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“Fixing Medicaid”

“Deficit reduction”

“Fiscal responsibility”

“Wealth redistribution (direction undisclosed)”

“Cutting waste, fraud, abuse (and some health insurance)”

“A big, beautiful social welfare cut”

“Classic Reaganism”

“Undoing Biden’s budget mess”

“Operation Keep the President from Saying Mean Things About Us on Social Media”

“Tightening Medicaid”

“Not cutting Medicaid”

“Boosting emergency rooms with more business”

“Enforcing work requirements”

“Bipartisanship (we’ve considered Mitch McConnell a Democrat ever since he voted against Pete Hegseth)”

“Cutting entitlements like spending for entitled people. Who likes entitled people?”

“Prioritizing the border”

“Slashing spending across the budget”

“Blame Grok (it wrote the bill)”

“The opposite of Obamacare”

In their budget bill, Republicans prohibited Medicaid funding for all “gender-transition procedures” for adults and minors.

The post Republicans Launch Midnight Attack on Health Care Access for Trans Americans appeared first on The Intercept.

Australia’s latest favourite laughingstock, the National party, have updated their relationship status to ”it’s complicated” after their on again, off again relationship with the Liberal party appears to be maybe on again. ”Look, it’s complicated, we do still love the... Read More ›

A poll sent to Omar’s district tested the waters on a Democratic candidate backed by “a right-wing, pro-Israel group that is funded by Trump-supporting billionaires.”

The post Is AIPAC Coming After Ilhan Omar? appeared first on The Intercept.

In late 2008, Dr Peter Harbour, a retired physicist, found out that he’d been listed by the police as a ‘domestic extremist’. Harbour had recently been involved in a campaign to save an Oxford lake. Energy company RWE npower wanted to use the lake for fly ash disposal. The Save Radley Lakes group marched and […]

‘The world as we knew it has gone’, declaimed Keir Starmer in The Telegraph in early April, with all the acuity of someone who, having slept through an earthquake, wakes up amid the ruins. But though he recognised the redundancy of ‘old assumptions’, his register granted to the new world a familiarity — a hint of […]

Eighty years ago, the British Labour Party shocked the world. To the horror of the privileged classes, the socialists seized power in a landslide election victory. Britain had chosen to dump its wartime leader Winston Churchill for a government that promised to change society for the benefit of the many, not the few. It was to […]

I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.’ While Donald Trump often reached for sleepy metaphors to make hay of his opponent’s incognition, the question of whether Joe Biden was really awake in the dwindling days of his presidency is surely […]

The state is back, and it’s building guns. With the Trump administration railing against European ‘freeloading’ on US military spending, European politicians have announced plans to spend billions on rearmament. The US economy has taken a beating as the tech bubble has burst and Trump’s tariffs have raised the spectre of slower growth and higher […]

Last year, a TV listing in The Guardian described the glossy Second World War drama series Masters of the Air as ‘an addition to the Band of Brothers universe’. Intentionally or not, the phrase was oddly penetrating. Masters of the Air is instantly recognisable as the product of a franchise, one taking place in a […]

The warning lights have gone from amber to red. The far right is rapidly gaining ground in mainstream politics and in social movements across Europe. The response in Britain? The Labour right and the political centre have run out of ideas — their sole prescription yet more austerity. Across the Atlantic, a failed real-estate developer and […]

In the crisis-ridden autumn of 1936, the communist poet and critic Edgell Rickword wrote an editorial for the magazine Left Review: The sincerity of our protests at fascist brutalities can only be measured by the strength of our efforts to secure the right of the colonial peoples to govern themselves. And, as practical people, let […]

On 25 and 26 June 1955, the Congress of the People was held in Kliptown, South Africa. Proposed two years previously by Z. K. Matthews, a prominent academic, it was organised by the National Action Council. This later became known as the Congress Alliance — a coalition consisting of the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress […]

When 19-year-old Sara Ginaite escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania during the winter of 1943, she had one clear objective. With the recent arrival of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the ghetto, it had become clear that its remaining Jews would soon be sent to their deaths. Attempts by Jews in Kaunas to link up […]

Though the cruelties of Buchenwald concentration camp left 22-year-old Jean Berthet with memory problems that were to dog him throughout his ninety-three years of life, it affirmed his humane values just as profoundly. Born in colonial Vietnam into a French mercantile family, the infant Jean was taught to adore the ‘civilisation’ exported by the French […]

‘You want to go ask people what’s going on, don’t you?’ a character says to another in Izumi Suzuki’s 1982 story ‘Hey, It’s a Love Psychedelic!’, as time spins out of joint. ‘There’s no point. You can’t go around telling people the world isn’t what it’s supposed to be. Nobody’s gonna listen.’ A decade and […]

It was all the fault of Scandinavian social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sweden became a global centre for music piracy largely through a perfect storm of universal and high quality broadband, well-funded music education, and assertive personal privacy laws. Something had to be done. Record industry CEOs talked about the Nordic […]

Think of all the best parties you’ve ever been to, jumbled together and winding into one long night. Imagine running through that dreamed-up congregation hour by hour. What did it smell like? What did it feel like? Who made it possible? What, if anything, made it political? Do this, and you might have something like […]

It was in a less-than-glamorous lecture hall at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1982 that the First National Black Art Convention took place. In attendance were art students and teachers, including Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, and Lubaina Himid, who would go on to become the darlings of the British art world. One of the first to speak […]

Many guests at Trump’s meme coin dinner have something to gain. Others are anonymous. Here’s what we know about attendees.

The post Who’s on the Guest List for Trump’s Meme Coin Dinner? appeared first on The Intercept.

I feel like I’ve now know Jim Groom long enough to proudly say we go way back—back to when blog streets felt like home and the open web was everyone’s sandbox. So when he invited me—er…I kind of forced my way on and he graciously obliged—on On Writing, his new podcast series, I jumped at […]

1 box frozen raspberries (10 ounces)Juice of 1 large lemon1 tablespoon gelatine4 tablespoons milk4 tablespoons sugar (optional)2 egg yolks1 cup heavy cream1 cup crushed iceRaspberriesKirsch Defrost raspberries in a bowl with lemon juice. Drain ⅔ cup of the raspberry juices into a saucepan (or if dry pack raspberries have been used, add 4 tablespoons to […]

Der Ruf als stabilisierende Wirtschaftsmacht, den die USA in der Welt genossen, hat unter Trump ebenfalls erheblich gelitten. Das Anzweifeln des Klimawandels und die nachlassende Unterstützung internationaler Institutionen wie IWF und Weltbank tragen weiter dazu bei, das der Glaube an Amerikas Engagement für die globale Zusammenarbeit schwindet. Der schwedische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Lars Pålsson Syll sieht die […]

The tech industry is boldly asking the White House for favors — including provisions which ended up in Republicans’ budget bill.

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