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Like a pinball machine, political movements were all over the map this week. Some people were getting in, while others were getting out, and a lot of others were gathered on the sidelines. Folks, if you want to be a contender for any elective office in 20

Editor’s note: This is a discussion put together by aspiring psychology student Truda Silberstein and edited by Truda Silberstein, Charles Silberstein, and Laura Roosevelt.  Identity Charles (he/him) My name is Charles Silberstein. A part of me recoils at the idea of using pronouns when identifying myself. I think of myself as a man, but pointing […]

Summary [In February 2021], I was on my way home [from work] when five or six men in a huge, tinted Hummer [truck] stopped me [next to a garbage dump in the area]. They kicked and punched and slapped me all over my head and body. They told me to get up and threw me in a garbage bin…. I lay down on the garbage and they pulled out a razor blade and a screwdriver and poked and cut me all over, especially my ass, crotch, and thighs. They sliced me up and poured around five liters of gasoline all o...