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Research released today by The Australia Institute shows that a cotton industry in the Northern Territory would not bring significant employment or tax payments. The findings were submitted to the NT Government’s water policy consultation process, which closed yesterday. Key points: The cotton industry does not create significant employment in Australia. Cotton growing employs just

The post No economic benefit from NT cotton: submission appeared first on The Australia Institute.

Republicans preserved the discharge petition in the new rules package, allowing any bill with 218 votes to come to the floor — even one codifying Roe v. Wade.

The post House Rules Package Gives Democrats a Path to Averting a Debt Ceiling Crisis appeared first on The Intercept.

They’ve been freaking out about this issue all day: M&M’s is launching woke ‘all-female’ packs to celebrate female empowerment and attempt to shake things up in a continued shift toward progressive branding. Mars, M&M’s parent company, debuted the feminist candy wrappers earlier this week, exclusively featuring the company’s three female mascots: green, brown and the newly-introduced purple. The all-female package – upside down, to show how powerful women have ‘flipped the status quo’ – will be the first time the brown and green M&Ms have been featured together since a viral tweet from 2015 sparked rumors they were a lesbian couple.  It isn’t the first time they’ve gotten hysterical over M&Ms. Recall this: Carlson has tackled important issues such as Elmo’s opinions on BLM, and the supposed cancellation of Dr. Seuss, whose books continue to be massively popular. Recently, Carlson was triggered by a redesign of the M&M cartoon characters used to market the candy.

Prince Harry has received criticism after boasting in his memoir of killing Taliban soldiers and describing their deaths in a disturbing manner. read now...

Everyone who carefully follows the news about the economy knows that we are in the middle of the Second Great Depression. On the other hand, those who read less news, but deal with things like jobs, wages, and bills probably think the economy is pretty damn good. We got more evidence on the pretty damn […]

The post The Good and Better News About the Economy appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.

"There's a lot more mileage I need to extract from the issue before I officially reject it"

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I wrote this morning about the Democratic Senate picking up their own gavels to do some investigating and it looks like Senator Warren is already on the case: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is launching a new investigation today into the potential ramifications of the 15-week abortion ban Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced earlier this month — sending letters to five major health care organizations asking how such a law would impact both patients and providers. The letters to the American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association, American Hospital Association, Physicians for Reproductive Health and National Nurses United — first shared with POLITICO — ask whether the proposed restriction would hamper access to “pregnancy care (such as care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies), reproductive care (such as emergency contraception and fertility services), and any other form of health care.” Warren is asking the groups to respond by Sept. 30.

One question for Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University.

The post Should People Live on the Moon? appeared first on Nautilus.

With Joe Biden making a historic visit to Mexico, Washington’s fixation on immigration overshadows everything else.

The post Mexico Arrested El Chapo’s Son Before International Summit: “Was It a Gift to Biden?” appeared first on The Intercept.

Adelaide bus drivers struck on 9 January, picketing depots and bringing most public buses to a standstill.

The post Torrens Transit drivers get on board to win appeared first on Solidarity Online.

The Who Shop opens pre-orders for its striking new and exclusive Fourteenth Doctor poster The next piece of merchandise celebrating David Tennant’s return to Doctor Who and the show’s 60th Anniversary has been revealed. Exclusive to The Who Shop, the new maxi-poster measures a massive 61 x 91.5cm, and depicts the new Fourteenth Doctor in […]

The post Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Poster appeared first on Blogtor Who.

Two years ago we were reeling from a violent insurrection that he instigated, a global pandemic killing 3,000 people a day in the US and the economy had pretty much come to a standstill and of which he exacerbated with his ignorance and incompetence. But sure, those were the good old days. He will be whipping his followers to crash the economy this summer as the debt ceiling comes up and with McCarthy giving him huge props for his role in the Speaker vote debacle, no doubt they’ll listen to him. The only hope will be a handful of Republicans in swing districts working with Democrats to force discharge petitions. Oy vey. Gird yourself.

Once again.

Yet another promise shredded as Starmer maintains 100% weasel record Keir Starmer has broken yet another promise – maintaining his perfect betrayal record – by abandoning his pledge to scrap the hateful and cruel Universal Credit system through which the Tories have inflicted years of misery and poverty on the UK’s lowest earning and most […]

Nothing shines a brighter light on the harmful effects of bad intellectual property law than an ongoing pandemic. CEPR’s researchers continue to advocate for reform of this broken system which causes so much damage here in the US and abroad. This year saw some success from the long campaign to waive COVID vaccine patents for […]

The post CEPR Spotlight: Intellectual Property appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.

An open thread on the insurrection in Brazil. I’d particularly be interested in comments from a Latin American perspective.

An open thread on the insurrection in Brazil. I’d particularly be interested in comments from a Latin American perspective.

A new Twigs and Branches post, open for comments on any topic. Please take long side discussions on other posts here. The usual rules on civil discussion apply.