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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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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>The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy</strong> - Is a controversial curriculum, entrenched in New York City’s public schools for two decades, finally coming undone? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibes-based-literacy">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mikhail Gorbachev, the Fundamentally Soviet Man</strong> - The last leader of the U.S.S.R. attempted to modernize and reform his country, even as he failed to imagine it as anything but an empire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mikhail-gorbachev-the-fundamentally-soviet-man">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden’s Student-Debt Plan Could Chip Away at the Racial Wealth Gap</strong> - Loan forgiveness and other measures don’t solve the problem of rising tuition costs, but they could help some Black families start to catch up. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bidens-student-debt-plan-could-chip-away-at-the-racial-wealth-gap">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”</strong> - The author reads her story from the September 12, 2022, issue of the magazine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/joan-silber-reads-evolution">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Moments from Serena Williams’s Career That I’ll Never Forget</strong> - Williams, who lost possibly her last match on Friday night, made herself felt beyond the game as arguably no player ever has. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-moments-from-serena-williamss-career-that-ill-never-forget">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>How to nourish yourself in a difficult time</strong> -
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When things are hard, feeding yourself and those you care about can be the first thing to go.
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When times are <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22902543/covid-omicron-pandemic-tired-burnout">hard</a> — as they have been with alarming frequency lately for <a href="https://www.vox.com/23140987/evictions-housing-rent-assistance-erap-tenant">many</a> Americans — the first thing to go can be the desire to feed yourself. After two years of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/24/23275962/ba-5-covid-variant-strain-public-health-response">pandemic</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/24/23140552/robb-elementary-school-shooting-uvalde-texas">increased threats of gun violence</a>, attacks on the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23055125/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-supreme-court-dobbs-v-jackson">fundamental right to control our own bodies</a>, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/7/23197430/jayland-walker-police-shooting-akron-ohio-footage">the ceaseless march of injustice</a> for anyone who isn’t <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/12/23205239/josh-hawley-abortion-rights-khiara-bridges">straight</a> or white, it can feel inconceivable to get out of your own head, open up the fridge, and nourish yourself well.
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So what can we do? How do we pull back from the pain to a place of perspective, where we’re capable of taking care of our bodies and brains even when the rest of the world refuses to?
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My career as <a href="https://www.leannebrown.com/">a cookbook author,</a> writer, and speaker has been wide-ranging. With my first book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/good-and-cheap-eat-well-on-4-day/9780761184997"><em>Good and Cheap</em></a><em>,</em> I focused on the barriers of cost and access to food, and now my new book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/good-enough-a-cookbook-embracing-the-joys-of-imperfection-in-and-out-of-the-kitchen/9781523509676"><em>Good Enough</em></a><em>, </em>places the focus on mental health and our internal world. I create recipes but also frameworks for thinking about how we feed ourselves and how that expresses our beliefs about ourselves.
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Fundamentally, learning how to cook and feed your specific body in your specific life is a transformative healing experience, one I have witnessed in myself and many others. Whether you don’t know where to start nourishing yourself, feel unskilled doing so, or are grappling with something more serious like a disordered relationship to eating, it is essential at all parts of a healing journey to meet ourselves exactly where we are.
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Taking good care of ourselves requires many tools, including community care, professional help, and self-care. Self-care, which has become something of a meaningless buzzword but is in fact an incredibly powerful and stabilizing force, can feel particularly hard in this current moment with all the concurrent crises. Central to self-care is nourishment, whatever that means in your and your family’s life, and here I’ll provide strategies for simple ways to feed yourself that build capacity for self-compassion and self-love.
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It’s not your fault it’s hard; it’s how we’re wired and conditioned
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It can come as something of a shock how feelings like stress, anxiety, and grief can manifest in our bodies. Connecting to yourself when you feel big feelings is the first and hardest step, by far — much like the moment after you accidentally cut yourself, clenching the wound closed to delay the pain before finally letting go to see the damage. But it’s essential to receive all the information about what we are going through so we can understand ourselves and what we need. When we ignore and numb our bodies instead of listening to them, we get stuck.
