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Rules for Moms of Boys..
Inspired by a Pin I recently saw about "Rules for dads with daughters," I went searching for a similar list for moms of boys. This search was mostly fruitless, so I was inspired to write my own Rules for Moms of Boys. Granted, my list will not be conclusive and may not be entirely uncontroversial. So agree, disagree, or take with a grain of salt – but I hope to inspire other moms who are loving, struggling, tired, proud, and eager to support the boys in their lives.
You are the most important woman in his life, his first teacher, and the one he will look to for permission for the rest of his life. From "Can I go play with them?" to "Should I ask her to marry me?" Its a big job, but as their mom, we're up for it.
1. Teach him the words for how he feels. Your son will scream out of frustration and hide out of embarrassment. He'll cry from fear and bite out of excitement. Let his body move by the emotion, but also explain to him what the emotion is and the appropriate response to that emotion for future reference. Point out other people who are feeling the same thing and compare how they are showing that emotion. Talk him through your emotions so that someday when he is grown, he will know the difference between angry and embarrassed; between disappointment and grief.
2. Be a cheerleader for his life. There is no doubt that you are the loudest person in the stands at his t-ball games. There is no doubt that he will tell you to "stop, mom" when you sing along to his garage band's lyrics. There is no doubt that he will get red-faced when you show his prom date his pictures from boy scouts. There is no doubt that he is not telling his prom date about your blog where you've been bragging about his life from his first time on the potty to the citizenship award he won in ninth grade. He will tell you to stop. He will say he's embarrassed. But he will know that there is at least one person that is always rooting for him. As well as lives him unconditionally.
3. Teach him how to do laundry, load the dishwasher, and iron a shirt. Let's not forget to teach him how to cook too. He may not always choose to do it. He may not ever have to do it. But someday his wife will thank you.
4. Read to him and read with him. Emilie Buchwald said, "Children become readers on the laps of their parents." Offer your son the opportunity to learn new things, believe in pretend places, and imagine bigger possibilities through books. Let him see you reading…reading the paper, reading novels, reading magazine articles. Help him understand that writing words down is a way to be present forever. Writers are the transcribers of history and memories. They keep a record of how we lived at that time; what we thought was interesting; how we spoke to each other; what was important. And Readers help preserve and pass along those memories.
5. Encourage him to dance. Dance, rhythm, and music are cultural universals. No matter where you go, no matter who you meet – they have some form of the three. It doesn't have to be good. Just encourage your son that when he feels it, it's perfectly fine to go ahead and bust a move.
6. Make sure he has examples of good men who are powerful because of their brains, their determination, and their integrity.The examples of men with big muscles and a uniform (like Batman and LaMarr Woodley) will surround your son from birth. But make sure he also knows about men who kick a$s because of their brains (Albert Einstein), and their pen (Mark Twain), and their words (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), and their determination (Team Hoyt), and their ideas (The Wright Brothers), and their integrity (Officer Frank Shankwitz), and fearlessness (Neil Armstrong), and their ability to keep their mouths closed when everyone else is screaming (Jackie Robinson)
7. Make sure he has examples of women who are beautiful because of their brains, their determination, and their integrityThe examples of traditionally beautiful women (like Daphne Blake, Princess Jasmine, andBritney Spears) will surround your son from birth. But make sure he knows about women who are beautiful from the inside out because of their brains (Madame Marie Curie), and their pen (Harper Lee), and their words (Eleanor Roosevelt), and their determination (Anne Sullivan), and their ideas (Oprah Winfrey), and their integrity (Miep Gies), and fearlessness (Ameila Earhart), and their ability to open their mouths and take a stand when everyone else is silent (Aung San Suu Kyi).
8. Be an example of a beautiful woman with brains, determination, and integrity.You already are all of those things. If you ever fear that you are somehow incapable of doinganything – remember this: If you have done any of the following:
a) grew life
b) impossibly and inconceivably got it out of your body
c) taken care of a newborn
d) made a pain go away with a kiss
e) taught someone to read
f) taught a toddler to eat with a utensil
g) cleaned up diarrhea without gagging h) loved a child enough to be willing to give your life for them (regardless if they are your own)
i) found a way to be strong when that child is suffering.
You are a superhero. Do not doubt yourself for one second. Seriously.
9. Teach him to have manners, because its nice. And it will make the world a little better of a place.
10. Teach him that there are times when you need to be gentle, like with babies, flowers, animals, and other people's feelings.
11. Go outside with him. Turn off the tv, unplug the video games, put your cellphone on the charger. Just go outside and follow him around. Watch his face, explore his world, and let him ask questions. It's like magic.
12. Let him lose. Let's be honest losing sucks. Everybody isn't always a winner. Even if you want to say, "You're a winner because you tried," don't. He doesn't feel like a winner, he feels sad and crappy and disappointed. And that's a good thing, because sometimes life also sucks, no matter how hard (as moms) we try to make it not suck for our kids. This practice will do him good later when he loses again (and again, and again, and again, and again…..) Instead make sure he understands that sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But that doesn't mean you ever give up.
13. Answer him when he asks, "Why?". Answer him, or better yet, search for the answer together. Show him the places to look for the answers (like his dad, or grandparents, or his aunts/uncles, or his books, or valid internet searches). Pose the question to him so he can begin thinking about answers himself. Someday, when he needs to ask questions he's too embarrassed to ask you, he'll know where to go to find the right answers.
14. Kiss him, any mother of boys will tell you that boys are so loving and sweet. They can be harsh and wild and destructive during most of the day. But there are these moments when they are so kind and sensitive and tender. So much so that it can cause you to look around at the inward, reserved grown men in your life and think, 'what happens in between that made you lose that?' Let's try to stop the cycle by kissing them when they're loving and kissing them even more when they're wild. Kissing them when they're 2 months and kissing them when they're 16 years old. You're the mom, you can go ahead and kiss him no matter how big he gets…and make sure he knows it. p.s. (this one is just as important for dad's too).
15. Be home base, you are home to him. When he learns to walk, he will wobble a few feet away from you and then come back, then wobble away a little farther and then come back. When he tries something new, he will look for your proud smile. When he learns to read, he will repeat the same book to you twenty times in a row, because you're the only one who will listen that many times. When he plays his sport, he will search for your face in the stands. When he is sick, he will call you. When he really messes up, he will call you. When he is grown and strong and tough and big and he feels like crying, he will come to you; because a man can cry in front of his mother without feeling self-conscious. Even when he grows up and has a new woman in his life and gets a new home, you are still his mother; home base, the ever constant, like the sun. Know that in your heart and everything else will fall into place.
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News & Updates
Buena High School's morning announcement videos and special content.
- Buena Today
- Morning Announcements
More than 6000 boxes of Mac N Cheese were set up for a domino like fall with boxes being donated to Food Share of Ventura County.
On Friday, February 9, 2024, Mound's fifth-grade class led an outreach project in which they learned something about themselves while giving back to the community. The students are responsible for planning and following through with various tasks, including cost analysis, publicity, and coordination with larger organizations. Last year, students and staff saw a video of an elementary school that created a "domino run" with cereal boxes. They thought, "We can do that." That would allow students to have a STEM project, practice their leadership skills, and, most importantly, do something meaningful for their community–a perfect fit for their Science and Global Citizenship magnet. Students had to brainstorm ways to determine the number of boxes they wanted to use and then decide what to do with all the boxes when they were done. To see what their Principal and students thought of this event view this year's MAC 6000 video.
Last year's students immediately thought of donating the boxes to Food Share of Ventura County. They wanted to give the boxes to them but realized that cereal, although it has vitamins, does not always make kids feel full. Last year's class reached out to a dietician and talked to her about nutritional value. They then decided their "dominos" should be more satiating and nutrient-dense. They also thought a whole family could eat Mac 'N' Cheese. That is how the Mac 'N' Cheese domino run began.
This year's students loved what last year's students did and wanted to build on it, hoping they could reach even more families in need. Last year's class raised 4250 boxes, so the students set a goal of 5000 this year. They reached that goal and surpassed it, with the current count at 6000 boxes.
They reached that goal by having groups of students present their ideas to the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) and asked for matching donations to help them reach their box goal. They then presented to other classes throughout the school, explaining what they were doing and why. They asked students in those other classes if they could bring in boxes that could be used for their project and then donated to Food Share. Students also created fliers and posters. The focus this year was learning how to publicize. The fifth grade classed then held their second annual "Stuff the Trailer with Mac 'N' Cheese" drive. Students collected 3521 boxes. PTO matched many of those boxes, helping students get to over 5,000. With even more boxes arriving daily, they have reached over 6,000 boxes.
"Throughout this STEM and outreach project, 93 students will have worked together on math concepts such as volume, area, estimation, multiplication strategies, and grouping. Leadership, teamwork, and communication skills have all been used and refined. They've learned perseverance and grit, how to keep Mac 'N' Cheese from falling over, and how to regroup and revise strategies when it does. Most importantly, the kids are excited to take care of others in our community by providing satiating meals that kids enjoy eating," stated Ms. Tracie Fickenscher, Mound 5th grade teacher.
Lessons include:
- Presentation skills
- Time management
- Communicating to a large audience (and knowing their audience)
- Leadership and teamwork
STEM skills include:
- Figuring out the perfect distance (and reliable distance) between boxes
- Understanding the effects of outside forces and how to control for those forces
- Calculating the volume of a box, wagon, and trailer
- Estimating how many boxes fit in a wagon and a trailer and how to pack the boxes to maximize space
- Determining how many boxes it will take to get to the front of the school from our classrooms
- Developing a model and revising it based on data from trials
ABC7s Philip Palmer visited Ventura last month to talk to VUSD students in the GRIT program at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts (DATA).
GRIT -Girls Re-Imagining Tomorrow- introduces middle school students to tech-focused career options. It opens doors for girls at DATA in an industry that has historically written out women and propels them to brighter and bigger futures in cybersecurity.
Watch the Eyewitness News segment aired on April 13th for the whole story.
We're closing out National Nutrition Month with some significant updates!
The Ventura Unified School District Food & Nutrition Services Department has been hard at work implementing exciting changes we'll start to see in some schools in the 2023-2024 school year. Most VUSD middle and high schools will implement a sandwich bar, allowing students to have customized sandwiches made on-site daily. They'll also have new tilt skillets that the Food & Nutrition Services Department has invested in. Tilt skillets enable kitchen staff to cook large batches of food quickly and safely at an even temperature. Once all required staff training to use this new equipment is complete, these tilt skillets will significantly increase every participating school's capacity to serve hot meals from scratch.
We visited the Foothill High School Cafeteria earlier today with local media for a sneak peek of the new equipment and to meet VUSD Food & Nutrition Services staff and cafeteria staff, including employee worker Ethan Oritz who enjoys learning food service and serving meals to his schoolmates. "It's a fun place to be," said Ethan...
It's a good setting to kind of get used to the professionalism of learning what you have to do…using that and my past experience allowed me to get a job over the summer. I'm going to be a state lifeguard, and I feel like this really helped me. Ethan Oritz, Student Employee, VUSD Foothill High School Cafeteria |
The part we're most excited about: VUSD Food and Nutrition Services is establishing a student advisory committee to assist in meal and menu planning. Student inclusion will help ensure that VUSD schools serve meals and snacks students want and will eat. Connecting with our students and learning with and through them is vital to the health and longevity of our schools, and we can't wait to see how much brighter our cafeterias will get with their input. VUSD Food and Nutrition has been building a better food system for years, implementing fresh salad bars and pivoting to safely pre-packaged foods and Universal Meals to address public health and food security for our community during the pandemic. They're eager to roll out these new and exciting changes with more student-approved fresh foods as we shift towards healing.
Full 2023-2024 school year menus will be published on the VUSD and school websites at the start of the Fall semester.
VUSD Foothill High School cafeteria staff hard at work
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- Balboa
- Buena High
- El Camino High
- Pacific High
- Ventura High
Congrats to Coach Colton and the Boys' Basketball team for making it to State Finals after defeating Culver City in Triple Overtime! Congrats on an amazing season!
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Comprehensive cardiac care in Lewisville, Texas
Medical City Lewisville works diligently to provide heart healthy programs for our community. Our full-service cardiology program provides emergency and scheduled heart procedures. With a number of services, our program features the latest techniques for heart surgery, cardiac imaging and overall care.
Find a cardiologist or call (855) 880-4625.
Our program features the latest advancements in cardiac surgery and imaging. We also provide ongoing outreach programs in which physicians educate the community on various aspects of heart health.
We are proud to bring advanced levels of medical care to the Lewisville, Texas, area. Patients are no longer required to travel for their heart care—they can access the latest techniques and care close to home.
Heart attack warning signs
Our cardiac care program features advanced techniques for heart attack care. When a heart attack occurs, the heart cannot get the required oxygen for proper function. The quicker the blockage causing the heart attack can be removed, the better chance of reducing damage to the heart muscle. The heart care team is on call 24/7 and responds within minutes to minimize heart damage.
Please seek emergency care if you are experiencing any of the following symptoms, which may be signs of a heart attack:
- Discomfort in the chest that lasts more than a few minutes
- Pain or discomfort radiating to one or both arms, the back, neck or jaw
- Shortness of breath
- Cold sweat
- Abdominal pain
- Nausea or vomiting
Sometimes, patients who have experienced a heart attack had no previous symptoms. It's important to know your personal risk factors and the steps you can take to reduce them.
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Heart screening and imaging
Diagnostic tests are typically ordered to assist your physician with diagnosing heart disease and are usually performed on an outpatient basis. Medical City Lewisville's comprehensive cardiac diagnostic services include:
- Stress lab
- Computerized tomography (CT) scan
- Cardiac stress magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Nuclear medicine studies
- Electrocardiogram (EKG)
- Echocardiogram
- Cardiac catheterization
Interventional cardiology
Medical City Lewisville offers specialized studies of the heart—specifically, advanced cardiac interventional services, including percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). PCI is a procedure in which a special catheter is inserted into a blocked coronary artery to open it up and allow blood to circulate to the heart muscle. During PCI, cardiac catheterization is used.
Cardiac catheterization functions as an invaluable diagnostic tool for a number of reasons, including its ability to:
- Locate narrowing or blockages in the coronary arteries
- Gauge blood flow and blood pressure in the chambers of the heart
- Determine how well the heart valves function
- Check for defects in the way the wall of the heart moves
Cardiology at Medical City Healthcare
Cardiology is the medical treatment of the heart and parts of the circulatory system as they relate to the heart. Cardiologists specialize in diagnosing and treating conditions related to the cardiovascular system.
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This is an important test that is typically used to diagnose leptin deficiency or monitor levels in obesity.
About Leptin
What is leptin?
Leptin is a hormone produced by adipose tissue and the small intestine. Leptin's primary function is to signal to the hypothalamus to remove the feeling of hunger when enough food has been consumed, though there are many other functions that have not yet been fully defined.
In healthy individuals an increase in fat will result in increased leptin, as it is produced by fat tissues. This normally results in a lower appetite, leading to weight loss. In individuals with reduced fat, leptin decreases and leads to increased hunger and weight gain.
Obesity changes this balance, as chronically high levels of leptin lead to reduced sensitivity and a higher leptin threshold to satiate hunger. Leptin deficiency results in intense, insatiable hunger. This condition is rare but has been implicated in childhood obesity and delayed puberty. These individuals require leptin injections to manage hunger.
Why take the test?
This test measures the level of leptin in the blood. It is typically used to diagnose leptin deficiency or monitor levels in obesity.
What's tested
How it works
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Follow our simple instructions to take your sample and post back the enclosed prepaid envelope to our accredited lab for processing. We also offer home or workplace visits by a qualified nurse. For COVID-19 Fit to Fly tests you must attend one of our partner clinics for our trained collection officers to take your sample. You will then have the results emailed to you.
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You will receive an email notification from our medical team when your results are available on your secure personalised health dashboard.
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Rockstar Games has issued one of the most humble-bragging press releases of all time, claiming several new titles for its recent Western epic, Red Dead Redemption 2 . One of those titles, the biggest one even, comes as little surprise, considering recent news regarding Grand Theft Auto V . According to the press release, Red Dead Redemption 2 has seen the most successful opening weekend in entertainment media history.
Over the weekend, Rockstar Games claims that Red Dead Redemption 2 earned over $725 million in retail sell-through, thus claiming the aforementioned title. This is compared to Grand Theft Auto V 's intake of over $1 billion in retail sell-through, but that didn't take place over a weekend. These milestones also carried over to PlayStation Network records. You can check out the full list of achievements for Red Dead Redemption 2 below:
- Biggest opening weekend in retail sell-through across all entertainment releases;
- Second biggest launch (three days) in retail sell-through across all entertainment releases;
- Biggest entertainment launch of 2018;
- Most pre-ordered full game ever on PlayStation Network;
- Biggest day one full game sales ever on PlayStation Network;
- Biggest first three days full game sales ever on PlayStation Network.
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Dump is totally off the rails! LOL! He doesn't know if he is on foot or on horseback now. It's so fun to watch. When I told you guys that Dump would burn down the Republican party in 2016, I had no idea that he would truly do it. But, he did. He lost the Presidency. He lost the House. He lost the Senate. Now, he is losing his mind.
What kind of person would celebrate a hair sniffing pedophile, demented old Chinese agent becoming president? Only another pedophile…….or someone that really hates America……….and you don't really know of China Joe and the communists are really going to get away with the election fraud……….it an't over yet….and I agree Trump losing his mind would still make him 100xs smarter than China Joe….
Another Pedo….
Trump's very best friend was a pedophile. Do you remember a pedo named Epstein who couldn't have sex with anyone over 14? The guy who owned Pedo Island? It has been documented that your hero Trump has taken many, many trips to Pedo Island to boink underage little girls. This is basically why Epstein was murdered, too many skeletons for pedo Trump to deal with. meanwhile, Joe has never been to Pedo Island an didn't even know Epstein. The fact of the matter is that you stupid assholes are just incapable of rational thought now because Biden rolled your guy in a landslide and you are so butthurt. I don't blame you, it kind of stings, I know how I felt in 2016. But, whatever. Trump is a goddamn pdeo, it's obvious. It's also obvous you are dumb AF.
BULLSHIIT. Your soon to be exposed Criminal Head of FBI Comey investigated Those claims himself and Could not Prove he had ever visited the Island. Although he did associate with him and he would even go to Trumps house for breakfast There was NEVER any Evidence the Relationship went further. So get your facts straight COMMIE
Why was Trump on the flight logs, dipshit? Godamn you're stupid. According you you dumb asses Trump has never made a mistake while he has been the most mental president we have evr had. Although, he is still better than you have in Australia. Which, to tell the truth, you don't really live in Australia.
