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We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface

- by James Dinneen

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U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.

The post We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media appeared first on The Intercept.

A legal disciplinary panel won’t disclose any details about its inquiry into John Sarcone, a Trump loyalist in New York.

The post A Trump U.S. Attorney’s Professional Misconduct Must Be Kept “Private and Confidential” appeared first on The Intercept.

The controversial event and the NYPD’s response to resulting protests present a test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The post Israeli Real Estate Expo Advertising West Bank Settlements Returns to NYC appeared first on The Intercept.

“Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of ‘viewpoint diversity,’ according to two people familiar with the initiative.”
— The Harvard Crimson

On behalf of the university, I’m pleased to announce our earnest and long-overdue commitment to diversifying our faculty. No, not the reckoning we broadcast to great fanfare in 2020, which we have repudiated in exchange for federal funding. No, I refer instead to “viewpoint” diversity.

For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education. Many ideas that enjoy enormous popularity among billionaires—cryogenic immortality, disregard for punctuation, the Antichrist—have scandalously been excluded from our labs and classrooms.

“The bottles bear the imprint of the Kentucky distillery Woodford Reserve, and are engraved with the words KASH PATEL FBI DIRECTOR, as well as a rendering of an FBI shield. Surrounding the shield is a band of text featuring Patel’s director title and his favored spelling of his first name: Ka$h. An eagle holds the shield in its talons, along with the number 9, presumably a reference to Patel’s place in the history of FBI directors.” — The Atlantic

Crack the seal on this uniquely squat bottle and, right away, the Woodford Reserve Director Ka$h Patel Kash Patel FBI Director signature bourbon opens with notes of cherry, a secondary zest of orange peel, and lingering funk of insurrection on the nose. It’s heady and strong, eager to prove its worth.

In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison

- by Aeon Video

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For years I watched people through cameras and screens, filling in the blanks and calling it truth

- by Tyler Thier

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The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress

- by Niklas Serning & Nina Lyon

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