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Editor’s note: Sectarian Sunni forces linked to the new HTS-led government of Syria have massacred over 1300 Alawites in the past week, according to a conservative estimate. The Grayzone has spoken to staff from a Western aid organization currently on the ground in Syria who say the death toll is much higher than the official count. They told us that over 4000 Alawites have been killed, thousands are wounded with little access to medical assistance, and some 200,000 are internally […]

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Compared to Donald Trump’s prior term in office, the current Trump administration looks different. The...

“The rapid pace of [DOGE’s] actions requires the quick release of information about its structure and activities,” a judge ruled.

The post DOGE Likely Can’t Evade Freedom of Information Law, Court Rules appeared first on The Intercept.

Ten complainants, including doctors and a nuclear whistleblower, claim judge displayed misogynistic behaviour in employment tribunals – but judicial regulator refuses to investigate

By moving the campus activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.

The post ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege appeared first on The Intercept.

Those of us who remain tethered to reality do not require our lovers to pretend to be a succession of role-playing fantasy lovers.

On the latest episode of David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, Russell T. Davies discusses the next showrunner, the deal with Disney, and more.

“Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland.” With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting “criminal aliens” in its custody. On a military base in El Paso, Texas, masked men in combat fatigues paraded a group of young Venezuelan immigrants, their hands cuffed and their ankles shackled, in front of the cameras, before loading them onto a waiting Air Force C-17, which was to deliver its human cargo to Naval Station Guantánamo Bay overnight. Once there, they were to be incarcerated in the infamous Camp 6, held incommunicado in the same cells where al-Qaeda suspects were once held in indefinite detention, and guarded by the 1st Battalion, 6th... Read more

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For all its chaos in operation, Trump's regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy…” — Elon Musk

I see Musk’s point. Empathy is destroying Western civilization, which is why it’s good that he and DOGE got rid of all those USAID programs around the world. Fending off starvation in Ethiopia and providing clean water in Colombia was completely crippling Western civilization, taking away precious funds we should be using to buy crypto.

Thames Valley Police acknowledges arrest was unlawful but offers no formal apology as campaigner Symon Hill warns of 'wider struggle' to protect protest rights

The Employment Rights Bill has been described quite rightly by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Paul Novak as a positive, ambitious expansion of workers’ and trade union rights in a generation. In contrast, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)’s Rupert Soames wants to warn that of this ‘highly damaging’ bill that risks discouraging […]

The banking system throws up many surprises — one of them is how savers inadvertently trap borrowers

The push to take shame out of recovery is well-meaning. But it overlooks the power this emotion has to motivate change

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So, we’ve talked before about problems with Tesla. His competitors are, to put it simply, producing better cars which cost less, especially but not only the Chinese like BYD. Meanwhile Musk’s politics, like denying climate change and throwing a Nazi salute, while tying himself to Trump just as Trump is pissing off almost every country whose consumers buy Tesla vehicles has made customers a lot less interested in buying Tesla. He’s trashing his own brand with the people who supported it most.

Whatever happened to the notion that, faced with the enemies of democracy, we should fight their ideas but, equally, for their right to express them? The answer, unfortunately, is that it died an ignominious death on Sunday, as Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau, with the full support of the European Union’s liberal establishment, banned far-Right candidate Cǎlin Georgescu […]

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The real price of admission for Julie Mehretu’s Subprime Mortgage Mural.

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“The Trump administration said Friday that it’s pulling $400 million from Columbia University, canceling grants and contracts because of what the government describes as the Ivy League school’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus.” — AP

What with antisemitism on the rise again—we see it with the re-ascension of Donald Trump, the loosening of moderation on social media, and Netflix’s hiking its basic plan to cost Americans two dollars more a month to watch Seinfeld—you can’t blame American Jews like me for feeling a little uneasy. Until now, that is, as the Trump administration is finally making an example out of that longtime bastion of anti-Jewish fervor, Columbia University.

A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn’t be deported without a court order.

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