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By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.

The post Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time appeared first on The Intercept.

Film is Fabulous! has helped de Montfort University archive a huge collection of TV scripts for Doctor Who and other cult British TV series.

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Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations

Heckling, expulsions and a power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dominated the first major gathering of Britain's newest socialist party, reports Josiah Mortimer

Last month, the world received news of horrific atrocities coming out of the city of Al-Fasher in the Sudanese region of Northern Darfur, following its fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. The RSF have been engaged in a civil war against Sudan’s military dictatorship since 2023 and had maintained a brutal siege of […]

We might say that the most pessimistic predictions about the effects of the computer and internet age are being borne out in real time. Welcome to the future, where a belligerent US president works hand-in-hand with white supremacist tech moguls, using trade policy and threats to crowbar US-centric technology across the globe; AI-enabled slop, untruths […]

“Banning an entire news organization from press conferences hurts the public interest as people will lose access to independent reporting on matters of national importance.”

Pressure is building from the US for a Plaza Accord 2.0 as part of the US President’s attempts to ‘improve’ the US trade situation. I use the term ‘improve’ cautiously because the US President seems think that making it more difficult and expensive for US consumers and businesses to access imports from abroad is a…

I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a century or two. That distant prospect is producing lots of advocacy for policies to increase birth rates right now. One of the big claims is that a smaller population will […]

Check out character posters and more for Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies and Peter McTighe's The War Between the Land and the Sea.

Ergodicity often hides behind a veil of mathematical complexity, yet at its core, it offers a profoundly simple and insightful lens through which to view and understand probability and time. At its heart, it challenges us to distinguish between two distinct types of averages: the ensemble average and the time average. To grasp this distinction, let […]

. America needs Robert Reich’s unflinching clarity. He diagnoses Trumpian fascism not as politics, but as a contagion: a cult of personality, the eroding trust in elections and a free press, and the strategic use of scapegoats and violent rhetoric. His voice is a vaccine against complacency, and the nation needs this civic defence now […]

A look at how the BBC's Doctor Who spinoff miniseries, The War Between the Land and the Sea, and Torchwood: Children of Earth connect.

. Statler and Waldorf, the definitive hecklers, made watching The Muppet Show an enduring delight through their brutal honesty and brilliantly bickering chemistry.

The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.

The post Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War appeared first on The Intercept.

Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the Honduran economy unless the country elects the oligarch-run National Party. Now, he’s even pardoned the last party member to rule the country, who was convicted in 2024 of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the US. On November 28, US President Donald Trump Trump declared he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years in a New York prison in 2024 for his role in […]

The post Trump pardons convicted narco-trafficking pol amid plot to rig Honduran election first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Trump pardons convicted narco-trafficking pol amid plot to rig Honduran election appeared first on The Grayzone.

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After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call.

The post Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance appeared first on The Intercept.