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Kids, come quick! While this little cabin may not have Wi-Fi, TV, or even bathrooms, you know what it does have? A well-worn copy of Trivial Pursuit. Can you believe it? How lucky are we?

I mean, what are the chances that this weekend getaway has such an absolute masterpiece? They could have had other cabin classics like a chess board with no chess pieces, three decks of cards that are all missing the ace of spades, or five Jenga blocks. But we lucked out by having a copy of Trivial Pursuit. Go ask your mother who “must have waited until the last minute to find probably the worst cabin they’ve ever seen” now.

So what if the lake has swimmer’s itch? Did Mom’s “brilliant” idea to go to Hawaii include a pop quiz you didn’t study for in game form? Because this cabin vacation does. That’s why this beautiful box of loose cards was hidden in an unassuming drawer behind a chair. Because everybody can’t wait to play it, and it’s not a last-ditch effort to salvage a family vacation.

Last week in Philadelphia Moms for Liberty held a cattle call for presidential candidates at their “Joyful Warriors” conference and they got all the big names to show up. This was quite a get for a group that only started in 2021 by Sarasota Florida school board members Tiffany Justice, Tina Descovich and Bridget Ziegler to protest masking and vaccine mandates in public schools during COVID-19. They are big players now in Republican politics with big donors and major politicians competing for their favor. And like so many others in the GOP they also have ties with the Proud Boys, a far-right hate group and have been designated antigovernment extremists by the Southern Poverty Law Center which they are wearing it with pride, as right wing groups tend to do: Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler, quoted above, also happens to be married to Bridget Ziegler, one of the founders of Mom’s for Liberty so for all its claims to being a grassroots organization, let’s just say they had friends in high places from the very beginning.

Concerns are increasing that Labour Leader Keir Starmer risks creating a stifling monoculture in the party

You can’t win if you don’t show up to play Howie Klein this morning addresses why it’s important that Democrats recruit candidates (even “feckless” ones) and run everywhere. Run For Something is working on that. So is North Carolina Democrats’ new state chair, Anderson Clayton, 25. She’ll appear on a featured panel next week at Netroots Nation-Chicago with three other women state chairs: Lavora Barnes of Michigan, Shasti Conrad of Washington, and Jane Kleeb of Nebraska. “In 2022, we left 44 seats uncontested last cycle,” Clayton told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi in May. That cannot happen again. “Democracy is not democracy without choices.” Plus, you can’t win if you don’t show up to play. Democrats need to give voters a reason to show up, Klein writes. What matters to them is results. In Minnesota, for example, where Democrats in 2022 won a narrow trifecta. Democrats chose to show voters what they could do with their narrow governing majorities.

The recurring pattern in financial crises is more or less the same. For some reason, a shift occurs in the economic cycle (such as war, innovations, new regulations, etc.) that leads to changes in the profit opportunities for banks and companies. Demand and prices rise, pulling more and more parts of the economy into a […]

A growing wave of anti-Christian violence in Palestine reveals disturbing links to Israeli government and zionist ideology, leaving Christians living in fear and oppression.

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Alan MacLeod speaks with YouTube and podcast star JT Chapman (First Thought, Second Thought, The Deprogram) about what everyone should know about environmentalism, about why a recession is definitely coming (and how we could stop it) and about what progressives and radicals could learn about the economy from WalMart.

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The ambulance’s red glare “Make America Great Again” is Donald Trump’s freighted message to a conservative political base longing for “the good, old days.” You know, when men were men, women were women, white Christians were dominant, non-whites knew their place, and the biggest worry on the Fourth of July was fireworks injuries. Somehow, I don’t think MAGAstan is fretting about that last bit. From CNN’s daily “5 Things” news summary: Independence Day celebrations were marred by violence over the holiday weekend after several mass shootings took place across the US. At least nine people were injured in a shooting early this morning in Washington, DC, as the victims were celebrating the Fourth of July in the nation’s capital. In Philadelphia, a shooting Monday left five people dead and two others wounded. On the same night in Fort Worth, Texas, a shooting killed three people and wounded eight others. Separately, block parties recently turned deadly in Indianapolis and Baltimore, leaving investigators scouring the crime scenes for answers.

As the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary draws near, Peter Davison revealed that his pitch for a The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot sequel was rejected.

1. From Behind Like a Baddie

Show off your booty with this classic bikini photo taken from behind. Look back at the camera by craning your neck 180-degrees or as far as you can without snapping your spinal cord or scrunching any neck skin for a definitely-not-candid candid shot that is oh so cheeky.

2. Tuck and Trot

Nail this pose by squeezing all your internal organs as close to each other as possible while simultaneously elongating all your limbs. Your intestine, liver, kidney, or any other essential body part that keeps you alive, should be constricted and shrunk to zero visibility. We’re going for fresh, not flesh. Now strut along a beach or pool deck with zero awareness of your surroundings. You might trip on a pool noodle or step on some piercing sea shells. It’s just par for the course. Pain is beauty!

With a damning report finding that racism is entrenched in cricket, Shamik Das explores how it is impossible to separate sport from society and what is required for transformative change

A discovery with potentially mind-boggling implications about the behaviour of matter at the quantum and astronomical scales

- by Aeon Video

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Envious feelings can eat you up, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s how to transform envy into a guide and motivator

- by Josh Gressel

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Renowned weapons expert Dan Kaszeta, who was blacklisted by the Government over his tweets, explores how 'amoral familism' has come to penetrate our public life

Curious about data on retirement in the U.S. as more and more Americans retire? Online economic database FRED has more than 2,500 series on the subject.

My LFCC Schedule It’s a great pleasure to be returning to London Film and Comic Con just for this Saturday (8th July). I don’t have a table, but here’s my schedule: 10am: Signing. 11am: Magical Comics Panel. (With Doctor Strange and Iron Man both celebrating their 60th anniversaries, magic versus tech is still the eternal […]

Recently, I wrote about the conditions that dictate what impacts interest rate changes will have on aggregate spending and demand-driven inflation in direction, magnitude and temporality – see RBA governor’s ‘Qu’ils mangent de la brioche’ moments of disdain (June 8, 2023). It is highly likely in many cases, the decisions by central banks to increase…

Today’s landmark anniversary for the NHS has also sparked a wave of party-pooping by those using the occasion to argue for its end as we know it, writes NHS doctor David Oliver

The Electoral Commission has highlighted a black-hole in its research on the impact of voter ID ahead of the next General Election

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Ed Hall, Marco Pinchetti and Julian Reynolds The remarkable stability of US inflation dynamics in the pre-Covid era had led many to think that the Phillips Curve had flattened. However, the sharp rise in inflation that followed the Covid-19 pandemic ignited a debate on whether the Phillips Curve had steepened and, in particular, … Continue reading Did supply constraints tilt the Phillips Curve? →