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The Misogyny Behind the Murder of Alex Pretti

I drank a Cab today And listened to oldies, While I waltzed with an invisible lover And cleaned the kitchen… The sky is falling Humanity shreds itself; But for a moment I was back in Monterey The worl...

The emotional whiplash of shopping at Costco as a perimenopausal woman with an extremely picky kid is wild. Like, I’m on the verge of sobbing uncontrollably in front of everyone because they no longer...

A scene from the Pianist keeps drifting into my thoughts, a phantom that unnerves me, but that I don’t quite want to chase away.

Attacks bring total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 425 since October ceasefire took effect Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the fighting. Four people including three children were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP. Continue reading...

Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Civil defence agency says Israeli fire killed 15 and wounded 60 on Thursday, bringing death toll this week to over 100 * Middle East crisis – live updates Dozens more Palestinians were killed or injured in Gaza as they sought desperately needed aid on Thursday, with reports that Israeli forces close to one distribution point had opened fire in the third such incident in as many days. More than a hundred people have been reported killed since Monday while trying either to reach aid points or waiting to stop and offload the limited number of UN and commercial trucks entering the devastated territory. There have been about 20 such incidents in the last four weeks. Continue reading...