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Gisele Bündchen's witch powers, the reason for Tom Brady's terrible year? (Thanks to Asher Scheiner) Apparently she also has it in for the Jets.
Salman Butt comes hard on Pant and wants him to focus on fitness (Thanks to Unholy Slacker)
3:52 p.m. Some strange men entered a laundromat and began to play Disney movies. (Thanks to pharmaross)
FCC proposes record $300M fine for ‘auto warranty’ robocalls (Thanks to pharmaross)
Prolific academic Vijay Prashad joins "The Most Censored News With Lee Camp" to discuss empire, coups, censorship and his latest book co-written with Noam Chomsky, “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S.”
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There is no alternative. Once again, that is the mantra coming from Tory ministers. This time it’s about pay cuts for working people. It’s the same Thatcherite excuse wheeled out during every one of neoliberalism’s deep crises this century. There was no alternative to austerity after the banking crisis. There was no alternative to handing […]
This piece has been adapted from Covid Year Three, an episode of Death Panel released earlier this month. It presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end…
I will be off until early January. Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
This year’s Christmas arrives amid freezing weather and widespread hardship. For many, the cost of living crisis that’s been a fundamental part of our national landscape for almost a year means scaled-down festivities, perhaps dependent on what’s been donated to the local foodbank recently. Years of stagnant pay and growing inequality that go beyond that […]
in his editorial from the December print edition of Byline Times Peter Jukes says the tumultuous events of the last year may have been shocking, but not a complete surprise
From Partygate to Trussomics, the death of the Monarch, and the humiliation of Vladimir Putin, OttoEnglish's review of the year takes us on a roller coaster of major fails and meteoric falls
Exeter University announces new, five-year funding arrangement with Shell, as students urge campuses to divest from fossil fuel interests, reports Max Colbert
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outside Kyiv, on April 4, 2022.
This live performance remains unequaled to this day. Jussi Björling — the greatest of them all.
Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no…
I had to drop something to Re at work early on a Sunday morning. On the way home I thought I’d go sit in a cafe with my laptop like one of those fancy-shmancy people. I rarely do this but the house is a mess and I wanted to …
Finally. The Department of Justice has finally taken on True the Vote, the right-wing group behind wrongful challenge of hundreds of thousands of legal Georgia voters. The True the Vote challenges were the central subject of the film Vigilante, Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman created by the Palast Investigative Fund team.... READ MORE
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If you have been a reader or subscriber of this blog, please take a moment to visit FrameLab, my new Substack newsletter at http://georgelakoff.substack.com. It’s free to subscribe, but the generosity of our paid subscribers helps make this work possible. Here’s an excerpt from our latest post analyzing how Elon Musk is using Twitter to […]
