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Progressive Rep. Danny Davis rejected AIPAC cash at the end of his career. Now the Israel lobby is coming for his seat.
The post AIPAC Donors Back Real Estate Tycoon Who Opposed Gaza Ceasefire for Deep-Blue Chicago Seat appeared first on The Intercept.
The US is one big grift these days: the Trump Administration, traditional and social media, corporations, crypto, financial markets are all selling some kind of spurious promise. It’s hard to pick the most egregious example. But for me, it’s hard to go past Tesla. Having lost its dominant position in the electric car market, the […]
On November 20, Israeli nationalist Yoram Hazony sat down for an interview with conservative New...
Power brokers like Larry Summers and Dick Cheney operate without accountability — when they’re exiled, it’s just a matter of time before they come crawling back.
After three decades of creating ruin and disaster across the globe, Larry Summers is finally being pushed from the lofty heights of power and prestige. The proximate cause of his downfall are recently released emails between Summers and suicided arms dealer/sex trafficker/intelligence asset/money launderer Jeffrey Epstein. The emails show the married, middle-aged Summers going to […]
An FBI procurement document requests information about AI surveillance on drones, raising concerns about a crackdown on free speech.
The post The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition appeared first on The Intercept.
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Big government or small? Physics doesn’t care. Why the economy is an electric motor, and why “balancing the books” is the wrong way to drive.
Over the river and through the woods,
To Grandmother’s house we go;
At the airport on time, which is good cause the lines
Are moving super slow.
Over the river and through the screens
Then stuck at security
I’ve been patted down and thrown to the ground
Due to my lithium battery.
Over the river and through the woods
I’m looking around for food
Everything sucks and costs twenty bucks,
Guess I’ll just slam some booze.
Over the river at Hudson News
Flipping through the magazines
The book that I bought is a bit overwrought
With a dearth of good sex scenes.
Over the river, now on the tarmac
To Grandmother’s house we wait
The flight is delayed, our nerves are all frayed
As we taxi around the gate.
Over the river and very hungry now
The food cart scuttles past.
How incredibly rude that the smell of food
Only wafts in from first class.
Over the river and through the woods
My family’s in four different rows
My seatmate smells vile, and he puked in the aisle
Then I watched him clip his toes.
Test your knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein, Wall Street’s takeover of youth sports, and other developments that really matter.
“DHS apparently is trying to expose an individual’s identity in order to chill criticism of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.”
The post Wyden Blasts Kristi Noem for Abusing Subpoena Power to Unmask ICE Watcher appeared first on The Intercept.
A new campaign shows how Britain partnering with Europe on clean energy could cut bills and protect the planet
A quarterly column, steady as ever.
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Books read:
Love’s Labour: How We Break and Make the Bonds of Love—Stephen Grosz
Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire—Juliet Rosenfeld
The Light Years—Elizabeth Jane Howard
Books bought:
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews, 1999–2010—Geoff Dyer
Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair—Christian Wiman
Uncle Willy and Other Stories—William Faulkner
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV—Emily Nussbaum
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It’s Epigraph City out there. Just about every nonfiction book I have started over the last couple of months begins with at least one of the little bastards, often two. Love’s Labour by Stephen Grosz goes with a Rilke and an Iris Murdoch:
Sharmine Narwani joins Mnar Adley to unpack Saudi Arabia’s rejection of US and Israeli pressure, Israel’s escalating regional attacks, and Yemen’s growing role in the resistance axis.
The post Saudi Arabia just said NO to Israel & the US | Sharmine Narwani appeared first on MintPress News.
Reform UK's former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo
What the governments of the Global North don’t care about, they don’t measure. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st November 2025 I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the world’s indifference. I already knew […]
He was a young man fleeing a war-torn country, desperate to reach his family in Sheffield. Along the way, he lost his phone and could not contact them. Days later, they received the devastating news: he had died while trying to escape armed men. Weak, hungry and exhausted, he collapsed at the water’s edge in […]
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that infiltrated European politics, reports Peter Jukes
Dear colleagues,
I just wanted to reach out and let you know that I’m officially done saying sorry. As a woman, I feel the flippant use and misuse of this word gives away my power, if that makes any sense. If you have any free time this week or next, or even in the next couple of weeks, feel free to read the rest of this email to understand further. If not, no worries at all—I’m sure you’re extremely busy this time of year.
My near-addiction to apologizing has been around as long as I can remember. Trigger warning: My dad wasn’t very emotionally present during my childhood, if it’s okay for me to bring that up. Not to make this whole thing about me, but seeking his approval has caused a lot of people-pleasing, codependent tendencies to manifest in the way I communicate. I’ve obviously gotten over most of them, but this “sorry” habit will be the last one to go.
I feel like I just talked forever. I would love to hear about your stuff, too, if you ever want to chat about anything. I’m here for you whenever you need me, just let me know.
Shortly after I moved to Manchester in 2007, I invited my friend Aaron — a Californian — to stay at my place for a couple of days. Within a few hours of his arrival, Aaron had been offered several narcotics, downed a pint or four in Dry Bar, and stumbled out of a city centre […]
In the sensory and communal modes of healing that people have used throughout history, there is guidance for today
- by Mariem El-Kady
The professor, author, and longtime commentator on the economy and Democrats under Trump.
The post Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era appeared first on The Intercept.