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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 05:57
POTUS Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission is tearing itself apart in a fight about zionism. The leading dissident, Carrie Prejean Boller, the 2009 Miss California USA is a right-wing Catholic who picked a fight with zionists at a meeting of the Commission. Here’s how NBC describes the dust-up: A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission […]
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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 05:09

Today’s High Court decision that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is disproportionate and unlawful is a welcome victory for the whole Palestine movement. It is also a humiliating defeat for a Labour government marked by authoritarianism and repeated attacks on civil liberties. Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary when the ban was introduced, […]

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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 05:00

From the people behind Books, come Books, For Men.

Books, For Men have thick, sturdy pages. Built for a man’s eyeballs.

Books, For Men are nonfiction. Imagination is not For Men.

Books, For Men involve a subtitle, and that subtitle involves the phrase “Suicide Mission.”

Available formats for Books, For Men include hardcover (for use as a bludgeoning weapon) or e-book (for sale on the blockchain).

Books, For Men are often about shipwrecks.

Books, For Men are sort of like YouTube videos, but without the visuals, and then written down.

The pages in Books, For Men come from the harsh papermill operations of remote Siberia—something you can read about in Books, For Men.

Women are allowed to read Books, For Men. Theoretically, at least.

A wide variety of topics can be explored in Books, For Men, including military history, corporate scandals, business strategy, and the scandalous corporate history of the military strategy business.

Women are allowed to write Books, For Men, as long as they are Barbara Tuchman.

The font in Books, For Men is BOLD.

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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 04:14

An attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, privately complaining about the President’s aggressive push to restart their operations. When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about […]

The post Iran war described as ‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Iran war described as ‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 01:00


Illustration by Chuan Ming Ong

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The author and his closest basketball confidantes undertake a formal analysis of Steph Curry’s shot at the Paris Olympics as art object.

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I was sixteen when my mother gifted me a painting by Ernie Barnes. I’d seen one Barnes painting at that point on the cover of Marvin Gaye’s 1976 album, I Want You, on the brown carpeted floor of my Auntie Sue’s apartment. Then I saw it five days a week for at least a decade during the credits of my favorite show, Good Times, which was then in syndication.

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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 00:05
I’m not a Rawlsian, though I would admit to certain affinities, and, indeed, I’ve used the device associated with Rawls (though not invented by him) of the veil of ignorance in my own work. But when I disagree with Rawls, I hope I at least take the trouble to get him right. Sadly, one can’t […]
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Sat, 14/02/2026 - 00:00

We here at Sleeplinen know this time of year can trigger all kinds of feelings. For many, Presidents’ Day is a loaded holiday. For some Americans, the wounds are fresh. For others, this is another bad chapter in a long book of injustice. But for all of you, we want to be a space where you can shop for luxury bed linens.

That said, if you’d rather not receive our Presidents’ Day Sale emails this year, we totally get it.

We’ll still be going forward with our annual Presidents’ Day Sale, but we encourage everyone in our community to take care of themselves. For instance, take a break from the world and cover your eyes with 20 percent off our Sleeplinen Velvet Sleep Mask.

We put a tremendous amount of thought and care into our marketing. It’s difficult to work anywhere right now, but we feel it is particularly difficult to work here at a bedding company, at a time when the current US president falls asleep in televised meetings. There have been so, so many promotional emails we could have sent about this, but we chose not to. For you.

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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 19:56
Peter Mandelson was not one bad apple: he was brought in repeatedly by governments to do their dirty work. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  10th February 2026 History is being rewritten. The story we are told is that an evil man called Peter Mandelson, pursuing his own interests, went rogue to collaborate with […]
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 19:00
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 13:12
In my long post about silver prices, I talked about a reversion to the mean. This is something that frequently happens in life: something overshoots the norm and then it swings back and overshoots the abnormal. Slowly but surely it finally settles smack in the middle of the bell curve, to use a shit metaphor. […]
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Fri, 13/02/2026 - 05:30

“A new feature from Ring Camera is causing a stir online. The AI-powered ‘search party’ feature helps locate lost pets, but some are questioning its impact on privacy.” — NBC News

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Oh no, did Buster get out again? Because your white-picket-fence suburban dream doesn’t actually include a physical fence? That’s terrible. Hopefully, he doesn’t run in the direction of the freeway right over there. Time is of the essence to get him back—let us help you; give us access to your Ring camera. Give us access to every Ring camera in your neighborhood.

We at Ring believe dogs are part of the family. And family is more important than silly, abstract, constitutional things like a citizen’s “right to privacy.” Ring’s Search Party is a one-of-a-kind AI tool that is for finding dogs, and totally not for spying on you and your neighbors, monitoring and cataloging all of your movements and interactions twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year. Relax.