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Hewlett Packard to pursue Mike Lynch’s estate for up to $4bn
Tech company says it will follow legal proceedings to their conclusion' after tycoon's death last monthHewlett Packard Enterprise has confirmed it will push ahead with a high court lawsuit against the estate of the deceased tech tycoon Mike Lynch in which it is seeking damages of up to $4bn (3bn).The US company said in a statement it would follow the legal proceedings through to their conclusion" despite Lynch's death last month when his yacht sank off the coast of Italy. Continue reading...
San Francisco 49er player Ricky Pearsall released from hospital after shooting
Suspected shooter, a 17-year-old boy, arrested after football player shot in chest during attempted robbery, police saySan Francisco 49er football player Ricky Pearsall was released from the hospital after being shot in the chest during an attempted robbery this weekend.The suspected shooter, a 17-year-old boy, was arrested and will be charged in juvenile court, according to NBC Sports. He has not been publicly identified. Continue reading...
Trump says maybe God saved him from assassination attempt to fix ‘broken country’
Trump floats God's political purpose for his survival: I'd like to think God thinks I'm going to straighten out our country'Donald Trump told a Fox News host that he thinks God believes he will straighten out" the country after he survived an assassination attempt in July at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.I think you think like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more. And somebody said like, why? And I'd like to think that God thinks that I'm going to straighten out our country," Trump told Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin after the host asked him if the shooting on 13 July had strengthened his belief in the almighty. Continue reading...
The nature of a starfish: ‘a disembodied head walking about on its lips’ | Helen Sullivan
Besides its underwater life, it is nothing like a fish: it can push its stomach out of its mouth and eat the inside of a clamThe thing about starfish is that you tend to forget the -fish part. But when you think about that, a lot of things come into focus. For example, the fact that besides its underwater life, it is nothing like a fish. For example: a starfish can push its stomach out of its mouth and eat the inside of a clam. Show me a fish that can do that.The ones that are most common at the beaches near me feel as though they're cut from shark skin, smooth and rough at the same time. They have webbed arms, not clearly delineated ones, and are the size of a coin. They are dull browns and greens and blues. Continue reading...
No individual player is the answer to Manchester United’s problems | Jonathan Wilson
Casemiro display against Liverpool was painful, but the blame for United's early season struggles sits with an incoherent structure
Grief and anger in Israel following death of six hostages | First Thing
General strike follows tens of thousands taking to the streets in protest against the government's handling of the war in Gaza. Plus: fears of overtourism in Norway
Republicans are lining up to oppose Trump. Will it make a difference?
Former Trump aides and others say the ex-president is unfit for office and urge fellow Republicans to vote for HarrisDonald Trump has a knack for rallying a remarkable range of political opinion around a common goal: preventing his return to the White House.That now includes prominent names from his own Republican party and top aides who worked under him as president. From former White House officials and national security staff to a once-worshipful press secretary, a host of one-time Trump fans are now lining up to join Democrats in declaring him unfit for another term in office. Continue reading...
Why are so many Democratic politicians appearing on Fox News?
As Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders speak on Fox, Democrats could reach just enough swing voters to winPete Buttigieg, Joe Biden's transport secretary, introduced himself to Democrats at their convention earlier last month in unusual fashion. I'm Pete Buttigieg and you might recognize me from Fox News," he told the crowd in Chicago.The comment drew laughter, but beneath it was a certain truth: in the final two months of the 2024 election, politicians and campaign aides are less siloed in their ideologically aligned media bubbles in an effort to poach potentially persuadable voters. Continue reading...
Caitlin Clark leads Fever to fourth-straight win as Indiana close on playoff spot
The kids are eating us out of house and home – and I couldn’t be happier | Emma Beddington
Our boys are back from university, and after months of pulse-based dinners, my husband and I have rediscovered the joy of snacks. Not that we're the ones who are eating them ...How many of these cookies can I eat?" my older son texts (he is downstairs; I am up). They're really good." My fingertips tingle with satisfaction.Both boys are home from university briefly and I have a new identity: I'm an intermittent feeder. My husband and I don't exactly eat like birds in our empty nest - well, I eat like one of those gulls that shoplifts Doritos - but we shop like middle-aged people trying not to die, our cupboards boring and barren, our freezer packed with pulse-based, batch-cooked dinners. Continue reading...
