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Low-rating pay-tv channel, Sky News Australia, has been inexplicably chosen to host the first leader’s debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Temu Trump. Station bosses are hoping that the debate will help the station break their all-time... Read More ›

James Stanford’s images depict an Earth and sky fractured by nuclear power

The post The Art of the Atomic appeared first on Nautilus.

How planets gain and lose atmospheres might give us a new map of where to look for life

The post Searching for Alien Life Along the Cosmic Shoreline appeared first on Nautilus.

Residents of Sackets Harbor, New York, protested the detention of a mother and her three school-aged children.

The post Family Detained in Immigration Raid in Tom Homan’s Hometown Is Released appeared first on The Intercept.

Though a bit familiar, Doctor Who S02E01: "The Robot Revolution" is a stronger season opener than season one's: funny, camp, and serious.

The US is still backing Israel over the executions even after a shocking video showed the Israeli was lying about the massacre of rescue workers This article was originally published by Antiwar.com The Trump administration has doubled down on its position that Hamas is to blame for Israeli troops executing 15 Palestinian medical workers in Gaza, even after a video showed that the Israeli military was lying about the incident. The Israeli army initially claimed its forces opened fire on […]

The post Trump White House holds Hamas ‘entirely responsible’ for Israeli execution of Palestinian medics first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Trump White House holds Hamas ‘entirely responsible’ for Israeli execution of Palestinian medics appeared first on The Grayzone.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, because the chemical plant jaundicing the region was ordered by a court to create an alternative, protected footpath for local residents.

Because I could not stop for Death, I paid $1,600 every month to COBRA until I died of measles, about which the doctors—and not the podcast my mom likes—were correct.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, but the nice thing about working from home is that I can make my own schedule.

Let us go then, you and I, and your brother and sister, and maybe your aunt, to the school board meeting, to see if we can preserve the two library books that are not the Bible.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself until my sister tells me I will have to move out or go back on my meds (which I refuse to do, because of Big Pharma and the globalists and one other thing Rogan said that I forget).

“Liberation Day” tariffs have tanked the market and thrown MAGA-land into chaos.

Jared Kushner wants to build a Trump tower in Belgrade, beleaguered Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić needs allies - will the deal be made?

The 'many similarities' between the Trump administration and Putin's autocratic regime

It seems like the highest fruits of civilization are the target:

President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including ones that focus on media, libraries, museums and ending homelessness…

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The president targeted the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which is the parent company of Voice of America (VOA), as well as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency that supports libraries, archives and museums in every state.

I am out of the office today and Friday to solve every existential quandary I’ve been putting off arguably since 2023 when, as far as I can tell, I simply quit thinking.

Hi, I’m out of the office. If you have anything urgent, please get in touch with the fact that there’s probably nobody better suited than me in our organization to handle that matter, and I’m taking a day off to think about love, survival, and time.

I am currently out of the office and changing my entire past and future by Monday. Everyone remembers when I tried this three weeks ago. I will not be piloting a rented boat this time, and expect much less legal fallout.

I will be out of the office today. I’ve been reading a lot of breakup songs. I don’t listen to them, but I google the lyrics and read them, and the one that’s been getting me through these days goes, “And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar (oh). Said, ‘I’m fine,’ but it wasn’t true.” It reminds me of coming back from our Creative Offsite in February. See you guys Monday.

It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd April 2025 The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: […]

What is the highest goal our lives can achieve? Paul Tillich and Mark Van Doren’s insights from the 1950s are illuminating today

- by Aeon Video

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Today’s global problems are caused by broken systems, but the studios still feed us a diet of movies focused on individuals

- by Namir Khaliq

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The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

- by Francesco Perono Cacciafoco

Read at Aeon

Five things you probably didn't know about the crime better known as 'revenge porn'

Last week, the US President honoured his election promise, indeed his long-held commitment, to increase tariffs on imported goods and services to the US. The formula they came up to differentiate between countries was bizarre but I don’t intend commenting on that here, except to say, the imposition of tariffs on the – Heard Island…

With collapsing stock markets, retirement portfolios, and consumer confidence, there is an all-too-human tendency to focus on the economic effects of tariffs by their critics: they are a tax on consumption, they will raise inflation, reduce efficiency, and reduce take-home income, etc. This is familiar. But this mistakes the full significance of a tariff-centric public […]