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A healthy nervous system is meant to cycle in and out of two states: the parasympathetic system, where we rest and digest, and the sympathetic system, which governs stress and creates cortisol to help us respond to the cause of the stress. When we are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec3AUMDjtKQ">chronically stressed</a>, it can be hard for our body to fully switch into the parasympathetic state where we digest and regenerate ourselves.
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This can be felt as a loss of appetite as the gut churns, or a feeling of deep tiredness while the mind races and won’t allow us to sleep. Sometimes we may want to eat a lot when we are feeling bad, but we may just as easily have a loss of appetite as our bodies <a href="https://integratedlistening.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/kolacz-kovacic-and-porges-2019-traumatic-stress-and-the-autonomic-brain-gut-connection-in-development.pdf">get stuck in the sympathetic state</a>, trying to solve problems that are ceaseless and ongoing.
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Next we need to examine our beliefs. Are we gaslighting ourselves by downplaying how hard it can be? If you are struggling to feed yourself, there are likely many valid reasons for it. Our culture <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/112693/112693">downplays acts of caring and domestic labor</a>, but feeding ourselves — <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvdjrr2c">let alone others</a> — is hard work. It’s hard work that requires <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003122419859007">resources and a set of skills</a> that many of us are not taught or able to access. Feeding ourselves requires money, ability to acquire food, and a safe place to live and store and assemble the food, among many, many other basics. You need time and physical and mental ability, and even if you are resourced and safe, there may be times when what is going on inside is too much, and the work to feed ourselves as we might wish becomes overwhelming.
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Complicating matters further is the reality that approximately <a href="https://anad.org/eating-disorders-statistics/">one in 10 people will be diagnosed with an eating disorder</a> in their lives. BIPOC people are less likely to be diagnosed but more likely to be at risk of eating disorders, so the total numbers are likely higher. If this is you, <a href="https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline">please seek help outside yourself</a>; you cannot reframe your way out of an eating disorder.
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When we validate ourselves for all these realities we can make room for self compassion to arise — and that can give us the energy we need to make moves. Many of us have a tremendous fear that any difficult feeling is going to last forever; sure, thinking goes, you got through today eating nothing but mashed potatoes, but what about tomorrow? And the next day? It can be easy to find yourself in a spiral, imagining your whole life stretching out before you with every day as hard as today, but that is not the case.
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Start where you are
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Here’s an exercise: Imagine someone you love struggling in the way you are today or in a particularly challenging moment in the past. How would you respond to their needs? Allow these imagined feelings and ideas to move through you and take the step for yourself that you might take with this imagined other.
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Next, take just one step toward feeding yourself. If even the first step is overwhelming, take a few deep breaths and think how you can make it easier. Could you get someone else to pick up groceries for you? Could you simply eat the peanut butter and tortillas in your pantry and call it done? Let it be enough. Start where you are and know that feeding yourself — whether it is a bowl of pasta or a handful of nuts shoved into your mouth — is something to be proud of. <a href="https://self-compassion.org/">Just as you would be proud of yourself</a> for showing up for a friend or your child, you can be proud of yourself when you show up for yourself in the same way.
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Allow your body to take over. What can you keep down? What feels doable? What is the first thing you think of? That is the place to start. Raw fruit, hummus and crackers, bread and butter, a granola bar? Assembling something out of a few raw or prepared ingredients is a great place to step back to when meal preparation feels overwhelming. Banish the idea of how a meal “should” look. Great job! You did it. Give yourself exactly what you need today.
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It can help to find a go-to food that you can rely on without having to engage your mind, where all the worry lives. For me, so long as my stomach is not too unsettled (in which case fresh fruit and nuts are my go-tos) I make a cheese sandwich, or egg-and-cheese breakfast sandwich. They are palatable, simple, and settling for me. It’s helpful to have at least one go-to because when you are distressed, making decisions becomes harder.
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Let yourself be grateful for what you have done. Take a moment with the snack or meal you made and thank yourself for your efforts even if you want to laugh at them.
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When we take steps to care for ourselves in the way we might for a loved one, it can feel wrong at first. It might feel like too much work when you have so little energy. You might feel resentful toward yourself for having needs. Until one day, suddenly, you go to put a squeeze of lemon in your water, not for any reason but just because you love yourself, and those voices and feelings that made it so heavy are no longer there. Or they may be there but they are muted somehow, smaller and sort of pitiable as they cry at you from behind a locked door. That is what you have to look forward to.
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Feeding yourself with love and care is an act of faith in yourself and your innate goodness. You may not see it, you may not feel it, you may roll your eyes and scoff, but some deep-down, powerful part of you knows you’re worth trying for.
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<em>Leanne Brown is an award-winning cookbook author, writer, teacher, and parent who lives in Brooklyn.</em>
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Liz Truss speaks during the final Tory leadership hustings at Wembley Arena on August 31 in London, England. | Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Liz Truss, a Brexit convert, won the Conservative leadership contest and will replace Boris Johnson.
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The United Kingdom’s next prime minister may be an even bigger Brexiteer than Boris Johnson.
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Liz Truss, the former foreign secretary, has won the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/20/23271450/uk-conservatives-rishi-sunak-liz-truss">Conservative Party’s leadership contest</a>, setting her up to take over as UK prime minister after Johnson announced <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/7/23198063/boris-johnson-prime-minister-resigns">in July</a> he would resign. Truss defeated Rishi Sunak in a race <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-29/liz-truss-has-90-chance-of-becoming-uk-s-next-prime-minister">she was heavily favored to win</a>, largely because <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/truss-went-from-anti-thatcher-protests-to-become-uk-tory-darling#xj4y7vzkg">she captivated the right-wing base</a> of the Conservative Party, including <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/07/truss-sunak-contest-leaves-brussels-pessimistic-about-relations-with-uk-brexit-eu">its Eurosceptic wing</a>.
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How Truss achieved that is a somewhat remarkable political story. A former Liberal Democrat and <a href="https://www.itv.com/news/2022-08-03/liz-truss-now-backs-brexit-after-realising-it-didnt-cause-any-disruption">Remain supporter,</a> she fully embraced Brexit after the 2016 referendum, becoming one of its most ardent backers. As foreign secretary in Johnson’s government, she shored up her Brexit credentials with her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/28/friend-or-foe-what-world-leaders-think-of-liz-truss">confrontational stance toward the European Union</a>.
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Her reinvention allowed her to ascend to the top of her party, and now the premiership. That rise says a lot about where the UK’s Conservative Party (or Tory Party) is right now: Even though the UK officially broke with Europe, Brexit has also ballooned into an entrenched domestic political and culture war issue. Truss is the embodiment of this, which also says a lot about how she may lead — when it comes to the European Union, and beyond.
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Practically, that may mean even thornier relations between the UK and the EU at a time when the United Kingdom and the rest of the continent are dealing with <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12196322">inflation </a>and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/20/23270078/europe-russia-gas-nord-stream-ukraine-war">energy crises</a> and an ongoing war in Ukraine.
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“A question that Liz Truss will basically have to face is: How far does she want to escalate with the EU?” said Nicolai von Ondarza, EU/Europe research group leader at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). “And for the EU side: How fast and how strong does one want to retaliate?”
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As the new British prime minister, Truss does have the opportunity for a reset, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/01/economy/uk-strikes-inflation/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNNi&utm_content=2022-09-01T14%3A57%3A15">and given the economic and political challenges the UK is facing,</a> it might make sense to attempt it. But Brussels, Paris, and Berlin are bracing for a rockier relationship. Because, as a Brexit latecomer, Truss may have even less room to maneuver than the guy she’s replacing.
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The convictions of a Brexit convert
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In 2016, Liz Truss warned of the perils of Brexit, saying leaving the EU’s single market would mean industries, like food and drink, would face <a href="https://kellnerpolitics.com/2022/07/15/the-day-liz-truss-told-the-truth-about-brexit/">additional costs getting their products to market.</a> In 2022, during her Conservative leadership campaign, she said she was <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/19270530/liz-truss-admits-wrong-to-back-remain/">“wrong and I am prepared to admit I was wrong”</a> about her past stance.
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Truss is, to borrow a phrase from the tabloids, a <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/19270530/liz-truss-admits-wrong-to-back-remain/">“born-again Brexiteer.”</a> She says she believes in Brexit now because <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/liz-truss-brexit-disruption-did-not-happen_uk_62eacdf2e4b09d09a2c05f8f">“disruption didn’t happen,”</a> even though plenty of indicators show that those <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/31/covid-easy-scapegoat-economic-disruption-brexit-biting">disruptions are very much happening.</a>
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Truss also used her tenure in government to build her Brexit bona fides. She served as International Trade Secretary in Johnson’s government, the public face of <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/about-foreign-secretary-liz-truss/">Britain’s post-Brexit efforts to secure trade deals all over the world</a>. In 2021, she took on the high-profile job of foreign secretary, where she took over the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/world/europe/uk-brexit-david-frost-liz-truss.html">post-Brexit portfolio with the EU</a>.
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Truss’s appointment last year came with some hope that she might be a bit more <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/world/europe/uk-brexit-david-frost-liz-truss.html">pragmatic and less ideological on Brexit</a>. But she largely maintained a hardline approach when dealing with the EU, especially on issues relating to Northern Ireland, the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=northern+ireland+border+explained+vox&sxsrf=ALiCzsZwi_RRjMBqUt6IsfdNulzCemeLtA%3A1662044207509&ei=L8gQY9TOHsvP7_UPztGcwAs&ved=0ahUKEwiUotuU7fP5AhXL57sIHc4oB7gQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=northern+ireland+border+explained+vox&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgATIFCCEQoAEyBAghEBUyCAghEB4QFhAdOgcIABBHELADOgYIABAeEBY6BwghEKABEApKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQwgJYmghg7AhoAnABeACAAZ0BiAGjBJIBAzAuNJgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz">eternal sticking point </a>of Brexit.
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<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-truss-says-determined-deliver-n-ireland-protocol-bill-full-2022-08-17/">Truss was one of the main architects of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill that</a>, if it becomes law, would unilaterally rewrite sections of the Brexit deal the UK itself negotiated. Truss is <a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/sunak-truss-difficult-brexit-tray">committed </a>to seeing that bill through as prime minister, even as the EU and UK are already in a <a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/sunak-truss-difficult-brexit-tray">legal battle over the implementation of the deal.</a> During her campaign, Truss has also promised to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-22/truss-pledges-to-scrap-eu-rules-if-she-wins-race-to-be-uk-leader">scratch all remaining EU law</a> by 2023.
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Kevin Featherstone, a professorial research fellow in the European Institute at the London School of Economics, said that toughness on the EU has transcended actual policy goals and is now a culture war issue. To go after bureaucrats in Brussels is to shore up your populist appeal. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/22/brexit-liz-truss-delusion-rishi-sunak-tory-members">Being anti-EU is a vibe</a>, whatever the policy stakes and fallout.
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Truss channels the zeal of the party on this and on other key issues of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/14/23205607/conservative-leadership-contest-sunak-mordaunt-truss-johnson-prime-minister">Tory base</a>: free markets, deregulation, and a disdain for cultural “wokeness.”
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“While Boris Johnson was a leading figure in the Brexiteer camp, he had a wider appeal, whereas Liz Truss’s power base is firmly within the hardcore Brexiteer part of the Parliamentary party, but also the wider Tory party — and so she has to be much firmer on the EU, but also on other economic questions,” von Ondarza said.
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For that reason, she may not have as much political space to act, and may not have the domestic political capital to tamp down any tensions with the EU. Because Brexit isn’t actually done, and it could further strain EU-UK relations.
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Yes, yes, <a href="https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1488096937102434308?lang=en">they said it was done!</a> But Brexit was always going to create new issues as trade and travel between the UK and EU fundamentally changed.
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The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/01/brexit-northern-ireland-snp-scotland-referendum-union">status of Northern Ireland </a>remains a key source of tension. Just to recap: Northern Ireland is part of the UK, and so left the EU with it. But as part of a Good Friday Agreement, a peace deal that ended decades of sectarian conflict, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (which is part of the EU) <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2019/2/18/18204269/brexit-irish-border-backstop-explained">is supposed to remain open and free from physical infrastructure.</a> After Brexit, the UK left the EU institutions and was expected to diverge on trading rules, and so the UK and EU needed to figure out a way to conduct customs checks without undoing the peace deal and upsetting a politically sensitive border.
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Johnson ultimately <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2019/10/17/20918879/brexit-deal-boris-johnson-european-union-irish-backstop">negotiated a Brexit deal </a>that would mean some goods from the United Kingdom bound for Northern Ireland would have to undergo checks before they arrived there, over concerns they might end up in the EU single market. That is a source of tensions for unionists in Northern Ireland (who don’t want much distance between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK) and for the Conservative government, who say the deal is creating this divide and complicating commerce within the country.
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But the EU says the UK isn’t implementing the deal as agreed, and has launched <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_3676">legal proceedings to get them to comply.</a> The UK, meanwhile, with this Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, is threatening to tear up the entire agreement. Truss has also threatened to trigger a <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/24b72bdc-7bda-4248-9708-7cbc3a4680a7">formal mechanism within the Brexit deal </a>that can be invoked when “serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties that are liable to persist” come up — <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eu-must-play-hard-ball-if-uk-triggers-article-16-1.4723860">something the EU will be forced to respond to, if that happens.</a>
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Either way, it’s messy and could get messier, putting the UK and the EU on the path toward a possible <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/08/03/liz-truss-will-play-to-the-tory-hard-right-but-she-is-no-brexit-idealogue/">trade war</a>, even as the continent is already in crisis because of war and rising costs of food and fuel.
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The Brexit deal isn’t perfect, but this escalation is of a political making. The EU has said it’s willing to talk, but within the framework of original protocol; the UK has indicated it wants more radical changes. “This is a problem which has to do with political culture, which is more winning, and less compromise,” said Georg Boomgaarden, German ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2013. “But if we let the experts sit down together, have pragmatic and practical solutions for where there is a real problem, most of the problems Truss brought up are no problem at all.”
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The question is will the experts sit down — and will Truss give them her blessing to do so? Featherstone and von Ordonza both mentioned the possibility of a “Nixon goes to China” moment, where Truss, bolstered by her win and the full-throated support of the Brexiteers, brokers a deal with the EU, or appoints someone who will, and frames it as a victory over the EU, even if it involves some concessions along the way.
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This would be a dream for Berlin and Paris and Brussels, but the “Nixon goes to China” moment may be just that. Experts I spoke to were skeptical that Truss would use domestic political capital on a still-easy target — the EU — especially when the UK is dealing with plenty of crises at home, from inflation to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/business/uk-strikes-workers-walkout-rail.html">labor strikes</a>.
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On issues like security, and on Ukraine, London and Brussels continue to cooperate. But Brexit remains largely stuck. Economic crises in both the UK and Europe might force the two sides to the negotiating table in earnest. That is the hope, at least, for the start of Truss’s tenure. As Boomgaarden said, Europe has no interest in Britain being another crisis center. “We need Britain,” he said. “And they may need Europe. But they may also need quite a lot of time until they acknowledge [it].”
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Milly Alcock as Rhaenyra Targaryen can’t wait to be queen in HBO’s <em>House of the Dragon</em>. | Ollie Upton/HBO
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<em>House of the Dragon</em> understands perhaps even better than its predecessor that the pleasures of a good family drama come not from the explosive moments but from watching small slights and hurts deepen into unshakeable rifts over time, until the explosive moments are cathartic. Thus the show’s third episode, “Second of His Name,” spends most of its time treating the Targaryen clan less like the royal family of Westeros and more like a clan of squabbling Kardashians.
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<em><strong>Note: This article contains spoilers for </strong></em><a href="http://voxmediapartner.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=2&aff_id=1&source=Vox&aff_sub=HouseOfTheDragon2022&aff_unique1=https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYsYeoAxKH8LCwgEAAAOR"><em><strong>House of the Dragon</strong></em></a><em><strong>, “Second of His Name.”</strong></em>
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Daemon (Matt Smith) is furious because his brother ignored him and left him to fight Westeros’s battles alone; the king eventually stops ignoring him and sends help, but in classic younger brother psychology, that stings even worse. Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock) is furious because her father can’t seem to wrap his head around her becoming queen, let alone to support her through the constant undermining of her position at court. Viserys (Paddy Considine) is mad at them both for being entitled brats, mad at Rhaenyra for no longer being his happy little girl, and mad at himself for being unable to shake his vision of a strapping young son on the Iron Throne.
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As we <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23327326/house-of-the-dragon-episode-2-rogue-prince-review-recap-rhaenyra-alicent-rhaenicent">discussed last week</a>, Viserys’s hesitancy to commit to a firm course of action frequently leaves those around him in limbo. But with this episode’s time jump — we’ve skipped ahead two years — the stakes of an indecisive king have only increased. During that time, Viserys has fathered a son, Aegon, with his new wife Alicent (Emily Carey), and all the people who were reluctant to welcome Rhaenyra as the next ruler have embraced the baby with open arms and royal nicknames. Rhaenyra, seeing the writing on the wall well before her father, has withdrawn from him emotionally in the way of all rebellious teenagers, which has only increased his doubts about naming her as his heir.
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Meanwhile, Daemon and Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) have been off fighting in the thankless channel islands known as the Stepstones, trying to defeat an encroaching alliance from Essos led by a scary dude who feeds people to crabs. As we saw in last week’s episode, the pair allied to begin this war without Viserys’s explicit permission; he’s retaliated by passive-aggressively refusing to send them any aid or military assistance. Over the past two years, their forces, mainly supplied by Corlys’s wealth and bolstered by Daemon’s loyal armies, have been depleted. Since Daemon still refuses to ask for help, Corlys’s son Laenor (Theo Nate) takes the initiative to write to the king himself.
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That letter arrives during a mini-festival commemorating Aegon’s second birthday. The court is in full party mode, and the king initially shoves aside all talk of politics, including Laenor’s request. He’s here to party and hunt, and a rare white hart (an albino stag) has reportedly been spotted in the King’s Wood — a good omen for Aegon’s anticipated reign, which everyone except Viserys fully expects him to have. Their certainty irritates Viserys, but not enough for him to decisively quash it. He’s encouraging Rhaenyra to marry and go be some landed gentry’s wife — completely the opposite of training her to rule in his stead, allowing her to have a role in the small council or as a military leader, or anything that would scream “here’s my heir, show some respect.” When a Lannister fuckboy tries to court her, she storms out of the festivities and rides off into the woods on an all-day quest to nowhere.
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Out on her all-night jaunt in the forest, Rhaenyra peacefully encounters the fabled white hart herself; that might be a good omen, sure, but an even better symbol of her fitness for the crown arrives when she’s attacked by a wild boar. Though at first she freezes, she jumps to it and finishes the kill, slaughtering it without hesitation. She emerges from the woods like Carrie from the prom, drenched in blood but newly awakened.
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Meanwhile, in the Stepstones, Daemon receives his brother’s offer of aid and flies into a rage about it. In a delirium, he single-handedly carries out a Hail Mary attack, pretending to surrender in order to lure the Crabfeeder and his armies out into the open. Veteran director <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944981/">Greg Yaitanes</a> stages a short but thrilling rout; it’s painfully easy for the Westerosi soldiers once the dragon Vaghar appears to torch everyone in sight. The slaughter of countless Essos minions, however, pales beside Daemon surfacing from the carnage, carrying the top third or so of a dismembered, disemboweled Crabfeeder. He was a short-lived but effective villain; possibly replaced by Daemon himself.
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The parallels between Daemon and Rhaenyra here carry a fittingly over-the-top symbolism. If there’s anyone to teach Rhaenyra about battles, politics, and stratagems, it’s Daemon, not Viserys. When Viserys finally tells her that he not only supports her as his heir but wants her to choose her own husband, her reaction is wary optimism instead of the gratitude and love for which he clearly yearns. After years of treating her as his heir first and his daughter second, Viserys has sabotaged himself: She’s come to view him, inevitably, as less her father and more the unpredictable king upon whose whims she cannot rely.
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The episode’s title, “Second of His Name,” refers to the name Viserys gives his first surviving son: Aegon. Those familiar with <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23312073/house-of-the-dragon-targaryen-family-tree-history-game-of-thrones">the Targaryen family tree</a> will recognize this as the name of the original Targaryen ruler, Aegon the Conqueror, who united Westeros under one rule and established the family dynasty (by now about two centuries old). The name Aegon, all by itself, suggests leadership, suggests that the bearer is a successor to the crown; indeed, members of court are already calling the toddler “Aegon the Conqueror.”
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Why would Viserys name his son “Aegon,” with all the attached connotations, if he intends to keep Rhaenyra as his heir? Viserys himself can’t answer this question. We learned in the first episode that Viserys had a vision of a son on the Iron Throne. Now he confides to Alicent that this longstanding obsession has kept him from fully committing to Rhaenyra as heir. Ever passive, he blames the obsession, rather than his actions, for killing his former wife, Aemma. Current wife Alicent impressively holds her tongue. (Incidentally, Alicent’s effortless at maneuvering the king and evading her own father’s scheming, and while her relationship with Rhaenyra has deteriorated rapidly, she’s still supportive of her without denying her own son’s right to the throne. So far, she hasn’t missed a beat.)
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During last week’s episode, I kept thinking about the power of an idea. <em>House of the Dragon</em> was showing us that power in the inverse: Rhaenyra’s vow to “create a new order” in which women can rule is built on a pipe dream with nothing and no one behind it except her own ample qualifications to lead.
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By contrast, the lure of another Aegon Targaryen on the throne is so powerful that the kingdom is already responding to it, despite an utter lack of rationale. (Ironically, the only person who seems to grasp this clearly is Otto, who deadpans that the would-be ruler still eats with his hands.) By choosing the name “Aegon,” the king on some level has already chosen his successor: He’s already tapped into the power of a myth of national glory passed down through generations and handed that power to his son. Rhaenyra may have her own mythical visit from the fabled white hart, her dragon-riding and prowess in the hunt. But what are they next to a narrative two centuries in the making?
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If Rhaenyra wants to compete with that, she only has one real option: Play the game of thrones better than anyone else ever has. Her encounters with first the hart and then the boar suggest she can and she will. She’s finally gotten a chance to take an active role in her own survival.
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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>Heavy rains force cancellation of Div. A matches</strong> - The</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>Djokovic to skip Serbia's Davis Cup group stage ties for personal reasons</strong> - Serbia have been drawn in Group B of the Davis Cup Finals alongside Spain, South Korea and Canada, but Novak Djokovic will skip the tournament</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>Tilak Varma is translating promise into runs</strong> - The teenager batted with poise and displayed a range of strokes against New Zealand-A</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>IT Ministry summons Wikipedia officials over Arshdeep Singh’s bio tweak after Pakistan match</strong> - Arshdeep incurred the wrath of many social media users since Sunday when he dropped a simple catch in the closing stages of the tense India-Pakistan Asia Cup match</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How sustainable are fake meats?</strong> - Checking whether plant-based burgers may have lighter environmental footprints. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1878018">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Examining the game industry’s hidden impacts on climate change</strong> - Researcher Ben Abraham lays out how the game industry can lessen its carbon footprint. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1870754">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Years after shuttle, NASA rediscovers the perils of liquid hydrogen</strong> - “Every time we saw a leak, it pretty quickly exceeded our flammability limits.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1878188">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>All the best Labor Day tech deals we can find this weekend</strong> - Dealmaster includes MacBook Pros, OLED TVs, AirPods Max, video games freebies, and more. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1878008">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>NASA scrubs second attempt to launch Artemis I after hydrogen leak [Updated]</strong> - Hydrogen—it leaks. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1877890">link</a></p></li>
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He said he was “only thinking of me”, he said and suggested that I go down to the Senior Center and hang out with the men. I did this and when I got home last night, I decided to play a prank on him.
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