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Return of the Shaman

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Manvir Singh’s new Shamanism: The Timeless Religion ranges widely, introducing us to all sorts of shamans and neo-shamans and proto-shamans. We meet the cigarette-loving tribal healers among the Mentawai people of Indonesia, whom Singh, an anthropologist, has studied since 2014. We meet the psychiatry and medicine professor at Johns Hopkins who reckons that his clinical interventions and against-the-odds healings are the stuff of classic shamanic practice. And we meet the money managers and “hedge wizards” who traffic quasi-shamanically with the capricious spirits of the global market. It’s a panoramic survey:…

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Senator Van Hollen Calls for Kilmar Garcia’s return and an End to Trump’s Power Abuse

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia still isn’t home, despite the Supreme Court’s unanimous order to facilitate his return. Last week, Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland travelled to El Salvador to check on Kilmar’s well-being. Days after he returned, he joined MoveOn’s monthly Volunteer Network Call to provide a report-back on his visit with Kilmar and to sound the alarm on what this injustice means for all of us. “This case is not about one man alone,” Sen. Van Hollen said. “It’s about all of us. It’s about our Constitution. It’s about…

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OPM defends rule to hamper Schedule F’s return, backs telework amid return to office push

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The Office of Personnel Management is defending a recently finalized rule meant to prevent the return of Schedule F — a Trump-era policy that made it easier to fire career federal employees in policymaking positions. OPM’s acting director told the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that the re-emergence of such a policy would undermine civil service protections, and return the federal workforce to a 19th-century “spoils system” with major turnover. Acting OPM Director Rob Shriver told lawmakers on Wednesday that the return of Schedule F would have a “chilling effect”…

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MoveOn Calls on Kennedy Jr. to Fire Jan 6 Insurrectionist and Return MAGA Money

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, NBC News reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hired a right-wing influencer who was at the Capitol during the deadly insurrection. The news follows previous reporting that this latest hire also believes January 6 was a “Democrat misdirection.”  In response to Kennedy Jr. running a shadow MAGA campaign, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne release the following statement:  “Why is an insurrectionist on the Kennedy Jr.’s campaign payroll? MoveOn is still waiting for Kennedy Jr. to denounce and publicly call on all of his…

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NEW MoveOn Billboard Awaits Trump Upon Return to Mar-a-Lago After Arraignment

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West Palm Beach, FL – MoveOn Political Action launched a new billboard with the message “Trump Is Not Above the Law,” this afternoon to greet former President Trump and his acolytes after returning home from his arraignment. The billboard, located 1.9 miles away from Mar-a-Lago, directly on the route Trump will take home from the Palm Beach International Airport, is in plain view of aerial crews covering Trump’s return. The billboard will be up for the next month.  PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – APRIL 03: On the heels of Donald Trump’s…

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Supreme Court Hands Short-Term Win to Pride Group, but Encourages Yeshiva University to Return

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Another conflict is brewing between the constitutional right to freely exercise religion and the civil right to be free from discrimination. Like several such cases in recent years, the Supreme Court is likely—or so we hope—to decide this one favorably in the end. Yeshiva University, located in New York City, includes America’s largest Jewish undergraduate institution. Yeshiva advocates living in accordance with “Torah values,” including opposition to sexual relations between members of the same sex. Yeshiva denied the application of the YU Pride Alliance, a group opposed to and hoping…

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