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Within six months of starting a GLP-1 medication, households reduce grocery spending by an average of 5.3%. Among higher-income households, the drop is more than 8%. Spending at fast-food restaurants and coffee shops fell at about 8%

Government corruption and overreach are frequent themes in both Marvel Comics and the MCU. The same week the series was released, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faced public heat regarding the actions and overreach of ICE agents.

The murders of Pretti and Good. Venezuela. ICE occupation. In 2026, the wannabe dictator and his stooges are committing even more blatant crimes, aiming to divert attention from old crimes, sabotage the upcoming elections and avert accountability.

Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert offers this talisman against the encroaching darkness.

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a shocking, innovative, and darkly comic film about the pressures of life under capitalism. It’s more proof that the Oldboy director is nothing less than a cinematic master.

This is the first in depth, book-length portrait of the well-known far right wing media personality.

Za’atar’s cultivation, funded by the Israeli government, attempts to use the herb to control the movements of the Palestinian population and the plant itself. The herb shapes, narrates, and anchors identity and political dynamics of the region.

In the Hulu drama's ongoing third season, Stephen is irredeemable but hardly one-note.

Poet Cornelius Eady offers a disturbing glimpse of Trump's Reign of Terror

Poet Rafael Jesús González offers a lament for a victim of the Trump Terror.