Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
Her illness fooled celebs. The truth may be even darker (Jamie Bartlett, Ruth Mayer, BBC)
At the height of Believe in Magic’s success, however, Jean announced Megan’s brain tumour had worsened, and she needed to raise £120,000 for emergency life-saving treatment in the US. Megan’s supporters rushed to help and they reached the target in less than 48 hours.
But one group of concerned parents in the child cancer community didn’t think Megan was as ill as she claimed.
‘They Just Need a Safe Place to Be:’ How Public Transit Became the Last Safety Net In America (Aaron Gordon / VICE)
In some cities, the homelessness crisis on transit systems is truly life and death. On May 2, a New York subway rider choked a man who had been seen panhandling and acting erratically, killing him. Between January and March, 22 people died on LA Metro, most from overdoses and in areas commonly known as homeless hangouts, according to the Los Angeles Times. Last year, a man who had been drifting in and out of hospitals, mental health facilities, and living on the streets for decades pushed Michelle Go in front of an oncoming train, killing her. Later that year, New York City mayor Eric Adams authorized the involuntary hospitalization of some people during homeless encampment sweeps and mulled a policy of increasing ticketing and summonses for homeless people—an obvious precursor to jailing them since they do not have the money to pay any fines.
How deer make decisions (watchfulcoyote)
@watchfulcoyote How does our gender inform what we can see? #identity #robinwallkimmerer #deer #men #reality #science #wildlife #masculinity #women #patriarchy #feminism #woods #healthecycle #gender ♬ original sound – Jack
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