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A few hundred women stood outside Plymouth County Superior Court on Thursday morning wearing pink. They held hands in a circle, made hearts with their fingers, recited the Lord's Prayer, and stayed silent for over an hour. Inside the building, Lindsay Clancy was on trial for killing her three children in the basement of the family home in Duxbury. Cora was five, Dawson was three, and Callan was eight months old. Her own defense does not dispute that she strangled them but whether she can be held to account for it.
The shirts read “she needed help.” The campaign behind the rally, Stand in Peace for Lindsay, has now seeded events in more than eighteen states and overseas in Britain, South Africa, and the Netherlands. The organizer told WBUR that any one of them could be sitting in that chair. Before testimony resumed that morning, the jurors were polled one at a time at the prosecution’s request, because of what was going on out on the steps. Nobody gathered for Cora, Dawson, or Callan.
Jonathan and Liam spent a while working out where a crowd like that comes from. Does it run on status? TikTok has built a reward system around maternal suffering, and the videos that climb hardest are the ones where a mother says out loud that she has grown to resent her own children. Munchausen by proxy describes a woman who poisons her child so the neighbors will admire how well she cares for it. Scale that up, hand it an algorithm, and you get women filming themselves in tears telling the camera they hear Lindsay.
This episode then covers two accounts of one negotiation. Trump signed three proclamations under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, a provision that has never collected a single dollar in ninety-six years, putting fifty percent on twenty billion dollars of Canadian goods. Hours before it took effect he paused it and used the word deal. Carney’s statement said substantial progress had been made with important work still to be done. Only one of those men is describing the room. Canada has already given up the digital services tax, bent on the streaming act, and agreed to hand America half the net crossing revenue on the Gordie Howe bridge for fifteen years after Canadians paid the entire $6.54 billion build.
Then CTV published interviews with seventeen Conservative MPs, drawn from every region of the country, who say there is no obvious conservative who can beat Carney. Every one of them wanted their name kept out of it. Seven months earlier that same party handed Pierre Poilievre 87.4 percent in a leadership review on record delegate turnout.
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