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If you pay for cable or satellite TV, you’re subsidizing Fox News, whether you watch it or not.

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Tester knows what he’s doing. Manchin doesn’t. Maybe Manchin should have kept his mouth shut instead of showboating with Kyrsten Sinema. He might not have found himself in this position: Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia are expected to face among the toughest political environments as the Democratic Party attempts to hold the Senate next year, given that the two incumbents hail from states where President Joe Biden performed poorly against then-President Donald Trump in 2020.  But the Montanan is beginning the cycle with a huge popularity advantage, while Manchin remains among the country’s most unpopular politicians — fraught territory in the face of an expected challenge by his state’s popular Republican governor, Jim Justice, according to the Morning Consult’s latest quarterly approval ratings. Surveys conducted between Jan. 1 and March 31 show that 58% of Montana voters approve of Tester’s job performance, making him one of America’s most popular senators.

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DeSantis can’t seem to get Florida officials to endorse him He’s an ass. That’s all there is to it: It was supposed to be RON DeSANTIS’ big day on Capitol Hill. Yet DONALD TRUMP managed to overshadow him from almost 1,000 miles away. In the 24 hours leading up to the Florida governor’s much-anticipated meeting with GOP lawmakers, two members from his own state — Reps. JOHN RUTHERFORD and GREG STEUBE — endorsed Trump. A third Floridian — Rep. BRIAN MAST, who was once considered close with DeSantis — told CNN’s Mel Zanona that he’ll soon follow suit. And a few hours later, in a stone-cold act of political brutality, Rep. LANCE GOODEN (R-Texas) walked out of the DeSantis meeting and declared his support for Trump. “It’s a killer!” said one positively giddy Trump confidant, who was on the phone with Playbook when news of Gooden’s surprise endorsement broke.

Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.

The post Your Brain Is Shaped Like Nobody Else’s appeared first on Nautilus.

One of my friends, Aran, just started playing Disco Elysium, the game my son and I have been playing together for months. It’s a role-playing game set in the run-down neighbourhood of an occupied city in an alternate world. You play a detective for the local police investigating a murder who is in such a … Continue reading The Yiddish Policemen’s Union →

On Monday, Penny Wong delivered her much awaited address to the National Press Club. What a disappointment! So many words, and so little substance. One could dismiss the episode as just another case of a minister who’s not up to the task. Unfortunately, the speech points to a deeper ailment – a government oblivious to Continue reading »

The world, we have a problem. It is Houston. America is out of control, and is the main threat to the world’s peace, security and civilizations. America is out of control in its prosecution of war. No nation has loved war more, hot or cold. It has waged war in all but 17 years of Continue reading »

War preparations began with the U.S. Force Posture Agreement providing a gateway for U.S. military build-up in the Northern Territory and giving them unimpeded access to our seaports and air bases. War preparations have continued with huge expenditures on military acquisitions topped with $368 billion on nuclear -powered submarines. Now there are legislative amendments on Continue reading »

In the Csergo case the big question is: does the prosecution have any evidence of a real crime and not just a breach of the ridiculous Reckless Foreign Interference law? How dangerous is it to meet a couple of foreigners and have a private cup of coffee? Can you quickly turn to your phone, do Continue reading »

It helps to apply all the lessons of the past correctly when considering learnings from a recent High Court decision about the use of personal Ministerial intervention powers under the Migration Act It saddens me to have to comment negatively on an article by one of my favourite national commentators. Jack Waterford’s article “The Home Continue reading »

Australian education can learn something from climate change. For a long time, people ignored the truth about the climate. We no longer can because the evidence is clear: there is a looming crisis, and we need big structural solutions to enable widespread change and action. The same can now be said about Australia’s schools. We find ourselves among the countries showing Continue reading »

Why are tens of millions of Christians supporting the expansion of Israel and the oppression of the Palestinians? It’s an important question because the answer has serious consequences for the stability of the Middle East. Ensuring the scene is set for the return of Jesus Christ is a crusade that the Pentecostal, Evangelical and Christian Continue reading »

The BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who released two preview images & a teaser of Jinkx Monsoon, portraying "The Doctor's most powerful enemy yet"

In its past few decades, TGI Fridays has mounted considerable success. Boasting 869 locations across more than 50 countries, it is one of the most identifiable restaurant brands in the world, with its highest-grossing franchise located in Leicester Square, London. Despite its British workers contributing to its huge profits, fair pay has been an uphill […]

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New scandal as Star0mer declares free football tickets accepted from company forced to pay out £10.8m over combustible panels Keir Starmer’s willingness to accept corporate hospitality has caused disgust after he declared a gift of free football tickets from a company that was forced to pay out almost £11 million in the wake of the […]

We know who they are. We heard it in their own words Talk about an anticlimax. For the past couple of weeks we’ve all been on tenterhooks waiting for the latest trial of the century, the defamation case by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News. The judge had already ruled that there was ample proof that Fox had lied so all Dominion had to prove was that they did it with malice (which I think we can all see every day by the venom they spew). The weeks of very juicy discovery material which had already become public, exposing the executive suite and all the top Fox stars as venal liars, were thrilling previews of what was assumed to be the main event: the prospect of all of them, including the Murdoch patriarch himself, Rupert, on the witness stand trying to explain how they could square what they said in private with what they said publicly. It led to the exciting expectation that this was going to be a long overdue comeuppance for the right-wing propaganda outlet. Sadly, it was a dud. Just as they had chosen a jury and were about to start opening arguments, a settlement was reached and the trial was over before it started.

Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

I win the lottery and can afford to buy the brownstone where I once lived in a dungeon—er, “garden apartment.” Because the neighborhood’s changed so much, the building costs a fortune, but this time, no one mugs me at gunpoint or breaks into my home like they did when I first lived there. I also buy a fully restored vintage truck, always find a parking spot on my block, and can parallel park perfectly on the first try.

Red Hook, Brooklyn

I discover an investment account I had forgotten about, which has become wildly profitable. I can buy a building and don’t need to worry about the lack of subway service since I don’t need to commute to a job. I often ride my bike to that pier where the views of the Statue of Liberty are unbelievably good, and eat lots of key lime pie made by a longtime neighborhood resident. I become a regular at a bar with a great vibe and plenty of places to sit. The bartender knows me by name and pours me my usual as soon as I walk in. Eventually, he names a cocktail after me. I never get hangovers.

Celebrate Earth Day with Nautilus’ first-ever member-exclusive product.

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“I wish Kevin well,” Rupert Murdoch said. “I hope whoever buys him finds as much use for him as I did.”

I’m really surprised that no one is actively talking about what an America run by the GOP looks like. We can see it in deep red states right now, and it’s horrifying. First, there’s the gun violence. Red states have all but abolished gun laws, and are awash in firearms. The result: lots more death, both in terms of murders and suicides. We see people randomly blowing away innocent strangers all the time. Then there’s the death from preventable disease, maternal mortality, and infant mortality. Half of the Ob-Gyns in Idaho are gone. So are most in MS. Life expectancy in red states was low, and is plummeting. China’s life expectancy exceeds ours. We're repealing child labor laws now. Letting them work in factories, night shifts, and bars. Given increasing wealth inequality, and low wages, more families will choose to pull kids out of school to work. More high school drop outs, and poverty cycle continues. 4/n We’re also looking at the end of the line for the LGBT community, and particularly trans people. The laws being passed in Florida and elsewhere resemble something out of Russia or West African nations infiltrated by the religious right.