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The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis, and an accelerating nuclear arms race (and that’s just for starters) — all occurring in a climate of massive mis- and disinformation that makes it ever harder to build a consensus toward solutions to the multiple problems we face. Words can’t fully express our current predicament. We need other tools and other ways of making sense of the situation we now find ourselves in. This should be a time for action and activism on behalf of our species and our planet. While there’s certainly a fair amount of that... Read more
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Saw my interview on CNN, did you? The one in which I said a functioning state is an impediment to the Great Tribulation that precedes the Rapture? You’re probably wondering why every Republican administration is like turning over a rock and finding a bunch of weird bugs hanging out right underneath the foundations of our government.
Allow me, a proud Weird Bug and member of the House Ways and Means Committee, to explain.
This is who I’ve always been. I made the local news in 1993 for accusing my neighbors of performing animal sacrifice in their basement. Then I ran for office and had to clean it up a bit.
At least, I assumed I had to. The thing is, I didn’t know shit when I was first elected. For example, I had no idea you could just say you wanted children to starve. I thought you had to talk about government waste and the national debt and hope your constituents understood that “waste” meant “anything that might accidentally help an immigrant” and the debt was the excuse for getting rid of those things.
Oversight laws about foreign influence were already limited. Now the Trump administration is shredding them.
The post How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar? appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Berislav Marušić
ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.
The post ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Ellie Robson
Around 300 pulp and paper workers at the Opal Paper mill in Maryvale, Victoria have been locked out since mid-January.
The post Locked out paper workers fight pay cuts first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Up to 400 Jews and supporters joined an anti-Zionist Jewish rally outside the Victorian Parliament in solidarity with Palestine.
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“Vice President JD Vance attempted to defend an employee of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency who made racist posts on social media promoting eugenics… ‘Normalize Indian hate,’ one account associated with the employee said.” — Yahoo News
Medieval Catholic theology, as developed by luminaries such as Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, offers us the concept of ordo amoris. We are thereby invited to contemplate a moral hierarchy according to which our love for our families precedes our other commitments.
It is precisely because of my abiding love for my Indian American wife and my Indian American children that I bravely forge a world in which we can normalize Indian hate.
Commenting on all the stupid (like Musk’s antics) is tiring sometimes.
I was trying to figure out what to write today. There are about a dozen possible posts, all of which amount to “Trump or Musk are flinging poo at the wall.”
So let’s forget all the stupid little details and cut to the chase.
America is in irreversible decline. If you think otherwise, you are living in a fantasy world. China will even take the lead in Pharma away from the US, probably no later than 2030. The US military can’t even keep the shipping lanes open and Carrier groups no longer have a full support group.
Social relationships might shape a neurological disorder
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