Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
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Is it normal fear you’re feeling, or is it a real problem? Learn the signs of phobias and how to break free from one
- by Bunmi Olatunji
In a bright office in Jakarta, a TikTok content moderator watches a livestream shift from ordinary to traumatic within seconds. A car crashes into another. The sound overwhelms the feed. Blood covers the ground while a woman kneels beside someone who no longer moves. For moderators working on live content, decisions must be made in […]
Inside the fight to reform surveillance laws and stop the government from buying its way around warrants.
by Noé Kabouche* Over the last few decades, initiatives involving ‘sustainable’, ‘ethical’ and ‘responsible’ finance have been thriving. Among this flourishing renewal of morality in the financial world, ‘impact investing’ is one of the last iterations of such attempts, continuously presented since 2007 as a revolutionary endeavor meant to achieve the not-so-easily-achievable effort of holding […]
~by Sean Paul Kelley Forewarned: this is culture war stuff. So, if you trigger easily: don’t read this. Then again, you’ll be missing out on some excellent counterintuitive culture war rabble-rousing. I guess I ought to declare right here and now before I get trounced for being an out of touch GenXer neobigot. So, say […]
~by Sean Paul Kelley Courtest my alma mater Morgan Stanley, we have this graphic that perfectly depicts what the AI-Ponzi scheme looks like and just how incestuous it truly is: Is any other comment necessary?
A bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted using drugs and sexual blackmail to create a “network of informants” which could infiltrate and destroy resistance groups. A leaked confession indicates the Red Crescent was infiltrated by Israeli intelligence, which exploited its collaborator network within the Occupied Palestinian Territories to engage in criminal activity including drug trafficking, shocking acts of sexual blackmail, and political executions. The document was […]
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Great strategic importance has been attached to the islands, with Iran deciding to develop their military capabilities there since at least 2008. In particular, Abu Musa, the largest of the three islands, is home to a broad range of Iranian military capabilities. Former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, credited as one of the architects of Tehran’s “Mosaic Defence” strategy, even labelled Abu Musa Island as “Iran’s beating heart” in the Persian Gulf at the beginning of 2019.
The post US May Sieze Three Iranian Islands, Including Kharg, Targeting Critical Oil Routes & Military in Hormuz appeared first on MintPress News.
Democrats' procrastination is sustaining Trump’s war on Iran.
In light of recent rollbacks on environmental protection, we, the creators behind the beloved birding app Merlin Bird ID, have preemptively shifted into the field of argument identification. Our highly accurate predictive models have shown that while most birds won’t be around much longer, interpersonal conflict is eternal.
Whether you’re a frightened child wondering if your parents are teetering on the precipice of divorce, a hard-of-hearing person worried about missing the nuances of under-the-breath barbs, or simply fed up with listening to your coworkers bicker, our app will do the work of listening to and analyzing any argument for you.
Introducing Merlin Fight ID, a rebranded identification app complete with suggestions for conflict resolution, decreasing tension, and more.
The newly formed Cornell Lab of Aggression is dedicated to helping people identify and cope with arguments occurring around them. Buried subtext, unspoken accusations, and bold claims can make it challenging to figure out what kind of fight you just witnessed and what the actual repercussions might be. We’re here to make that challenge easier.
Bill King and other fans offer their thoughts on Macca’s loveliest composition. … Ask someone what they think Paul McCartney’s most beautiful piece of music is, and you’re likely to hear titles of some of his most famous Beatles and … Continue reading
Keir Starmer's Government acted following publication of a review launched in the wake of Reform's Welsh Leader Nathan Gill being jailed for taking pro-Russian bribes
New single, “Bad Husband,” out on March 25th!
Of all the wars I’ve covered in my writing career, this one has been the hardest in the sense that figuring out what’s true and what isn’t is difficult. The baseline assumption is that nothing the US says about the war can be trusted. Most of what Iran says in concrete terms about what they […]
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The move to decriminalise abortion for women has sparked a wave of misinformed outrage on the political right, argues Max Colbert
Counterfactual history explores what could’ve been: the paths not taken. What do we gain by applying this to our own lives?
- by Sam Dresser
If the defining characteristic of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Government is fear — with nervousness to the right, and anxiety especially to the left — then the raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are the muddiest regarding the role of US corporations in the UK’s economy (apologies […]
As the Pentagon moves to blacklist Anthropic for pushing AI safeguards, the official leading the charge holds millions in a competing firm.