Hey, I researched that out and you are exactly right. Trump wasn't on the flight logs and I couldn't find him going there. So, that's my bad. I think this may be the first case of anyone in BIN ever admitting they were wrong, but here you go. Also, during my research I ran into 18 women who want to sue Trump for his sexually abusing them. I knew there were a few but I never knew there were 18. Some of them were underage apparently. But we know that Trump has never, ever did anything like this although he did admit he could grab any pussy that he wanted because he is a star. Trump is really a lucky guy But you were right about the island. You are just so smart, it's uncanny.
He wasn't DUMBASS 🖕
They will come next week undo every one of his ex orders.
Unfortunately that is true
That was my first thought, UNLESS he calls up the insurrection act and puts this scm down!
You must really hate the Constitution.
He will take down the wall too.
Godamn right there. Remember what Dump did when he took office? That fat orange fuck won't even have his wall when Biden is done. Or anything else. The Arctic will be protected again. Fuck Trump and all his supporters.
He could lose three quarters of his mind and still have more brain power than Alzheimer's Joe of course most democrats think Joe's smart and I guess compared to them he is.
Joe was smart enough to roll Trump in a landslide. So, what does that make Trump?
All your Pedo friend did is what you're all good at… Hiding 🦋🔜☠
I always thought it was Trump who took all of those trips to Pedo Island according th flight logs. I know kangaroos that are smarter than you are In fact, all kangaroos are smarter than you. You are really fucked up and need professional help.
It is your man Trump who is in hiding right now. He's afraid to come out of the Whitehouse.
The 'roll Trump' is precisely what ALL criminally minded muggers do continually: steal what they don't have…cannot earn or accomplish on their own and have nobody to turn to…the helping hands are nowhere to be found.
To be honest & accurate, the proper description is (and seems will remain) a full-blown political mugging. Just as sure as many Christians will go to their church, in identical manner: satan worshipers will also go their church. And in like manner, there are Christians and as in any type of 'ball games' there are satanists. EVERYONE lives in a completely evil world, and satan IS & WILL REMAIN 'prince of the power of the air (for the time being).
Matthew chapter 4 verses 8-9: "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." Same which happen in the time of Jesus are the same things happen right now.
Genesis chapter 5 verse 6: "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."John chapter 12 verse 31: "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out." YES, even the very last threat is about to be torn apart and will remain separate.
Psalms chapter 129 verse 4: "The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked."
Trump thinks that solar can't work after the Sun goes down. Trump thinks that mainlining Clorox can cure Covid. He also looked at a solar eclipse without any protection. Trump thinks that windmills cause cancer. So although Joe may not be the sharpest tool in the belt, Trump isn't exactly a rocket scientist, is he? Also, Trump's professor at Wharton, the school that Trump bought himeslf into, said he was by far "the dumbest sonofabitch I ever had to teach."
Bitem getting his a ss kicked out soon. Worthless Chinese dog.
Oh sure I'm sure a strongly worded letter is all it will take to turn things around…….
And….. If you call millions of fake votes a landslide then yeah……. Woohoo! A total fucking moron won
There wasn't any fraud. That's why Barr couldn't find it. That's why no one could find it. Oh, I forgot, they did find fraud in BIN and the Epoch Time. LMAO!!!
Trump thought that you should mainline Clorox if you got Covid. He thinks that solar power cannot work after the Sun goes down. Trump stares directly at solar eclipses. Trump thinks that windmills cause cancer. LOL, it was Trump that actually saluted a Chinese general over in China. Trump can't even spell covfefe. His professor at Wharton called Trump, "the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." That pretty much makes Trump a stable genius.
He's leaving a lot of it ! Where is the continuation of it ? From not owning to already been paying into ? He could have fully taken everything and nailed himself in for the next 4 years… Nothing to show he is staying ? Give you points for your video it's the first one I actually watched all of it as you did provide fresh info, (nov12) Hopefully he has the rest of the order in others coming ? Trigger time soon
Oh. Patriots do call for a overdue Purging of the Snowflake. It's needed and hopefully can put a stop to all these so brave and Precious people 🦋🔜☠
Gab totally sucks, very censored. I was there, and left, too many ultra-straight blind christians, and Torba himself says he works for the globalist police, has posted that fact openly. Its a trap.


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Obamacare 101: What's in the House Republicans' replacement plan?
House Republicans have finally unveiled legislation to repeal and — just as important — replace the Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare is pretty complex. So it shouldn't be a surprise that what the GOP is proposing in its place has a few knotty details.
Here's a short guide to what's in the Republican plan and what it could mean for Americans' health coverage.
Side-by-side comparison of Obamacare and the GOP's replacement plan »
Guaranteed coverage
How it works now: This part of Obamacare was revolutionary. The current guarantee allows Americans to get health insurance even if they're sick. That put an end to insurers denying coverage to people who had preexisting medical conditions.
Americans can get the guaranteed coverage even if they've been uninsured for years.
How it would change: The House GOP plan would still prohibit insurers from turning away sick consumers.
Insurance mandate
How it works now: Obamacare, for the first time, required Americans to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty.
The penalty is assessed annually when people file their taxes, though there are exemptions for people with low incomes or other hardships that make getting health insurance difficult.
How it would change: The tax penalty is eliminated. But the House Republican bill still penalizes people who don't get insurance.
If consumers allow coverage to lapse for as long as two months, insurers would be required to charge them a 30% penalty when they buy a health plan.
That penalty could discourage many people from getting new coverage if they lose their plan because of a job loss or other change. That could increase the number of uninsured Americans.
How it works now: For decades, being a poor adult in America often meant not having health insurance.
That's because Medicaid, the 50-year-old government safety net health plan, historically limited coverage to select groups of low-income Americans. These included children, pregnant women, the disabled and the elderly.
Poor adults without children were barred from Medicaid coverage in most states.
Obamacare tried to change that by offering states billions of dollars to expand Medicaid to childless adults. Thirty-one states have done so.
That has helped millions of low-income Americans get health coverage over the last several years.
How it would change: The House GOP plan would make two big changes to the Medicaid program.
First, starting in 2020, it would phase out the additional federal money that has helped states expand their Medicaid programs.
The legislation would then eliminate the decades-old system that linked federal aid to states to how much medical care Medicaid enrollees used.
