The Conservative Party's new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election
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Pregnant and bleeding? Don’t mess with Texas. Texas’ severe abortion laws notched another preventable death from a pregnancy gone wrong. ProPublica reported the death of Josseli Barnica, 28, in 2021 on Wednesday. She died days after the state’s S.B. 8 “heartbeat bill” took effect. Bloomberg Opinion asked: “Texas’ Abortion Ban Killed Josseli Barnica. Who Will Be Next?” Nevaeh Crain, it seems. On Friday, ProPublica told the story of her tragic death in MAGAstan after the Dobbs decision in June 2022 triggered an effective abortion ban in Texas. Crain was an early victim: Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby shower, the 18-year-old had gone to two different emergency rooms within 12 hours, returning home each time worse than before. The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps.
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Ferdia Lennon’s novel Glorious Exploits brings to life an episode from the Peloponnesian War, when seven thousand Athenian soldiers were captured and crowded into a quarry outside Syracuse after a failed attack on the city. As Fintan O’Toole suggests in his review in our November 7, 2024, issue, the book “makes us feel like its story is […]
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• Sedan 2020, då det här decenniet av allt större klyftor inleddes, har världens fem rikaste män mer än fördubblat sina förmögenheter medan nästan fem miljarder människor har fått se sina tillgångar minska. • Om de fem rikaste männen skulle göra av med varsin miljon USD om dagen skulle det ta 476 år att spendera […]
Automatic airfare refunds finally take off, the Feds slap a big fine on Apple Card, Lyft must stop lying, and tribes tackle orphaned wells.
Former Doctor Who showrunner and still uberfan Steven Moffat discusses the ways the series has created safe scares for children for decades.
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
Rachel Reeves’ first budget as Chancellor has put to bed the debate on whether Starmer’s government will attempt to return to austerity. Reeves was adamant that her budget meant austerity was over — and with government borrowing set to increase by more than £50 billion this financial year, it is hard to argue with that […]
Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte says she’d oppose new abortion restrictions in New Hampshire — but she hasn’t disavowed her previous anti-abortion stances.
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I know it’s the day after Halloween but it’s still pumpkin season: They did the mash! The elephant family stomped and snacked on over 1,200 lbs of pumpkins this morning during our Squishing of the Squash!
Kamala Harris speaks the truth: Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris warned voters on Thursday that Republican Donald Trump and his allies would scale back healthcare programs if he wins the White House and said his comments at a Wednesday rally were offensive to women. In a brief press conference, Vice President Harris reminded voters that former President Trump had tried unsuccessfully to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, during his 2017-2021 presidency. Now he says this: He said he wouldn’t cut Social security but presented a budget that cut it every single year he was president. And they still plan to do it: If they get the chance they’re going to repeal it, don’t ever think otherwise. It’s their holy grail.
our obsession with jobs might trap us – everything could look like healthcare, still using fax machines when email and text exists.
“sorry I know this is possible via AI but we have our manual spreadsheet guy, following regulation 1284”
Leaving aside the word “AI”, because it’s not clear how expansive the use case for current AI really is, there’s a point here and it’s an important one.
He’s exactly right about our obsession with jobs, but I’d state it a different way:
If you are thinking of not voting for Harris over the Gaza issue, I understand the impulse. But it’s a mistake. Bernie Sanders explains why: AOC says: And then there’s this: Nuff said.
ITV deployed a series of editing techniques to remove all imagery of a watermelon — a long-standing icon of Palestinian solidarity.
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Progressive Americans opposed to Israel’s U.S.-funded war in Gaza face a difficult choice: whether or not to vote for Harris.
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I know that some of you don’t listen to podcasts and I’d guess that most of you have never listened to Joe Rogan, the man who runs the most popular podcast in the world (making hundreds of millions of dollars at it.) Trump appeared on his show last week and it’s been dowloaded 35 million times. Anyway, here’s a taste of the kind of thing this superstar is selling to his massive audience: He is very stupid and he makes everyone who listens to him stupid. A case in point: his interview with JD Vance who is not as stupid as Rogan but knows the audience will believe anything: During a prolonged discussion about the environment, Vance asserted that he “didn’t have a strong view about what the carbon footprint ultimately does,” appearing to waffle about whether human-caused climate change exists. “It’s interesting that the environmental movement in America, the only thing that it talks about is the carbon footprint, and it never talks about . . . why do we have the highest rates of obesity in the world right now,” Vance said.