Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Link: https://www.narratively.com/p/letter-to-my-teenage-self-incarcerated-person-he-once-was
Hector, I ask you to give all of yourself. Don’t be scared, you got this. No more fear, you’re enough. I love you.
Your older self
https://www.narratively.com/p/97e01e68-f52a-480d-9030-b2a518ed1f8a?src=longreads
An extraordinary firsthand account.
via Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/
He was going to strangle me from behind with the cord. He didn’t want a fight. He wanted to get rid of me in a sneak attack and take my stuff.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/?src=longreads
Our civic wells are poisoned. Why?
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/five-thought-experiments-concerning-the-underlying-disease
Might we then consider ourselves a culture being actively poisoned, a poisoning to which we are enthusiastically consenting?
Bashar al-Assad has propped up his regime by exploiting the Middle East’s love of an amphetamine called captagon.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/11/how-syria-became-the-middle-easts-drug-dealer
Shortly after the air strike, several figures connected to the captagon trade in southern Syria received texts from an unknown number: “We know who you are, your movements are monitored, your meetings are hacked. You contribute to destroying the minds of our people, and for their sake we will not have mercy on any of you. The Jordanians will soar like eagles to hunt you down, one criminal after another. Marai al-Ramthan was the first but not the last.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/11/how-syria-became-the-middle-easts-drug-dealer
Under assault from all sides, in the last weeks of his campaign, the former President speaks often of enemies from within, including those trying to take his life.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/trumps-final-days-on-the-campaign-trail
When the pre-program started, I was confined to the metal barricades of the press pen, so I talked to a man standing next to it. “I hate Democrats,” he told me. “They’re demons.” He went on, “I can’t say for sure Trump is a Christian. I don’t really care,” he said. “I’ve done some really bad things—violent things, armed robbery, thirty-year sentence, escaped, jumped parole, out on parole violation for fifteen years. I wasn’t doing anything except trying to be free.” He, like many rallygoers I’ve met since the summer, said Trump was not safe, because he had threatened to “drain the swamp” of “the F.B.I., the C.I.A.—really evil people.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/trumps-final-days-on-the-campaign-trail
Before he promoted lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Christopher Pohlhaus tired to build a fascist compound in America’s whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.
via The Atavist Magazine: http://magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of-the-hammer-maine-neo-nazis-blood-tribe/
If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant … then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.… We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal.
https://magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of-the-hammer-maine-neo-nazis-blood-tribe/?src=longreads