Stressed, sweaty and remorseful, I arrived late for dinner again – and then made a life-changing decision | Helene Rosenthal
My friends expected nothing less, but my habitual tardiness was more than just a quirk: it was eating away at my wellbeingIf you had asked me to describe myself one year ago, I would have led with this: I am that person who is always late. I could have also said I am 5ft 7in and love coriander, but then you wouldn't have been forewarned: being friends with me involves a lot of waiting. Ugh, sorry in advance.Then this happened. One day, I had an appointment just before meeting friends for dinner. When it ended early, I went straight to the restaurant and waited at the bar for everyone else. Ordinarily, I would have rolled in 10 minutes late, drenched in sweat and remorse. I would have been mortified to be that person, once again, who was the last to show and the reason why our table had been given away to a complete" party. After blabbering a bunch of lies to my friends about traffic and first-time Uber drivers, I would have spent the rest of the night berating myself for being, well, me.Helene Rosenthal lives in New York City and writes about families, friendships and relationships Continue reading...
The right’s obsession with childless women isn’t just about ideology: it’s essential to the capitalist machine | Nesrine Malik
JD Vance's comments on Kamala Harris reflect a stubborn debate in supposedly progressive societiesA woman without biological children is running for high political office, and so naturally that quality will at some point be used against her. Kamala Harris has, in the short period since she emerged as the Democratic candidate for US president, been scrutinised over her lack of children. The conservative lawyer Will Chamberlain posted on X that Harris shouldn't be president" - apparently, she doesn't have skin in the game". The Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, called Harris and other Democrats a bunch of childless cat ladies miserable at their own lives".It's a particularly virulent tendency in the US, with a rightwing movement that is fixated on women's reproduction. But who can forget (and if you have, I am happy to remind you of a low point that still sticks in my craw) Andrea Leadsom, during the 2016 Conservative party leadership election, saying that Theresa May might have nieces and nephews, but I have children who are going to have children ... who will be a part of what happens next". Genuinely," she added, as if the message were not clear enough, I feel that being a mum means you have a real stake in the future of our country, a tangible stake." Continue reading...
Alexei Popyrin’s US Open run comes to an end with deflating loss to Frances Tiafoe
Alex de Minaur channels his inner-Nadal to crank up intensity at US Open | Simon Cambers
The Australian, like the 22-time grand slam champion, imposes himself physically on opponents - with compatriot Jordan Thompson next in his sightsAlex de Minaur got to see Rafael Nadal close-up earlier this year when he played him in back-to-back tournaments on clay. One win and one defeat was a healthy return for the Australian on Nadal's favourite surface, even if the 22-time grand slam champion was only making his way back from injury at the time. But as he continues to plot his way through the draw at the US Open, it is Nadal's philosophy that is helping De Minaur impose himself on his opponents.It was back in 2012, when he was assessing Andy Murray's defeat by Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Australian Open, that Nadal gave an insight into the attitude that helped to make him such a formidable competitor. Murray had led Djokovic two sets to one, only to suffer a physical and mental dip in the fourth set. He recovered in the fifth but Djokovic held on to reach the final. Murray's mistake was to let Djokovic get away just when he had the momentum himself. Continue reading...
Scottie Scheffler caps dominant year with FedEx Cup title and $25m payday
Defending champion Gauff out of US Open against Navarro as serve deserts her
US Open 2024: Navarro beats Gauff; Dimitrov defeats Rublev in five sets in last-16 singles – as it happened
Emma Navarro beat Coco Gauff, the defending champion, for the second grand slam in a row, while Grigor Dimitrov saw off Andrey Rublev in five setsBadosa has played the big points well so far, down 30-40 and unleashing an inside-out forehand winner - though Wang will be disappointed with the return that made it happen. Another, this time down the line, brings Badosa advantage, and from there she seals her consolidation to lead 3-0.Badosa makes 0-15 then drags a forehand wide; Wang reinforces with an ace out wide, then raises two game points with a forehand schlepped into the net. Badosa, though, saves one then clobbers a forehand winner on the leap and she's relaxing into this, you sense. And again, we wind up at deuce, Badosa cleverly working a chance to punish a further forehand winner for advantage. But then she nets one, meaning another deuce, another Badosa forehand, into the forehand corner, yanking her another break point ... and a booming rendition of the same, almost a table-tennis shot from half-court, means she leads 2-0. Wang is doing alright - well, even - but as we said at the top, if Badosa keeps the head, I'm not sure how she can be beaten here. Continue reading...
