Mary Gaitskill on her "real and chimerical" trip deep into an arcane form of therapy and the feelings, physical sensations and voices it surfaced.

The vote was riddled with irregularities, and citizens were angrily protesting the government’s actions at voting centers even as the results were announced. nytimes.com/2024/07/28/wor…

Republican voters slammed Mr. Richer when he said, correctly, that the election had not been stolen from former President Donald J. Trump. Shelby Busch, a Maricopa County Republican official, even suggested she would “lynch” Mr. Richer if he walked into a room with her.

A "huge mob of young lads" who looted, hurled projectiles and set fire to a police van after a vigil in northwest England for three girls who had been killed there by a Cardiff-born man, are believed to be connected to the far-right English Defence League. theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2…

Some really good storytelling here.

In Britain: (1) a flag used by the far right as an emblem of English nationalism; marked with (2) a symbol of anarchism, which generally rejects the state and organized religion; held by a man wearing a mask referencing (3) a plot in 1605 by religious rebels to kill King James I.

Payments to Mayor Adams’ chief adviser and other top staffers among $2.3 million in spending by mayor’s 2021 campaign that city’s election watchdog has found his team failed to properly document, according to records trib.al/IEMVuJ7

Many Bangladeshis hope the appointment of Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus and swift elections will end one of the most turbulent periods in the country’s 53-year history on.ft.com/4cmtKz7

Ukraine has launched a surprise ground assault into Russia with troops and armored vehicles, Moscow and independent military analysts said Wednesday, in what could be one of the largest Ukrainian incursions onto Russian soil in more than two years of war. nyti.ms/46DZGOz

The Georgia election board’s majority enacted a series of changes to state election rules this week, days after the former president singled them out for praise at his Atlanta rally. wapo.st/3WUPvBH

Pro-Trump YouTuber Tim Pool announced that he would offer $20,000 in prize money for an event at a DIY skatepark in West Virginia. Some skaters replied that Pool wasn’t invited to the event and would be removed if he showed up. Pool later bought the skatepark, the Post reports.

ABC News Live Emmanuelle Saliba I was there…big crowd. #nofilter

People employed by a firm run by David Blair –– the executive director of the Conservative Leadership PAC, a former national director of Youth for Trump and a former spokesman in the Trump administration –– have helped gather signatures for Cornel West.

Trump campaign brings Corey Lewandowski back on board ow.ly/cGB6105FuLo

In Chicago during the Democratic convention, kind of a low-tech LRAD. (photo by Wm. Glasheen, USA TODAY Network)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suspending his independent campaign for president, he said Friday at an event in Phoenix, adding that he was throwing his support behind Donald Trump. nyti.ms/4drnQ1b

Customers agreed to a price to have movers bring their items from one home to another. Then, once boxes were on a truck, the movers demanded additional fees, holding possessions hostage until they had been paid. nytimes.com/2024/08/28/nyr…

Prosecutors say a man working with a Russian intelligence agency backed unsuccessful political candidates in Florida, urged them to make pro-Russian statements and paid a political group to conduct protests. Defendants say they were airing opinions. nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/…

After John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas his Lincoln convertible sped up a freeway toward a hospital in a last-ditch effort to save the president’s life. Now, decades later, film footage has emerged to show some of those moments of grief and hope. nytimes.com/2024/09/04/art…

Just when you think there can't be something new in the JFK assassination, a family's private 8-millimeter film goes up for auction later this month. Colin Moynihan dissects in the NYT how it adds a fresh visual component to that day's tragedy. "It almost is a little bit of a