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“Just Keep Going North” [Folio] “Just Keep Going North”
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English Referendums and Scotch Voters [Postcard] English Referendums and Scotch Voters

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Pearl, a Broad-Breasted White turkey, aged seven, who fell off a truck in New York City that was headed to a live market. A photograph by Isa Leshko, from her book Allowed to Grow Old, published in May by the University of Chicago Press.
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Melissa Sleeping, a painting by Terry Powers, whose work is on view at Guerrero Gallery, in San Francisco.

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Melissa Sleeping, a painting by Terry Powers, whose work is on view this week at Guerrero Gallery, in San Francisco.
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Swimmers, 2019, a painting by Anna Bjerger, whose work is on view this week at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, in Copenhagen.

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Swimmers, 2019, a painting by Anna Bjerger, whose work is on view this week at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, in Copenhagen.
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The Gay Liberation Front marches on Times Square, New York, 1969. A photograph by Diana Davies, whose work is on view through July 13 as part of the exhibition Love and Resistance: Stonewall 50, at the New York Public Library.

The Gay Liberation Front marches on Times Square, New York, 1969.

The Gay Liberation Front marches on Times Square, New York, 1969. A photograph by Diana Davies, whose work is on view through July 13 as part of the exhibition Love and Resistance: Stonewall 50, at the New York Public Library.
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“Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don’t even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it’s safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes.”

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