Sunday Snippets: VOTE

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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House

10 Readers Share Their Epic Halloween Costumes

A Vermont woman scrubs grime from gravestones and researches who is buried there

Librarians on Libraries

Don’t go out after dark: Remembering the caped figure who terrorized O’Donnell Heights

In a Letter to President Trump, Artist Kehinde Wiley Asks to Repurchase His Painting Removed from US Embassy

Park-specific Climate Futures

Pete Hegseth reportedly authorizes DHS to test ‘heat ray’ at US-Mexico border

Trump doesn’t rule out declaring state of emergency before midterm elections

Long-lost film rediscovered in UMD library

living arrangements The 7th Floor–8th Floor Marriage

Beaches Are Disappearing in Southern California as El Niño Bears Down

What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?

She Acquired 1,200 ‘Wedding Crashers’ DVDs. Then It Was Time to Unload Them.

Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests?

The True Cost of Rape in America

Trump team is now looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Richard Nixon’s Watergate

Trump says he rejected Secret Service plan to tear down Oval Office

The Woman Who Wants You to Ditch Your Phone

Thousands of immigrants in Maryland to lose Medicaid coverage under H.R. 1

How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities

Close to home or across the state, Marylanders don’t want data centers, poll finds

Microphones left running at 12 ecovoltaic solar farms in the Midwest heard nearly twice as many grassland bird species as the corn and soybean fields beside them, and more than 230 nests sat on the racking

Which Men

To be sure, language presents a conundrum: rape/force and coerce are not necessarily synonyms. If someone nags you or badgers you or bugs you or begs you or pesters you or hounds you and you cave in, allowing sex you don’t really want to happen, have they coerced you? Have they forced you? Have they raped you? Or have they participated, alongside you, in the sexual economy of, say, a typical long-term relationship, during which sex drives are sometimes mismatched and sex is sometimes an act of kindness, or maintenance, or procreative windows. What feels like coercion to one person may feel like seduction to another; this reality alone suggests that the words we have to discuss these issues are as limited, shaky, inconsistent, and fallible as our collective thinking. Moreover, why do we resist holding men accountable for anything but the worst expressions of sexual domination? Why do we accept that insisting, pestering, badgering, and arm-twisting could just be par for the course?