Learn some new tricks, Democrats Democrats had best get their act together. The lunatics running the Capitol Hill asylum may succeed in further souring Americans on Brand Chaos. Voters demonstrated in 2018, 2020 and 2022 that America on the whole is not buying what Republicans are selling. Nevertheless, Ron DeSantis’ Florida is vying to be the first among the Fascist States of America. Where Republicans are in control elsewhere they are working hard at consolidating minority rule and turning the Land of the Free into the Home of the Knave. Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner, warns that 2024 will be “the tipping point for democracy globally. As of now, 60 percent of the world is living under autocracy. We’ve rolled back to 1989.” The dis-ease is palpable. Democrats need to up their game. Greg Sargent suggests they look to Michigan to counter “the virulent reactionary turn in red states.” Democrats there have a trifecta, holding the governorship and both legislative chambers, for the first time in decades. They are using it: After flipping the state legislature and reelecting Gov.
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Items of interest to people interested in philosophy… “What does not yet exist is a discipline that treats the workings of government itself as a philosophical subject. This field could be called ‘the philosophy of public administration’” — Dan Little (UM-Dearborn) on the case for (and questions of) this subfield “Claude’s writing is more verbose, but also more naturalistic. Its ability to write coherently about itself, its limitations, and its goals seem to also allow it to more naturally answer questions on other subjects” — meet Claude, one of several alternatives to ChatGPT “If A beats B and B beats C, A and C have essentially equal chances of prevailing against each other.” Wait, what? — all about intransitive dice “What is our universe expanding into?” — “That’s a great question. The answer, though, is that it’s not a great question,” says Paul Sutter (Stony Brook) “The Department of Personal Inspections is charged with the remit of examining the lives of persons within His Majesty’s territories.
Homens próximos a Braga Netto e Villas Bôas responsáveis pelo assessoramento direto ao ministro da Defesa seguem intocados nos seus cargos.
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1. Seems like a fish out of water at first, but swims just fine.
2. Wears the same clothes no matter what the profession.
3. Maintains exactly the same expression no matter how wild things get.
4. Doesn’t speak the language, but finds suitable underlings that do.
5. Expects people to like them even when they’ve gone absolutely insane.
6. Everyone thinks they are the best ever at their job, but it’s all PR.
7. Color is very important to them.
8. They think their significant other is one person, but it’s actually someone else.
9. They win a lot. When they lose, it’s for their own good.
10. They travel on the company expense account, but never eat.
11. Most of their so-called friends want to screw them.
12. If the first thing they see is someone’s shoes, they’re dead.
13. There’s more than one reason they believe the whole thing is a dream.
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December 2022 saw the publication of the first two issues of the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (JHWP). JHWP “is the world’s first journal dedicated to restoring and discussing the history of the texts written by and about women philosophers. The Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists seeks to integrate women’s intellectual heritage into the canon of philosophy, the humanities, and the natural and social sciences… The time period investigated by articles in the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists ranges from 2200 BCE to the 20th century CE in both the Western and non-Western world.” Its founders and editors are Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn) and Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland State, emerita).
Logic often appears in short supply in politics. This is because great decisions of state are not taken on the merits of the ostensible subject matter, but according to what best advances the career interest of the politicians with the power to decide. Scotland has left the European Union against the will of a large […]
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MTG with the “checkbook!" analogy:
Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer wrote checks the American people can’t pay. Then they worked with Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to pass the problem to @HouseGOP.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) January 19, 2023
I will not sign off on a clean bill raising the debt ceiling limit! pic.twitter.com/Kne73d73Cp
Ultra MAGA digging in for a slog…
Pekka Kallioniemi assesses the Kremlin's effective use of energy and financial dependency as part of its playbook shaping European politics
. The central problem with the present ‘Machine Learning’ and ‘Big Data’ hype is that so many — falsely — think that they can get away with analyzing real-world phenomena without any (commitment to) theory. But — data never speaks for itself. Data by themselves are useless. Without a prior statistical set-up, there actually are […]
Max Colbert reports from Dartmoor where a Court Ruling has provoked a mass demonstration this weekend over the ancient right to camp in the National Park
The protester was shot and killed on Wednesday during a chaotic raid of the “Stop Cop City” forest defense camp.
The post Activists Demand Independent Investigation After Cops Kill Protester in Atlanta appeared first on scheerpost.com.
It’s the good oooolld “govt as business!” art degree analogy by this person who I guarantee does not even know what Basis of Accounting the US govt uses…. GUARANTEED… lock it…
Would you invest in this business?
— Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) January 19, 2023
Total debt: $31 trillion
Assets: $4.8 trillion
Annual revenue: $4.9 trillion
Annual Income: $1.4 trillion Loss
This is the US Government.
Buried in the High Court judgment which found the Rwanda scheme to be lawful are claims that LGBTQ+ and Middle Eastern asylum seekers have faced discrimination
AMLO may seem like a curious choice for "Tyrant of the Year," especially given the fierce competition for the title. But once you see who leads and finances the NGO in question, it all makes a bit more sense. .
Campaigners fear that laws put in place to safeguard the environment could be ‘accidently’ lost if the Retained EU Law Bill is implemented
A gas mogul’s case against Beto O’Rourke could deter candidates from ever talking about money in politics.
WaPo’s Revelations About Russiagate Reporting Failures Typify Legacy Media Failures.
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Is There a World Beyond War?
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The criticism Harry has faced about his comments on Afghanistan is an opportunity to dig deeper and take on the dominant narratives in our society about war more broadly.
The post Prince Harry’s PR Firestorm Creates Opportunity to Rethink Militarism appeared first on scheerpost.com.
The NYPD maintains poor storage practices because there is no law stopping them from doing so.
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