Trump shares posts of Gold Star families praising cemetery visit and criticizing Harris
Soldiers' relatives hit out at vice-president after she said Trump disrespected sacred ground' for a political stuntDonald Trump shared statements from the relatives of 13 soldiers killed during the chaotic US evacuation from Kabul as they hit out at Kamala Harris after she criticized the former president's involvement in a ceremony honoring the service members.The dispute over the ceremony at Arlington national cemetery, during which Trump campaign aides allegedly shoved a cemetery worker so they could film Trump laying a wreath, contravening rules against political activity at the site, escalated after the vice-president said Saturday that Trump disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt". Continue reading...
Paris 2024 Paralympics day four: GB golds galore; athletics, swimming and more – as it happened
ParalympicsGB won 12 gold medals to enjoy their most successful day this centuryIt's time for the gold medal race in the women's B 3000m individual pursuit. Great Britain's Sophie Unwin and pilot Jenny Holl face Ireland's Katie-George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal.Lora Fachie and Corrine Hall take the bronze medal following a dominant performance against Elizabeth Jordan and Danielle Khan in the velodrome. Continue reading...
49ers’ Ricky Pearsall in stable condition after being shot in chest
Senior adviser rejects rumors of shake-up in Trump campaign leadership
Corey Lewandowski says management will remain despite reports of ex-president feeling superstitious and nostalgic'Trump campaign senior official Corey Lewandowski has rejected rumors of shake-up in the management of the former president's election bid, saying the operation's leadership will not change.Lewandowski, Trump's 2016 campaign manager who recently joined the 2024 team, told Fox News Sunday that campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita will remain at the top. Continue reading...
More than 10,000 US hotel workers strike on Labor Day weekend
Staff demand wage increases and reversal of pandemic-era cutbacks that impose painful' working conditionsThousands of US hotel workers went on strike on Sunday for improved pay and conditions in a dispute likely to disrupt many Labor Day weekend holiday travelers, amid union warnings that industrial action could escalate.More than 10,000 workers walked off the job at hotels in Boston, Seattle, Honolulu, Kauai and Greenwich, Connecticut, as well as the Californian cities of San Francisco, Sand Diego and San Jose after contract talks with the establishments' owners collapsed. Continue reading...
RFK Jr sues North Carolina elections board to remove his name from ballot
Action comes after a series of ballot woes are threatening to undermine the impact of his decision to end campaignRobert F Kennedy Jr is suing North Carolina's state board of elections after it refused to remove his name from the electoral ballot following his decision to drop his independent presidential campaign and endorse Donald Trump.The legal action comes after a series of ballot woes that initially impeded Kennedy's campaign but are now threatening to undermine the impact of his decision to end it. Continue reading...
What’s the point of degrees if jobs become automated? How to stay motivated amid AI’s rapid acceleration | Gaynor Parkin
Robert always dreamed of becoming an engineer. But months into his first year, he started doubting if it was worth the immense effort
As festival season ends, let’s celebrate their communal magic – and the fact they’re a rare national asset | John Harris
Gatherings with music and dancing have gone on for millennia. After a terrifying summer, such simple joy felt almost utopianThis column was completed in a tent on the borders of Dorset and Wiltshire, during the somewhat bleary morning that followed a brilliant Saturday night. I was among 17,000 people trying to hang on to the remains of summer in a set of fields, woodland and Victorian gardens, over four nights and three days of dizzyingly eclectic music that spanned an array of textures, genres and cultures.As sometimes happens at such events, I regularly looked around and marvelled. Most of us worry about how much human beings directly interact with each other, and the way that social media has sown misery, division and mutual loathing. But here was something completely different: a temporary town where people happily chatted with strangers, and enjoyed themselves to the full while respecting the necessary rules. In the context of a toxic and often terrifying summer, such a peacefully joyous weekend felt almost utopian. Continue reading...
