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A new preview for Marvel Comics upcoming Doctor Aphra #5 book claims there are two rings that worn together can grant an individual eternal life.

The newly launched Doctor Aphra series is written by Alyssa Wong, who accused Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski of being a racist before landing a job at the company. Shes joined by artist Marika Cresta.

The series takes place during the events of The Empire Strikes Back and specifically after the Battle of Hoth. After stealing a shipment of Rebel contraband from Imperial troopers on Hoth, Aphra is approached by a college student named Detta Yao about a pair of mythological artifacts called The Rings of Vaale.

Yao claims that the rings grant their wearer eternal life and boundless fortune when theyre worn together. However, she also notes that they are cursed. But Aphra isnt worried about the curse dismissing it as superstition created to prevent people from seeking the rings.

Aphra quickly accepts the deal to acquire the rings and heads to the Ruins of Kolkur in the Outer Rim to find Doctor Eustacia Okka, a supposed expert on the rings.

However, after tracking down Okka, Aphra discovers that another party is also interested in the rings, Ronen Tagge. And Tagge has an obsession of destroying rare artifacts after hes the last one to touch them.

He explains, the only thing that makes my blood sing more than owning something precious is being the last person to touch it.

After recruiting Okka, she leads Aphra and her team that includes Black Krrsantan, Yao, and a sniper named Just Lucky to the planet of Dianth in the Malitoris System. There they discover the Lost City of Vaale.

While exploring the city and attempting to find the location of the two rings, its revealed the two rings actually have their own titles, The Ring of Fortune and The Ring of Immortality.

While they would discover The Ring of Fortune, the Ring of Immortality was missing. It was not located in its case in the Inner Sanctum of the Architects Workshop in Vaale.

However, a game of double crossing occurs. One of Aphras party, Lucky, is revealed to be an agent of Tagge and comes away with The Ring of Fortune and promptly sets off to deliver it to his benefactor.

Lucky also leaves Aphra and her party to fend for themselves. While Aphra and Okka try to find a way out of the catacombs underneath the city they discover that the supposed curse Yao originally warned about is actually the city thats been built out of bone matter. And it could potentially drive them crazy.

However, while it appears its the city driving the individuals mad, Lucky is still hearing a sound emitting from The Ring of Fortune despite being away from the city.

While Lucky is taking the ring to Tagge, Aphra and her team eventually escape the catacombs and just as soon as they do, Tagges military forces destroy the entire city of Vaale as well as Aphras starship despite The Ring of Immortality missing.

Fortunately, for Aphra she discovers a High Republic starship that just so happened to be abandoned on the planet and in full working order. She decides to bait Tagge and gets her and the rest of her team captured.

Now, in this new preview from Star Wars, its revealed Tagge already had The Ring of Immortality and has been wearing it since the beginning of the series.

He even reveals that the ring has been in his familys possession for numerous generations after they acquired it from an infamous space pirate.

And once he found out that the ring was actually The Ring of Immortality, it made him want to not only obtain The Ring of Fortune, but also to destroy them and erase all knowledge of them from the galaxy.

However, in order to stop him from destroying the rings. Aphra claims that the stories and legends surrounding the rings that they actually do grant eternal life, incredible fortune, and limitless power are true.

Aphra even explains to demonstrate the rings abilities and power.

The preview ends there, but the implication is that these rings do indeed hold this power when worn together.

Now, given this is comics its quite possible there is a twist and the rings are indeed cursed and their supposed gift of eternal life could be something twisted like eternal life through zombification or being kept alive in stasis, unable to actually act.

If it is something like stasis, its actually been done before. The Sith Lord Exar Kun ritually sacrifices thousands of Massassi lives in order to shed the chains of his mortal body and run rampant throughout the cosmos.

However, the ritual doesnt actually allow him to gain immortality and shed his mortal flesh. Instead, his spirt is trapped in a temple on Yavin IV.

While its quite possible there will be a twist with the rings, if there isnt, and I wouldnt be surprised if the rings do grant eternal life, it would just be another slap in the face to Star Wars fans who appreciate the rise, the fall, and redemption of Anakin Skywalker.

Skywalker falls to the Dark Side after Darth Sidious tempts him with not only the keys to immortality, but the ability to keep others alive specifically his wife, Padme.

Well find out when the new issue of Doctor Aphra arrives on October 28th.

What do you make of the introduction of these rings? Do you think they will actually grant eternal life?

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CD Projekt Red's open-world cyber-thriller Cyberpunk 2077 is certainly one of the most anticipated video games of the year. The action RPG had been scheduled to come out on November 19this year;however, it now appears that the release has been pushed to a later date.

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CD Projekt Red has recently released a statement informing fans that its ambitious open-world title Cyberpunk 2077 won't be releasing on November 19. The developers alsoexplainedthe exact reason behind the delay. According to the statement, the developers were facing issues shipping the various versions of the video game title involvingthecurrent-generation and next-generation gaming consoles, along with the Google Stadia and Windows PC versions. It further stated that the launch will require the team to prepare and test out a total of nine different versions of the video game which would be a major challenge at the moment. This involves testing the compatibility between the Xbox One/Series Xand Xbox Series S/Series X, PlayStation 4/Procompatibility on PS5, Windows PC and Stadia platforms while working from home.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is now set to release on December 10, 2020. The video game will be released onPlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, along with Microsoft Windows and Google Stadia. Additionally, it will also be available on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.

This is the third time that developers have delayed the cyber-thriller, which was originally scheduled to release earlier this year in April. However, in an effort to improve the title and make a few changes, the date had to be shiftedto September17. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, thelaunch was finally moved toNovember 19.

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However, despite all the delays, Cyberpunk 2077 continues to be one of the highly-anticipated gaming titlesof 2020 and it's also shaping up to be the quirkiest video games to launch this year.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world cyber-thriller which is set in the Night City, a megalopolis that has a deepobsession with fame, power, and body modification. Gamerswill get to play as V, a mercenary outlaw who is running wild in the city with a goal to secure a one-of-a-kind implant that will lead to his immortality. Players will also be able to experiment with all sorts of character customization in the game.

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An expert has warned why you should never pick mould off a piece of bread and still eat it.

The advice was revealed in new BBC show Morning Live, hosted by Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones, as they discussed Marcus Rashfords new campaign against child poverty in the UK.

Talk turned to how much food we waste in the UK, although bread is apparently one food we should never feel bad about binning.

While some people may pick off the mouldy parts of a piece of bread and eat the rest, there are plenty of reasons why you should not do this.

During the 45-minute episode, Ready Steady Cook chef Anna Haugh explained that in the UK we throw away 20 million slices of bread per day.

One thing you shouldnt do when your bread is on the turn is cut off any signs of mould and eat the rest, Anna explained.

After putting a piece of bread under a microscope, food scientist Dr Nazanin Zand explained that even if you pick off the mould, the bread is still not fit for consumption.

This is a piece of a roll of a bread, the expert explained. That has been separated from another roll that was contaminated.

As you look at it with the naked eye, mould isnt visible, but when you zoom in, you can see that mould has clearly grown and actually penetrated in the surface of the bread.

Anna added: It may not be visible, but the mould actually runs all the way through the loaf, and for some that could actually be a bigger deal than it sounds because bread mould contains micro-toxins which can affect the immune system.

Dr Zand went on to explain that while there are no real dangers of eating mouldy bread, the long-term effects can be dangerous.

I wouldnt say its dangerous and is going to cause any immortality, she added.

The point about exposure over a period of time is that micro-toxin has an accumulative effect.

Long term exposure and a high dose, can cause problems.

Morning Live airs weekdays at 9.15am on BBC One.

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How does anyone attempt, successfully, to pay homage to one of the most influential people in their life? Two books and five podcast seasons simply wouldnt do to express the impact. It would be a Sisyphean endeavor to attempt to write a summation of an individual whose life could be characterized as Shakespearean in its endurance, but here I am rolling the boulder up the hill.

This morning I woke up to discover that my mentor and friend had passed away. If you live long enough, you know what that feels like. The loss of someone you have so much love for is a debt that cannot be paid it stays with you forever. I felt compelled to talk to him one more time, to impress upon him what he had done for me, but now it is too late, so here I am writing what I would say. What we remember is never the details, but rather the impression were left with, like a beautiful piece of prestidigitation. This is not who Daniel Burgess was, but who he was to me.

Right after college, my family and I moved from Queens to Long Island. I had no idea what I was doing, lost like so many other 20-somethings. Without a car, I took a job that was close enough for me to walk to, associate at Blockbuster video I hated it. My passion for movies was dwarfed by the soul sucking, pride swallowing, daily grind of retail. On the best days Id only suffer a mild ennui that was painful enough. One fateful day, a customer of mine struck up a conversation about tennis with me; they were coming from playing. Freeport Tennis (the club which Daniel ran) is looking for people, you should apply. Within weeks, I was working the front desk, then I was working the pro shop, then I found myself on court. The circumstances that bring us to a tipping point in our life are always a surprise. One pro got sick, another moved back home to Jamaica, and another was a no-show what are the chances of that. Daniel came to me and said, I need you to teach today. I dont know how to teach, I replied. Daniel was asking, but he wasnt; this was mandate he had given me, the first of many. Youve seen it done a thousand times, I need you today. And so Daniel had given me a direction, a purpose, a career. I was awful at first, but Daniel made me better. Not only did he mentor me to make me a better instructor, he mentored me to be a better person. He gave me the most important thing a mentor can give someone, the desire to learn more. A great mentor/coach is someone that makes themselves progressively less needed. In tennis, youre by yourself on the court. Teaching someone how to improve, problem solve, to be curious and go beyond what is directly given to them by their coach is incalculable in value.

Because of Daniels mentorship, I went on to be a successful coach. I helped others, the way he helped me. One teenager came to me wanting to join his school team. We had 30 minutes for the next four weeks to make that happen. He was awful! When I asked why he wanted to join the team, he told me its because all of his friends were going to be on the team and he wanted to spend time with them after school. Stakes were high, this was important for him. Not only did he make the team, he was the captain the following year. One girl took lessons with me after having a horrible experience with two other coaches. She would cry on the court with the other pros and began to hate the sport. In very little time, she not only improved, but grew to love the sport in a way that surprised her parents. There are dozens of stories I could tell you of people reaching to me after I stopped coaching professionally to let me know that they loved their time with me, that I was the best instructor they ever had. But I was only the best for them because I learned from the best; thats who Daniel was, he was the best of us.

After I stopped teaching, I started a career in book publishing. Publishing is not an easy industry to get into. The old vanguard of publishing professionals fancy themselves gatekeepers of culture and the few positions that are available are given mostly to those who prove themselves worthy (and willing) to slave away for more hours than anyone should work for very little compensation. But, my mentor and friend Daniel is always a voice in the back of my mind reminding me once you walk through a door, you have a responsibility to help others walk through it as well. Because of Daniel, I serve on multiple diversity committees, sponsor young adults to attend publishing events, and mentor several people every year. With luck, and hard work, his philosophy will change my industry.

My story is not one that is unique, only unique to me. Daniel touched the lives of countless people like myself. His fingerprint is on the heart and soul of everyone that met him. And while all men, consciously or unconsciously, steer their boat toward immortality in this life, the storm of time takes us all. True immortality lies in leaving a legacy. For as long as people remember you and speak your name, you still live in this world. Daniel Burgess will live forever because I will embody his philosophy, I will teach his lessons, and I will speak his name.

Thoughts From Tennis Community Members

"I met Danny many years ago at Freeport Indoor when my then five-year-old picked up a racquet for the first time. Over the years Danny became a close friend to my whole family and I quickly learned that not only did he never say no, but he would never take no for an answer. That resulted in many new things for me including joining the USTA LI board, creating a newsletter with him and more recently, teaching reading and writing enrichment at his tennis camp. I can honestly say that getting to know Danny changed my life for the better and I will miss him so much." - Jacki Binder

"Daniel was far more than a tennis instructor to many. He was a community leader, father, brother, grandfather and much more. Words cannot describe what he did for me on a personal level as both a mentor and a teacher. Daniel was always there for me. He always went above and beyond with everything, whether it be volunteering -- which he loved -- or teaching children at his camp. Daniel was a great person and he will be missed by everyone who met him." -Ross Binder

