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They say where there’s smoke, there’s fire. But what happens when there’s too much fire? As I looked out my window at the haze engulfing my beloved city, I couldn’t help but wonder: If one little spark could burn more than nine million acres of land in Canada, then why couldn’t my new flame even bother to call me back? In an era when smoke could travel across continents, why wasn’t my new boyfriend willing to take a cab from SoHo to the Upper East Side?

After clearing my throat, I knew it was time to clear the air. Here I was, single and swallowing more smog than Samantha on a Saturday night. I started thinking about communication and how maybe this was Earth’s way of telling us something. Maybe we all needed to see our relationship with the planet the way we might a romantic partner. We were, after all, bound to its surface.

There is something nostalgic about Warheads Soda. Not in a bike-riding, sprinkler-running, sleepover-camp kind of way, but more in a repulsive sort of “Remember how I used to think it was acceptable to eat Cool Ranch Doritos crushed over an untoasted bagel for lunch every day?” kind of way.

Forget summer vacation and not paying bills; my favorite childhood memory is the complete indifference I had to dietary carcinogens.

It’s macabre, really, this liquified monstrosity of a malic acid-coated candy. One imagines this being the type of formula kept from an unsuspecting public behind lock and key, not—as is actually happening—being hawked for allowance money at pubertal meccas like Hot Topic.

Despite (or maybe because of) this, Warheads Soda calls me, an adult, to the void. It beckons me to jump off a cliff I shouldn’t be on in the first place, a cliff typically reserved for pre-teens with eyebrow rings.

So now, a can of Warheads Soda lies in wait inside my refrigerator door. Its familiar “Kidz Bop Presents: Faces of Death” logo goggling out at me, daring me to risk it all and consume thirty-five grams of sour sugar in one chug.

Catherine Tate discusses her new BBC comedy series, Queen of Oz, set to premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Friday, June 16th.

On this week’s Lever Time, Sirota and David Dayen of The American Prospect unravel the “meager thinking” behind the debt ceiling deal.

As the Privileges Committee concludes whether Boris Johnson was in contempt of Parliament over Partygate, the former PM's opponents are preparing to oust him from office

The GOP hydra grows.

How an atomic interaction – not sticky feet – makes geckos world-class climbers, and is inspiring new human technologies

- by Aeon Video

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Even if we ‘solve’ global warming, we face an older, slower problem. Waste heat could radically alter Earth’s future

- by Mark Buchanan

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As romantic petrochemical-fuelled narratives slip into the past, I’ve found my own kind of freedom in a life without a car

- by Vicky Grut

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As the dust settles on the coronation, peaceful protesters need more than hints at a forthcoming apology, writes our Chief Reporter

Jonathan Acosta-Smith, Benjamin Guin, Mauricio Salgado-Moreno and Quynh-Anh Vo Over the past years, a growing consensus has acknowledged the need to construct a ‘system [wherein] every financial decision takes climate change into account‘. While such a system is still far from reality, market participants already produce and demand an increasing amount of climate-related information. Equally, … Continue reading Understanding climate-related disclosures of UK financial institutions →

When will the disabled experience be seen and valued in a humane way?

If you make books illegal, only criminals will have books.

Video by Big Brother Watch 3 intelligence agency whistleblowers, who are friends of Big Brother Watch, give their insights on Edward Snowden's revelations, mass surveillance and the future of privacy.

Pro-war pundit Nick Cohen’s sexual abuse accusations were well-known in British media for years. Yet his friends at the Guardian, Financial Times and Private Eye kept them under wraps while Cohen’s lawyers threatened potential accusers. The New York Times has published a devastating investigation revealing that for 20 years, the former Guardian/Observer writer Nick Cohen sexually harassed and abused female journalists with the full knowledge of his employers, coworkers, and British media more widely. What’s more, his employers willingly engaged […]

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The RBA governor had a few ‘Qu’ils mangent de la brioche’ moments in the last week when he responded to criticisms that his manic interest rate increasing behaviour is driving low-income families into crisis by, first, saying that people who couldn’t find cheap housing should move back with their parents. Then he followed that with…

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He’s going nowhere fast: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has seen his approval rating fall dramatically two weeks after announcing his 2024 presidential bid. According to online polling company Civiqs’ dynamic approval rating graph, DeSantis currently has a net approval rating of negative 19 points, with an average of 55 percent of respondents disapproving of him, compared with 36 percent who have a favorable view of the Republican. The data shows DeSantis has a major unfavorable rating from those aged 18-34 (63 percent), women (62 percent), as well as African Americans (85 percent), and the Hispanic/Latino population (68 percent). [I wonder why]m, In comparison, the Florida Governor’s overall approval and disapproval rating was tied at 47 percent in early December. Around this time, suggestions that DeSantis should be the one to lead the GOP in 2024 were gaining momentum after many—including those in the Republican Party—blamed Donald Trump for the party’s poor midterm performance. A number of candidates endorsed by the former president lost their races in elections across the country.

A new study finds that PFAS manufacturers took a page from Big Tobacco to suppress research and delay regulation.

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Environment aside, is it just a bad investment?

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The silver lining is the young women have become slightly more liberal during the same time period. Why? I think this is probably the best explanation: Just remember kids. Many of the hated baby boomers were liberal at one time too.