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The National Guard outside the Federal Building during the ICE protests in Downtown Los Angeles (June 9, 2025) | Josiah True / Shutterstock
United States
Trump Versus Los Angeles, Immigrants, and the Rule of Law
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"Editor" daguerreotype (ca. 1855) | Unidentified Artist / Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Isaacs / CC0
Literature
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Literature
The Monster Became My Companion
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From A Treatise on Artificial Limbs with Rubber Hands and Feet (1899) | George Edwin Marks / Not in Copyright
United States
Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair
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Black and white photograph of the right hemisphere of human brain with ruler measurement
Philosophy
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Detail of marble sculpture of woman in veil with eyes closed and mouth open in expression of ecstasy
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God Bless Perverts
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Painting of woman in eighteenth-century French clothes looking over her shoulder holding a bouquet and letter
Reviews
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Unsettled
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Soft-focus photo of water falling
Poetry
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May 28, 2025Carina Filemyr, Sarah Schweig
Brown background with text
Books
The Blue House
May 28, 2025Sarah V. Schweig
Spotted doe sniffs hand of man in bustling Japanese street
Indigenous Peoples
Reimagining Ecological Repair
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Sign on 5 freeway in San Diego warning that it is illegal to carry weapons or ammunition into Mexico
Reviews
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