I’m not sure what DeSantis thinks he’s getting out of this but it’s so on brand I just have to mention it. If there’s anything offensive and destructive going on in Republican politics he wants to be in the middle of it: In the high-stakes fight that is threatening to shut down the federal government next month — and tear House Republicans apart — Ron DeSantis is taking sides. The Florida governor spent about 30 minutes on the phone Wednesday with conservative Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Bob Good of Virginia — leaders of the cadre that is pushing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to embrace a shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to hard-right policy demands. DeSantis’ message, according to a person familiar with the call: “I got your back. Keep fighting.” The call is the latest signal that DeSantis is working to insert himself into the spending fight on the Hill in a bid to elevate his standing among Republican primary voters.
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Miko Peled delves into the intricate web of Israeli power politics as he explores how Itamar Ben Gvir, Tamir Pardo, and Abu-Mazen, despite their starkly different backgrounds, serve a common entity: Israel.
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Hear ye, My disciples, for I speak upon you a great truth: It has come to My understanding that many of you who would love Me do not understand My true and fearsome nature. And so I say to you thusly: I, your God, the one true God, invented boners.
Verily, I speak it unto you. Every great big massive hard-on to the tiniest little tinge of horniness is My doing. I have created your bodies such that they be beautiful, such that they may live and let live, and it is for such that I did create the boner.
And to this, I say to you: May you live in peace, as the boner joke is also My will. And to this end, butt squeezes between consenting adults, fellatio, and every type of foot stuff, was given to you by Me so that you may be happy and live your best lives, as is the will of your God.
When you made fun of that Jesus statue in your church for having a six-pack, I, the Lord your God, did smile upon you. And every time you masturbate, I am like, “Good for you.”
Reading slutty fanfic is also the will of the Lord. Particularly Twilight fanfic—the Lord likes that especially, though I am firmly Team Jacob.
It sure looks like the left is going after the prosecutors and FBI doesn’t it? Au contraire: Federal prosecutor Lesley Wolf, who had been part of U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ team investigating Hunter Biden, got such a barrage of credible threats that she sought security help from the U.S. Marshals Service, according to previously unreleased testimony from an FBI official to the House Judiciary Committee last week. Two IRS agents on the case have accused Wolf of making decisions that appeared favorable to Biden. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. Special counsel Jack Smith and his team have long been protected by an armed security detail, as is Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed to investigate classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s home and office. I’d guess the threats against Hur are coming from the right as well. We have right wing terrorists threatening law enforcement to such an extent they have had to create a special unit to deal with them. And apparently, almost half the country is ok with this because they are going after those who are prosecuting Donald Trump.
A leaked Pentagon/DIA assessment of the chemical warfare capability of Al Qaeda in Syria, known as al-Nusra, from June 20, 2013.
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The GB News presenter has said he would ‘never out’ anybody – but our returning special three-year #MediaToo investigation examines his role in revealing men as gay through the pages of The Sun and News of the World
The BBC confirmed that Miriam Margolyes will be voicing the Meep for the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary three-episode special event.
Human rights groups say the UK is turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in China
Turn slowly and can be pricey Remember Kim Davis? The Guardian: A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued the former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Davis, the former Rowan county clerk, drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal, which she based on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. A jury in Ashland, Kentucky, awarded David Ermold and David Moore each $50,000 after deliberating on Wednesday, according to lawyers for Davis. A second couple who sued, James Yates and Will Smith, were awarded no damages on Wednesday by Judge David Bunning. Bunning sent Davis to jail for five days in 2015 after holding her in contempt of court. She was parodied on Saturday Night Live and embraced by conservative politicians who traveled to Kentucky to support her. Here’s a novel idea: Bunning ruled last year that Davis violated the constitutional rights of the two couples.
In an angry letter, Kevin McCarthy and other G.O.P. House members said, “the White House has stubbornly refused to provide us with any reasons for our doing so.”
A new short film reveals the heart-wrenching stories of those who lost their loved ones to COVID – and exposes the politics of poverty behind the crisis
The BBC's #WhoSpy is back with a new image from the upcoming Doctor Who 60th-anniversary special event - and this one will require some work.
If scientific progress in economics — as Robert Lucas and other latter-day followers of Milton Friedman seem to think — lies in our ability to tell ‘better and better stories’ one would of course expect economics journals to be filled with articles supporting the stories with empirical evidence. However, the journals still show a striking […]
Very interesting readings and recorded talks on various topics in Economic Sociology and Political Economy
The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there. Over its lifetime, it would have released an estimated 23 million tons of planet-roasting carbon dioxide and that, ruled the judge, was incompatible with a “clean and healthful environment” in Montana or, for that matter, anywhere else. Within a week, the state legislature had voted to reinforce a 2011 law barring the consideration of climate change in policymaking and so allowing the construction of the... Read more
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Humiliating Palestinians is an actual Israeli policy and cannot be attributed to a few bad apples in the so-called "most moral army in the world."
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Gary Gardner
It’s been a fascinating experience watching the human family’s response to the emerging sustainability challenges of the past 30 years. Over a career writing on the topic, largely at the Worldwatch Institute, I marveled at the ingenuity displayed by many changemakers. I also bemoaned the blindness and stubborn resistance to change apparent in many sluggards. Here I reflect on sustainability’s ups and downs over three decades.
My perspective is captured well in the thoughts of 45 climate scientists interviewed recently by The Guardian.
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Welcome to the third world At least one Republican congressman told Sen. Mitt Romney (R-outcast), McKay Coppins recounts in The Atlantic, that he “wanted to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, but chose not to out of fear for his family’s safety.” A Republican senator in leadership urged Romney not to vote to convict Trump dujring his second impeachment trial. “You can’t do that, Romney recalled someone saying. Think of your personal safety, said another. Think of your children.” Romney tells Coppins he is paying $5,000 per day out of pocket for security since Jan. 6, 2021. On his way to work with a police excort that day, he recalls: If somebody wants to shoot me, he thought, what good is it to have these guys in a car behind me? Romney is not the only one worried about his security. Along with special prosecutor Jack Smith and Fulton County, Georgia, D.A.
When we first met Richard Ballard of Ballard Design & Construction, my wife and I were incredibly excited to get started on a kitchen renovation. After we saw how prompt and professional Richard was in returning a comprehensive estimate, we knew he was the general contractor we wanted to work with. He had every detail covered, from the height of our waterfall island, to the fact that our drainboard needed to be left-handed, to the finish on the pot filler.
Demolition started, and we made good progress. After six months, though, things slowed down. Our kitchen was, at best, half-finished. We had a range but no gas. We had a subfloor but no tile. We had no fridge, although we did have a bucket that Richard filled with ice once a week.
Mark Serwotka has served as the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union for 23 years. Representing workers across UK Government departments and public bodies, in recent years, the union has faced unrelenting attacks on the pay of its members and frequent confrontations between government ministers and civil servants. Under Serwotka’s […]