The GOP plan would instead cap how much aid the federal government provides states for Medicaid under a system called a "per capita cap."
That means the federal government would give each state a fixed amount of money every year for every person who qualifies for Medicaid. That amount then would increase annually by an amount linked to the medical inflation rate.
Many advocates and medical groups fear that over time that change would force states to scale back coverage for poor people and limit medical services.
Insurance marketplaces
How it works now: The Obamacare marketplaces, such as HealthCare.gov, enable people who don't get health benefits at work to compare plans, just as they might compare hotel rooms or airline tickets online.
Importantly, all plans on the marketplaces must offer a basic set of benefits, such as hospital care, mental health services and prescription drugs.
The plans cannot impose annual or lifetime limits on coverage, a once-common practice.
And insurers are barred from charging older consumers more than three times what they charge younger consumers.
How it would change: The House GOP plan largely preserves the marketplaces and Obamacare's requirements that health plans offer basic benefits.
And insurers would still be barred from imposing annual or lifetime limits.
But they would now be able to charge older consumers five times more than younger consumers.
Insurance subsidies
How it works now: One of the most important feature of the current law are insurance subsidies that are available to low- and moderate-income people who use the marketplaces to get coverage.
The current law offers these subsidies to people making less than about $48,000 a year.
There are several complicated, but very important, features of these subsidies.
First, they are linked to consumers' incomes, so people who earn less get bigger subsidies.
Second, the size of the subsidies is also pegged to how much insurance plans cost. That means that if health plans are very expensive in one market — perhaps because hospitals there charge a lot for medical care — the subsidies in that market are larger.
This is a big deal because there are huge variations in how much healthcare costs around the country, with insurance premiums much higher in some places than in others. So people who live in higher-cost areas are protected.
It's also important because health insurance premiums can change a lot from year to year. By pegging the size of the subsidy to the actual cost of health plans, the law protected consumers from big insurance increases.
The last important feature of the subsidies is that they are automatically applied to consumers' monthly insurance bills. That means that low-income people don't have to pay a large premium every month and then wait for a rebate, something that can be difficult for consumers who may be living paycheck to paycheck.
How it would change: The House plan completely scraps Obamacare's subsidy system.
Subsidies would no longer be linked primarily to the price of healthcare plans and to consumers' income.
Instead, Americans who don't get coverage through an employer would qualify for a tax credit based on how old they are.
Older consumers would get larger credit, as much as $4,000 annually for people over 60. And younger consumers would get a smaller credit, as little as $2,000 for people younger than 30. This reflects the assumption that insurers charge younger people less as they are generally healthier.
The only income variation would happen for individuals making over $75,000 a year and couples making more than $150,000. Subsidies would be phased out for these higher-income households.
Linking the credit to consumers' age, instead of their income, is much simpler. But it risks leaving some people, particularly lower-income consumers, without enough financial aid to buy a health plan.
And because the subsidies would increase annually at a rate slightly above inflation, they risk not keeping up with rising health insurance premiums.
Models of this approach suggest that younger, wealthier people would probably fare better under the new system.
How it works now: Obamacare's architects cobbled together a mix of taxes to offset the cost of subsidizing insurance for tens of millions of low- and moderate-income Americans.
That has meant some new taxes on insurance companies and medical device makers (both of which, it was reasoned, were benefiting from getting new customers through the law).
Wealthy Americans are paying more too. Families making more than $250,000 a year have seen their Medicare payroll taxes increase because of Obamacare.
How it would change: The House Republican plan scraps the taxes.
That's a big tax cut for the medical device and insurance industry. Insurers say lower taxes will allow them to charge lower premiums.
It's also a very large tax cut for the wealthiest taxpayers, who would no longer be subject to the Medicare payroll surtax.
The House legislation does not include any new tax to offset the loss of revenue from cutting the Obamacare taxes.
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The Nielsen Realization Problem
The Nielsen Realization Problem
Will Cavendish, Princeton University
Fine Hall 314
The purpose of this talk will be to describe some problems in topology whose solutions rely on geometric techniques. I will introduce the mapping class group of a space $X$, which is the group of homeomorphisms of $X$ up to isotopy. I will then outline Steve Kerckhoff's solution to the Nielsen realization problem, which shows that any finite subgroup of $Mod_g$, the mapping class group of a genus $g$ surface, can be realized as the automorphism group of a Riemann surface of genus $g$. The proof relies heavily on an understanding of the geometry of Teichmüller space $T_g$, and ties in to many natural geometric questions about this space which I hope to describe.


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Home shoppers walking through the $1.495 million, seven-bedroom Colonial in Milton this summer could be forgiven for thinking that children lived there. There was the playroom off the master bedroom — with a tent perfect for a play date — and the bedroom down the hall with twin beds and a cute toy sailboat.
But the actual occupants? That would be two empty nesters, who decided, after their house sat on the market, to not only lower the price, but to go for the staging encouraged by their real estate agent.
A house like theirs, with a pool and a big yard, needed to be styled to appeal to the most likely buyers — families with young children, the sellers were told.
"It needed to look fresh and happy," said the stager, H. Jessica Gosman of the Prop Shop in Newton.
Out went the aging stationary bike and file cabinets from the room off the master bedroom. Up to the third floor went the home office. In went the children's decor.
There's one real estate cliche everyone knows: Location, location, location.
But there's a second cliche, famed among real estate agents but a secret to us shmoes: Buyers have no imagination. As in: They can't figure out what to use a room for unless you show them.
That truth — if it is one — has led in part to a staging frenzy, and not just for million-dollar properties, either. With the nation hooked on HGTV shows like "Staged to Perfection" and "Property Brothers," and trained by Instagram to expect picture-perfect settings, staging has been turbocharged. It's grown beyond mere decluttering and entered a new, psychological realm.
Call it extreme lifestyle signaling.
When Stephanie Ford, a broker with the Beacon Group and a professional stager, was hired to prepare a condo in a 55-plus community in Wellesley for sale, she used bicycles and golf clubs as props, and set the dining room table for a family dinner.
The goal was to dispel the concern that buyers would be sitting "cooped up" alone in their units, along with other "old people" cooped up in their units, she said.
When Ford knows her buyers are likely to be sophisticated, the message is upscale, but with a social conscience. "If you are going to put a Fendi bag in the closet," she said, "you also have a tote bag from the local farmers market."