For decades, it’s been a man’s world on Capitol Hill – that’s finally changing
More women are in chief of staff roles than ever before. With an election ahead, they've reached a pivotal momentThe halls of the US Congress were, for many years, a man's world. The first woman elected to Congress, the Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana, joined the House in 1917, three years before the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote and decades before the civil rights movement enabled ballot access for women of color.Now, more than a century later, 150 women serve in Congress, marking an all-time high. And as more women have joined the House and Senate, the ranks of senior staffers on the Hill have shifted alongside them. More women, specifically young women, are leading congressional offices as chiefs of staff, giving them invaluable access to lawmakers and opportunities to influence the policies that shape Americans' lives. Continue reading...
Mosquito-borne virus prompts public health restrictions in Massachusetts – and backlash
Climate crisis could accelerate spread of mosquito-borne diseases like eastern equine encephalitis, experts warnLocal officials in Massachusetts have issued warnings about mosquitoes carrying eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), and, in one case, placed restrictions on the use of public fields at night, prompting backlash from some residents.Public health experts, and others, are also concerned that such mosquito-borne viruses could become more common in the United States because of the climate crisis. Continue reading...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson laments presidential immunity decision in TV interview
The supreme court jurist said the ruling earlier this year establishes a two-tier legal system that protects TrumpIn an interview airing on Sunday, US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lamented her conservative colleagues' decision to grant broad immunity to Donald Trump and other presidents for official acts as essentially protecting one individual under one set of circumstances when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same".I mean that was my view of what the court determined," Jackson said in the pre-recorded conversation for the news program CBS Sunday Morning. And she added: I was concerned." Continue reading...
‘Red Dawn conservatives’ and ‘Dobbs dads’: anti-Trump groups aim to peel off voters
Democrats target key group: conservative men who don't want big government' attacking their daughters' rightsA siren blares. Feet crunch on gravel. A county sheriff looks into a car and tells a teenage girl he knows she is pregnant. He arrests her father for driving her to a state where she can get an abortion. And you, young lady," the sheriff says, well, you're under arrest for evading motherhood."This is an advert from the Lincoln Project, a pro-democracy group, presenting a dark vision of the future for millions of American women if Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris in the presidential election and criminalises abortion nationwide. Continue reading...
Oasis: a guilty pleasure without fringe benefits | Stewart Lee
The comeback could be a coup or a crash, but it has already obliterated accommodation for the 2025 Edinburgh fringeIn Russia, nostalgia is regarded as an illness," declared the mighty comedian Simon Munnery once, or at least it used to be, in the good old days." Zing! Oasis, who 30 years ago represented a kind of condensed nostalgia for the previous quarter-century of British rock, are re-forming. The cocaine dealers of Britain are already putting in advance orders so thousands of middle-aged men can stand in stadiums next summer bellowing trivial conversations about fuck all at each other all through the gigs they've paid hundreds of pounds to touts to attend. The trail of dead South American drug war casualties will stretch all the way from Heaton Park to Pablo Escobar's ruined hippo enclosure. All the same, I wish I was going.It used to be embarrassing when bands re-formed, didn't it, like your dad dancing at a wedding? But when 70s New York televisionaries Television regrouped in 1992, I was delighted, as I knew all the solos on Marquee Moon off by heart and hadn't seen them in 77 owing to being eight and preferring the Geoff Love & His Orchestra Bond themes album that I bought in Woolworths. Bands didn't get back together in those days, unless it was to cash in on the Saga holidays circuit, where my mum was disappointed to see PJ Proby fail to split his trousers on demand sometime around the turn of the century. Nostalgia, she noted, wasn't what it used to be. Continue reading...
Is Sir Keir Starmer's cautious ‘reset’ with Europe enough to undo the damage done by Brexit? | Andrew Rawnsley
Moving in small steps risks aggravating both Europhiles and Europhobes while doing little to help lift the economyEvery prime minister has their verbal tell-tales. Reset" is a favourite Starmerism. When he visited Berlin last week to pave the way to a bilateral co-operation treaty, the prime minister told us he was there as part of a wider reset" in Britain's relations with Europe. There was the same message when he journeyed on to Paris for a grip, grin and chat at the Elysee Palace with Emmanuel Macron. I see why he's fond of the word. Reset" conveys new thinking, a fresh start and altered priorities, while being conveniently vague about the precise direction of travel or the intended ultimate destination.Downing Street was largely pleased with the positive optics of those forays across the Channel. The encounters with the chancellor of Germany and president of France generated a more upbeat vibe than the rest of a summer punctuated by violent disorder on the streets of Britain, controversies about importing Labour cronies into Whitehall, turbulence within the party about restricting winter fuel payments and Sir Keir's winter is coming" speech in the rose garden of Number 10 warning that things will get worse before they get better". That overdid the gloom even for those in sympathy with the Tory-blaming, expectations-managing strategy behind such depressive talk. Continue reading...
