Not really. The inmates will be running the asylum no matter what. Today is the second anniversary of the January 6 insurrection. On that day a group of right wing extremists breached the U.S. Capitol, declaring, “this is OUR house.” They ransacked the place and attempted to hunt down Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with the intention of staging a coup d’état. Two years later we are witnessing another group of right wing extremists attempting a takeover. This time, they’re staging an insurrection against their own party by refusing to allow a new speaker to be elected unless their demands are met. And unlike two years ago, they’re going to be successful. Yesterday, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy endured a third straight day of ritual humiliation as his party was unable to get the 218 votes needed to grant him the Speakership after 11 rounds of voting. This is the first time since 1859, on the cusp of the Civil War, that the process has taken this many votes.
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Doctor Who fans worried about Disney impacting the show can keep calm. Russell T. Davies and others have vowed to defend its Britishness.
The pandemic increase in the length of the average workweek has been completely reversed.
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Support services for NHS staff have seen a huge surge in demand in recent months, Byline Times can reveal
I have followed this story closely because I hope many of my enemies go to prison, but I still couldn't tell you what FTX supposedly did.
NEW YORK, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking details about FTX investors' due diligence, according to two sources familiar with the inquiry, as fallout from the crypto firm's collapse spreads.
DOJ examines Trump’s actions Donald Trump likes to use variants of “nobody’s ever seen.” It seems Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team of investigators are gathering evidence against him the likes of which nobody’s ever seen (Bloomberg): Officials in several states confirmed they have complied with an early round of grand jury subpoenas from Smith’s office. One set of material reviewed by Bloomberg from a key battleground in Nevada shows Trump’s 2020 campaign representatives lobbing accusations of fraud and mismanagement at local officials in the days after the election. Attorneys working under Smith are also poring over dozens of interview transcripts from the congressional panel that just wrapped up its own Jan. 6 probe, said people familiar with the investigation, who asked not to be named to discuss information not yet public. That includes testimony from White House aides who said Trump knew he lost the election and at least one Republican official who linked the former president to efforts to seat alternate slates of electors in some states he lost.
Israel’s new extremist government maybe coming under fire now, but it is only a matter of time before it is whitewashed as more proof that Israel can strike a balance between being Jewish and democratic.
The post Why is the West Lamenting the End of ‘Liberal’ Israel? appeared first on MintPress News.
The American Prospect See article on original site Last summer, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a warning from the Senate floor. “Already,” Cruz said, “nine governments across South America, Central America, and the Caribbean are controlled by socialists.” Since then, Gustavo Petro has formed the first left-wing government in the history of […]
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Last year, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, created a Center for Philosophy and Children (see this post). Now the Center has won a $250,000 grant to support its programs. The grant will support the Center for Philosophy and Children’s residential summer philosophy program for high school students. The program includes scholarships for all of the participants that covers tuition, room and board, and transportation. The Center also provides assistance to summer program participants during the school year to help them with the college application process. Besides the summer program, the Center facilitates the Philosophy in Public Schools program, which sends undergraduates, graduate students, and professors into public schools in Western Massachusetts to explore philosophical concepts with children. It also has plans to train school teachers to bring philosophy programs into the classroom. The grant is from the “Knowledge for Freedom” program of the Teagle Foundation. The Center for Philosophy and Children is co-directed by Julia Jorati and Ned Markosian. You can learn more about it here.
Providing clean water is the most basic responsibility of a government. The US government – the richest in the world – can’t do that, which puts this country at the level of a failed state.
The post Uranium Water Contamination in US Far More Prevalent Than Believed appeared first on MintPress News.
Cover artwork and full story details are today revealed for two exciting box sets bringing first drafts of classic Doctor Who TV stories to life on audio, due for release in May and June 2023 by Big Finish Productions. In these Lost Stories audio adaptations, revisiting beloved 1975 Fourth Doctor stories, Tom Baker stars alongside […]
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In a January 2022 post, we first presented the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI), a parsimonious global measure designed to capture supply chain disruptions using a range of indicators. In this post, we review GSCPI readings through December 2022, and then briefly discuss the drivers of recent moves in the index. While supply chain disruptions have significantly diminished over the course of 2022, the reversion of the index toward a normal historical range has paused over the past three months. Our analysis attributes the recent pause largely to the pandemic in China amid an easing of “Zero COVID” policies.
Bit by bit, getting a clearer picture of long Covid.
Two years after January 6, Republicans are still locked in a battle for personal political power.
The post The GOP’s Kevin McCarthy Debacle Is an Insurrection by Other Means appeared first on The Intercept.
On December 22, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot released its...
Massive Snake Found In Disney World (Thanks to pharmaross)
7:27 p.m. A teenager refused to listen to his mother. (Thanks to pharmaross)
Self-driving technology is coming to strollers. (Thanks to GJ)
“The defendant placed the false genitalia in somebody’s drink.” (Thanks to Chris Elzi)
Child poverty backdrops this latest capitalist crisis, in recent years ushering in a damning rise in infant mortality. In adulthood, people are facing shorter lives. These unprecedented changes in the state of public health are unacceptable, and urgent action is needed to reverse them and end the inequalities they represent. One often-overlooked element of public […]
Frenchman claims to have invented a pill that makes flatulence smell like roses Kangaroo flatus mystery solved by biologists (Thanks to Unholy Slacker)
The great Simon Maloy died a few years ago. I didn't know him well IRL, but I did meet him a couple times. His legacy is bigger than one great tweet, but he did have one great tweet. He should have been here for this (and many other things)."matt schlapp" is the sound made by two pork chops falling onto a linoleum floor
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) June 15, 2018
A staffer for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign has alleged to The Daily Beast that longtime Republican activist Matt Schlapp made “sustained and unwanted and unsolicited” sexual contact with him while the staffer was driving Schlapp back from an Atlanta bar this October.