Renewed U.S.-Iran Negotiations Council on Foreign Relations
Day: April 8, 2025
Thank you, Minister @frankabregom, for welcoming me to Palacio de Las Garzas. U.S. and Panama face shared security challenges and common threats. Together, we will deter them by increasing our defenses and achieving peace through strength. https://t.co/nh9FRzC6eP
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The estranged couple, who tied the knot in 2014, were spotted on a family outing. Simpson announced their separation in January.
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Osint to nie tłumaczenie materiałów. Samo tłumaczenie informacji i podanie jej źródła jak najbardziej
— Bartłomiej Wypartowicz
(@WypartowiczBa) April 8, 2025
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If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em on a multi-day, drunk-driving road trip in middle-class middle of America to find their missing father with a garbage goth girl named Yivi whom they met two weeks ago in an Airbnb basement.
That seems to be the mantra for “Make Sure You Die Screaming,” Zee Carlstrom’s debut novel from Flatiron Books. The first-person narration follows no-name Gunderson, nonbinary queer person, at what surely must be their rock-bottom. They stole their ex-boyfriend Clinton’s car to drive from Chicago to Arkansas. Also the protagonist has killed their best friend, lost their job, and took an oath of radical honesty.
So yes, if you were immediately skeptical about this fun, road trip adventure novel due to the clear lack of morals, you’d be right to hesitate. But it’s not all drunken rages and horrible decisions in a misguided attempt to punch back at late-stage capitalism.
The protagonist, while an exceptionally unlikable character at their worst — disrespecting everyone like it’s going out of fashion, in the name of honesty — is also full of heart. Sometimes a nasty, festering, raw-emotions heart; a self-destructive time bomb that is sure to embed shrapnel in those unfortunate people who dare to hang around. Still, Carlstrom manages to shine the light back on the protagonist’s humanity and salvage reader sympathy when it matters most.
And I must admit, I deeply related with the frequent use of the word “y’all” and the main character’s “ironic fashion mullet.”
The breezy narration contrasts delightfully with the heavy topics laden like buckshot throughout the book, set in the post-truth Now, and Carlstrom’s unique voice is a breath of fresh air with just the right mix of humor and resigned cynicism with a dash of hope.
“Make Sure You Die Screaming” is exceptionally well timed for the increasingly strange world we find ourselves in.
Carlstrom’s debut has almost everything: comedy, action, adventure, philosophical musings, banter, alcoholism, crimes, weird cult-y things, and even some modicum of closure. And while the ending is abrupt, it’s also comforting, as well as oddly convincing given the sheer absurdity that precedes it.
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Haball, a Pakistan fintech firm, raised $52 million to expand its shariah-compliant supply chain financing and payments services, the company said on Tuesday. https://t.co/IPXMtjNNGM pic.twitter.com/Fq2E74CYQJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 8, 2025
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As is well known, Putin’s regime is massively corrupt, and the mafia running the state is the KGB. Trump was rescued from bankruptcy by selling apartments to Russian mafia ( e.g. the KGB) through dodgy shell companies. He owed his economic survival to RU mafia money.
— Andrew Cranfield #StandswithUkraine (@Westcount) April 8, 2025
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