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Aleksandra Herbich is one of twenty-four defendants in the Filton 24 case — a group of activists, most linked to Palestine Action, arrested after a direct-action protest at the Elbit Systems weapons factory in Filton, near Bristol, in August 2024. Elbit is Israel’s largest private arms firm, and its UK sites have been the focus […]

Wes Streeting's multi-billion pound reforms are failing to deliver the improvements he promised, a report by MPs has found

I've gotten exhausted with the ways that convenience culture has shifted what we find acceptable when it comes to waste.

Washington is making big claims to make the case for U.S. intervention. We’ve heard all these arguments before.

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Australia’s most popular racist bigot, Pauline Hanson, has reached out to Australia’s most popular drunk adulterer, Barnaby Joyce, to come over to her place and enjoy a fresh batch of prison wine that Pauline knocked up in her toilet. ”Barnaby... Read More ›

International media outlets and even an actual teenager slammed attorney and media personality Megyn Kelly...

Two of the biggest players in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal explore the latest revelations — and the bombshells yet to come.

New York state is holding Ticketmaster’s feet to the fire after a Lever report exposed the company’s updated mass arbitration policy.

Summers said he’s “ashamed” of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and would step back from public life. This time it should be for good.

The post Don’t Let Larry Summers Back Into Polite Society appeared first on The Intercept.

ExxonMobil is proposing a new plan to vote on behalf of its absentee investors, in a novel attempt to silence shareholder dissent.

The revelation raises questions over whether the UK applied safeguards designed to prevent information from 600 RAF intelligence flights being used to harm civilians in Gaza

In inference to the best explanation, we start with a body of (purported) data or evidence and seek out hypotheses that can account for it. To have the best explanation means that you, given the context-dependent background assumptions, have a satisfactory account that explains the evidence better than any other competing explanation — and so […]

Elevated from Comments. Piece by KT Chong China is now entering the next phase of its economic-growth engine — humanoid robots. And just like with EVs, the shift is happening fast, quietly, and with the same pattern: Chinese companies industrialize before Western analysts even realize it’s begun. UBTech, Unitree, XPeng — they’ve all started mass-producing […]

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ME: Bluetooth, are you connected to something right now?

BLUETOOTH: Yes! All connections made.

ME: What’s connected?

BLUETOOTH: Let me do a system check.

WIFE (from kitchen): IS THAT PORNOGRAPHY? WHY IS THE BEATS PILL MOANING?

BLUETOOTH: Systems check complete. Status: stable!

ME: Bluetooth, can you please connect the phone to the car and call my mom?

BLUETOOTH: Yes! Here you go.

ME: Bluetooth, it sounds muffled.

BLUETOOTH: Ringing now!

ME: Bluetooth, it’s ringing in the other car. You hooked it up to the wrong car.

BLUETOOTH: I’ll tell your mother to yell louder.

ME: No, the other car is with my wife, at work. Move it to this car.

BLUETOOTH: Can’t do that.

2 July 2025 David Howell’s thesis: The new anarchy is digital, not ideological. The microchip and information revolution have changed human relations everywhere, uprooted family ties, life patterns, local communities, world affairs. Microcircuit technology has compelled the need for a new type of democracy, a new pattern of world power, otherwise a slide to domestic … Continue reading Speech on the Book Launch of David Howell’s The Coming Anarchy and How to Avoid It

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, delivered this year’s Nelson Mandela lecture to an electrified audience of 3,500 people in Johannesburg. Her words cut through the polite rituals of diplomacy and liberal self-congratulation that usually accompany such events. She spoke plainly about the violence that underwrites the liberal world […]

Private equity-owned Black Bear Sports Group is buying up youth hockey — and icing out parents who want to record their kids’ games.

A few weeks ago, I sat in my local A&E waiting room nursing suspected broken ribs. It was a Tuesday night, and on arrival I was met with a scene of chaos: a packed, tense waiting room, with more than a hundred patients ahead of me, and a seven-hour waiting time projected to worsen as […]

This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan but who over the years of working here has increasingly began to understand the language and local cultural traditions. Friday – tea break – where else? Friday’s weather was again…

I’ll keep this mercifully short. One commenter in my Friday night econ news post asked, in a kind of oblique way, what would I do in this environment. Okay, I’ll play — but not without stating firmly and loudly that I am not dispensing investment advice, nor am I licensed any longer to do so. […]

Andrew Johnson claimed to an alleged child molestation victim that Trump’s pardon entitled him to multimillion-dollar reparations.

The post Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say appeared first on The Intercept.