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Things that I think are worth your time.

  • Trans Under Trump

    This is a good video to watch. In it Adam Conover hosts three of his friends who are transgender for a discussion about what it is like to have the government targeting them. The Trump administration is actively working to…

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  • The House of Lowther

    This week’s thing I like is The House of Lowther, a comic by K. Lynn Smith that follows a woman who gets a job working at a home for people with special needs – things like being a werewolf or…

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  • The Free World is Gone

    In early 2017, less than two months into Donald Trump’s first term as president, I published a piece of speculative fiction. Set during a then-imaginary second Trump term, it depicts a nightmare scenario in which American troops abandon Europe, the…

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  • Signal Blunder

    Goldberg assumed the chat was fake, some sort of disinformation campaign, although he was concerned when Ratcliffe provided the full name of a CIA operative in this unsecure channel. But on March 14, as Vance, for example, took a strong…

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  • Immigration Stories

    There have been a lot of recent stories about the United States deciding to deny or revoke permission for foreigners to live, work, or just visit the nation. Our government’s behavior is a far cry from a nation that is…

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  • Can Elon Musk Colonize Mars?

    This first article is from just shy of a decade ago in 2016: In perhaps the most eagerly anticipated aerospace announcement of the year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has revealed his grand plan for establishing a human settlement on Mars.…

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