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Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump’s SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters

Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement. “Republicans are singularly focused on making it harder to vote and pursuing this MAGA fever dream,” explains Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones.

Report from Beirut: 1,000+ Dead, 1M+ Displaced, Many Fear Long-Term Occupation of Southern Lebanon

As Israel continues to pummel Lebanon in its resumed war against the country and the Hezbollah paramilitary, we get an update from Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. “If you compare this particular war to the last one, less than two years ago, what happened in the past three weeks is what happened in the past seven or eight months,” says Chehayeb, who describes masses of displaced people and fears of an imminent ground invasion.

Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa

A major New York Times investigation details the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez’s sexual abuse of women and girls. The revelations about Chavez’s history of grooming and abuse have sent shockwaves through the labor movement and California, where officials are already moving to cancel or rename public celebrations planned in his honor. Chavez is also accused of sexually assaulting fellow labor rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95.

Trump’s Eye Is Already on Cuba

A Russian oil tanker is creeping west across the Atlantic, quite possibly toward a confrontation with the United States Navy.
The Anatoly Kolodkin is carrying tens of thousands of tons of crude oil apparently meant for Cuba, which is battling a fuel shortage. But it may not reach its destination: The U.S. Navy is policing the Caribbean to choke off Havana’s oil supply.

A Friend Gifts Me a Paper Bag of Honeycomb

I hold the vacant cradles in my palm:
wax wan-white, honey-drained, ringed
with dirt and gray. I arrange the shells
atop the coffee table’s grain: an atlas
of foreclosure left to empty on the branch.
I think about catastrophe more than poetry.
The colony that fled my neighbor’s keep
leaving behind the flightless brood
and then expiring in the field. The shoddy room
in Lincoln where my mother died, strung out,
with a bullet in her head.

The Death of Millennial Feminism

Lindy West is the most successful feminist writer of her (and my) generation. In her pomp at Jezebel, she mastered both viral takedowns—sorry, Love Actually—and confessional writing. She embraced adjectives that were meant to demean her: loud, fat, shrill. When Lindy shouted, women listened.
That background is what makes the publication of her new memoir, Adult Braces, such a cultural moment.

The Provocation of The Pitt

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The Lecture I Couldn’t Give

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War College, I presented my work on the history of U.S. civil-military relations—research that later led to a book that was favorably reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and the military’s Joint Force Quarterly.