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Featured Image: Elephant by Kelechukwu Nwanne on Vecteezy. Frame by Pixaline on Pixabay. Picture background by 愚木混株 Cdd20 on Pixabay. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now It’s hard not to get mad at

Featured Image: Photo by DS stories on Pexels. Comic Zine font by Jess Latham. Amatic SC font by Vernon Adams. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now When I was 20, I felt pressured

Featured Image: Text is from General Order Number 3, given on June 19, 1865 by General Gordon Granger. The pattern is the Juneteenth flag, designed by Ben Haith et al. Money Penny Script font by Ian Barnard. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its

Featured Image: Photos by Milad Fakurian and Thiébaud Faix on Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer and Image Glitch Tool. Hacked font by David Libeau.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   Content Warning: The post and links within all contain ableist—and

Featured Image: Photo by Christian Joudrey from Unsplash.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   This post continues my profile of Hawai’i, which started with a look at the first inhabitants and the Kingdom of Hawai’i. 4 for Now Britain, France,

Featured Image: Photo by Jasperdo on Flickr, shared under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Cropped in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now While the Hawaiian archipelago (137 islands, atolls, reefs, shallow banks, shoals, and seamounts stretching over 1,500

Featured Image: Photo by Chris Yakimov on flickr from a September 27, 2019 march in Vancouver, Canada.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now We know the climate crisis is real, at this point. Most of us know

Featured image: Photo by michael loadenthal on flickr.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now You’ve probably heard about apartheid in South Africa, Israel, and maybe even Myanmar. But we don’t talk about apartheid in the United States.

Featured image: Photo by Koushik Chowdavarapu from Unsplash.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now This is my third (and for now, last) post in a series about communism. I covered communism basics first, then debunked some popular

Featured image: Image by Vera Prokhorova on Shutterstock.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now First, let’s kill the myth that these ridiculous time changes serve farmers, and that we continue the tradition of Daylight Savings Time (DST)

Featured image: Poster by Vladimir Kalensky (Soviet Union, 1968) on a red background. The slogan is “Long Live the Socialist Revolution!”   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now Communism has been pretty seriously vilified in the United States,

Featured image: Image by Rawpixel on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now Jahi McMath bled for hours after a routine tonsil-removal surgery in 2013 while nurses dismissed her. Her grandmother, a nurse