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Why We’re Paywalling Our Family Christmas Card

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 05:00

Season’s Greetings from the Mortons!

We know many of you look forward to opening your mailbox each December to receive the Morton annual Christmas card and extensive family newsletter. It brings us no good tidings to let you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to paywall it.

As the years have gone by, the letter has grown in scope. When we sent the first Christmas newsletter, we were just a two-person operation in a small home in Middlebury. Now we have to cover nine busy family members across four states. And sometimes Jessica has a boyfriend. It’s a big operation, and Clare had to learn Microsoft XL or whatever it’s called.

Everybody on our list will receive the Morton Christmas Card featuring a candid photo of us down by the lake, wearing matching outfits. And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.

Join the Morton Friend Tier for $17.00 to receive:

l’Établi

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 04:17
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching l’Etabli, the film of Robert Linhart’s book (which I own but have never read). It is an arresting depiction of the brutality of the assembly-line and the racalialised hierarchies at work in the factory. The theme of the film is of a Maoist cadre from an […]

Sudan’s War, UAE Gold Networks, and the Rise of Anti-Imperialist Alliances

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 03:20

Journalist Ahmed Kaballo joins Mnar Adley to examine Sudan’s civil war, UAE’s gold operations, US pressure in Africa, and the rise of the anti-imperialist alliances shaping the continent.

The post Sudan’s War, UAE Gold Networks, and the Rise of Anti-Imperialist Alliances appeared first on MintPress News.

Eurofanatikerna vill köra över folket igen

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/eurofanatikerna-vill-kora-over-folke…
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 02:51
Lars Calmfors har på uppdrag av stiftelsen Fritt Näringsliv lett en utredning om huruvida Sverige borde ansluta sig till euron. I en debattartikel i Dagens industri framför han sina egna argument för ett medlemskap. Hans starkaste argument är att en anslutning till euron skulle öka svensk utrikeshandel med 5–7,5 procent. Det är möjligt att siffran […]

Nobelpris och inflationsbekämpning

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/nobelpris-och-inflationsbekampning/
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 01:51
Nästa onsdag delas Nobelprisen ut vid den årliga prisceremonin i Stockholm. I  veckans avsnitt av Starta pressarna  diskuterar yours truly tillsammans med Daniel Suhonen, Elisabeth Lindberg och Max Jerneck vad för slags teorier årets ‘Nobelpris’ i ekonomi har premierat. Vi försöker också — med utgångspunkt bland annat från Isabella Webers teori om ‘seller’s inflation’ — […]

Too Big To Fail Fails In China

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 01:13
Roughly speaking there are two types of corporations in China. State owned (SOE) and private. During the policy driven real-estate bust, the countries biggest builder, Evergrande, went under. But there was an assumption that the government would bail out real-estate SOEs. Well the largest one, Vanke, is going under, and the central government is going […]

Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 01:03

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A few pieces of creative advice shared by Debbie Harry:

  • You can’t please everyone all the time
  • You can never make a big enough fool of yourself
  • Use the perspective you’ve earned
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As my plans to interview Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie for The Believer first took shape, billboards sprang up, as if on cue, around Manhattan. Sprawled several stories high was Harry’s image, framed in a moody fashion-house ad. A glance up from the sidewalk suddenly felt freighted with the vastness of Blondie’s legend: the art and fashion iconography; the timeless hit songs; and the band’s enduring influence on countless artists, among them No Doubt, Garbage, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Paramore.

Is the Party Over?

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-the-party-over/
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 00:33

Arriving at Your Party’s founding conference in Liverpool last Saturday, the atmosphere was tense. While Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana both insisted that this would be the weekend that put an end to the factional strife that has so far defined the new party, the word on the lips of delegates was ‘witch-hunt.’ With the […]

Casting Notice for the Unaired CW Pilot Young Hamlet

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 00:00

SYNOPSIS
High school is no picnic for anyone, but especially if you’re one of Shakespeare’s most iconic leading men. Hamlet might be the big man on campus, but that doesn’t mean he’s got it all figured out. This drama puts a much-needed spin on a classic by imagining a world where Hamlet is young and hot.

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HAMLET
Sexy football player type, but not just a football player, because we need him to be smart and sensitive too. Lacrosse team, maybe? We’ll come back to this.

Required skills: Smoldering glances, ability to look deep without creating forehead wrinkles.

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OPHELIA
Hamlet’s friend, who has an unrequited crush on Hamlet. It needs to be realistic that Hamlet wouldn’t want to date her, but legally, we can only cast hot people at CW, so we’re kind of in a bind. Maybe she’ll wear glasses? Also, obviously, we’re putting her on the swim team because of foreshadowing.

Physics vs Economics

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Fri, 05/12/2025 - 20:14
Professor [Max] Planck, of Berlin, the famous originator of the Quantum Theory, once remarked to me that in early life he had thought of studying economics, but had found it too difficult! Professor Planck could easily master the whole corpus of mathematical economics in a few days. He did not mean that! But the amalgam […]

A Working-Class Writer Is Something to Be

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/a-working-class-writer-is-something-to-be/
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Fri, 05/12/2025 - 20:01

On a rainy morning in 1954, Sid Chaplin climbed out of the pit and handed Raymond Williams a letter: ‘just ten percent of authors originate from a working-class background,’ it read. The words were familiar, but lacked context. Seeking clarification, Williams presented the letter to Catherine Cookson, who had just appeared on an adjacent ballast […]