Alex de Minaur’s return to form continues with US Open win over ‘wounded’ Dan Evans
Jordan Thompson to meet Alex de Minaur as Australia’s US Open assault continues
Three people dead after small plane crashes in Oregon town
Officials say two people on board Cessna plane that struck row of townhouses, displacing families and causing fireThree people were dead after a small plane crashed into a row of townhouses on Saturday morning in a neighborhood east of Portland, setting the homes ablaze, authorities told KATU-TV.
Oregon: drug possession to be a crime again as decriminalization law expires
First-in-nation trial comes to an end, as new law gives those caught with hard drugs option of charges or treatmentOregon's first-in-the-nation experiment with decriminalizing drugs will expire on Sunday as a new law taking effect will once again make it a crime to possess small amounts of hard drugs.The new recriminalization law, HB4002, will give those caught with illicit drugs - including fentanyl, heroin and meth - the choice to either be charged with possession or treatment, which includes completing a behavioral health program and participating in a deflection program" to avoid fines. Continue reading...
US Open 2024 day six: Draper, Sinner, Wozniacki and Paul advance – as it happened
Caroline Wozniacki, Jannik Sinner and Tommy Paul are among those to go throughPutintseva 1-3 Paolini* (*denotes the next server)Putintseva needs a clean hold just to get a grip on this set. She wins the first point but Paolini levels at 15-15 but Putintseva then races t 40-15, can she wrap it up? Not yet, a double fault gifts Paolini a point but then the Italian pushes the ball too far. Continue reading...
Dallas police officer killed and two wounded in apparent ambush
Suspect, 30, killed in shootout with police after officials say he opened fire on officer sitting in patrol carThe Dallas police chief said on Friday that a man intentionally set out to shoot police when he killed an officer sitting in his patrol car and wounded two others in a late-night ambush that set off a highway chase and ended with officers fatally shooting the attacker.The shooting on Thursday night brought fresh anguish and anger in a city where a gunman's ambush on police in 2016 killed five officers. Continue reading...
Paris 2024 Paralympics day three: GB golds in taekwondo, plus athletics – live
Oklahoma State blocked from placing QR codes on helmets to pay players
Seven people killed and dozens injured in Mississippi bus crash
Siblings among those killed as police say bus left Interstate 20 near Bovina in western Mississippi and flipped overSeven people have been killed and dozens more injured in western Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20, according to the state's highway patrol.Six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, according to a news release. The bus was traveling west on Saturday morning when it left the highway near Bovina in Warren county and flipped over, police said. No other vehicle was involved. Continue reading...
Elizabeth Warren condemns Trump for ‘changing his tune’ on IVF
Democratic senator says Republican nominee trying to have it both ways' and adapting position to his audienceThe US senator Elizabeth Warren has accused Donald Trump of trying to have it both ways" with in vitro fertilization (IVF), two days after the former president vowed to force health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for the treatments if he is elected in November.Speaking on MSNBC, Warren said Trump was simply adapting his positions according to what he perceived his audience's preference to be. Continue reading...
Jack Draper equals best grand slam run to reach US Open fourth round
As a war historian I was pessimistic about human nature. Writing the history of the mind has changed me | Paul Ham
Humans have always been willing to slaughter each other in the name of our beliefs. But history has also shown that a peaceful world order can prevailHaving written 10 histories of war, I'd become inured to the idea that war is probably inevitable and violence intrinsic to human nature. I no longer believe that. Spending six years writing 260,000 words on the history of the human mind has compelled me to contemplate the possibility of a new path for humankind free of the terror that drives violent nationalism, religious intolerance and ideological madness.And it has changed me from being a minstrel of doom into a steely eyed optimist. Continue reading...
