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The overt replacement for the CIA’s foreign political action funding has transitioned back to covert funding, using ‘duty of care’ as a rationale. This article was originally published by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang at All-Source Intelligence. The National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S.-government backed nonprofit designed to influence the domestic politics of countries across the globe, says its efforts are part of a campaign to promote “open and transparent government.” The group, funded by Congress and working in tandem […]

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ABC management have sent out a memo to all staff with an offer for grief counselling to any staff who may need it, should the ABC’s favourite politician, Peter Dutton, lose this weekend’s federal election. ”The relationship between the ABC... Read More ›

“Who are these people who are not seeing that our people are dying?”

This past week has seen a clear, concerted attempt to censor and ultimately deplatform the band Kneecap. In Westminster and the British media, senior political figures have been openly engaged in a campaign to remove Kneecap from the public eye, with veiled threats being made over their scheduled performances at gigs, outdoor events and music […]

In a bid to gut environmental law protecting the nation’s wetlands, Trump’s EPA is relying on a new definition of water.

“Trump, who has argued that China will bear the brunt of his tariffs, acknowledged during a Cabinet meeting on April 30 that the duties may mean fewer—and more expensive—products available for American families. ‘You know, somebody said, “Oh, the shelves are going to be open,” Trump said. ‘Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dolls. And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.’” — MSN

In our pursuit of economic freedom, the Trump administration’s position remains that income caps are essentially anticapitalist and discourage the pursuit of the American Dream, which, in simple terms, is to own more property and possessions than anyone else on the planet.

Imposing caps that punish hard work is un-American. What is American is telling children they can have only a grand total of two dolls—no more—and they will have to work to earn the money to pay for them.

Jonah Hauer-King on joining the Doctor Who universe with "Lucky Day," playing Ruby's new boyfriend, his character's connection with the Doctor, and more.

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Derek Mong writes a poetry that’s part of a growing canon of fatherhood verse. Work made in the light of little children. Geffrey Davis, Benjamin Gucciardi, Niall Campbell, Dan Chelotti, Craig Morgan Teicher, Matthew Dickman—work that springs in part from the root offered decades ago by such books as Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares, or Robert Hass’s “Songs to Survive the Summer.” It’s still surprising enough to see a dad doing full-time parenting work—and to see that unfolding still constitutes a refashioning of what it means to be a man-identifying person. And probably will for quite some time. In Mong’s newest, When the Earth Flies into the Sun, part of what’s at stake is the kind of vulnerability—the sense that a father’s fears are eternal and bottomless:

There’s a music, too, to Mong’s lines, a music that sticks with you. The poet, for instance, imagines his child’s life if he were to die suddenly of the heart condition he’s just discovered he suffers from: