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Why I’ve Spent Nearly 5 Years Helping Homeless Women in NYC — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 21, 2021 In mid-June, I made a post on Facebook — asking for article suggestions. A handful of the replies related to why I started Helping Homeless Women - NYC, my project of nearly five years. Since I’ve written a fair amount about it in the past, I thought I’d combine some of that writing into the following mash-up of sorts. It was a cold morning in January 20 ...

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Will you volunteer to join the Internet of Bodies? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 18, 2021 It was at my first-ever gym job. The clientele was obscenely wealthy yet they yearned for what we trainers had: muscular physiques. One of my co-workers, Wa ...

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The Girl Who Fell to Earth — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 16, 2021 Imagine this: An attractive, white, blonde, smart, tough, and articulate male teenager survives a plane crash that kills all of the other 91 passengers (inc ...

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In Medicine We Trust? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 14, 2021 Watching the once-skeptical Left become cheerleaders for Big Pharma is reminding me of two anecdotes from the mid-2000s. The first took place when my wife a ...

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Toward the Breaking Point | John Michael Greer

June 2, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The great changes, the changes that matter, don’t always announce themselves with the blare of amplified voices or the distant thunder of cannons and bombs. As often a ...

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America the Temporary — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 11, 2021 America is a nation built upon myth. If you don't believe me, consider the slave-owning Florentine merchant-adventurer after whom this country was named. Am ...

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Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the e ...

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“There are valises everywhere!” (my only Hamptons vacation) — Mickey Z.

Greetings From The Hamptons Beach is a piece of digital artwork by Flo Karp Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 7, 2021 I’ve visited the notorious Hamptons a couple of times as a day trip. But only onc ...

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Mask Hysteria in Vaccination Nation — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 3, 2021 Planet Fitness is now mask-optional. I can blissfully work out each morning with dozens of other people — all of us sweating and breathing heavily — many wit ...

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Government scare tactics, media hype, and creepy men (in 1942!) — Mickey Z.

“WARNING! Our Homes Are in Danger Now!,” produced by the General Motors Corporation, 1942 Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 31, 2021 Have you ever heard of the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula? His story ...

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Tales From the Pre-COVID Subway Days — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 28, 2021 “You can’t get romantic on a subway line…” (“Everybody Wants Some,” Van Halen) Thanks to COVID-19 and its patchwork quilt of (over)responses, so ...

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