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Recent readings that got me thinking. 💭 Ask me why I linked it. #thoughtplay

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Netflix, Documentary, The Plastic Detox
Delistraty, “The Mind-Altering Power of Lucid Dreaming”
Sabar, “The Tomb Raiders of the Upper East Side”
Shulz, “The Really Big One”
Winter, “The Scandals of the Sharenting Economy”
Kofman, “The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion
Jones, "A Generation Moves On"
Jamison, "The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers"
Smith, “How Native American Slaveholders Complicate the Trail of Tears Narrative”
Carroll, “The Sins of the High Court’s Supreme Catholics”
Rosenberg, “As U.S. Seeks to Close Guantánamo, Saudi Center Could Be an Option”
Romero, “Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld”
Barber, “In Small-Town Georgia, A Broken Taillight Can Lead to Spiraling Debt.”
Rich, “A Filmmaker Imagines a Japan Where the Elderly Volunteer to Die”
Chung, “Parents Relying on Ukraine Surrogates Desperately Seek Their Newborns”
Rysmen, “Don’t Toss Those Old Sneakers”
Eubanks, “His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It”
Corkery, “Retail’s ‘Dark Side’: As Inventory Piles Up, Liquidation Warehouses Are Busy”
Schirmer, “The Aging Student Debtors of America“
Adler-Bell, “The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters”
Kupferschmidt, “We Can Fight Monkeypox Without Hysteria or Homophobia”
Wood, “Just Say ‘Slavery’“
Kluge, Katz, & Taylor, “Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.”
Bergner, “Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.”
McTague, “How Much Will the West Sacrifice for Ukraine?”
Slone, “The Moral Quandary of ‘Slow Fashion’ Influencers”
Romm, “The Life of a Professional Guinea Pig”
Smith, “He needed a gender-affirming procedure. The hospital said no.”
Hafner, “As Catholic Hospitals Expand, So Do Limits on Some Procedures”
Richardson, “How The Sims Became the Internet’s Most Exciting Place to Eat”
Schwartz, “How the Method Made Acting Modern”
Stieb, "How Wastewater Became a COVID Crystal Ball"
Petersen, “In America, being single is expensive by design”
Donadio, “Why Is France So Afraid of God?”
Bouie, “What Does ‘White Freedom’ Really Mean?”
Presser, "How 'Shadow' Foster Care Is Tearing Families Apart"
Young, “In a World That Exploits Women, Emily Ratajkowski Exploits Herself. Is That Progress?”
McMillan Cotton, "The Logic of Stupid Poor People"
Fromson, “The Untold Story of Sushi in America”
Schulman, “Superfans: A Love Story”
Goldberg, “The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them”
Quinones, "‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’"
Ryan, Girion & Glover, "'You want a description of hell?' OxyContin's 12-hour problem"
Merchant, "The Last Relevant Blogger"
Donahue, "The Murders Down the Hall"
Klinenberg, "The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Protect Us?"
Hughes, "The Passion of Questlove"
Kolker, “Who Is the Bad Art Friend”
Elliott, “When Dasani Left Home”
Cohen, “The Perfectionism Trap”
Dzieza, “Revolt Of the Delivery Workers”
Mellors, “An Anxious Person Tries to Be Chill”
Mishan, “The Ethereal Taste of Flowers”
Jeltsen, "Texas Is Already Creating Abortion Refugees"
Mukhopadhyay, "The Girlboss Is Dead. Long Live the Girlboss."
Peoples Wagner, "Is There Room for Fashion Criticism in a Racist Industry?"
Turetsky, “The Algorithm Made Me Gay”
Leland, “Why an East Harlem Street Is 31 Degrees Hotter Than Central Park West”
Waters, “The Untold Stories of Queer Foster Families”
Baker, “The Men Who Still Love ‘Fight Club’”
Kaufman, “The Opposite of Toxic Positivity”
Gordon, “Where Is My Mind?”
Brooks, “How the Bobos Broke America”
Newman & Hong, “New York Is Pushing Homeless People Off the Streets. Where Will They Go?”
Jennings, “The $5,000 quest for the perfect butt”
Jack, "I Was a Low-Income College Student. Classes Weren’t the Hard Part."
Tough, "What College Admissions Offices Really Want"
Marnell, "Bloodsuckers and CondĂŠ Nast-ys"
Harris, "This Is the End of Affirmative Action"
Petersen, "The Master's Trap"
Schonbeck, "Will You Ever Change? Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?"