Danny was more than just a coach, he was a friend. He made lessons so much fun, and I was lucky to have him teach me how to be a coach too. I hope that one day I can be half the amazing coach he was. - Julia Cicchillo

Danny has left the world and our local tennis community a better place than he found it. He was a teacher, friend and mentor to so many with such a kind and charitable heart. He will be sorely missed but his positive influence will be felt forever. Steve Kaplan

Danny was one of the few people that got me active with the USTA again after raising my two children. He helped me to organize community festivals, and later on it led me to organize the Family Tennis League. The work has been very gratifying, and I hope to continue his legacy and share my love for tennis. I ran into Danny at the outdoor courts a few days before he passed. I could never have imagined that would be our last time together. As he was about to start teaching, he said, we need to do something about fixing all the cracks on these courts! Thanks to Danny, I now have my next project! He was loved by the whole community and will be missed by all. Fabiana Rezak

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In July 1921, Alfred Harmsworth by then ennobled as Viscount Northcliffe, proprietor of the Daily Mail, the Times, and numerous other publications wrote in irritable mood to the managing director of the Times about the Lit Supp, as the Times Literary Supplement was known. He grumbled that its circulation has decreased a great deal, concluding that there is no reason why it should not be 80,000 a week (it was around 23,000 at the time) and that it should be made a little lighter. Seeing no improvement, Northcliffe proposed early in 1922 to fold the Lit Supp back into the Times. He wired the long-suffering managing director in best Scoop manner: Give great prominence to fact Times readers will as result merger receive lit supp free but outpoint Richmond many more popular books must be dealt with also. (Bruce Richmond had been the editor of the Lit Supp since shortly after its launch in 1902.) An announcement of the merger was set in type, to appear in the next, and final, issue of the Lit Supp, but the increasingly erratic Northcliffe changed his mind at the last minute (he was in poor mental as well as physical health and died a few months later). Tradition has it that the announcement was removed only twenty minutes before the issue went to press.

That may be as close to death as the TLS has ever come, but it has continued to have its ups and downs. Circulation rose through the 1920s to 30,000, then dropped sharply, down to 23,000 by 1934, and Richmond despaired of arresting the decline: Even among my own relations I know three households that have given it up. He did not believe, however, that new features (pictures, crosswords, a serial story, special numbers etc) would really have any permanent effect. His offer of resignation not having been accepted, he made a request that must be rare in the annals of journalism: In view of the condition to which I have brought the Supplement, I hope you will consider the question of a reduction of my salary for the coming year. Richmond remained in post, and presumably on full salary, till the end of 1937. His successor, D.L. Murray, predictably tried a spot of new-broomism changing the layout and coverage to make the paper lighter and more popular and found, just as predictably, that this was not a recipe for success: circulation continued to fall, dipping below 20,000 by the outbreak of war, and falling to 17,000 two years later. But what goes down can come back up. Circulation rose sharply in the reading-hungry postwar years, reaching a peak of 49,000 in 1950 under the editorship of Alan Pryce-Jones, and stayed above 40,000 until the beginning of the 1970s.

Since the sale of the Times to Rupert Murdoch in 1981, the TLS has once again been a minor part of a sprawling media empire, a province granted a partial autonomy that is hedged round with Solomon Binding guarantees. But it was never one of the more prosperous provinces: in the 1980s it lost money every year and by 1990 circulation was down to 26,000 copies. When Ferdinand Mount was appointed editor in 1990 he diplomatically announced that, while contemplating some changes, he did not want to tamper with the bedrock virtues of the paper the comprehensive coverage, the adventurousness, the readiness to cover any book, no matter how obscure or difficult. Mounts judicious blend of conservatism and innovation, together with his reported willingness to give his specialist editors their head, made his 12-year reign one of the more impressive phases of the papers history. By the beginning of this century, circulation was back up to over 35,000 again.

