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Laid Off Life is a place of respite for the weary workforce. Whether you’re unemployed, underemployed, or just trying to make it through the workday, let this be your 5-minute mental break from the grind of late-stage capitalism.  Confession time. I love to write just about anything at all. But when it comes to writing cover letters…absolute agony. If I’m being honest, I would say my biggest barrier to entry to applying for any job is a required cover letter.

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has said “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.” Gallant did not say that the Hamas fighters are humans who have performed evil acts, and he didn’t say that the’re just animals. He said that they are human animals. That matters. A lot. I am a dehumanization scholar, and as such Gallant’s words are all-too-familiar to me. Throughout history, describing others as human animals has inspired terrible, often genocidal, atrocities.

Source: Pexels/ Tatiana SyrikovaWhen I was choosing a preschool for my first child, I remember visiting a Montessori school and being just completely blown away. Every toddler in the room was independently and meticulously doing their “work” and, when they were finished, they diligently cleaned up after themselves without being reminded by a teacher or even the “clean up” song. Most strikingly, I was in a room full of toddlers yet it was so quiet that I could hear a pin drop.

Good morning! Today is Saturday, January 8, 2022. You’re reading The Charlotte Ledger’s Weekend Edition. Need to subscribe — or upgrade your Ledger e-newsletter subscription? Details here. Pajama pants are a popular fashion choice that teens are wearing these days to area high schools … and Target, the grocery store, shopping malls, medical appointments and so on. by Cristina Bolling Remember back to the days when people were all worked up over yoga pants? Girls were getting banned from airplanes for wearing them, women were being shamed for donning them at the grocery store without having gone exercising first (as if anyone would know), and the newly coined “athleisure” term caused eyes to roll into the back of the head.

I did this livestream this morning where I searched for and identified locations at University of Indiana and The Ohio State where police marksmen may be over watching Gaza protests. This originally came from a Twitter viewer who asked me if the tweet below was real: https://twitter.com/bluepashminas/status/1783639236266151973 However, when your profile says “Victory to the Intifada,” you answer your own question. The reason for police marksmen may be twofold: #1. There is a non-zero chance that agitators with weapons or suicide vests may be in the crowd.

Stay-at-home girlfriends are “having a moment,” according to a recent trend piece in The Wall Street Journal. The (slim) evidence: some TikTok lifestyle videos in which women document their devotion to supporting their boyfriends “with tasks like cooking and housework,” alongside a “rigorous care regimen to keep up appearances.” It’s trad wives without the wife part. Stay-at-home girlfriends, or SAHGs, are certainly a grabby topic for a seemingly timely trend piece, but I’m afraid it all feels quite old.

Shocked Who? Weekly mentioned a racecar driver instead of Matty on today’s ep, NEVER forget Halsey’s incredible poetry about him Side note, Taylor & I are single simultaneously after similar circumstances so she’s officially mother to me — someone said on Instagram that nature is healing now that she’s back to NYC pap walks 🩵 Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmifn6jAqrzToqSeZqOqr7TAwJyiZ5ufonyxe9OasKWnomLAuLXFrWSmmaSpxm60xJqjsmWUlsGqusZmpZqrmKu2rbjEaJqopZ2au7W%2F

Share For those students looking to move beyond high school, I am in the process of creating a “great books” college-level program. — Billionaire Joe Ricketts, Dec. 12, 2022. The darkly hilarious grift formerly known as New College is planning to launch an online version of its liberal arts degree (which would include 1-year “certificate” and 2-year AA options) this spring. It is aiming for a global audience. New College doesn’t have a curriculum — much less a product — for this online course of study; and they don’t know who will teach it.

I was just sent an amusingly bad video featuring three bearded gentlemen, who clearly all use the same tailor, and what was really weird was their speculation about angels and gender in heaven. Their takeaways were: 1. The Godhead is male: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 2. Angels can be male but are not female. 3. Demons can be male and female. 4. Heaven is a “male space.” All I can say is …