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Poisonous Fruit (opens the original)
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By now, most people have heard about the Cornell 7. I will start off by saying when cases like these come to light, I am usually speechless for a few days, and I don’t mean it in the classical sense, I mean inside my own head. I imagine it’s some sort of freeze response, even all these years later, though I promise I would not write about this if I couldn’t. If you are a survivor of sexual assault and you need to not read about this case or this topic right now, please stop here, and know that I
The Fourth Branch (opens the original)
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Amendment I of the United States ConstitutionCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Ratified December 15, 1791I often wonder about the toll it’s taking, living through these relentlessly embarrassing, devastating times here in the states, not that I am unaware of the
Somebody That I Used to Know (opens the original)
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There’s a thing about open doors: If you have to abandon yourself at the threshold so you can enter and be received with love, that open door is an invitation to betray yourself for someone else’s comfort. That open door is a trapdoor.Hello friends, welcome to the this week’s podcast episode, which is based on an essay I published a couple of weeks ago. I read the essay to start us off, a thing I don’t always do, because this piece resonated with a lot of readers, and I know people pr
David Hasselhoff Was Always Going to Be a Problem (opens the original)
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There are things you need to understand if you want to grasp what’s happening with this “AI wiping out humanity” situation — and more importantly, how to stop it — and somehow, no one is mentioning The David Hasselhoff Pipeline. I’m as surprised as you, no doubt. Before he starred in Bay Watch, David Hasselhoff was in a show called Knight Rider.Some of you don’t know who David Hasselhoff is. We won’t talk about it, that’
Somebody That I Used to Know (opens the original)
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Last week I happened upon an article about parental estrangement. It was written by a mother whose grown daughter has gone no-contact. She was talking about the complicated grief of losing someone who is still alive.I was drawn in because it’s a topic we all understand on some level, even if we haven’t been through that exact thing ourselves. We grieve people we lose when a romantic relationship ends, and also if a friendship ends. Those experiences are deeply painful, but they tend to be part o
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