The biggest shake-up came in 2016 when the 36-year-old Stig Abell, previously managing editor of the Sun, was to general surprise appointed editor. He proceeded to engage in a more vigorous spate of new-broomism than any of his predecessors had ever attempted. The most immediately obvious changes were to the appearance and format, with less print on the page and many more photos (and a TLS cartoonist). But his changes to the contents went deeper and were seen by some observers as threatening the identity of the paper. Critics of the TLS have always complained that it is unexciting, but excitement can come in many forms, and anyway there are some things more important than excitement. A certain staidness had been the obverse of its enduring merits: the TLS carried a lot of considered, well-written reviews of a wide range of books by people who knew what they were talking about. Following Abells make-over, it still had some of those, but in the past few years they have been increasingly squeezed by free-standing pieces, frequently confessional or narrative in form, as well as by a variety of features addressed to topical issues in fact changes of the kind Richmond was sceptical about nearly a century ago. By the beginning of this year circulation, having briefly risen in response to a concerted marketing campaign, had fallen back to around 32,000.

Having left his very visible mark, Abell moved on (to a senior role at the new Times Radio) in June this year, and Martin Ivens, former editor of the Sunday Times, was installed in his place. But it would appear that the paper is suffering from long-term health problems. Alan Jenkins, the widely respected deputy editor, left a few months ago, and now other long-serving staff are being made redundant, amid rumours of unsustainable losses. Such developments will inevitably occasion sermons lamenting (according to taste), the decline of the reading public, the end of book reviewing, the now unbridgeable gulf between academia and lay literary culture, and so on. These sermons have all been preached before, when some storm cloud or other looked particularly ominous. In 1938, for instance, noting how many literary journals had recently closed and fearing for the future of the Lit Supp, John Middleton Murry, a frequent contributor, declared the decline in the amount and quality of reviewing has been catastrophic since 1914, adding that book reviewing is a vanished profession. That obituary turned out to be premature, as have been its many successors, but, as Mark Twain discovered, having your death announced prematurely is no guarantee of immortality.

At such moments its good to be reminded of some of the more illustrious passages in the papers long history. In 1905, Richmond invited the 23-year-old Miss A.V. Stephen to review for it. She quickly revealed herself to be the kind of young contributor editors dream of unearthing. She readily took on whatever she was asked to do, writing fifty pieces in the next three years, and her disconcertingly intelligent, quirkily stylish reviews were delivered to length and on time. Since reviews were published anonymously in the Lit Supp at that time (and indeed until 1974), Stephens industry did not help to build a wide reputation for her, but when, after her marriage in 1912, she began to publish novels under her married name, it soon became known that Virginia Woolf was one of the papers most valued contributors. Under its own imprint, the TLS recently gathered together 14 of her contributions in the volume Genius and Ink. An episode not mentioned there (it is documented in Hermione Lees biography of Woolf) points to the tensions with which the paper has always struggled in one form or another. Richmond felt obliged to return the third piece Woolf submitted, apologising for having commissioned it and insisting that the subject (a book about Catherine de Medici) required a more scholarly treatment.

Like most of us, perhaps, Woolf preferred reviewing to being reviewed, and although notices of her books in the Lit Supp were generally favourable, there is an undertow of grumpiness in her private responses As for the Common Reader, the Lit Supp had close on two columns sober & sensible praise neither one thing nor the other my fate in the Times. Since many of the essays reprinted in that volume had first appeared in the pages of the Lit Supp, professional decorum may have required a little restraint by the reviewer. Woolf continued to contribute essays well into the 1930s, even coming to be paid, so Derwent Mays centenary history of the TLS reveals, at a uniquely preferential rate.

But the issue raised by her review of the book on Catherine de Medici didnt go away, and in fact became more acute and more agonised over as the century wore on. The paper was in principle committed to reviewing the most important new works of scholarship alongside a selection of that months novels, biographies, popular histories and so on. But were these two worlds pulling further and further apart as recondite specialism increasingly dominated the first and relentless pursuit of best-sellerdom more and more shaped the second? The continued existence of the TLS has itself been a standing refusal of this defeatist analysis, though this has meant treading a fine line. The great majority of books from both these worlds, in so far as they really are two worlds, do not get reviewed in its pages; careful selection of both books and reviewers helps maintain the necessary fiction of a shared culture. The guiding principle was wryly expressed by John Sturrock, who worked there for more than thirty years, when he remarked that an ideal contribution should probably strike academic readers as journalistic and journalistic readers as academic.

