Tuesday, January 23, 2024

A FABLE

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by Kevin Carey Shutterstock A-I generated image A long, long time ago a very bad wolf, probably the worst wolf ever, did some very bad thing...

METAMORPHOSIS

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by Imogen Arate The White House is campaigning to spin Biden’s support for Israel’s war while actively facilitating the slaughter. — The Int...
Monday, January 22, 2024

STEELING

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by Adele Evershed Cwtched up in my bed in a Connecticut winter I listen to the news about Port Talbot Steelworks. It seems they are to be cl...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

THE GIRL I TRAPPED INSIDE MY BODY

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by  Cameryn Barnett ACLU graphic is suffocating.    It’s impossible to breathe  When the world doesn’t believe  That you exist.    She writ...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

TO THE iPHONE FALLING 16,000 FEET FROM AN AIRPLANE

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by Fran Davis Representative image created using AI via   India Today Cuong Tran is the man whose iPhone fell out of Alaska Airlines Flight ...
Friday, January 19, 2024

SONNET FOR E. JEAN

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by  Diane Elayne Dees E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. Less than a year after conv...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

HOWL FOR THE OWL

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by George Salamon The survival of one owl species hinges on the demise of another. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service argues in ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

NO WORDS FOR ESCAMBIA COUNTY

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by Richard Fireman It has come to this: Escambia County, Florida, schools have banned the dictionary. Five dictionaries are on the district’...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

BLACK AND WHITE

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by Donna Katzin for Peter Magubane Born in Johannesburg in 1932, Peter Magubane documented the brutality of apartheid and suffered from bann...
Monday, January 15, 2024

THE PEOPLE IN GAZA KEEP DYING

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by Richard Jeffrey Newman Crowds of displaced Palestinians at a UNRWA-affiliated school in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Dece...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

TWO WIDOWS OF UKRAINE

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by Jacqueline Coleman-Fried   I live only for the child, Daryna. He’ll never ride his father’s shoulders again. Our wide bed makes me cry. B...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

THE EARRING

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by Heather H. Thomas Hamas fighters stormed the Nova festival on 7 October and killed hundreds. The evening river is gray jade,   the tree l...