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Batya Ungar-Sargon On Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, attend Batya is a writer and author. She’s a columnist for The Free Press, a co-host of The Group Chat on 2Way, and the creator of two books: Terrible News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, and Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Active Men and Women. Her forthcoming book is about, as she puts it, “why Jews are Democrats and why the left turned on the Jews.” For two clips of our convo — on Trump’s class warfare, and deporting non-citizens over speech — head to our YouTube page. Other topics: raised in an Orthodox family; debating issues with her parents and five siblings during Shabbat; spending high school in Israel; same-sex education; the mikveh; how sexual desire is better with limitations; becoming secular for a decade; getting a PhD in English literature; her “accidental” entry into journalism during Hurricane Sandy; the Amazing Awokening in media; Trump’s despicable character; his fickle tariffs; his tax cuts; Congress ceding power to Trump; Biden’s tariffs; his inves
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THE situation of St Andrews Castle is exceedingly picturesque. The shore on each side of the ruins trends inwards, leaving a projecting headland, upon whose rocky summit be upright the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. The ceaseless hit of the untamed North Sea has swept away the ancient landmarks upon either side, gradually leaving the foundation of the Castle to form an apex between two bays:-
"The peak on an aerial promontory,
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ByChris Staudinger
Strange things happen when you’re a queer child in church. One minute, the holy energy is lighting the hair of the disciples on fire and the next, I have a sudden and inexplicable erection. Once in church I wished that everyone in the building who was like me would contain a bright beam of glow rising to the sky from where they sat, a beam that only we with the beams could see, and no one else. “Like me” meant, for the most part, gay and different. I knew that out of the hundreds of people sitting in that church, I couldn’t be the only one, and I wanted to know who they were. It bothered me that we were invisible to each other.
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