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Doctor Who Season 2 Ep. 2: "Lux" is the most gleefully nuts episode to date; an exhilarating and profound defining story for the Disney+ era.

So, basically, the Supremes ruled 9-0 that Trump had to obey a lower court when they court said to return the hairdresser Trump sent to prison in El-Salvador, who is not a gang member as Trump claimed.

This case is wrong in every way:

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  13th April 2025 “He’s really gone and done it this time. Now everyone can see what a disaster he is.” How many times have we heard this about Donald Trump? […]

People think of Applebee’s as a safe suburban fixture, a place where people go for an innocuous meal at a reasonable price—but strap in, jagoff, because this Applebee’s is not like other Applebee’s. Instead of license plates and joyful Americana, our walls are festooned with divorce certificates and failed attempts at taxidermy.

Most of the animals are dead, at least.

Other Applebee’s branches have sports on TV. So do we—assuming you consider Czechoslovakian pig-throwing a sport. Those guys can really chuck a hog. If you don’t like it, why don’t you just shuffle across the parking lot to Chili’s? They have all the anodyne comforts your dainty bourgeois sensibilities require, like barstools that aren’t eight feet high.

That’s right, our patrons like it when their feet dangle.

Our servers have tattoos that didn’t go right, medically speaking. They’re bleeding and stuff. But once they heal, you’re going to love looking at them, assuming you like seeing shamrocks beating up non-Irish flowers. It sounds harsh, but the flowers had gotten real mouthy with the shamrocks earlier, insulting the clovers’ cousins and whatnot.

Check out the new image gallery released for Showrunner Russell T. Davies' Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who S02E02: "Lux."

A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists.

The post Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals

My latest book is called This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel. It’s the story behind the worst movie to have ever won the Academy Award. Have you not heard of this movie?

Let me tell you about it.

But where to begin? Should we begin with the fabled “curse” that afflicted nearly everyone associated with this notorious film, including the gaffers and all three lighting technicians, not to mention the poor thespian pooch, Charlie Boy, the first of two canines to play “Bones the Blind Dog”?

Starvation, siege, and mass expulsion are no longer threats but policies. As Gaza is shattered, the machinery of ethnic cleansing grinds forward, dragging the region—and perhaps the world—toward a reckoning.

The post Chris Hedges: Israel is About to Empty Gaza appeared first on MintPress News.

The Trump administration vows to seek the death penalty “whenever possible.” But federal cases move slowly, and few result in a death sentence at all.

The post Trump Will Be Long Gone Before Luigi Mangione Faces Execution appeared first on The Intercept.

To protect themselves from liability, fossil fuel companies are taking inspiration from laws shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.

And then the light of an older heaven was in my eyesand when my vision cleared, I saw Titans. — Alan Moore Today’s Occasional Paper comes to us from the James Webb Space Telescope. So let’s start with some basics:  nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  So when a telescope looks out […]

On the chopping block is the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program, which tracks sexual violence in the military and supports victims.

The post Pentagon Considers Cutting Its Sexual Assault Rules appeared first on The Intercept.

As a medical professional, I’ve dedicated my career to improving public health and promoting evidence-based practices. This is why I am here today to tell you that one of the most widely used tools for measuring obesity—body mass index (BMI)—is a failure.

Now, as surgeon general, I am proud to declare that BMI’s tyranny over America’s health is dead. And it shall be replaced with a far more effective system—a group of very mean middle schoolers who will tell you whether you’re fat or just ugly and cringe.

The antiquated BMI metric fails to consider various factors that affect weight, such as muscle mass, bone density, and fat distribution. For instance, a bodybuilder can register as “obese,” and a sedentary person could be considered “normal.”

But rude middle schoolers circumvent these concerns by zeroing in on and magnifying even the tiniest flaws. If anyone can truly assess someone’s obesity, it’s a group of sharp-eyed, perpetually judgmental, social-media-savvy twelve-year-olds.

Apr 01, 2025 Crossposted from “Brave New Europe” At last week’s Paris meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron congratulated themselves on reinserting Europe into the peace process opened up by President Trump. In practice, they have done their best to derail it. Nothing is more foolish than their idea … Continue reading Europe’s Misguided Interventions

Polina Zabrodskaya has taken her former employer, AMV BBDO, to an employment tribunal alleging constructive dismissal

Sometimes wicked but always powerful. Why did witches transform from figures of fear to figures of entertainment and aspiration?

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

A little-known database logs hundreds of millions of wire transfers sent to or from Mexico, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.

The post The Unusual Nonprofit That Helps ICE Spy on Wire Transfers appeared first on The Intercept.

To grasp the power of this lauded quality, think of it less as a mountain than as a flexible, even playful way of seeing

- by Michael Uebel

Read at Psyche

Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism is founded upon a unique sense of national shame

- by Kevin D Pham

Read at Aeon

The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson

I asked Claude to write about the career of my father, the inventor Maurice Zeldman, as if I’d written it myself. Here, with no edits by me, is what Claude said.

The post My father, Maurice Zeldman, and his ZGANNT software appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

Utrymmet för kurser i ekonomisk teorihistoria och ekonomisk metodologi har stadigt minskat på våra ekonomiutbildningar på senare tid. Detta är djupt beklagligt eftersom det är förödande på sikt för en akademisk disciplin att inte hålla kopplingen till tidigare forskningsmödor levande och att inte ställa viktiga vetenskapsteoretiska och metodologiska frågor om den egna verksamheten. Hur har […]