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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert day 2: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? Oh hello, giant Russian underwater cave. This week in retro-future: the robot-filled year 2000. Did you guys see the most beautiful truck crash ever?…
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On Law, Zines and Trans Politics
“. . .there has been widescale attacks on social movements over the last thirty or forty years in response to the very meaningful social movements in the sixties and seventies that had very transformative demands, that were seeking a redistribution…
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Life with Susan Sontag
In the 1970s, writer Sigrid Nunez moved in with her boyfriend and his mother. She hovered over the couple, critiqued their sex life, had an endless parade of house guests, and chided Nunez for not being more of a people-person.…
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Respond to the Times Article
If after reading “The Careless Languages of Sexual Violence,” a Rumpus Original essay by Roxane Gay, you want to share your response directly with the New York Times, considering submitting a letter to the editor or op-ed.
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The Latest from Wisconsin
If you scan the front pages of major news websites this morning, you might not know that anything happened in Wisconsin last night. The MSNBC website has a small piece low on the right column titled “Wis. Senate OKs anti-union…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? The Gatsby house may soon be no more. There is a lot I could say about these pictures of Milan, but basically it just comes down…
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The Lost Books of the Science of Judaism
They’ve traveled the world for more than half a century, in the suitcases of antiques dealers and in the collections of academic institutes. Now important books from the Science of Judaism collection, curated by a Jewish librarian at the start…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some bad-ass conceptual skyscraper designs for you. Evidently this thing is powered by screwdrivers. I really have no idea. An awkward history of our space transmissions. A look inside our bodies, Victorian style!
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #5
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: Some nights only begin once you get hit in the face. I never saw it coming, though I’m not sure the rider in Bacchus could say the same. The…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Surely the robot apocalypse is close at hand. Five centuries of board games. In 2011 scientist can turn fly brains into art just for kicks. Perhaps you’d like to see drawings of Broadway at the turn of the century. Hold…