Different readers want different things, and some tastes do, eventually, change. But it does not seem likely that the TLS could ever succeed as some mix between a glossy lit magazine and an experimental little review for new writing. In fact, it is hard to imagine any version of itself succeeding in the future which does not continue the attempt to straddle the worlds of academic scholarship and commercial publishing. Like it or not, many (though very far from all) of its readers are going to be academics, and a lot (perhaps practically all) of its readers, academic or otherwise, will want serious, informed reviewing of a wide range of books. Intellectual quality, literary judgment and cultural curiosity have to be its hallmarks, not liveliness or accessibility or topicality or any of the other buzzwords that make the pulses of advertising managers race. Whether that can be sustained these days without losing money is hard to say, and what kind of ownership structure might best protect it is similarly moot. The Lit Supp survived Northcliffe and his moods, just, and the TLS may yet survive Murdoch and his accountants. Of course, the world will not end if the paper is forced to close or to change its character radically, but something will end, something that many people have grown used to thinking of as rather valuable.

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Enter Hunter Biden. Handsome, rich, Ivy League-educated, the nonchalant but troubled protagonist, the likes of Hank Moody of Californication. Picture all that but in a political thriller detailing an international web of business dealings, a James Dean of the political Americana, riding into the sunset with a sultry blond on his arm in a Porsche Panamera. This could all be make-believe, but it can be true, too, a harsh and painful saga of personal stories where the father is just ambitious enough to know it and still decides to run for President of the United States in the autumn of his life.

The latest of Hunter Bidens audiotapes flying around social media is overwhelming. I feel sorry for the guy, whos in way over his head with what appears to be a very messy setup. In a recording, he complains about his father, Joe, a consistent case-in-point in all so-far released materials since the NY Post broke the story that Twitter and Facebook censored. Painful, raw, and personal materials, difficult to process emotionally, are included. If the audio is authentic, it must be devastating for Hunter to have his conversations released in front of the global audience, and if those were not true, then its sad and depressing that anyones child should be a victim of the parents pursuit of power.

Joe Biden did not have to run for President. He was poorly performing in the primaries, he was three years from a half-century-long career in politics, and he could have disappeared quietly into the night; but he wanted to have the cake and eat it, too, it appears.

In the audio, Hunter could be heard saying: I get calls from my father to tell me that The New York Times is calling but my old partner Eric, who has done me harm for I dont know how long, is the one taking the calls because my father will not stop sending the calls to Eric.

In the previously released trove of emails, Hunter was also complaining about his father Joe focusing on his presidential run and having his campaign staff scold him.

When Facebook and Twitter opted to step in and censor the NY Post's story, I said that this story will only be getting bigger. That is exactly what has happened. The tragedy of ones life, that could have been avoided, if only Joe Biden put his son over his political ambition and, one may argue, the pursuit for immortality. Joe Biden had power, and he is still a very powerful man. The only thing that he could be interested in is to attain the immortality that one achieves by becoming the president, an achievement that, so far, only 45 Americans have claimed, some for better and some for worse.

Hunter Bidens life story, now immersed in a web of political interests with twists and turns, and the laptop from hell, as Trump likes to put it, has all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster or a Netflix Original series no screenwriter could write so accurately.A leitmotif of the televised binge-worthy story: Would you sacrifice the well-being of your son for the Oval Office? Only if you were convinced that the stuff would never come out. And they almost did not when Twitter and Facebook stepped in.

Tucker Carlson is next, in a new, heightened drama by Tony Bobulenski, who is stepping out with tell-all revelations of everything he knows about his dealings with Hunter Biden, which then-VP Joe Biden allegedly knew about. Fasten your seat-belts, for Quelle Surprise, brave journalism led by Tucker Carlson. No one expected that one to audition for a Pulitzer.

Vicious political games in the Tale of Two Americas, continue. In a world where opposite opinions no longer reconcile, the truth becomes increasingly elusive and campaign strategies even more so vindictive.

The hunger games of American politics started with tell-all revelations of Trumps former employees and family members. Omarosa famously played the tapes. The Left cheered. Every action has a reaction, it's a simple rule of karma that, for some reason, politicians do not believe applies to them. The Democrats went after Trumps children and now the Republicans are going after Joe Bidens son.

Those without shadows let them cast the first stone.

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