A network of Swiss security officials and pro-Israel lobbyists worked behind the scenes to orchestrate Abunimah’s arrest and expulsion, raising new concerns about political policing in Europe.
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“It’s not cake!” my wife screamed as the cleaver split the thermostat in our foyer. I pushed past her and sank my chef’s knife into the Ethan Allen sofa we had bought when we moved. Goose down spilled out of the gash. I looked at my wife and grimaced.
“Not cake!” our children screeched as they danced in the floating feathers.
Seven days prior, we had been selected for a new Netflix game show, Is It Cake? Extreme Home Edition. Once we’d signed the paperwork, we spent one night at the La Quinta off the interstate while the producers replaced one item in our home with a perfect replica made of cake. We had to find the cake within seven days in order to win the grand prize of $75,000. Our time would be up at sunset today, and the sun was getting very low in the sky.
“Hurry!” my wife shrieked. “Where is the cake?”
I tried to think. I had sledgehammered the pet memorial markers in the backyard to make sure no cake was hidden inside of them. My wife had crashed her Passat into my parked Honda Pilot to make sure the cars were not cake. After the children had gone to bed on Day 6, I had torn apart our modest collection of sex toys. Still no cake.
With no congressional debate or public mandate, the administration’s decision to target Yemen’s ruling movement raises questions about whether Israeli interests are once again shaping US foreign policy.
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If you’re old enough to remember search before and after Google, you remember how good Google search was at the beginning.
Google used links to rank what to show to searchers. In the old web, before Google, every link was, in essence, an endorsement. We linked to what we thought was good, that other people should read.
It was a pristine “state of nature” system.
But the minute Google became dominant in search, everyone started manipulating links and metadata and everything else to get Google to send them more traffic. Links were no longer organic, no longer endorsements, but attempts to manipulate the algo. The more that was true, the more it became necessary to engage in “search engine optimization”, and the more algorithmic search engines sucked. Of course, Google also self-sabotaged, by trying to optimize search results so that Google would make the most money possible.
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- by Thomas Talhelm & Liuqing Wei
- by Faith Lawrence
Shortly after the Gaza ceasefire deal was signed, I had the pleasure of a conversation with Francesca Albanese, the UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The occasion was MeRA25’s National Convention (Jan 2025) where this video was screened. Enjoy our conversation and, in particular, Francesca’s inimitable capacity to talk like a dispassionate lawyer and, at once, a […]
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