Sussan Ley, Angus Taylor and the other bloke, Dave or Dan, have all thrown their hats in to the ring to challenge for the Liberal leadership. The vacancy arises after former leader, Peter Dutton, was comprehensively thrashed at the last... Read More ›
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From militarized crackdowns to legal impunity, Trump’s policing agenda is designed to crush dissent and critics.
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The Russian president announced the ceasefire - from 8 to 11 May - without even speaking to Ukraine
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ushering in a new era of secrecy at the FDA.
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.
A corporate-led attack on free speech in Texas is making odd bedfellows and tearing the state’s GOP apart.
“If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one, it should be fired.” —Anton Chekhov
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If a Lego is left on the floor in the first act, then in the following one, the mother will step on it.
If the mother writes an organic, spiritual, all-natural birth plan in the first act, in the second act, that same birth plan will fly out the window as the anesthesiologist plugs in her Triple Strength Super Max Turbo Blasted Epidural.
Any cylindrical object, like a paper towel tube, introduced in the first act will be used in the second act as a wand or a sword to mete out a harsh brand of sibling justice.
If slime is introduced in the first act, the mother will be removing it from a child’s hair or an animal’s fur in the second act.
In the first act, if a colicky baby falls asleep for the first time in seventeen hours, a delivery driver will ring the doorbell in the next act, triggering the dog’s apocalyptic response.
Private equity firms spent the last two decades plundering beloved American brands for parts — now, they threaten to send the economy further into a tailspin with record-high bankruptcies.
Ahead of Doctor Who S02E05: "The Story and The Engine," the BBC posted a prequel story from writer Inua Ellams, with art by Bunmi Agusto.
“Many of the potential issues we see with the Trump family’s crypto practices are a feature — not a bug — of the crypto industry.”
The post Democrats Woke Up to Trump’s Crypto Grift. Will They Stop Other Scammers? appeared first on The Intercept.
Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America’s all-volunteer force (AVF) for 20 years, hitting my marks and retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2005. In my two decades of service, I met a lot of fine and dedicated officers, enlisted members, and civilians. I worked with the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as well, and met officers and cadets from countries like Great Britain, Germany, Pakistan, Poland, and Saudi Arabia. I managed not to get shot at or kill anyone. Strangely enough, in other words, my military service was peaceful. Don’t get me wrong: I was a card-carrying member of America’s military-industrial complex. I’m under... Read more
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Dear Lorraine,
How are you? Or maybe I should ask, when are you? Haha, nah, just a little time travel joke. But seriously, I hope everything is good and chronological, and that you are residing comfortably in the timeline where Biff washes your car.
Even though decades have passed since your kids were babies (two decades? Or is it six? Whatever, time is relative), I wonder how well you remember what it was like. How well do you remember those years when you had babies attached to you like brambles?
Doctor Who director Makalla McPherson on what viewers can expect from "The Story and the Engine," joining the "WHOniverse, and much more.
Dear Mr. RFK Jr.,
(The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.)
You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage.
I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.
She is five. She does not speak in sentences yet, but she knows how to answer a joke with a smirk. She organizes her markers by color, then chaos, then color again. She plays baseball without rules, which is probably the right way to play it. She hums when she’s thinking. She hums a lot.
When another child’s upset—before the adults notice, before the child even cries—she takes their hand. She leans her forehead against theirs, gently, like she’s checking for a fever only she can feel.
She doesn’t write poems.
She is one.
Sometimes she says a single word like it holds the whole sky.
In Hillbilly Elegy, his best-selling 2016 memoir of “a family and a culture in crisis,” J.D. Vance, now vice-president of the United States, gives an evocative account of the relationship between his hometown and the heroic age of American industrial capitalism.1 The beating heart of Middletown, Ohio, was its steel plant, then called Armco. Vance […]
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After The Intercept revealed Michael Obadal’s equity in Anduril, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for him to sell his shares.
The post Trump Army Appointee Should Sell His Anduril Stock, Sen. Warren Demands appeared first on The Intercept.
The real triumph of the neoliberal international network was not its capture of the right, but its subsequent colonization of the parties that once stood for everything Hayek detested. The Democratic and Labour Party leaders who followed in Reagan and Thatcher’s wake did not possess a meaningful alternative to the neoliberal narrative. Rather than developing […]
Eighty years ago today, the monstrous machinery of the Third Reich was finally ground to dust. The swastika was torn from the Reichstag, the death camps liberated, and Europe—bloodied, traumatised, but unbowed—emerged from history’s darkest night. It was not merely a military victory; it was the triumph of solidarity over fascism, of internationalism over racial […]
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In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics
- by Massimo Pigliucci