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		<title>OPINION: Miami leaders can’t stay silent as Haitian TPS ends</title>
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					<dc:creator>Thomas Kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:48:54 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Readers react to “gold-digger Miami girl” stereotype column</title>
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					<dc:creator>Celia Almeida</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:29:44 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>How New Times funds our journalism. And why we need your help.</title>
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					<dc:creator>Chelsey Dequaine-Jerabek</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:50:59 -0400</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.miaminewtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/07/MIA-Summer-Mem-2026-1200x800-1.jpg" alt="How New Times funds our journalism. And why we need your help." />For our summer membership drive, we’re going all in on transparency – sharing how our independent journalism is funded, and how that funding is changing. ]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;gold-digger Miami girl&#8221; stereotype harms all of us</title>
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					<dc:creator>Asha Elias</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Building community: We&#8217;re testing article comments (again)</title>
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					<dc:creator>Chelsey Dequaine-Jerabek</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>OPINION: Alligator Alcatraz was a billion-dollar abuse of emergency powers</title>
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					<dc:creator>Thomas Kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:12:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Miami drag queens need host venues to step it up</title>
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					<dc:creator>Jellika Boom</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Miami sex toy company founder encourages women to indulge</title>
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					<dc:creator>Asha Elias</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:56:36 -0400</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.miaminewtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/05/IDG-company-Photo-by-AdobeStockmarchsirawit.jpeg" alt="photo of woman in a black bra lying in bed. she is mostly out of focus except for her right hand which grips the sheets" />While male masturbation is viewed as "normal," sometimes funny, and almost inevitable, for women, the act is still talked about as crude, dirty, and slutty in some spaces.]]></description>
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		<title>Readers react to judge&#8217;s &#8216;mogging&#8217; of looksmaxxer Clavicular</title>
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					<dc:creator>Brittany Shammas</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 13:54:29 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>New Times&#8217; Spring Membership Campaign Was Our Best to Date</title>
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					<dc:creator>Celia Almeida</dc:creator>
				<comments>https://www.miaminewtimes.com/opinion/spring-2026-membership-campaign-best-to-date-40546997/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:21:30 -0400</pubDate>
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