Markham, "The Man Who Filed More Than 180 Disability Lawsuits"
Taibbi, "Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal"
Hughes, "The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom"
Taseer, "The War on Bollywood"
Izgil, Freeman, "One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps"
Waldman, "Who Owns A Story?"
Nowicki, "'Cat Person' and Me"
Peterson, "The Maddening, Twisted Story of the Diplomat Who Became a Troll"
Carville, "How Airbnb Makes Nightmares Disappear"
Orenstein, "If You Ignore Porn, You Aren’t Teaching Sex Ed"
Packer, "How America Fractured Into Four Parts"
Thompson, "Workism Is Making Americans Miserable"
Perry, "Stop Hustling Black Death"
Jennings, "The blandness of TikTok’s biggest stars"
Ewens, "Young, Male and Anti-Feminist – The Gen Z Boys Who Hate Women"
Swanson, "The Anxiety of Influencers"
Hagerty, "When Your Child Is a Psychopath"
Denton, "Where Did All the Yellow Cabs Go?"
Beauchamp, "Our incel problem"
Thomas, "Bump"
Levitz, "U.S. Discourse Is Growing More Pro-Palestinian. U.S. Policy Isn’t."
Zhang, "The Last Children of Down Syndrome"
Markovits, "How College Became a Ruthless Competition Divorced From Learning"
Tyson, "Why Are We So Spiteful?"
McNellis, "If I Expect It to End, Will It Hurt Less?"
Fan, "The Gatekeepers Who Get to Decide What Food Is “Disgusting”
Dotschkal, "Musings: Ji Yeo’s Beauty Recovery Room"
Viren, "The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?"
Kingsley, "Evictions in Jerusalem Become Focus of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
Keiles, "The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire"
Clark, "Arrested, Tortured, Imprisoned: The U.S. Contractors Abandoned in Kuwait"
NYT Editorial Board, "Should Young Americans Be Required to Give a Year of Service?"
Feidelson, "What If Everything We Know About Gymnastics Is Wrong?"
Tolentino, "The Age of Instagram Face"
Okeowo, "The Tragedy of Harry Uzoka"
Doubek, "The Struggle Of Finding Help For 'A Dangerous Son'"
Khazan, "American Police Are Inadequately Trained"
Jamison, "52 Blue"
Badger, "A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man"
Tadepalli, "The Paradox of Caring About ‘Bullshit’ Jobs"
Febos, "I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn’t Want"
Carey, "Lives Restored: Profiles for Mental Illness"
Giridharadas, "The war for government"
Deol, "Wellness Influencers Owe the Indian Farmers Their Solidarity"
Burd, "Learning Means Changing Your Mind"
Keller & Dance, "The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?"
McNeill, "Lies, damned lies, and sexwork statistics"
Nir, "The Price of Nice Nails"
Jones, " ‘It’s Not Fair to Get Fired for Going to the Bathroom’ "
Flanagan, "Private Schools are Indefensible"
French, "The #Resistance and the Retirement Community"
Gerthard, "Learning About Humanity on Public Transportation"
Dolstein, "Proposed NY law would force Orthodox yeshivas to teach basic secular subjects"
Acocella, "The Italian Genius Who Mixed Marxism and Children's Literature"
Douglas, "The Only Black Guy at the Indie Rock Show"
Cartwright, "Consider the Oyster"
Deresiewicz, "Solitude and Leadership"
Ali, "Could it be that the best chance to save a young family from foreclosure is a 28-year-old Pakistani American playwrite -slash- attorney who learned bankruptcy law on the internet?
Green, "A College Program for Disadvantaged Teens Could Shake Up Elite Admissions"
Jackson, "The Lottery"
Berfield & Rupp, "The Aging of Abercrombie and Fitch"
Williams, "Desperately Seeking A Black Sperm Donor"
Baden-Lasar, "A Family Portrait: Brothers, Sisters, Strangers"
Mroz, "The Case of the Serial Sperm Donor"
Steinmetz, "The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture"
Taylor, "The Mystery Font That Took Over New York"
Hamilton, "My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?"
Tabor, "How Has Chinatown Stayed Chinatown"
Gregory, "Where The Amish Go on Vacation"
Hines, "How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?"
Shapiro, "The Children in the Shadows: New York City's Homeless Students"
Shulz, "The Really Big One"
Julian, "Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?"
Rosen, "When I Was Labeled a 'Troubled' Teen, I Obliged"
Chayka, "How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted"