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Since 2007, the representative has had a consultancy with Chad Campbell, a former legislator who backed industry-supported bills and later lobbied for payday lenders.

The post Kyrsten Sinema Founded Consulting Firm With Arizona Figure Tied to Payday Loan Industry appeared first on The Intercept.

Why Republicans dress like supervillains Our theater department staged a modernized version of The Drunkard when I was an undergrad. The temperance play has been around since the mid-19th century. We brought in a specialist from New York to choreograph every over-the-top gesture. Every movement of every character. Each had an entrance theme played on a tinny piano off-stage. The audience is invited to cheer the heroes and boo the villain. We sold bags of peanuts to either eat or throw at the bad guy. The whole point of the melodrama these days is high camp. Amanda Marcotte argues this morning (my take) that what we may be missing is that the right is staging a version of the show every single day. “Why do so many Republicans now dress like cartoon supervillains?” Salon’s headline asks. When Rep.

Luxe Lifestyle Ltd, which provided 9m unusable items during the Coronavirus crisis via a 'VIP lane', has applied to be struck off without reporting how the money was spent

19-year-old Amal Nakhleh suffers from a rare, long-term condition called myasthenia gravis that causes severe muscle weakness. In November 2020, when he was 16, Amal was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint between the Palestinian towns of Atara and Birzeit and presented with a list of charges based around throwing stones. Amal was released in December, […]

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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: James Gunn/DCU, Doctor Who, The Last of Us, Ben Stiller/Zoolander, Rihanna/Super Bowl, Scrubs/Grease & more!

Friday's violent scenes reveal the modern far-right's tactics, its driving ideology – and how hate has been mainstreamed by the UK Government. Sian Norris reports

This morning, lawyers are acting on my request to prepare a counsel’s opinion on the legality of publishing those of Stewart McDonald’s emails which are in the public interest to be revealed. This may take a day or two. Emails of dubious provenance are published all the time. Emails about Partygate brought down Boris Johnson. […]

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After preying on nursing home residents, cost-cutting investor firms are going after “wellness housing” for healthy seniors.

Tom Griffin explores how an ideological reliance on lobbying groups appears to be undermining another Conservative leader

The recent Biden campaign to restrict gas stove in homes is decidely inorganic. What might be behind it?

Ray McGovern discusses Seymour Hersh’s story, “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” on Garland Nixon and Wilmer Leon’s radio show, The Critical Hour. (With transcript).

The post Ray McGovern: Nord Stream Attack an ‘Act of War’ appeared first on scheerpost.com.

One journalist reminded readers that the NFL star and Army Ranger "called the Iraq invasion and occupation 'fucking illegal' and was killed by friendly fire in an incident the military covered up and tried to hide from his family."

The post Anti-War Voices Accuse Super Bowl of ‘Hijacking the Pat Tillman Story’ appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Israel’s new fascist government has increased the collective punishment of Palestinians — a war crime.

The post New Israeli Regime Moves Toward “Cleansing” All Palestinians From Palestine appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Is Civilization at Stake in Ukraine?

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By Algernon Austin / CEPR In response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for over 8 million people between 1935 and 1943. While data on the racial composition of WPA workers isn’t available for all of these years, the data we have for 1939, 1941, and 1942 make clear that the WPA […]

The post When the WPA Created Over 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Enter a workshop where the world’s oldest board game is still made by hand, in a meticulous, deeply satisfying process

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With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the Palaeolithic is now marvellously vivid

- by April Nowell

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What if life crises are not pitfalls en route to Maslow’s self-actualisation but hopeful new beginnings, as Bollnow argued?

- by Norm Friesen

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I’ve got a new piece up over at UnHerd about the push — in the UK and elsewhere — towards central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The official explanations don’t add up, while the risks of giving governments and central banks such sweeping powers of surveillance and control are being seriously downplayed.

Now and then, even the most seasoned politician happens to slip up and accidently speak the truth. This is what occurred during a recent debate at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, when the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock openly stated that “we are fighting a war against Russia”. The German government was quick …

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