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Mark Temnycky looks at the turbulence in Tbilisi, Georgians’ desire to join the EU, and the authoritarian drift of the ruling Dream Party
From Doctor Who star David Tennant co-hosting to sketches from Ghosts, The Traitors, and more, here's a rundown of Red Nose Day 2023.
Techies should know that. Should. Believe it or not, a pair of tweets about last Friday’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank are still current. Eugene Robinson writes about those conditionalities this morning: Question: What is a socialist? Answer: A libertarian tech bro who had money in Silicon Valley Bank. There is nothing funny about the second-biggest bank failure in the nation’s history, which has roiled financial markets at a time when the economy is already unsettled. It is richly ironic, though, to hear luminaries of the tech sector, after years of complaining that “big government” was the problem, suddenly clamoring for massive federal intervention and largesse.
After 110 trees were felled overnight in Plymouth, Katherine Denkinson looks at the city's climate-change-sceptic head of Council and his links to the Tufton Street network of lobbyists
This Saint Patrick’s Day, it’s important to remember that my culture is not your costume; it’s my costume.
Before you put on your SHENANIGANS shirt and plastic shot-glass necklace, ask yourself: Are you mindful of their cultural roots? Are you honoring my ancestors who invented them decades ago in Charlestown, Massachusetts?
Everywhere I look, there’s a reductive caricature of Irish culture, and it’s a blatant rip-off of the reductive caricature of Irish culture that my people forged over so many Celtics seasons.
I hear the bagpipes in songs where they obviously don’t belong, a tradition of ours that dates back to the late twentieth-century music of the Dropkick Murphys. I see friends sharing leprechaun imagery when I know they don’t even have a red-headed (though admittedly half-Ashkenazi) cousin who they force into a little green suit every March.
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So this one day, Raven-Floki woke up at home in fuckin’ Nahway n’ he was like, “Shit, I need tah go n’ find that new island that that Gardar guy was talkin’ ’bout ’cause it sounds fuckin’ sweet!” N’ this is on accoun’ah the fact that Gardar’d been blowin’ smoke up evuhryone’s ass ‘bout this damn island. Like, he just couldn’t stop talkin’ ’bout how it’s covah’d in shit-tons’ah top quality lumbah r’n wicked good fahmin’ land too. N’ yah know how Nahwegians ahr, they really get off on tree wood n’ fehrtile fuckin’ soil n’ shit.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: X-Men '97, Star Trek: Picard, James Gunn/Ben Affleck, Succession, Disney+/Marvel Studios, Doctor Who & more!
GOP Speaker finally makes statement during banking system crisis and it’s a post of a old Milton Friedman video…
Reminder: inflation is made in Washington from too much government spending.
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) March 16, 2023
It was true when Jimmy Carter was president in 1978, and it's true today. pic.twitter.com/Vq7cJ1tw5x
Biden people I’m afraid are on their own in trying to fix their own monetarist mess… better not be thinking Congress is going to help them…
Karl Marx’s funeral was poorly attended. Estimates vary, but it’s unlikely more than two-dozen mourners were present—a modest gathering indeed for the father of historical materialism and prophet of capital’s demise. ‘An immeasurable loss has been sustained both by the militant proletariat of Europe and America, and by historical science, in the death of this […]
Are many of the explanations of the recent bank tsuris barkign up the wrong tree?
Three months after the central bank launched demonetisation, economic conditions in Nigeria continue to deteriorate. Now, one of the country's leading media organizations is calling for the arrest and prosecution of CBN's governor.
Claims that cattle ranching sequesters carbon and restores ecosystems have been used in highly effective marketing campaigns by the livestock industry. Just one problem: they’re greenwash. By George Monbiot. This is an extract from my book Regenesis: feeding the world without devouring the planet. I’ve been prompted to publish it here by a new phase […]
The Labour leader is missing a once in a generation chance to set out much-needed radical reforms for a broken nation, argues his former advisor Simon Fletcher
Damon Silvers, deputy chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the 2008 bank bailout, explains how deregulation paved the way for SVB’s collapse.
The post Understanding the Silicon Valley Bank Run appeared first on The Intercept.
The hawkish senator wants the US to escalate in response to the downing of the US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea
The post Sen. Graham Calls for US to Start Shooting Down Russian Planes appeared first on scheerpost.com.
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Rather than see Taiwan’s semiconductor factories fall into the hands of the Communist Party of China, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream.
The post Former US NatSec Advisor: Destroy Taiwan Semiconductor Factories if China Invades appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Why renting is even more expensive than ever, even pinching the soi-disant middle class.
“Miraculously, they still believe in the U.S. justice system and still want to tell their story to a U.S. jury.”
The post Iraqis Tortured by the U.S. in Abu Ghraib Never Got Justice appeared first on The Intercept.
Perhaps it is the atavistic fear of something growing inside us and consuming us from within that makes us feel so ambivalent towards fungi, writes John Mitchinson
So I’ll keep this one short: it feels like I’m getting back into my stride, and I managed to knock out 2000 words on cognitive liberty and decentralization for a (shh secret) magazine that Mike Masnick is editing for us at the Foundation. The bad news is that my brief was 800-1000 words, but hey, […]