Never mind that few people who buy a staged home manage to achieve the staged lifestyle that sucked them into the property in the first place. With agents and stagers brandishing sales figures showing faster sales and bigger profits for staged homes, the charade must go on.
Jennie Norris, chairwoman of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals, estimates that in the Boston area about 30 percent of homes are staged today, compared with less than 5 percent about a decade ago.
Sellers can spend as much as 1 to 3 percent of a home's list price on staging, according to Maureen Poole, northeast regional director for the International Association of Home Staging Professionals.
On a million-dollar home, for example, staging could cost between $10,000 and $30,000, money that might pay for: removing and storing the owners' (unacceptable) furniture and decor; renting new couches, tables, and artwork; pulling up wall-to-wall carpets and refinishing the wood floors beneath; buying new — white — towels for all the bathrooms.
When millennial buyers are the target, Deb Ellis, a Westwood-based designer and home stager, might pull out kitchen cabinets — considered old-fashioned now, FYI — and install on-trend open shelving.
"It's more of a Bohemian look, but upscale," she said.
It can all get rather pricey, but a home staged before going on the market sells 86 percent faster, at least according to an estimate by the Real Estate Staging Association.
In a 2019 survey of real estate agents, 39 percent of agents said a staged home attracts offers that are between 1 and 10 percent higher than a nonstaged home, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The exact value of staging can be hard to tease out, since sometimes it happens at the same time as a price drop. But at least one real estate firm, Compass, is such a believer that in 2018 it began a service, Compass Concierge, to front qualified sellers their staging and home-improvement costs. The company's website says there are no hidden costs or interest fees — "just repay the money spent upon closing."
"Whatever the buyer demographic is, we stage for it," said Compass's Loren Larsen, the agent selling the seven-bedroom house in Milton.
In Newton, Adriana Dukakis watched her Victorian be transformed for sale from a home where kids ages 9 to 18 lived, to one ideal for toddlers, complete with a child's playroom with a little table and adorable dress-up clothes.
"At the beginning I was very apprehensive," she said. "I don't live that lifestyle anymore — with tutus."
But the change to the playroom and other rooms, she said, made so much sense. "I wondered why we hadn't done it that way to begin with."
With the growing importance of a home's online presentation, there are now services that will virtually stage homes, digitally adding furniture and decor to photos of barren rooms. If done poorly, the furniture can seem to float above the floors — but that can be the least of it, as the Wall Street Journal reported in March, in a story warning buyers who purchase a home without seeing it in person.
"Computer-generated imagery of the sort Hollywood uses has now become so cheap and prolific that home sellers are taking out walls, removing ugly paneling, and even adding digital swimming pools," the Journal said.
Meanwhile, back in real life, spending time in all these staged homes can become a professional hazard for real estate agents.
In Waban, Debby Belt, an agent with Hammond Residential Real Estate, began to see her own bedroom — with a sleigh bed that took up too much space, among other issues — as a "before" photo.
"I'm hyper critical of my own house and that drives my husband crazy," she said. "But that's another story."
Beth Teitell can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @BethTeitell.


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One of the coolest bands to emerge out of the early East LA scene, The Undertakers started out in 1977/1978 and would develop a unique darkness tinged ominus punk sound that sounded unlike anyone else at the time. Having played many a show at the legendary venues in East LA such at the now infamous Vex and other legendary clubs such as the Hong Kong Garden, The Whiskey, the Starwood and the Mabuhay Gardens, they shared the these stages with the likes of The Plugz, The Gears, Alleycats, DOA, X,
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text: I live inside a sleeping bag on the floor which is wrapped in a thick down comforter. I guess I have stopped hanging out with anyone, and everyone has stopped hanging out with me. Mostly I have fires at night and read some books that I am piling up next to my bed to sell. With that money I will by cat food. In the afternoons Kerwin and I work in the living room and talk about how we have no money. Last week we went to Reed and tried to play pool with some college kids, but they were having some sort of fall social in the pool room. A guy with muttonchops asked if we were in high school. I haven't spoken to my family in any meaningful way in maybe six months. I don't care if anyone ever kisses me or sleeps in my [sleeping bag on the floor which is wrapped in a thick down comforter] or says a nice thing to me again. The most fun I ever have is when I'm aimlessly walking around a grocery store with no intention to buy anything. Every Wednesday I go to a mental health facility a few blocks from my house and talk to a psychiatrist for the purpose of getting paid to test an experimental antipsychotic medication that doesn't work on me. He asks me the same questions every week—asks me how I'm doing, and if I've had trouble eating and sleeping and so on. He asked me last week, as he did the week before, and the week before that, and so on: "Do you ever feel critical of yourself? Experience any self-loathing?" To which I said: "All you can eat, Doc." And he said: "Can you elaborate?" And I said: "I cringe at everything I ever say. I cringe while I hear every single sentence come out of my mouth. I walk around muttering to myself about how big of a dumb jerk I am." For some reason this amused him, and was also maybe confusing to him, and he said: "What exactly do you mean?" And I said: "I have no idea what I'm ever talking about it and I know it, and maybe everyone else knows it too. I feel like a fraud. I don't know why I ever talk." And then we stopped talking about that and talked about something else. He lead me to an examination room and a woman came in and had me lie down and she took my blood pressure. Then I stood up and she took it again. She lead me to a cold room where another woman came in and took my blood. I like her a lot and I like talking to her. She's always very friendly and genuine. (I wish I could ask her to my friend, but maybe that would be considered inappropriate given the context.) She put a butterfly needle in my arm and asked me how I was. I said: "Ahhhh, you know. I'm all right, I guess." She leaned closer to me and said, in a sad little voice: "I just feel all right too . . . and maybe even worse than that." And I said: "Yeah." And then, because there was no better thing to say, I said it again: "Yeah."


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THE PRIMARY PROBLEM with freedom is that it's impossible for everyone to have at the same time. Even circumscribed freedoms intersect, impose, and oppose, as conflicts about speech, masks, and vaccines remind us daily. "If and when we ascertain that our well-being is linked to the behavior of others, the desire to impugn, control, or change them can be as fruitless as it is intense," writes Maggie Nelson in On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, her attempt to probe the question of "how to forge a fellowship . . . that does not reflexively pit freedom against obligation." The book was born of her desire to reclaim the word from the right wing while resisting rhetoric from the left that "condition[s] us into thinking of freedom as a future achievement rather than as an unending present practice."
