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It seems Big Finish gave "Thasmin" fans what they were hoping for: a kiss between Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor and Mandip Gill's Yaz.

A crypto PAC smeared one progressive backed by Bernie Sanders as a “corporate pawn” and spent millions calling another a tax cheat.

The post Crypto Spends Big in Illinois House Races to Say Consumer Rights Supporters Are Corrupt appeared first on The Intercept.

På en pressträff i fredags meddelade L-ledaren Simona Mohamsson att hon vill ge Sverigedemokraterna ministerposter. Det var en tragisk dag för liberalismen. Men på ett personligt plan gör det också ont att se de personer jag fann liberalismen med, vara de som begraver den. Jag minns hur jag som ny Lufare hörde äldre medlemmar stolt berätta […]

Jürgen Habermas, en av vår tids största filosofer, somnade idag in, 96 år gammal. För oss som växte upp med Frankfurtskolan var Habermas mer än en akademiker. Han var en röst som sa att förnuftet inte behövde överges bara för att det hade missbrukats. Att samtalet mellan människor fortfarande kunde rädda demokratin. När det kändes […]

A helpful intuition for understanding ‘collider bias’ — the spurious correlation induced when one controls for a common effect rather than a common cause — can be found in modern dating behaviour. In a population at large, it is reasonable to assume that attractiveness and personality are independent. Mean people are not necessarily attractive, nor […]

Traditionally, analysts use data on stopped individuals to study bias by computing the difference in violence rates between stopped minority and white civilians, while controlling for observable differences between these two sets of encounters. We term this the “naïve estimator” … However, without further assumptions, this quantity will have no causal interpretation so long as […]

A spacecraft crashes for mankind, lawmakers take gunmakers to court, broadband access gets broader, and a big state buys up bad debt.

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I was supposed to witness Sonny Burton’s execution by nitrogen gas. Instead, I saw him celebrate a stunning commutation.

The post In the Room Where Death Row Prisoners Say Final Goodbyes, He Learned He Would Live appeared first on The Intercept.

Third and last part of an article discussing Imperia, the large concrete statue of a semi-fictional medieval sex worker.  Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here. A Clandestine Erection Imperia went up in April 1993, and I won’t even try to explain the insane backstory.  Short version: some people in Constance wanted a […]

The government won on most of its charges, including convicting defendants for moving a box of radical zines.

The post Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges for Wearing All Black appeared first on The Intercept.

By rallying behind process-based critiques, the Democrats are refusing to stand against the war on moral grounds.

The post Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran appeared first on The Intercept.

Doctors who went to Gaza said Israel’s suspension of travel puts vulnerable patients at risk after years of genocide.

The post Israel’s Deadly Blockade Traps 7 U.S. Doctors in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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Check out the BBC's extended preview for the two newly-found "lost" Doctor Who episodes, "The Nightmare Begins" and "Devil's Planet."

My little horror movie review was introduced to prove a conception of antifa that — like many of the monsters we scream at in horror flicks — isn’t quite real.

The post I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From a Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist. appeared first on The Intercept.

Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies shared his excitement about two lost 1965 episodes being found and available to stream next month.

Cover art for the 1971 prog-rock LP “Fearless,” by British band Family features a distinctive, die-cut cover design depicting the five band members gradually morphing into a single entity combining features of them all. Tom Brigham, a high school student and friend of mine the year the LP was released, had not yet invented morphing […]

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