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Inside one battle-scarred Gaza building, displaced families tell the story of war The Skeik building, in a quiet road in western Gaza City, has seen many families pass through it since the war began.

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Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025.

Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/h...

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

’Catch These Hands’: The Black Boxer Trope in Fighting Video Games Who needs a weapon when you are a weapon?

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The Anime Girl through the Male Otaku Gaze In this essay, I’m talking about heterosexual, cis-gendered men. When you come across terms like men, male, masculinity, etc. the “cishet”…

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On ‘SimGirls’ and Patriarchal Computationalism in Video Games When I was about 14 or 15, I played this computer game called SimGirls.

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Shinji’s War: The Masculine Self and the Feminine Other Note: the scope of this essay will be about the series (Episodes 1 through 26) and The End of Evangelion film, both media texts as seen on…

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“I Am Not Your Doll”: Ayanami Rei, Anime Girls, and the Paradox of Emptiness You can read the first essay in this series here. This essay will be reworked into a book I’m writing about EVA.

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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

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This is a remarkable finding.

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
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On Chivalry in Anime On Chivalry in Anime Chivalry is a recurring theme in a lot of anime. In one of my favorite series, Re:Zero, the main character Subaru is motivated to improve by his love for Emilia. Toyko Revengers …

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important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Nypost has some of the most on the nose examples of propagandic framing

Modernity, Militarism and Monsters in ‘Mars Red’ THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS

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it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

I love how all the pundits on mainstream news shows will be like “both sides” need to stop demonizing each other, and then the next day, President Trump will tweet “Democrats are demons 😈😡!“

Trump promised retribution - how far will he go? As the US president pushes a crackdown on left-wing groups and openly targets political foes, critics ask where he's taking America

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“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.”—JD Vance

Alot of western anime fans tend to see the secret group of a handful of men that controls the world as analogous to communism, but in the context of Japanese history, feel like they miss the fact that the common villain anime is the corporation.

We are sailing to Gaza. Here’s why | David Adler Governments have failed the people of Gaza. Now, ordinary people are taking humanitarian matters into their own hands – and putting their lives on the line

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Journalism should focus on the people most affected, not those in power. Keep the spotlight where it belongs: buff.ly/uQLkSFE

Great episode

Trump lies like a child.
Vance lies like an adult.

100%

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

There’s also other places that dont have the American conception of a super right (right as in human right, not as in the Right). Here, the 1st & 2nd often supersede every other right. But in Brazil, they lean towards “rights have to coincide with other rights and can’t supersede each other.”

the recurring analogy I have for him is child with a shotgun