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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Three Republicans for Ketanji Brown Jackson</strong> - The statements of support from Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney countered the blast of bitter fantasies from their colleagues on the Judiciary Committee. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/three-republicans-for-ketanji-brown-jackson">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Putin’s War Gives America a Chance to Get Serious About Refugees</strong> - The climate crisis will produce a huge wave of migrants, and we’re not ready. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/putins-war-gives-america-a-chance-to-get-serious-about-refugees">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Joe Manchin Can’t Shoot Down the Logic of a Wealth Tax</strong> - Taxing unsightly agglomerations of wealth directly is an idea whose time has come. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joe-manchin-cant-shoot-down-the-logic-of-a-wealth-tax">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Many Secrets of Jamaica Bay in “Greywater”</strong> - A filmmaker sets out to investigate a poaching ring and discovers a tangle of environmental-justice issues in the New York City waterway. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-many-secrets-of-jamaica-bay-in-greywater">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bruce Willis’s Minimalist Star Power</strong> - Long before aphasia affected his performances, Willis brought a misunderstood effortlessness to his best movie roles. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/bruce-williss-minimalist-star-power">link</a></p></li>
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Comedian Jerrod Carmichael. | Courtesy HBO
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Jerrod Carmichael’s new HBO special <em>Rothaniel</em>, directed by Bo Burnham and filmed on a recent wintry night at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York, is a quiet comedy revelation. Carmichael first delves into the skeletons in his family’s closet (in short, prolific cheating from the men in his family), then reveals his own big secret: He’s gay. He takes viewers through a gentle coming-out narrative, interspersed with occasional questions and reassurances from the audience.
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“I’m trying to be very honest because my whole life was shrouded in secrets,” Carmichael says at the end of the evening, “and I figured the only route I hadn’t tried was the truth.”
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Carmichael’s approach to his coming-out is to turn his comedy stage into a place of healing and acceptance, in which the audience becomes his confessors. If Hannah Gadsby’s 2018 special <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/5/17527478/hannah-gadsby-nanette-comedy"><em>Nanette</em></a> has pushed comedians to balance <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22922007/comedy-isnt-funny-moral-joe-rogan-whitney-cummings-
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moses-storm-che-diaz">serious themes with the need to make people laugh</a>, <em>Rothaniel</em> is a new mediated space altogether — half comedy, half interactive therapy session. The jazz club setting lends an even more intensely improvisational feeling to Carmichael’s monologuing. It’s comedy as melisma, maybe, complete with stammers, pauses, and his admission that he’s still working some things out — both the comedy bits and the emotional bits.
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The name of the special refers to a layered metaphor for that process — it’s the given name he’s tried to erase for years but has finally accepted as a messy part of himself. It’s perhaps lighter on laughs than Carmichael’s previous specials, but his particular, unhurried power has always come from a lack of neuroses about audience reaction, coupled with a willingness to deliver what he sincerely has to give. Here, he performs the mental and emotional toll of trying to repress something so huge until it comes spilling out — until honesty is the only thing you have left.
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Two days after <em>Rothaniel</em>’s release, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-
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news/louis-c-k-grammys-sexual-misconduct-1331976/">Louis C.K. won a Grammy</a> for Best Comedy Album, for <em>Sincerely, Louis CK</em>, filmed in Washington, DC, in March 2020 and released to fans on his personal website a month later. The Grammy win comes four and a half years after <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/9/16629400/louis-ck-
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allegations-masturbation">multiple women in comedy made allegations</a> of sexual misconduct against C.K., causing him to issue a demonstrative apology in which he vowed to “step back and take a long time to listen.”
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The title of C.K.’s special might lead you to believe that it, like <em>Rothaniel</em>, contains a key to its contents — that C.K. is perhaps ready to level with audiences about his conduct and open up about what’s changed since the scandal. Instead, he seems to armor himself against a world he’s decided to battle. In conversation with <em>Rothaniel</em>, <em>Sincerely</em> offers us a striking glimpse of how “confessional” comedy means very different things depending on who’s doing the confessing.
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The hugely delayed nature of the Grammys, delayed even more thanks to Covid-19, means watching <em>Sincerely</em> now, two years after its release, feels like an anachronism: C.K.’s performance was just days prior to the beginning of the 2020 lockdown, for an audience that perhaps understood the concept of an enclosed confessional space very differently than Carmichael’s intimate nightclub audience did two years later. The contrast between the two shows couldn’t be more striking: Carmichael softly working through his coming-out process to a small venue of often utterly silent listeners; C.K. greeting a crowd of 1,500 people who gleefully applaud his every dictum on pedophilia, disability, gay sex, and his sexual misconduct.
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Throughout his decades of standup, and especially during the run of his <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/17/20997966/louie-best-tv-shows-2010s-louis-ck-allegations-fx">once- influential TV show, <em>Louis</em></a>, C.K. favored material that tended toward observational empathy, with self- deprecation always tempered by a basic layer of goodness. Jokes about dating, for instance, looked honestly at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRzs7v0do_Q">women’s reasonable fear of men</a>; jokes about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4">plane wifi</a> were fundamentally about how good we all have it. C.K. could be honest about his worst impulses because they were always tempered by his, and humanity’s, best.
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Following his disgrace, numerous <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/louis-ck-new-stand-up-special-
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sincerely-review.html">critics</a><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/17/20997966/louie-best-tv-
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shows-2010s-louis-ck-allegations-fx"> discussed</a> how C.K. had built up a level of trust that allowed his audience to accept his darker material as part of the struggle of a man who shared their basic sense of morality. C.K. then destroyed that trust, at least for some, when he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/television/louis-ck-
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statement.html">admitted</a> to years of masturbating openly in front of many women in comedy. C.K. did this without their enthusiastic consent (or, in at least some cases, <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/11/louis-c-k-s-
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masturbation-statement-unnervingly-misunderstands-the-concept-of-consent.html">without any apparent consent</a>), nor any regard to the huge power imbalance between them. After at least one incident, his manager <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html">allegedly attempted to silence</a> some of the women.
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Once the less-than-empathetic nature of his in-person interactions was revealed, it seemed that his performance of empathy was over too. Instead, something uglier snuck in: Nine months after his promise to listen, he <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/28/17790532/louis-ck-scandal-comeback-comedy-
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cellar-sexual-misconduct">resumed performing</a>, with his comedy taking a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/1/9/18172273/louis-ck-comeback-parkland-aziz-ansari-metoo">pronounced turn toward the reactionary</a>. During <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/1/9/18172273/louis-ck-comeback-parkland-aziz-ansari-
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metoo">leaked club appearances</a> from late 2018, he mocked Parkland survivors, nonbinary teens, and the loss of the “r” word. (That last one made it into the Grammy-winning special.)
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<em>Sincerely</em> seems to be primarily about insincerity — his, ours, and how foolish we’d have to be to expect anything else. He talks about wishing he could be meaner. He calls his audiences hypocrites for pretending to be morally horrified by some tasteless jokes but not others. He says he hates New York, where he lived from <a href="https://www.6sqft.com/comedian-louis-c-k-buys-
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third-unit-in-west-village-brownstone/">at least 2006</a> until the implosion of his career. He makes fun of Orthodox Jews, Islam, and Japanese restaurant workers; he fantasizes about crushing the illusions of modest shopkeepers. Where once he might have pulled out a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x598orzdU0">heartwarming humanist kicker</a>, <em>Sincerity</em> seems to be about establishing C.K., and his audience’s, <em>lack</em> of empathy as the default. There’s no longer a collective wish for something higher. There seems to be nothing higher left to aim for.
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At one point during the special, C.K. wonders if gay people might not prefer the days when gay sexuality was more of a taboo. Is there not, somehow, an illicit thrill in the deviance of queerness? he wonders — or if you want to look at it through another lens, from knowing people think you’re less human as a result of your sexual orientation? As a joke in isolation, it’s thoroughly whatever. But taken in the context of <em>Sincerity</em> as a whole, it’s a dick joke masquerading as an indictment, as a suggestion that queerness is a clever joke being played on the rest of us and that queer people are somehow in on it. For Louis C.K., sincerity now involves reconfiguring the world as complicit in his dishonesty — and ultimately as complicit in his misconduct.
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“You don’t want to know … who your real friends are,” C.K. says early in the special. “It’s never who you want it to be.” The obvious probing point about why some of C.K.’s better friends left him, and what kind of atonement might be necessary to restore their esteem, goes unmade.
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Meanwhile, in Carmichael’s soliloquy, one of his closest friends tells him he felt “tricked” into having a gay best friend — because despite C.K.’s best efforts, the world he’s tried to reframe still threatens the most vulnerable people in it. Carmichael’s reckoning with his queerness — his family’s mixed reactions, the distance he feels from his mother, his internalized homophobia and fear, and the idea that secrecy and shame can become generational trauma — makes that abundantly clear.
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While both men are angry, stinging from private betrayals, Carmichael doesn’t externalize his discomfort in the same way. Perhaps that’s because much of this is new and raw, but perhaps it’s also because externalized anger is costlier, riskier for Black, queer men in America than it is for the average disgruntled white guy.
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Carmichael’s comedic honesty is born, in other words, from the kind of desperate need for freedom and self-expression that C.K.’s revamped comedy now seems to denigrate. Having lost the favor of his original audience but still amassing a huge amount of patronage, wealth, and power, C.K. chose to rewrite the world that disowned him rather than rewrite himself. Had he truly made good on his promise to “step back and take a long time to listen,” it’s hard to fathom him re-emerging with a worldview this cynical. But a byproduct of his weak analysis is that it makes a truly sincere inner reckoning like Carmichael’s seem that much more profound in comparison.
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C.K.’s Grammy win — not just on its face but for this particular, aggrieved album — underscores the entertainment industry’s unwillingness to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/k789vn/metoo-group-
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He segues into this from his “maybe gay people wish they were still taboo” bit — that fantasy of illicit kink was merely projection, of course. His ability to look honestly at human relationships, to see them through anything but his own lens, is shot. He gets a trophy anyway, sealing his absolute privilege over the women who were brave enough to name what he did. For those women, seeing their stories reappropriated by the man who assaulted them, and then stamped with approval by the Recording Academy, no less, must be the ultimate confirmation that nothing really changes.
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His win suggests that men of great privilege, like C.K., can afford to be disingenuous about what confessional comedy really is. C.K.’s moment of so-called honesty costs him nothing. He risks nothing, and he learns nothing. <em>Rothaniel</em>, on the other hand, suggests that perhaps there’s a connection between the kind of comic who makes themselves vulnerable and open to profound interpersonal connection through their chosen medium and the kind of life experience that pushes a person toward a need for safety and acceptance in a society that marginalizes them. It suggests that there’s something higher to be gained.
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C.K. might think he still needs safety and acceptance from the comedy community, but the type of worldview he evinces these days makes comedy a little bit less safe for the rest of us. The Academy might be eager to welcome C.K. back into the fold, but that just underscores the pernicious subtext of <em>Sincerely</em>: The sincerest thing about it may be its reflection of a societal structure that rewards unkindness, inequality, and denial.
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That might be true, but <em>Rothaniel</em> shows us that those at society’s edges still seek truth, compassion, and healing, turning to increasingly unconventional spaces as more traditional avenues for community and acceptance remain closed. Carmichael finds that healing onstage on a snowy night at the Blue Note, performing comedy as something like a new, hybrid form of slow jazz improv. That achievement, ultimately, feels far more significant to comedy than the miserable laughs of <em>Sincerely</em>. One may have won a Grammy; the other feels like a far more meaningful reward.
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Kim Dadou Brown, a domestic violence survivor who spent 17 years incarcerated, is now an activist for other survivors. Her story is part of the documentary <em>And So I Stayed</em>. | Daniel A. Nelson/And So I Stayed/Grit Pictures LLC
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Midway through <em>And So I Stayed</em>, Kim Dadou Brown — a survivor of domestic violence who served 17 years in prison for killing her partner — sits in a semicircle with a group of women, sharing her experiences of abuse. She relates an anecdote about a time she went to a store with her then-partner. Dadou Brown said she was wearing jeans with an intentional rip in the upper back of the thigh.
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When she came out of the store, her partner was angry. He asked her if she thought she was cute, and told her to turn around. When she did, Dadou Brown said, he grabbed the hole in her jeans and tore it, exposing her in public. For a moment, she was frozen in shock. Then he shoved her, and she snapped back into the moment. “There’s guys on the street,” she says, gesturing in front of her. “There’s drug dealers. There’s kids. There’s people barbecuing, like — <em>nobody said anything. No one ever did</em>.”
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Dadou Brown was describing her own experiences: how it felt like the people in her community would rather look away than face the uncomfortable truth of what she was living through. But she might as well have been describing a broader instinct on the part of society to turn away from, and ignore, the abuse victims in its midst. Some things have changed in the 30 years since Dadou Brown was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. There’s greater awareness now of the difficulties domestic violence victims face in being believed, and the danger they face when trying to leave abusive relationships.
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Other elements of understanding have not changed, perhaps especially when a survivor says she was defending herself or responding to an abuser’s attack. The proliferation of true crime as entertainment, through television and podcasts, has only made it worse. Among the most egregious examples is <em>Snapped</em>, the Oxygen network mainstay that repackages real stories of crimes committed by women, <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2021/12/domestic-abuse-survivors-dont-just-snap.html">often in the context of domestic violence and abuse</a>, as sensationalist curios. Women who kill their partners are portrayed as devious, malevolent, out of their minds.
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<em>And So I Stayed</em>, a documentary by filmmakers Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson, makes the realities of domestic violence much harder to ignore, by focusing on the lived experiences of three survivors who were incarcerated for killing their partners. Dadou Brown, who was released from prison in 2008 and has since become an advocate for other survivors, is one of them; so is Tanisha Davis, a woman serving a sentence for manslaughter in New York state after stabbing her abusive partner during an attack.
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The film also follows the case of Nikki Addimando, a mother of two who was put on trial for second-degree murder for killing her longtime partner after years of abuse. The latter case (which has also been the subject of an excellent podcast, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/believe-her-official-
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The film opens with Nikki as a newborn baby, held by her father at the hospital. “We just want to go home and continue to be a new family,” her dad says. This scene of familial tenderness is juxtaposed with the audio of a call from the Dutchess County Jail. Addimando, now an adult, is speaking with her father while she awaits trial, contemplating the possibility that she might spend the rest of her life in prison.
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She asks: “There is no self-defense law here, is that what I’m understanding?” And, “There was a gun in my face, what else was I supposed to do?” Addimando’s father tries his best to comfort her. “Your daddy loves you,” he says, “remember that.” By the time of the call, Addimando is not just a daughter but a mother now, too. Some of the most affecting and heartbreaking moments of the documentary come in the form of conversations with her young children, who cry as they speak to their mom, not understanding why, despite how much they love each other, they aren’t able to be together.
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The film features an interview with Addimando’s therapist, Sarah Caprioli, who attests to the “regular bruising on her face, her arms … sometimes around her neck and around her chest,” along with pictures of Addimando’s reddened wrist, and dark bruises on her neck and cheekbone. It shows the dashcam footage of Addimando the night she was picked up by police, stepping out of her car in a state of shock, telling a police officer, “I stayed with him for as long as I could have,” and later, “He’s a good dad, and so I stayed.” We hear the audio of the 911 call Davis made the night she stabbed her partner, the anguish and terror in her voice as she screams her address and begs for help, while a 911 call operator impatiently tells her to calm down.
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“Having been in an abusive relationship myself, I knew it’s very much life or death, there’s no in-between when those power and control dynamics are at play. I couldn’t understand that that’s what we thought justice was, to incarcerate and criminalize people who were literally just wanting to live,” she says. “We were looking for people to see survivors, to hear their hopes and dreams, their grief, as much as they were willing to share. All the things we weren’t able to see in the courtroom.”
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It’s not just the survivors’ grief that animates the film. Much of its forward momentum is provided by Dadou Brown, who aptly describes the pain of being abused and then disbelieved by the legal system. “I felt that I was screwed over by the same system that I used to go to for help,” Dadou Brown told me in an interview, noting that she had police reports and hospital records that corroborated her prior abuse.
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As the film follows her, Dadou Brown spends much of her free time post-conviction pushing for the passage of a law that would allow courts to <a href="https://www.ils.ny.gov/files/NYC%20-%20What%20is%20DVSJA.pdf">consider the experiences</a> of domestic violence survivors in resentencing them. The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) became law in New York in 2019, thanks in large part to the advocacy of survivors like Dadou Brown and others, and the film follows her as she provides comfort to Davis’s and Addimando’s families. By the end of the film, Davis has been released under the DVSJA after the judge in the case viewed footage about Davis prepared by the filmmakers, but Addimando has not — the judge in her case ruled that she was ineligible to be sentenced under the new law.
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In 2021, though, an appeals court ruled that Addimando was in fact eligible for the DVSJA and reduced her sentence from 19 years to life to seven-and-a- half years, making her eligible for release in 2024; supporters are <a href="https://westandwithnikki.com/case1">urging</a> New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to grant her clemency immediately. Pattillo and Nelson have since been approached by lawyers for other survivors with requests to make short videos to help support their petitions for legal relief, and they are partnering with theaters, legal organizations, and nonprofits to screen their movie.
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The filmmakers understand that the survivors don’t necessarily need anyone to speak for them, they just need to be heard and believed. These acts of witnessing — whether it’s by the people who ignored Dadou Brown, the viewers of <em>Snapped</em>, or those who watch <em>And So I Stayed</em> — are not neutral. In focusing on the stories of survivors, the filmmakers challenge viewers to reconsider some of the dominant narratives about women and violence. They suggest that we cannot continue to look the other way.
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At her sentencing, Addimando told the court, “I wish more than anything that this had ended another way. If it had, I wouldn’t be in this courtroom. But I wouldn’t be alive either. And I wanted to live. I wanted this all to stop. I was afraid to stay, afraid to leave, afraid that nobody would believe me. Afraid of losing everything. This is why women don’t leave. I know killing is not the solution, and staying hurts, but leaving doesn’t mean living. So often we end up dead, or where I end up standing,” she said. “Alive, but still not free.”
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And So I Stayed i<em>s playing in select theaters. To find a screening or to host your own, contact the filmmakers </em><a href="https://andsoistayedfilm.com/upcomingscreenings"><em>here</em></a>.
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Fredrick Wilson, a spine doctor at the Cleveland Clinic, was asleep at home in June 2020 when he had a massive heart attack that destroyed more than three-quarters of his heart tissue. He was lucky to survive the ambulance ride to the hospital.
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Until then, Wilson, now 66, had been a healthy cyclist who took no prescription drugs. But after the attack, he needed a heart transplant, and with it, 33 pills to swallow a day, including powerful immunosuppressants to prevent his immune system from attacking his transplanted heart. These drugs help keep his new heart pumping, but they also make it harder for his body to fight off infections. They put him at high risk for both catching Covid-19 and having severe outcomes from the infection.
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As Covid-19 stutters into endemicity, the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/recs/grade/covid-19-immunocompromised-etr.html">more than 7 million</a> Americans with weakened immune systems, including Wilson, are left making hard choices that others don’t face. He feels conflicted: He misses taking care of his longtime patients and teaching junior colleagues his craft. But he’s also afraid to die from Covid-19 after such a miraculous survival.
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“Every time I go to the office, I’m going to feel some risk involved, and I’m not really that comfortable with it,” he said. But, he added, “I’m just not ready to stop seeing patients just yet.”
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Even for a doctor, making decisions as an immunocompromised person is difficult — especially now. There’s no obvious guidebook for this group, in part because immunocompromised states are almost as diverse as the individuals who cope with them. While the risks associated with these conditions are not uniform, many immunocompromised people are now making decisions under a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/covid-pandemic-immunocompromised-risk-vaccines/622094/">blanket of fear</a>.
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Helping people with weakened immune systems navigate this stage of the pandemic means recognizing that the group contains a large spectrum of risk — but even those at more risk now have tools that allow them to be proactive about their safety, and both individual and collective actions can help protect them.
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It’s really hard to assess the exact risk an immunocompromised person faces. That’s partly because “immunocompromised” is a catch-all term for a complex group of conditions. The immune system consists of many interrelated parts, and weaknesses in different components of it can lead to different levels of risk.
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“It’s not like there is a clear category of ‘you’re immune compromised’ and ‘you’re not at all’ — there’s a gradient,” said Dimitri Drekonja, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Minnesota.
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Immune systems can be weakened in different ways — via disease, such as advanced or untreated HIV; by treatments for certain medical conditions, such as medications used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and some cancers; or by medications that target normal immune systems in transplant patients, to <a href="https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/organ-transplant-after-the-transplant">prevent them from attacking new organs</a>, or immune system components, such as in stem cell transplants.
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When it comes to Covid-19, the important question for immunocompromised people is whether their immune system’s specific vulnerability places them at higher risk for either infection with or severe disease due to the coronavirus.
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Immunocompromised people, overall, are thought to be at particular risk for Covid-19 because the SARS-CoV-2 virus is so new, said Christine Koval, who leads the transplant infectious disease team at the Cleveland Clinic.<strong> </strong>They’re also at relatively higher risk for severe outcomes from common cold and flu viruses, but their immune systems have encountered these viruses before. SARS-CoV-2 is too new for their immune systems to offer much protection against it.
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The data is mixed on which immunocompromised people face the greatest danger when it comes to Covid-19, in large part because many in this group are older or have other medical conditions that raise the risk of severe disease.
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cancer?search=covid%20immunocompromised&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=1#H346374680">Covid-19 risk is elevated</a> for people with cancers of the blood or immune systems (like leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma), lung cancer, advanced or progressive cancer, recent stem cell transplants, and advanced or untreated HIV. Those actively receiving chemotherapy that reduces bone marrow activity, and people with <a href="https://primaryimmune.org/news/doctors-provide-updates-covid-19-and-pi">some primary immunodeficiencies</a> are also in the highest-risk category.
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The CDC’s <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/immuno.html#mod">“moderately to severely immunocompromised”</a> designation, created largely for the purposes of allocating Covid-19 vaccines, includes these high-risk categories. But it also includes more ambiguous ones, including people taking other immunosuppressive medicines and those who have received organ transplants, conditions whose risk scientists <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32766815/">don’t</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34117116/">understand</a> as well.
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Researchers have not yet developed a unifying theory to explain why certain immunocompromised states raise the risk from Covid-19, but many have proposed an important role for B cells. These immune cells are responsible for producing the antibodies key to the immune system’s sentinel function, which identifies invading germs and signals the need for a counterattack. That makes them critical to the body’s defenses against new pathogens; because people taking medicines that dampen these cells’ activity have a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8846615/">less robust vaccine response</a> and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8150936/#:~:text=Results%3A,range%20of%20underlying%20disease%20states.">higher risk for severe infection or death</a> when it comes to Covid-19, scientists think there is a relationship between B cell function and risk.
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When a medical condition or treatment weakens the entire immune system, it also weakens B cells; that could explain why people with blood cancers, stem cell transplants, and advanced HIV are at higher risk.
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However, B cell dysfunction doesn’t explain all of the risk immunocompromised people face, said David Hafler, a neurologist and immunobiologist at the Yale School of Medicine. In some people with weakened B cells (for example, those who take the prescription medication rituximab) other parts of the immune system seem able to pick up the slack — but not in everyone.
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Hafler attributes some of this variability to the “immune lottery” — that is, the role of genetics in determining individual strengths and vulnerabilities in each person’s defenses. “Everyone has a different immune system,” he said, which makes it hard to ascertain why some people have severe Covid-19 infections while others do not, without understanding underlying genetic differences. (It is possible to test for the presence and level of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the blood, which are products of the immune system’s defense against the virus. But these tests don’t tell you how protected you are — or are not — from an infection.)
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Megan Ryan, an advocate for people with primary immunodeficiencies, who herself has common variable immunodeficiency, said the individually variable nature of immunocompromised states makes it particularly important that higher-risk people get their information from health care providers who know them — not from the public square. “It is a confusing time,” she said, “because there’s a lot of people who are either experts or self-proclaimed experts — there’s just a lot of voices in the system.” She recommended seeking medical advice from the health care team that knows you best “rather than crowdsourcing an answer,” she said.
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That’s also the best advice for people concerned they have an undiagnosed immune system problem: get evaluated by a health care provider — ideally, one who knows you well.
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While immunocompromised people should address questions about individual risk and recommendations with their health care providers, they should also be aware of the tools available to protect them from Covid-19’s worst outcomes.
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<strong>1) Vaccines and masks: </strong>Vaccination remains a key component of prevention. In addition to the two-shot initial vaccine series and the first booster shot, a second booster dose has been approved and is <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-
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shot.html?s_cid=11706:cdc%20covid%20booster:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY22">recommended</a> for immunocompromised people. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8846615/">Immunocompromised people</a> are somewhat less protected by vaccines than people with normal immune systems, but the protection isn’t zero.
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perspective/2021/10/commentary-what-can-masks-do-part-1-science-behind-covid-19-protection">protection</a> during casual contact with others, even when they are unmasked. Koval said household members of immunocompromised people should also mask up in public places to avoid transmitting the virus when back at home.
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<strong>2) Antibody treatments: </strong>A long-acting preventive antibody formulation called Evusheld should offer some hope to immunocompromised people hoping for a higher degree of protection. Early data showed this therapy reduced the risk of symptomatic infection in unvaccinated high-risk adults (including but not limited to immunocompromised people)<strong> </strong>by <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/154701/download">77 percent</a>, and that the protective effect may last long enough to allow recipients six months between doses.
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But due to a short supply and confusion among health care providers about who should receive the drug, many immunocompromised people who want the drug have been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/us/politics/evusheld-covid-treatment.html">unable to get it</a>. Currently, the cost of this therapy itself is <a href="https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/COVID19/therapeutics/Pages/mAb-cost-
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and-coverage-faqs.aspx">covered by the federal government</a>, although the cost of infusing it varies by insurance plan. If Congress does not pass the latest, condensed version of a <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-
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covid19/23009783/covid-19-relief-funding-bill-senate-vaccines">Covid-19 relief bill</a>, Evusheld may become harder to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/15/fact-sheet-consequences-of-lack-of-
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funding-for-efforts-to-combat-covid-19-if-congress-does-not-act/">access</a> in the future.
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<strong>3) Oral antivirals: </strong>If they do get infected, immunocompromised people may also benefit from treatment with <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-
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first-oral-antiviral-treatment-covid-19">Paxlovid</a>, an oral antiviral medication people take early on during Covid-19 infections to prevent more severe illness. However, this medication cannot be taken with some other medicines commonly prescribed to treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol, so it will be off-limits to some immunocompromised people.
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<strong>4) Services to connect patients with medications: </strong>A new <a href="https://covid-19-therapeutics-locator-dhhs.hub.arcgis.com/">Covid-19 therapeutics locator</a> created by the federal government aims to help health care providers more effectively link treatments with patients who stand to benefit most from their protective effects.<strong> </strong>
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Immunocompromised people can also use another new federal website geared toward patients to identify <a href="https://covid-19-test-to-treat-locator-
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dhhs.hub.arcgis.com/">the nearest “test-to-treat” location</a>, where people can be tested for Covid-19 and if positive, get treated with either Paxlovid or molnupiravir, another antiviral medication that’s less effective than Paxlovid but doesn’t interact with other medications.
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<strong>5) Non-immunocompromised people can be thoughtful, and policies can be proactive: </strong>Although mask mandates are no longer in effect in most of the US, an accommodating attitude from the general public — and policies that encourage a culture of consideration in places where there’s no way to remain masked around others — can help maximize safety for immunocompromised people.
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Workplace lunchtimes are challenging for both adults and kids, said Drekonja: “I have a private office where I can go eat lunch, but many people don’t — they have a break room,” he said, or in the case of school children, a cafeteria. “They don’t get a magic forcefield for the 20 minutes that they’re eating — what do they do?” he said.
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There are no easy answers on how to minimize exposure for immunocompromised people in these situations, especially in places where it’s too cold to be outside for half the year. However, improving ventilation and air filtration and maximizing vaccination rates and masking among those sharing air space with high-risk people in these scenarios would help.
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Of course, the best way to reduce the risk Covid-19 poses to immunocompromised people is to reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus altogether. The more we collectively take steps to avoid large waves of transmission going forward, the faster we lower the risk for everyone.
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At this stage of the pandemic, immunocompromised people have several tools to protect themselves from Covid-19. Still, some decisions remain difficult to think through. There is no way to know the absolute risk of any situation, and there is no way to do away with risk entirely. The uncertainty can feel unsettling and exhausting.
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People who are able to balance caution and uncertainty with joy and meaningful activity are having an easier time right now. Personal preferences and priorities help determine how much these two years have felt like a loss, said Drekonja: If you’re someone who was looking forward to a retirement full of nights at the opera and dinners out, it’s been brutal — but if you’re a homebody who just wants to read and go for walks outside, “it’s not a big deal,” he said. “Part of it is, what’s your baseline?”
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Many people “get this message that they’re at such high risk for death that they can’t really function normally in the world,” said Koval. But she doesn’t believe that’s realistic.
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“It is uncomfortable to live in these muddy situations, particularly when we’re two years in and the type of data that we have is just not that helpful for patients, and for us to help them make informed decisions,” Koval said. “I’m hoping it gets better.”
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Fredrick Wilson, the doctor who suffered the heart attack, also hopes it gets better — ideally, in time to let him do just a little more of his life’s work before retiring. He would be reassured by proof that a combination of vaccines and antivirals would be 100 percent effective at preventing coronavirus deaths, but that proof does not yet exist, and it’s unclear if it ever will. Meanwhile, he’s stayed up to date on his booster shots, and recently received a dose of Evusheld. He expects to start seeing patients again in early May.
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Wilson recalls his earliest days of practice, when gaps in knowledge about the cause of AIDS made many clinicians afraid to care for patients. That uncertainty wasn’t all that different from the way the Covid-19 landscape feels right now, he said: “We don’t know all the answers yet — and it’s just going to take some time.”
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPL 2022 | Warner, Nortje and Stoinis all available ahead of Delhi Capitals-Lucknow Super Giants clash</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Explained | Who is Pravin Tambe, the subject of Hotstar’s new cricket biopic?</strong> - After years of playing club cricket in Mumbai, the leg-spinner made his IPL debut in 2013 at the age of 41</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sindhu, Srikanth sail into Korea Open second round</strong> - Sindhu will next meet Japan's Aya Ohori, while Srikanth will be up against Israel's Misha Zilberman</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sonic 2 film review: This year’s Super Mario film has a new bar to clear</strong> - Speed, style, laughs, and surprises: Sonic holds on to all his golden rings this time. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1845746">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Comcast wanted man to pay $19,000 after falsely advertising service on his street</strong> - Comcast’s ordering website falsely stated that Internet service was available. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1844282">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPCC report: The next few years are critical</strong> - New report on climate solutions is good news, bad news, and a to-do list. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1846017">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden steps up federal efforts to address long COVID</strong> - Up to 23 million Americans may have long-term effects, such as shortness of breath, fatigue. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1846055">link</a></p></li>
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It’s the same again the next day when the new guy comes in and looks at the rota: “Wow, wholemeal loaf day!”. And sure enough, he puts the same verve and expertise into making wholemeal loaves as he did into dinner rolls the day before, and soon they are selling like something for which there ought to be a suitable simile when you’re telling a story about a bakery.
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On the Wednesday he takes one look at the words “Danish Pastry day” on the rota and immediately bursts into song, turning out tray after tray of beautifully formed and succulent Danish pastries, and on Thursday the excited shriek of “Doughnut day! Yes!!!” heralds an eight-hour shift of doughnuts that God Himself would forgive the sins of a whole world for.
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Father: What did you do my child?
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Man: I went to my sister in law’s home. Just when I was leaving, it started raining and I had to stay there. We slept together.
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Father: Pray to god my son for he is merciful.
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Man: The day after that, I went to see my mother in law. Just when I was leaving, it started raining and I had to stay there. We slept together.
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Father: Pray to god my son for he is merciful.
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Man: Yesterday, I went to see my brother in law. Just when I was leaving, it started raining and I had to stay there. We slept together.
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