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“Scientists and sailors say orcas, also known as killer whales, are stepping up ‘attacks’ on yachts along Europe’s Iberian coast, with one skipper who’s been pursued by the marine mammals on two separate occasions suggesting that their tactics are becoming more stealthy.” — NPR

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2012? Bring back 1220, bro! If you follow The Daily Wire, you may know this guy. I don’t, but David Simon of The Wire does. This clown below would like to see western civilization return to the customs and mores of 1220. Because only RINOs want to return to the 1950s. Only fauxnies like Grover Norquist (he married a Muslim!) want to return to the McKinley era. Real men, ball-tanning men, men who embody manly virtues (Tucker Carlson? Josh Hawley?) want to “get medieval on your ass,” America. So much of the reactionary right is fueled by performative, over-the-top, in-your-face rejection of what the rest of us in Well-Adjusted America™ consider normal. MAGAs and incels tune in to shows like this for the rhetorical equivalent of WWE, monster trucks, and nitro-powered funny cars. Anything to get a rise (pun intended). The problem is, as with professional wrestling and Trump rallies, some of the fans take the kayfabe seriously.

During a visit to Chile in 1976, Kissinger met the dictator Augusto Pinochet and offered no objection to his violent rule.

The post How Henry Kissinger Paved the Way for Orlando Letelier’s Assassination appeared first on The Intercept.

Abortion, Jan. 6, and your freedom are on the line Here in our fortress of progressivism, it sometimes seems as if the rest of the country — the left-leaning part, anyway — is oblivious to broader trends at work behind current events. News junkies know, but that’s because we are news junkies. Forward scouts, I tell legislators engaged in trench warfare with authoritarians in the capitol. Movement conservatism propelled the American right from the 1970s through the Reagan years to George W. Bush’s two terms. We might call what followed movement authoritarianism. Anat Shenker-Osorio, host of the podcast Words to Win By and messaging authority, found signs in a recent survey that the public has caught on (Slate): In May, the Research Collaborative, a group that I advise, fielded a 1,400-person survey with Lake Research Partners on the Supreme Court.

Nationalekonomi som vetenskap har världen över förlorat otroligt mycket i prestige och status under senare år. Inte minst på grund av dess oförmåga att analysera och förklara ekonomiska och finansiella kriser och på grund av dess avsaknad av konstruktiva och hållbara förslag på att ta oss ur dessa kriser. Hur återskapar vi förtroendet för nationalekonomin? […]

Kit Klarenberg reveals how much of the hysteria surrounding 'Chinese police stations' in the West is being fueled by a shadowy CIA-linked organization called Safeguard Defenders.

The post False Witnesses and Sinister Plots: Exposing the CIA Connection in the ‘Chinese Police Station’ Narrative appeared first on MintPress News.

With a mendacious former Prime Minister now returning to work for the press which enabled his rise, the moral bankruptcy of the media-political class is complete

Tracey never expected the work she does to be easy, but she did expect to be adequately remunerated for it.   A healthcare assistant at Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral, Tracey does permanent nights on the ward, supporting vulnerable patients suffering severe mental health problems, dementia, Alzheimer’s and alcohol and drug withdrawal symptoms. She’s […]

On this week’s MVC, Rivka and Frank discuss the 1999 sci-fi masterpiece The Matrix.

Boris Johnson's new job at the Daily Mail is the perfect example of how failure is rewarded in British political and media life.

The oil and gas firm’s Colorado refinery is systematically poisoning the air while the company massively expands stock buybacks and dividends.

After a destructive wildfire season in southern California, can eco-therapy help Sindha find inner peace and resilience?

- by Psyche Film

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How seriously is Manchin considering a presidential run?

The post A Conversation With Joe Manchin’s Former Right Hand, Scott Sears appeared first on The Intercept.

By day an insurance official, by night he was an incessant, insomniacal scribe of the space between waking and dreaming

- by Ross Benjamin

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OECD countries are continuing to pour tens of billions of pounds into fossil fuel projects, despite their obligations to switch to clean energy sources

The ‘intelligence’ of an AI system is a different and more potent thing, in some key respects, than human intelligence. Where will this lead us?

Coming out is the definitive queer right of passage. The main event with no closing night. Often seen as a one-off, in reality we’re constantly judging whether to come out based on who’s around, where we are and what’s going on. The right to privacy gives us some choice over this. Outed by data Society […]

Episode 9 for my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Qu’ils mangent de la brioche – Let them Eat Cake. The rally cry of the elites when confronted with the reality that the peasants in France did not have any bread to eat. In this episode we examine modern variants…

The team behind the ‘In-Between Lines’ initiative, which explores the adopted and mixed-race experience, share why it is so important to talk about the complexity of identity