She explores freedom and care in four arenas: sex, drugs, art, and climate change. The connection between these essays is mostly theoretical, and there's not much cross-referencing between them, no clear argument that applies to both sex and art, say, or drugs and climate change. In the introduction, Nelson suggests each essay is concerned with "methods by which we feel and know that other ways of being are possible." Instead of prescriptions, she's interested in what she calls the "felt complexities of the freedom drive." If this sounds somewhat scattered, that's part of the point. Freedom, in Nelson's view, requires developing "a greater tolerance for indeterminacy."
Nelson is a distinctive thinker who has proven herself capable of impressive insight about indeterminacy, as in Jane: A Murder, a book about how she and her family lived in the wake of her aunt's long unsolved killing. So her attention to these topics may be cheering news for readers fatigued by the reductive, self-serving, dishonest nature of "cancel culture" discourse, as well as the penchant for pile-ons and ostracization that blights many social ecosystems (the internet, universities, workplaces). Prior to winning a MacArthur grant in 2016, Nelson was a poet, critic, and memoirist who made her name with Bluets, an enduringly popular book on romantic love and sexual fixation, and The Art of Cruelty, an investigation of violence in art. Her 2015 best seller The Argonauts expanded her following, and confirmed her stature as one of the most respected writers working today. In it, she revisited the subject matter of love, mutability, and generation through the lens of her marriage, an impending birth, and parenthood.
Nelson can leverage her lyric sensibility to marvelous effect when she writes about people who matter to her, as happens sporadically in On Freedom. But the general absence of autobiographical narrative in the book inadvertently reveals the trouble with her dialectical approach. Her preferred method is one of synthesis and accretion, putting quotes and observations in fragmentary conversation with one another. In Bluets and The Argonauts, Nelson could fractalize ideas and desires in a literal dialogue, an exchange between two people—herself and her lover(s)—with differing perspectives and priorities, and she held a distinct position. But in On Freedom, she is the sole source of intellectual tension and hesitant to commit to any stance without an excess of caveats and concessions. The resulting equivocation stalls her rhetoric. Rather than stating what she means, she errs on the side of caution and emphasizes what she doesn't. The use of fragments, too, felt better suited to the emotional gravity and interiority of her more intimate work. But in this latest work of criticism, the instinct to break as often as to link works against her. A traditional essay shape would force transitions and connections; here, short sections stand alone, as if complete, yet don't cohere.
Prevarication is especially relentless in the first chapter, "Art Song." Nelson identifies the genesis of this section as an invitation for her to join a 2016 museum panel about "the aesthetics of care" and her subsequent reaction: "yuck." Though she's appalled by a world in which people are "aggressively, often punishingly uncared for," and agrees broadly with the politics behind the topic's framing, she writes that for her art is the wrong place to turn: "In fact, I've often felt that art's not caring for me is precisely what gives me the space to care about it." Nelson maintains that an artwork's so-called meaning cannot—and should not—line up with our desires for it. This makes care "a much trickier rallying cry . . . than it may initially appear." To illustrate this point, she takes two controversies from 2017 as case studies: artist Hannah Black's request that the Whitney remove Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till's body, Open Casket, from its Biennial show; and the dismantling of Sam Durant's sculpture Scaffold, with his participation and consent, after protest from local Native Americans, among others.
I read "Art Song" at least a half dozen times to identify the source of my unease and dissatisfaction, which turned out to be the disjunction between these two examples and the chapter's key points. For instance, Nelson claims that the arguments used to limit hate speech are disastrous when applied to art, in part because the audience "generally must seek it out" as opposed to being forcibly exposed to it. But as she acknowledges in an endnote, "Durant's work was a large sculptural installation visible to the public from a distance, so it became part of people's lives who didn't choose to seek it out." She also summons a hypothetical audience that is pleased Durant decided "to have a sculpture destroyed" rather than "succumb to external pressure." Later, she clarifies that Durant "rejected the idea that he had 'little choice' but to acquiesce" and "casting doubt on his account of his agency. . . isn't my wont."
Contradiction recurs when Nelson says she sees "Durant's engagement with the Dakota as a . . . rousing tale of the possibilities of protest, dialogue, and resolution," only to wave that away by adding, "It also seems foolish not to acknowledge . . . the current environment is capable of putting intense, sometimes menacing pressure on individual artists." These juxtapositions create integral chaos. If the current environment is capable of menacing individual artists—but not Sam Durant, and presumably not Dana Schutz either, whose work remained on display despite Black's letter—why not use a more illustrative instance instead? If Durant's engagement with his critics is a story of mutual success, why is it presented in a context of "menacing" forces? Nelson may want this situation to serve as both triumph and cautionary tale—an example of how to see deeply, with nuance—but I was unconvinced. Maybe that was because I'm also unconvinced of the benefit in abstracting possibilities that conflict with the reality of the example.
When it comes to Black's argument, Nelson never quite explains her objections. Instead, she connects the letter to other people's complaints, offering a tour of "certain arguments that recur in attempts to curtail" space for art, including those by conservatives like the Catholic League's Bill Donohue. Black's connection to these discussions is abstract, at best, but Nelson also quotes writers like Zadie Smith, who were critical of Black, without quoting Black much at all, aside from the refrain "the painting must go"—which, of course, it did not.
Nelson also suggests that protesting institutions like the Whitney could end up "reifying [their] power." This is like saying that boycotts of stores selling Trump products reified the stores' power, or that a corporation's reach is increased when a union asks the general public to support their strike. The Whitney displayed the piece and Black believed the piece should not be displayed; where else should she have directed the request? Despite "Art Song"'s lip service to the right to voice "discontent," my impression is that Nelson thinks Black's request should not have been made at all.
Most galling, perhaps, is Nelson's refusal to take seriously art's role in the concentration of wealth, or of the power such wealth confirms. Such a glaring oversight, coupled with her argument that critics like Black are "holding art to a utilitarian standard [that] echoes capitalism's own fixation on quantifiable results," shakes the foundation of the entire chapter. This distorted perspective about who threatens whom, or what, and what that threat actually consists of, is endemic to established writers with lucrative careers and secure platforms. (Recently, and infamously, it was on display in "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" in Harper's Magazine.) Liberal opinions now often come with the claim, perhaps the sincere belief, that their originators are aligned with the people they rebuke—that they are anti-capitalist or anti-prison, pro–trans rights or pro–racial justice, and so on. But these gaps in analysis, which ignore the most urgent aspects of our present reality, guarantee that this isn't so.
