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Mossad is taking advantage of deadly riots that rocked Iran this month to solicit spies through a series of social media ads. In one of history’s strangest collaborations, the Israeli intel agency has purchased the ads through an LLC owned by Atlanta-based standup comic Desi Banks. Update: This report and a September 2025 article by journalist Jack Poulson have resulted in the termination of Farsi-language recruitment ads by Israel’s Mossad assassination agency. Google has suspended the company used to purchase […]

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Bureaucratic authoritarianism cannot build the party we were promised. Our movement must learn this to advance beyond the failures of broad-front left populism, towards a mass socialist party capable of liberating our class. Such a party cannot be built on personality and platitudes alone, nor can it allow debate over internal structures and party democracy […]

Ride along with New York driving teacher, Shanti, whose potty-mouthed tough-love approach is both amusing and effective

- Directed by Charles Frank

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From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’

- by Aeon Video

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Economic republicanism shows us how to achieve authentic freedom: citizens require economic as well as political power

- by Sean Irving

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Reckoning with the complex history of dignity reveals its fragility and what Hannah Arendt recognised as its conditionality

- by Christa Teston

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Staffing problems caused by DOGE resulted in the Defense Information Systems Agency warning of “extreme risk for loss of service” across the military.

The post DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit appeared first on The Intercept.

The Prime Minister once said to me that there is no such thing as ‘Starmerism’. It’s true that there appears to be no doctrinal body of ideas but after eighteen months in office, we have seen the shape of decision making. Judging by Labour’s dire position in the polls, the government’s guiding principles are not […]

Establishment Democrats are rejecting an increasingly popular position by refusing to take a bold stance that happens to be good politics.

The post “Abolish ICE” Is More Popular Than Ever. How Will Democrats Drop the Ball This Time? appeared first on The Intercept.