Don’t rejoice yet, Elon Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth | Carole Cadwalladr
The banning of X in Brazil and the arrest of Telegram boss Pavel Durov won't stop their liesIt was a breaking news alert to lift the spirits and make the heartsing. A tech billionaire arrestedas he stepped off his privatejet and detained by the French authorities. Happy days!Because while the UK police have been charging individuals who incited violence online during this summer's riots, the man who helped to fuel its flames - Elon Musk - has simply tweeted his way through it. Continue reading...
In an unheroic age, Putin, Trump and Netanyahu are sick parodies of great men | Simon Tisdall
These successors to Stalin, Hitler and Mao are the ones making history in an unhappy, warring worldThe 19th-century idea that great men - exceptionally talented, courageous, charismatic individuals - direct and change the course of history by the sheer force of their genius and personality is hard to shake. It has persisted despite the rise of egalitarian and Marxist social theory and the advent in the 1960s of EP Thompson's levelling up school of history from below".The Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle viewed figures such as Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Martin Luther and the prophet Muhammad as standout heroes of their time who fundamentally, permanently changed the world around them. The mass of mankind, he believed, could merely watch, marvel, admire and tamely follow these top-down makers and shakers of universal history".Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...
All of London’s seedy poetry is there to see in the setting for TV thriller Slow Horses
In real life, the address that is the spies' fictional home reflects the author's original grimy, multilayered vision of the cityThere is no blue plaque on the wall of 126Aldersgate, a narrow four-storey terrace above a fast-food grill, near London's Barbican, but it can't be too long before the building acquires some of the tourist cachet of 221BBaker Street.The upper-floor offices are the fictional home to the rejected spies of Mick Herron's Slow Horses books, led by the sulphurous Jackson Lamb. They are also the star turn - alongside Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas - in the unmissable AppleTV+ dramatisation, which returns for a fourth series this week. One of the many joys of the drama is that it offers a vision of London that rarely makes it on to screen - that everyday layering of centuries of history and grime and struggle that seeps through the pores of the present. Herron describes the familiar medley" of those resolutely ungentrified streets perfectly, the weathered and the new; the social housing estate, and the eye hospital... [and] the complicated facade of an office block straight from an SF comic". The filming is a love letter to all that seedy poetry: The gauzy reflections in puddles that... after-hours made fast-food outlets and minicab offices brief flashes of wonder." Continue reading...
Murderer of Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere receives three life terms
Jason Billingsley pleaded guilty on Friday to the apparent random attack last year that shocked the cityA man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Friday in the killing of Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere last September in an apparently random attack that shocked the city.Jason Billingsley, 33, entered the guilty plea instead of going to trial on Friday morning. He also pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of attempted murder in a separate arson and home invasion case that took place just days before LaPere was found dead on the rooftop of her downtown Baltimore apartment building. Continue reading...
They fled Afghanistan. In the US, they have freedom – but fear a return
After the fall of the Taliban, more than 21,000 Afghan evacuees submitted asylum applications; 3,100 were able to extend their temporary protected status through May 2025Almost three years after Esmatullah Sultani rushed to Kabul's international airport, at the time besieged by Taliban forces who were seizing control of Afghanistan, the 24-year-old man walked into a busy neighborhood market near Sacramento, California.Sultani greeted many of the stallholders, fellow Afghans, and ordered kebabs for lunch in Dari, a language spoken by more than 35 million people in Afghanistan. Continue reading...
‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration
Trump's running mate rants against feminism, immigrants and Ilhan Omar in a newly unearthed podcast from 2021Donald Trump's running mate, JD Vance, said that professional women choose a path to misery" when they prioritize careers over having children in a September 2021 podcast interview in which he also claimed men in America were suppressed" in their masculinity.The Ohio senator and vice-presidential candidate said of women like his classmates at Yale Law School that pursuing racial or gender equity is like the value system that gives their life meaning ... [but] they all find that that value system leads to misery". Continue reading...
I recently experienced the strangest and rarest of things – a midlife crush | Shanti Nelson
Extreme giddiness, sudden bliss, unexplained friskiness: was this a new strain of Covid?An adult crush is such an elusive creature, like a snow leopard or a rare bird that you know exists but never see. I'm not talking about a celebrity or a musician crush, or in the case of my friend's 24-year-old daughter, I get crushes all the time, Shanti, on TikTok."On TikTok?!" Good grief. Continue reading...
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