"No doubt [art's protected political status] can and has been abused," Nelson writes. "The question is whether the challenges posed by such turbulence lead us to want to whittle away at this amplitude, or continue to fight for it." But is that the question? Neither Black nor the Dakota people's protest of the respective offending artworks resulted in new laws or public fines or defunding of museums, nor were those the stated objectives. Durant and Schutz are still working, and the latter saw a marked increase in market demand for her work after Black's letter. Black, for her part, was widely lambasted as a disingenuous opportunist.
Earlier in the book, Nelson asks readers to "divest from the habits of paranoia, despair, and policing." But it's debatable which is a better example of that paranoia: someone protesting a work of art, or Nelson writing thousands of words about the threat that could have been posed by the protest, but wasn't. I, for one, found Black's letter exhilarating, not because it filled me with vengeful glee but because it pushed against the status quo with exactitude and moral clarity. It expanded my sense of social possibility. It offered "magic—magic hard to come by elsewhere, and which can make life feel more worth living," as Nelson writes of the art she implores us to leave alone. Black's letter falls, without question, into Eileen Myles's category of "the real and irregular news of how others around [us] think and feel," though Nelson reserves this domain for fine art, and sets it in opposition to responses like Black's and the Dakota people's. So returns the familiar dilemma: one person's freedom is another person's frustration.
IN HER INTRODUCTION, Nelson quotes the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's words on attaining liberation through mindful breathing. But as I read On Freedom, I thought of a very different Nhat Hanh quote, from his conversation with Daniel Berrigan in The Raft Is Not the Shore: "If we do not rely on the people we get nowhere—but it depends on what kind of people you rely on. . . . I don't believe in the intellectuals very much." This comment has haunted me since I read it several years ago. As a teenager, I had an enthusiasm for trolley-problem-style "ethical" questions. One of my clearest high school memories involves being praised aloud to the class for an answer to a scenario in which a man stole medicine for his dying wife from a pharmacist who was charging an exorbitant price. (For the record, I was on the side of the husband.) As I aged, it became clearer that such ethical play was rotten: the questions it asked and those it didn't, the conditions it accepted, the lavish attention to hypothetical examples of forces that occur with devastating specificity in the real world. Why were we treating pharmaceutical price gouging like a fantastical scenario from an imaginary universe instead of one happening daily, hourly, in our own? My concentration on "Art Song" may seem unfair—it is only one chapter of four, after all—but I dwell on it because it colored everything that came after. Once I saw this hole at the heart of the project, the rest was also undone.
It took digging to uncover the hole, though, patched as it was by what writer Patrick Blanchfield calls the "self-consciously reasonable" posture of liberals and centrists who "think 'nuance' simply means well-balanced clauses and appeals to their own ability to tolerate complexity in lieu of actually thinking." On Freedom made me reflect, again, on the spell of white rationality and the fetishization of conceptual thought that swerves back into the realm of the theoretical rather than exit into the material. It is a book that leaves readers with no permissible action, only a patronizing invitation to manage their own feelings (as if their feelings are unfounded or unexamined by definition). "We have the freedom to protest works of art that we think harmful," writes Nelson, presumably including Hannah Black and the Dakota people in her address. "We also have the freedom to find a piece of art repulsive, wrongheaded, implicated in injustice in naive or nefarious ways, without concluding that it threatens our well-being." She uses the first-person plural frequently in the book, without clear delineation of who "we" includes. This seems like a crucial question for any discussion, but especially those about freedom and care.
It's one thing to argue to the point of inaction as regards art, but the self-satisfied ability "to tolerate complexity" never stops there. (Earlier in their conversation, Berrigan says to Nhat Hanh, "one notices how intellectuals become servants of violence.") For Nelson, careful deliberation is also the right choice when encountering a Nazi rally. "There seem to me legitimate arguments to be made for and against limiting the right of, say, armed Neo-Nazis to march in the streets chanting anti-Semitic slogans," she writes in "Art Song." (Italics added.)
Nazis come up again when Nelson expresses disapproval at "the resistance" for embracing "unprovoked physical assault," proof of which she locates (as cited in an endnote) in anti-fascist Natasha Lennard's essay about an anonymous person punching neo-Nazi Richard Spencer on the street. Spencer has openly, repeatedly, and unrepentantly advocated for what he calls ethnic cleansing, but Nelson sees Lennard's pleasure in his suffering as the start of a slippery slope, one "that can lead to behaviors that mirror the disinhibited cruelty that's come to be known as Trumpism." Nelson warns against "taking delight in the unleashing of vitriol or bellicosity upon those whom we have deemed the appropriate bad object," implying that this designation is capricious or misguided.
Shortly after, she borrows the words of Fred Moten to reject the "warped communal alienation in which people are tied together . . . by the bad feeling" and places her interest instead in "insubordinate conviviality and radical compassion." She mentions this position earlier in the chapter, too, when she writes, "I remain devoted to radical compassion, and not the kind that waits for a call." She links her stance once again to neo-Nazis, with citation of an essay about de-radicalizing white supremacists one-on-one, privately, versus responding with mass public confrontation. The author of that essay, Wes Enzinna, specifically said this approach was only intended for white supremacists already trying to escape their extremist circles; it would not work with someone like Richard Spencer. Sometimes, you actually do have to wait for the call—or, more accurately, recognize that the call for compassionate action is constant, and rarely comes from neo-Nazis.
Without action, there can be no solidarity, so when Nelson invokes the word in her climate-change chapter as a remedy for despair, it's hard to take her seriously. Solidarity is not abstract or theoretical. It does not come into being simply through writing or speech. The other great insult of ethical acrobatics at my school was how rarely myself or my classmates were encouraged to stick a landing, to decide what we believed in and discern ways to live our lives in concert with those values. Burrowing into the effort of sprawling thought can feel laborious, but as Thich Nhat Hanh said, it's nothing compared to organizing. For that, one must turn to those who "stick to the struggle," the cab drivers and the "street merchants." The intellectuals are not reliable. When it comes to showing up, "we have to count on [the] poor people."
Charlotte Shane is a cofounder of TigerBee Press and a frequent contributor to Bookforum.