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The 124 best tech deals for day three of Prime Day

It’s day three of Prime Day, folks. We’re nearly 75 percent of the way through Amazon’s four-day sales event, and unsurprisingly, many deals are still sticking around. There have been all kinds of discounts on things like TVs, smart home gadgets, chargers, headphones, and more.

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Reset: Hat

This portrait of a life reimagined is a meditation on identity, happiness and the balance between freedom and conformity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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Who are the fire-tamers?

From remote farmhouses to oncology clinics, a secret world of French healers works in parallel with conventional medicine - by Susanna Crossman Read on Aeon

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Watch live: Washington talks UFOs at UAP Disclosure Forum

The Hill brings you special coverage of the ultimate gathering of "who's who" in the UFO world. Lawmakers, military and agency leaders will gather in Washington, D.C,. to discuss cutting-edge insights on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)-related policy, transparency,

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They Fought Their Abusers. They Were Imprisoned for It.

In 2019, I began a large-scale reporting project: I sent out surveys to 10,000 people incarcerated in the United States in women’s prisons on murder or manslaughter charges. I was trying to understand the scale of “criminalized survival,” as it’s been termed: wherein a

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The Supreme Court’s War on Congress

The Supreme Court decided two cases on Tuesday that, at least at first glance, have nothing to do with one another. One involves the People’s Republic of China, Silicon Valley, and the Judiciary Act of 1789. The other involves Louisiana prisons, Rastafarian spiritual beliefs,

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The Public Table

It was rumored to have been made from the tree Of the first spinning place. Some said the side Of a Spanish slaver spit from the sea. Others church bench, chunk of stage, courthouse wall. A widow swore her grandfather had helped Drag it from his swamped fields after a storm.

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The Prairieland Verdicts Are a National Emergency

It’s rare for a judge to acknowledge that they are handing down a prison sentence for political reasons. But that is precisely what chief district judge Reed O’Connor stated from the bench in a North Texas federal courtroom this week, during the sentencing of eight defendants

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Grave Error

You were always funnier than most, so I’m waiting for this joke to land. When I hear the phrase “grave error,” I think of you being lifted out of the ground & your mother loving you better. I think of your tombstone hitting your stepdad over the head. Grave error: the words

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Democratic Socialists Are Winning Over Black Voters

In the past, conventional wisdom would have us believe that any victory by the Democratic Socialists of America was due to their overwhelmingly white, young, transplant membership—bike lane users, co-op members, and Bernie 2020 voters. Meanwhile, DSA candidates struggled with

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August

In one corner above a field: a kid’s drawing of the sun. But with fat, round rays, like yellow petals, and a smiling lion’s face—cleft lip attached to a pink, upside-down triangle nose; black ovals for eyes. Something in me has awoken. A spark. A love. A sensation, by

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