The Government were taken to court in a bid to block the supply of parts campaigners believe may be used to commit war crimes in Gaza
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Winning trivia night at the bar you went to in college.
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Dance partner in a high-end pharmaceutical commercial.
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Social media influencer in the menopause space.
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Molly Ringwald look-alike contest.
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Selling vintage T-shirts from concerts you actually attended.
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Freelance music critic (mostly unpaid).
A brain glitch? Quantum entanglement? Here are some of the best and oddest explanations for déjà vu we have from science
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- by Nick Longrich
From El Salvador to South Sudan, inside America’s global prison pipeline.
The post She Exposed Government Abuse. Now She’s Locked Up in an El Salvador Prison. appeared first on The Intercept.
Are the most memorable voices just the ones we hear frequently? Or is there some other quality they have?
- by Matt Huston
This delicate copepod species joins the ranks of a unique and fragile underground ecosystem
The post Meet a Newly Discovered Cave Crustacean appeared first on Nautilus.
In self-driven learning, performance is its own reward
The post What Birdsong Says About Motivation appeared first on Nautilus.
A TikTok experiment led me into a strange world of cyborg cockroaches, imposter fish, and the ethics of care
The post I Bought a Robot Cat for My Rabbit appeared first on Nautilus.
The future of UK politics is a fight between the Greens and Reform and its clear which Green candidates are the best placed to lead that battle, argues Rupert Read
The U.S. launched 16 jets from the USS Harry S. Truman to drop 125,000 pounds of bombs on a cave complex in Somalia, killing 14.
The post U.S. Conducts “Largest Airstrike in the History of the World” (Sort Of) appeared first on The Intercept.
After the dwindling of the Catalan independence movement, a new force has emerged in the region: Aliança Catalana, a far-right party mixing Catalan nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric. Led by Ripoll town councillor Sílvia Orriols, the party is gaining traction and reshaping the political conversation in Spain. The rise of this tendency is yet another example […]
“Fixing Medicaid”
“Deficit reduction”
“Fiscal responsibility”
“Wealth redistribution (direction undisclosed)”
“Cutting waste, fraud, abuse (and some health insurance)”
“A big, beautiful social welfare cut”
“Classic Reaganism”
“Undoing Biden’s budget mess”
“Operation Keep the President from Saying Mean Things About Us on Social Media”
“Tightening Medicaid”
“Not cutting Medicaid”
“Boosting emergency rooms with more business”
“Enforcing work requirements”
“Bipartisanship (we’ve considered Mitch McConnell a Democrat ever since he voted against Pete Hegseth)”
“Cutting entitlements like spending for entitled people. Who likes entitled people?”
“Prioritizing the border”
“Slashing spending across the budget”
“Blame Grok (it wrote the bill)”
“The opposite of Obamacare”
In their budget bill, Republicans prohibited Medicaid funding for all “gender-transition procedures” for adults and minors.
The post Republicans Launch Midnight Attack on Health Care Access for Trans Americans appeared first on The Intercept.
Australia’s latest favourite laughingstock, the National party, have updated their relationship status to ”it’s complicated” after their on again, off again relationship with the Liberal party appears to be maybe on again. ”Look, it’s complicated, we do still love the... Read More ›
A poll sent to Omar’s district tested the waters on a Democratic candidate backed by “a right-wing, pro-Israel group that is funded by Trump-supporting billionaires.”
The post Is AIPAC Coming After Ilhan Omar? appeared first on The Intercept.
In late 2008, Dr Peter Harbour, a retired physicist, found out that he’d been listed by the police as a ‘domestic extremist’. Harbour had recently been involved in a campaign to save an Oxford lake. Energy company RWE npower wanted to use the lake for fly ash disposal. The Save Radley Lakes group marched and […]
‘The world as we knew it has gone’, declaimed Keir Starmer in The Telegraph in early April, with all the acuity of someone who, having slept through an earthquake, wakes up amid the ruins. But though he recognised the redundancy of ‘old assumptions’, his register granted to the new world a familiarity — a hint of […]
Eighty years ago, the British Labour Party shocked the world. To the horror of the privileged classes, the socialists seized power in a landslide election victory. Britain had chosen to dump its wartime leader Winston Churchill for a government that promised to change society for the benefit of the many, not the few. It was to […]