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Coachella Valley

Beautiful Places To Travel

Coachella, Underground - Longreads

At Longreads, journalist Gabriel Thompson reports on the real people of California's Coachella Valley in "Coachella, Underground." #longreads

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Looking Out The Window

Writers Write

Special Interest

How Do We Write Now? - Tin House

At Tin House, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood writes a beautiful piece on writing in an age of toxicity and distractions online. #PoweredByWordPress

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Rape culture

A comic by Wellington-based artist, writer, and mother Sarah Laing (https://sarahelaing.com) on rape culture.

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Watercolor reportage: The Women’s March Paris

Jessie Kanelos Weiner at https://thefrancofly.com shares watercolor reportage from the Women's March in Paris.

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Healthcare Administration

Private Site

"And in so doing, we all know exactly how Brock became the man he became. He became the man he was raised to be." (https://alyssaroyse.wordpress.com)

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Catharsis of Mundanity

"I am always looking for signs to show me that I’m actually here. That I’ve actually done something. I write on my typewriter and cherish the full page that was once blank. I covered it with ink, hammer-stroke after tiny hammer-stroke. I did that. I am here. I am alive." (https://oneaardvark.wordpress.com)

Watercolour Tutorials

An Open Letter to Vice Media’s Natasha VC and to Anyone Else Who Thinks I’m Lying

An Open Letter to Vice Media’s Natasha VC and to Anyone Else Who Thinks I’m Lying (https://leifegreenz.com).

an autographed letter signed to savvy, director of the film altos

"Some people have a 401K to secure their financial future. I have a letter of apology from Anna Wintour." A fourteen-year-old model sees the softer side of the devil in Prada. (https://luluwrites.net)

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Abandoned Amusement Parks

Chernobyl: 30 Years On

"It was ten minutes dominated by the ghosts of young lives, cruelly destroyed by radiation, upheaval, trauma." Peter Zarko-Flynn documents Chernobyl in a series of photo essays, 30 years after the disaster (https://pzfphotography.com/chernobyl).

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(He Was To Remember) Iced Banana Pie

"The prose is so thick that to me it has the closeness of a summer day; you can feel yourself choking on the humidity, feel the grit of Macondo sticking to the back of your neck, and all you want to do is lie on the tile floor, eat a banana, and sweat." Honoring literature with pie -- a frozen banana pie, for "One Hundred Years of Solitude," at https://thepiebrary.com.

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Missile Silo

Craig Roberts

Bill And Hillary Clinton

Beyoncé, Hillary, and ‘The Good Wife’: The Power of Women Scorned

Jennifer K. Armstrong (https://jenniferkarmstrong.com) connects the dots on powerful women publicly dealing with cheating. "Their version flips the script on the trope of the pathetic doormat who suffers through her man’s infidelity silently."

Homes of Calais

Tents inside a warehouse in 'The Jungle,' the camp where hundreds of migrants are living in Calais, France, from where they try to cross the English Channel to make it to the United Kingdom. Photograph by Mary Turner.

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African American History

Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy - Longreads

On the new triangle trade, and the surprising connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster.

People's Choice Awards

The Oscars

Extremely Funny Jokes

Awards Ceremony

Snarcasm: Let's Talk About How the Oscars Don't Matter (Again) - Jon Negroni

Snark and sarcasm: Jon Negroni comments on the 2016 Academy Awards.

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thanks, mr. jobs.

"It must have brought back the memory of being a young man, seeing his first child and holding her for the first time; now, here he was 50 years later, holding her in those same hands." https://myswede.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/4/