Nate Brown

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Future corpse. Until then, perpetual worry One day you will cake like I cake Writer/Editor/Teacher Somebody, please invent a healthy cigarette https://nate-brown.com/ https://www.ifyouvegotem.com

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

This whole hoo-ha on the front lawn is because when he goes to public sporting events he gets booed out of the stadium. So true to form, he creates, at taxpayer expense mind you, an “alternative sports event” where everyone is cheering him so he can brag that the country loves him.

“Can you bring my passport?” My son called me panicked as ICE detained people outside his Baltimore City public school. It’s forever changed him — and me, too. | Column by Leslie Gray Streeter buff.ly/kngddS3

Streeter: ICE detained people outside my child’s school and forever changed him

COLUMN | My son called me panicked as ICE detained people outside his Baltimore City public school. It’s forever changed him — and me, too.

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ICE detained people at my kid's school today, shaking him so much that he begged me to bring him home, but to bring his passport so he could prove he's an American. They are coming for us all. And now my kid knows. I hate this. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Streeter: ICE detained people outside my child’s school and forever changed him

COLUMN | My son called me panicked as ICE detained people outside his Baltimore City public school. It’s forever changed him — and me, too.

thebanner.com

Harriet Clark’s début novel traces Clark’s experience as the daughter of an activist that was imprisoned while she was 11 months old. With her novelistic prowess, the story “shifts away from singular autobiography toward singular emblem,” James Wood writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nCzUSo

Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Kind of Coming-of-Age Novel

In “The Hill,” a daughter comes of age through visits to her imprisoned mother, inheriting the afterlife of a youthful radicalism that shattered her family.

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The Met Gala is the new Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897. In the midst of Gilded Age, workers faced poverty & unemployment. New York elites held a lavish costume party, spending $400,000 (=9 million) to dress as kings and queens. I hope Mamdani also raises taxes as happened in the wake of that ball.

From gardening in food deserts to nurturing sick New Yorkers, this year’s Mayoral Service Recognition Ceremony honorees are truly inspiring. To Eric Ragone, Brittany Leavitt, Angria Messam, Abby MacLean-Pochiraju, Iman Mergen, Mutashma Shaaf, Aalia Rehman, Nafisa Qadri, & Huda Ali: Thank you.

Mayor Mamdani stands with a Mayoral Service Recognition Ceremony honoree.Mayor Mamdani stands with two Mayoral Service Recognition Ceremony honorees.Mayor Mamdani stands with a Mayoral Service Recognition Ceremony honoree.Mayor Mamdani stands with all of this year’s Mayoral Service Recognition Ceremony honorees at Gracie Mansion.

Do we really have a constitutional republic, with elected representatives making decisions on tax and spend issues, when an imperial president can just take our money and buy an airline? We don’t have a govt functioning with the consent of the governed - we have one man run amok.

Mexico—a nation with 1/17th GDP of USA—is rolling out universal healthcare to its 130M citizens. Starting April 13, Mexicans 85+ will have access to universal healthcare. By Jan 2027, Mexico will expand universal healthcare to all people, with full coverage of drugs, lab tests, etc by 2030. 1/2