Thursday, August 22, 2024

TRUMP AI GENERATES HIS SECOND INAUGURATION

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by Chad Parenteau Holding, staring at open bible with no words. He knew it. God’s law is whatever you want.   Behind him, swiftboat Swifties...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

THE GRANITE STATE

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by Melanie  Choukas-Bradley Wildfire smoke from western Canada settles in the atmosphere in Franklin [New Hampshire] on Friday evening. Wild...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

OVERLOOKED VICES

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by Philip Kitcher “We have a vice president who is the least admired, least respected, and the worst vice president in the history of our co...
Monday, August 19, 2024

WHEN WE CELEBRATE IN THE DIASPORA

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by Jerrice J. Baptiste PORT-AU-PRINCE, 13 August 2024  – At least 131 children, including babies, have been reported killed or injured in Ha...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

HARRIS/WALZ HAIGA

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by Paul Brassard Public Domain Photo from Flickr by Bernard Spragg Paul Brassard  is a retired teacher of high school students with behavior...

N-WORD UPDATE

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by  Jerome Betts AI-generated graphic by Shutterstock for The New Verse News When a person, without ifs or buts, Whose mouth too infrequentl...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

RITUAL HAND-WASHING

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by William Nelson But why, why? So strange —an anonymous oversight or burnt to ashes in our Holocaust, or a tractate slipped behind a shelf ...

LIKUD LEGITIMIZATION

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by Felicia Nimue Ackerman with apologies to  Emily Dickinson An Israeli military investigation that has roiled the country with allegations ...
Friday, August 16, 2024

THE ASTRONAUTS SEEK TO REASSURE ME OF THEIR SAFETY

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by Kathleen McIntosh In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confide...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

ANGELS OF DEATH

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a previously unpublished poem written in 1982 by  Mitchel Cohen Veterans warn of echoes from 1982 Lebanon war as new conflict looms on Israe...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

THAT THING SHE SAID

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by Lisa Shulman AI-generated graphic by Shutterstock for The New Verse News when our hand clap games were shuffled off sidewalks by boys on ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

THE PECULIAR CASE OF COMPASSION

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by Adnan Abbasi A nurse at New York University’s Langone hospital was fired after mentioning what she described as a “genocide” in Gaza duri...
Monday, August 12, 2024

MIDWESTERN AMERICAN DREAM

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by Svetlana Litvinchuk AI-generated graphic by Shutterstock for The New Verse News My American husband wants a quiet life. He’s ready for it...