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There has been a lot of back and forth about men and women being tested equally for front line combat roles.

First, let me make it very clear, I am one hundred percent for equality between men and women. I’ve worked under women bosses, had no issue with it. While at Morgan Stanley I had a woman business partner for a year and a half. It was a very sucessful relationship, we’re still friends.

I’ve learned a lot from the women in my life, begining with my mother; the vast majority of which has added significant value to my life. And although I can’t say much nice about my two ex-wives: I learned hard lessons from each of them as well.

Around 200,000 people will line the streets of Durham tomorrow to celebrate the mining and trade union heritage of the North East of England and the world. Notwithstanding pauses for the outbreak of war, strike action, and the Covid pandemic, the Durham Miner’s Gala — or ‘Big Meeting’ as it is known locally — has […]

There’s a German word for that feeling

The post Is the State of the World Causing You Pain? appeared first on Nautilus.

This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli spyware, blacklists, and military-linked firms.

The post Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence appeared first on MintPress News.

Okay, we’re just going to come right out and say it: We mistook your grandmother for another patient and brought her in for surgery this morning. This happens from time to time. Thankfully, the surgery went well. Still, we think it’s important to be as transparent as possible with our mistakes.

We’re sure you have many questions, and we intend to answer them all. For starters, how did this happen? The simple explanation would be that we meant to take her roommate, whose name sounds a lot like Doris and is also somebody’s grandmother. Unfortunately, it’s never quite that simple, since the patient we meant to take was a middle-aged man named Valentino on a different floor. We’re still investigating what exactly went wrong, but we suspect it may be related to staffing problems and the fact that the same person was responsible for both lunch orders and patient transport. It’s possible that when asked whether she wanted the chicken barley soup or house salad, your grandmother requested a knee replacement.

Internal ad records show Israel spent millions on YouTube propaganda targeting Europe, ads that breach Google’s own rules and frame the war on Gaza as a defense of Western civilization.

The post Exclusive: Google Helped Israel Spread War Propaganda to 45 Million Europeans appeared first on MintPress News.

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.

The post Chris Hedges: The Persecution of Francesca Albanese appeared first on MintPress News.

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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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.

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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?

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