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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Sunday Best: Why quit Facebook?

To play D & D, for starters.

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We Fled the Gangs in Honduras. Then the U.S. Government Took My Baby.

Sindy Flores, an asylum seeker from Honduras, holding her 18-month-old daughter, Grethshell, at a temporary living space in San Bruno, California. Peter DaSilva for The New York Times

By SINDY FLORES

"I wonder what that agent would have done if someone had threatened to murder his children. Wouldn't he have risked everything to ensure their safety?"

Who Gets to Be a Fresh Face in Politics?

Pete Buttigieg, 37, campaigning last month. For women, unfamiliarity and youth end up being tied to incompetence. Swikar Patel for The New York Times

By JILL FILIPOVIC

There's quite a bit of young blood in the presidential candidate pool, but youth wears differently on men and women.

Down With the Side Hustle

Ride-sharing cars have become ubiquitous in New York. Uber tries to attract drivers by promoting the job as a "side hustle." Chad Batka for The New York Times

By ALISSA QUART

Think side hustles are cool? Think again. "Ultimately, like so much of this lexicon, the 'side hustle' describes the overworked outsiders to privilege, who are forced into informal vocations by the absence of a legitimate economy. They are then told that suffering is valiant and also groovy."

Why I Quit Facebook (and Rediscovered a New Outlet)

Kelsey Borch

By ANNALEE NEWITZ

There are gaming worlds that have the ability to unite people in person, to remove the masks they wear on the internet and acknowledge them as humans (even if they are a half-elf bard.)