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If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf.

If a right-wing activist is gunned down, it’s part of a coordinated effort by the radical left to incite violence.

If a gunman murders nineteen children at an elementary school, it’s disgusting to politicize the tragedy by talking about gun control.

If a Republican presidential candidate is targeted in an assassination attempt, it’s fair to blame it on left-wing rhetoric before the shooter has even been identified.

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

The post Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist appeared first on The Intercept.

For 14 years we’ve exposed empire, propaganda, and genocide. Now, with funding slashed, our future depends on you.

The post MintPress News Faces Shutdown Amid Unprecedented Attacks on Truth appeared first on MintPress News.

Zionism is not just an ideology — it is a system of infiltration designed to embed Israel’s interests into every corner of Western life.

The post Infiltration: A Cardinal Function of the Zionist Movement appeared first on MintPress News.

In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s. Decades later, having burned bridges with them both, she tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ’n’ roll history. Written as an email to former Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, frequent Tendency contributor Lisa Borders’s Last Night at the Disco has been praised as “hilarious” by Publishers Weekly, adding, “Readers will be hooked by this tragicomic romp.” Today, we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from the book.

Every Saturday for the past seven weeks, a crowd of far-right protestors has gathered in a square in the city centre of Newcastle, outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. They arrive around noon, sometimes earlier, and usually stay till late in the afternoon. The protests, like anywhere, are a mixture of the threatening and the […]

So, I’m the same age as Noel and Liam. And they’ll make $50 million each by the end of the tour. Goddammit, I don’t have enough saved. Nowhere near enough saved.

I like this song, but can you imagine if you really did live forever? They’d be fine. I wouldn’t. I’d have to figure something out. I’d have to reel in my spending.

The thing about their dream is it’s not vague. It’s well defined. They spent their twenties saying, “Let’s be the biggest band in the world.” They weren’t saying, “Maybe I could be a writer? Some kind of comedy writer? What if I live on a boat with just my guitar and I could write? No, that’s weird. But the rent would be cheap, I bet. I could work less and write more, maybe?”

So the verses and the chorus are all G major, then you do that little move to B minor, then the thing where you go to G, A, D, and it just keeps circling. Like, how many times have either Jeff or I played that absentmindedly on a guitar, back in our twenties, while talking late at night? We weren’t focused! Lazy? Lazy!

It’s the first time the U.S. has sanctioned an organization specifically for using lawful, peaceful tools of advocacy.

The post Trump Sanctions Palestinian Human Rights Groups for Doing Their Job. Anybody Could Be Next. appeared first on The Intercept.

When I came across the U-shaped happiness curve, I knew I had to act if I wanted to buck the midlife average

- by Richard Fisher

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Understanding the psychology behind excessive skin-picking and hair-pulling can help you resist the urges and begin to heal

- by Suzanne Mouton-Odum

Read on Psyche

Joseph Wright of Derby put science at the centre of his art. Eclipsed in his lifetime, his work still burns with radical ideas

- by Charlotte Mullins

Read on Aeon

Other cultures across Asia were preserving their dead for millennia before the Egyptians

The post These Aren’t Your Pharoah’s Mummies appeared first on Nautilus.

Their extinction left an indelible mark on the landscape

The post The Dinos’ Demise Gave Rivers Their Shape appeared first on Nautilus.

I’ve lived my whole life in the Cheshunt and Waltham Cross area, where I’m proud to serve on Broxbourne Borough Council. I will defend my town endlessly against those who talk it down, but that’s not to say we don’t have our problems. During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, a counter-demonstration just up the […]

Photographers in Gaza risk their lives to witness the war. Their images speak louder than the critics trying to discredit them.

The post “They Fear Our Lenses”: Gaza Photojournalists Speak Out appeared first on The Intercept.

I was outside a museum, in the suburbs of a large capital city. The museum had closed; there were very few shops or cafes nearby, and there was a park on the edge of the museum site. I had a sensation which, as someone with Crohn’s disease, I’m very familiar with — that is, the sudden […]

“The Utah man being held in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk used the social media platform Discord to send messages about the rifle and engraved bullets.” — Deseret News

“One of the [bullet casing] messages, ‘Notices bulges OwO what’s this?,’ is often used to mock participants in online role-play communities. Another message said, ‘If you read This, you are GAY Lmao,’ its tone suggesting a kind of sophomoric insult humor common on internet message boards.” — New York Times

“The professors who are sowing the hate—they need to be fired… The professors need to go away.” — Fox News host Lawrence Jones