocent children and families. Alan Trong who plays Sonny, says the one person he was mostly in fear of watching the show was his mom. Having left Vietnam by boat in the ‘80s, she watched the show for the first time and was markedly shaken up.
"Self-help": Michael Cohen argues he was owed the money he "stole" from the Trump Organization
Donald Trump's defense team on Monday sought to paint star witness Michael Cohen as not just a liar but a thief, nothing that the former president's ex-fixer pocketed some of the money that he was supposed to pay a third-party vendor. Earlier in Trump's hush money trial, prosecutors introduced evidence...
John Oliver takes on Donald Trump and the "long history" of politicians being "weird around corn"
Comedian John Oliver took a shot at Donald Trump's intelligence Sunday night during a "Last Week Tonight" episode on the corn industry and the politicians who cater to it. At the start of the segment, Oliver explained that the U.S. has a record of politicians pandering to voters in corn-farming regions. The show flashed photos of former President Barack Obama, Sen. Mitt Romney and former President George W. Bush with corn on the campaign trail.
Elise Stefanik tells right-wing Israelis that Trump will ship them all the weapons they need
Rep. Elise Stefanik, a rising GOP leader and staunch Trump ally who has used her platform to conflate pro-Palestine activism with antisemitism and called for harsh crackdowns against protesters, declared before a group of Israeli lawmakers that America, and particularly Donald Trump, "is firmly behind Israel and the Jewish people."
Israel "intentionally causing death" among Gaza civilians, Hamas guilty of war crimes, ICC says
After an "independent and impartial" investigation by his office, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan filed arrest warrant applications for three Hamas leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, charging them with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Khan said that the...
Will Trump testify? Legal experts say he probably shouldn't because jurors "may simply not like him"
Donald Trump loathes the gag order that has been imposed on him, complaining about it and the "kangaroo court" responsible for imposing it just about ever time he enters or exits the Manhattan court where he's on trial, accused of falsifying business records to cover up an election-eve hush payment to a porn star. He's already violated the order at least 10 times, forcing the former president to lean on a crop of Republican "surrogates" to make all the attacks — on witnesses, the jury, the legal system — that he would like to make himself, were he not threatened with jail.
Trump learns the truth about RFK Jr. the hard way
For many months former president Donald Trump's henchmen pushed the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an agent of chaos and a boon to Trump's latest bid for the presidency. Salon's Amanda Marcotte presciently called out their strategy in a piece last May titled "Of course Steve Bannon and Alex Jones love RFK Jr. — he's a great weapon for their war on reality." At that time Kennedy was running in the Democratic primary and it was easy to dismiss the right-wing "support" from the likes of Bannon and Jones as well as from former Trump admirer and QANON adherent Michael Flynn, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk and Trump henchman Roger Stone as partisan mischief. But it was more than that.
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