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Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, has become a target of US sanctions for her candid reports on the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges explores her warnings, her courage, and the global silence surrounding Israel’s crimes.
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We bombed Iran and, despite a temporary cessation of hostilities, it’s likely that President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, intend to drag the United States into yet another destabilizing effort in the Middle East, perhaps the most dangerous one yet. As an Iranian American, I feel as if my greatest fears are now being realized. Like many Iranian Americans, I love this country and the many blessings that it’s provided my family — so much so that I proudly chose to wear the uniform of its Navy. I’ll never forget the immense sense of pride I felt, on July 31st, 1996, when I was sworn into the United States Navy, or the unparalleled... Read more
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Stark turnout gaps by class, race and age are creating 'warped incentives' for politicians, new analysis suggests
Now that the Trump government is relentlessly attacking higher education and abusing its power at the border to arbitrarily refuse entry to scholars, many academics wonder whether it’s still possible to travel to the US for conferences or other research purposes, especially if they have publicly criticized the Trump government or its allies. But where […]
Sounds Made by Humans – an album of my poetry put to music by the fabulous Catenary Wires – can now be listened to on Spotify, iTunes and those other streaming platforms. “A contender for album of the year.” Backseat Mafia“An instant cult classic. 5/5” Louder Than War And if you like what you hear,…
Hold up! I know what ur thinking. A law firm sliding into my DMs? Basic AF.
Well, we might be a law firm, but we are bussin. No cap! Fr fr.
So, I know a lot of y’all out there fw MrBeast. Str8 up a lot of folx do. Or did. Maybe u even did some gig work for bruh. Maybe u even unwittingly worked as a henchman for MrBeast, specifically between the dates 5/2023 and 11/2024.
No shame in that game—dead ass, gotta hustle—but also maybe u did some super sketchy or even illegal shizz and didn’t even realize it at the time? Look, every1 knows it used to slay to wear a mask and a fire leather uniform with a MrBeast logo on it and carry like a kind of laser rifle to order innocent people through an increasingly elaborate and sadistic series of challenges while MrBeast stood by laughing and also wearing a cape and jodhpurs, we’re pretty sure.
But u kno what? Let me be str8 up w u: That shizz is cheugy. It is cray to do any sort of henching for MrBeast. Especially when innocent people have gotten hurrrt by him in hella horrifying ways. Big yikes!
By refusing to capitulate on "globalize the intifada," Mamdani rejected a long tradition of demonizing Arabic language.
The post Zohran Mamdani Shows Democrats How Not to Take the Bait appeared first on The Intercept.
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
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Bil Schmidtknecht blames pharmacy benefit managers for the death of his son. He won’t rest until he holds them accountable.
- by Michael Cholbi
The $45 billion for immigration detention in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.
The post The Private Prison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to Trump’s Budget appeared first on The Intercept.
Is it possible to feel grief and survivor’s guilt after a mass shooting that didn’t occur?
- by Jess Keefe
Ocean swells are critical to the cycle of life
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Tortoises were found to have feelings, pointing to other overlooked animal minds
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And onto today’s climate forecast, where we can expect to see a prolonged spell of inaction,interspersed with patches of hazy promisesacross many areas. Over Westminster and other centres of government,a build-up of hot air will cause inactivity to soarto record levels over the coming days,in spite of the high pressure. Elsewhere, a front of chronic misinformation will sweep…
On the 30th anniversary of the largest mass killing in Europe since 1945, Martin Shaw compares it with how the West is now treating the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Once again the Reserve Bank of Australia has gone rogue. On Tuesday (July 8, 2025), it held its cash rate target (the interest rate that expresses its monetary policy stance) constant at 3.85 per cent despite all the indicators suggesting that it would cut that target rate. The financial markets are in uproar because they…
So, Trump sent a letter to Brazil announcing 50% tariffs. His demands are that Brazil stop prosecuting Bolsonaro (ex-President who tried to steal the last election, and stole the one before by getting Lula locked up on bogus charges) and that they let US social media platforms operate unfettered the country. If Brazil puts tariffs on US goods, then the US will increase its tariffs by the same amount.
Here’s the thing, Brazil and the US have essentially even trade:
Earlier this year, former Barbican director John Tusa claimed that art is a ‘wonderful continuum, that starts at the top and goes all the way down to the pleasant and the humdrum and the community at the bottom’. In response, Arts Council Chief Executive Darren Henley offered the following criticism: ‘We must not allow our […]
The Erin Patterson beef wellington murder case has has been a breath of fresh air to Australian journalists, with the industry running with different angles of the story for the last 6 months. Journalists are hoping that there are enough... Read More ›