workweek reading recs (28 July 2025)

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• Bad Brains: Your brain on revenge looks a lot like your brain on drugs (2025/07)
• The Painter of the Right (2025/07)
• That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. (2025/06)
• IDF Soldiers Ordered to [Commit War Crimes] (2025/06)
  content notes: even the headline of this article is potentially upsetting, read with caution (Gaza, war crimes, crimes against humanity, military violence against civilians)
• We Should Really Just Steal Finland’s Baby Box Idea (2025/07)
• ACLU: Know Your Rights: Immigrants Rights (2025)
  notes: also available in multiple languages, including (but not limited to) Spanish, Arabic, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese
• Podcast: 5-4: Trump v. CASA, Inc. (2025/07)
• Poetry: "I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater," by Mahmoud Derwish, translated by Fady Joudah

This week's nonprofit is Palestine Children's Relief Fund. If you know of any verified fundraiser for individual families in Gaza or Gazan refugees who've made it out but still need support, please link to them in the comments.