How South Asian rappers are honoring the diaspora—and hip hop’s roots.
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The country’s wealthiest earners stand to benefit the most as Trump slashes the IRS’ workforce and auditing power.
For the third installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole, New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout and AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO President Sara Nelson discuss what successful opposition looks like today. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
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There can be no "third way" to tackling the existential threat of man made climate change, argues Russell Warfield
If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That’s me, of course!) You need some distraction. Have you noticed lately how few sports stories are making their way to the top of the news beams? That’s because sports — once upon a time our most reliable source of outrage, speculation, cultish behavior, and lessons in domination, smackdown intimidation, and faux masculinity — has been replaced by a remarkable series of presidential half-time... Read more
NYU Law reversed course on its demand that students renounce protests to take finals — but they are still banned from most school buildings.
The post NYU Law About-Face: Students Can Take Exams Without Swearing Off Protests appeared first on The Intercept.
Check out the newest images for BBC and Disney+'s Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who S02E05: "The Story and The Engine."
“Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed eliminating federal agencies that support arts, humanities and learning.” — The Guardian
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been sweating bullets the last few years, just terrified that the National Endowment for the Arts would receive a sensible amount of funding. It was like watching a slow-motion train wreck of watercolors, ballet shoes, and interpretive dance. Whenever I saw a local poetry slam or a subsidized community theater production of Hamlet, I thought, “This has gone too far.”
Yemen’s missile strike on Israel’s main airport and declaration of an aerial blockade mark a turning point in the regional war—challenging Tel Aviv militarily, economically, and even online and redefining resistance in the 21st century.
The post Yemen Hits Ben Gurion, Declares Blockade, Redefines 21st Century Resistance appeared first on MintPress News.
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Just in time for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meeting with Donald Trump in Washington, the U.S. Census Bureau has released year-end 2024 data on America’s bilateral trade flows in goods and services. This data reconfirms that the U.S trade deficit is neither new, nor an “emergency” (as Trump has claimed in order to invoke special emergency powers to set tariffs). [...]
Två av den svenska jazzens giganter — Nils Landgren och Jan Lundgren — höll konsert igår kväll på Palladium i Malmö. Bättre än så här blir det inte.
Starmer had pledged to end the “outrageous way government departments refuse freedom of information requests”.
The Trump administration appears concerned that it would be hypocritical to criticise governments abroad for doing things which it would like to do in the US, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
Over the last few weeks, the Marketplace Initiative has been mapping assumptions, surfacing motivations, and exploring real-world expectations for a Drupal Site Template Marketplace. The initial rounds of feedback were designed to surface motivations, beliefs, unknowns, and frame what success might mean. That work has helped ground the initiative in shared purpose and direction.
Now we’re starting the work of transforming those broad ambitions into working models of value, governance, trust, and experience. We're beginning to sketch what the Marketplace does, how it creates and protects value, and what contributors and users can expect from it.
Why a Drupal Site Template Marketplace?
Across survey feedback, community prompts, and RTC themes, several consistent value propositions have emerged — answering the question: Why build a Drupal site template Marketplace?
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What does it mean to truly decommodify housing? Can the home be a place that not only meets our most basic needs, but a site of our own flourishing and wider societal transformation? Feeling at Home by Alva Gotby interrogates the politics of homes, asking us to grapple with practical questions about the capitalist and […]
“President Trump issued an executive order late Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors to ‘cease federal funding for NPR and PBS,’ the nation’s primary public broadcasters, claiming ideological bias.” — NPR
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EXT. SESAME STREET
A group of children stand in the middle of Sesame Street. There are no cars because owning a car is a crime punishable by death. The children take turns injecting each other with puberty blockers—the only activity children are allowed to do in this fifteen-minute city. Big Bird enters wearing assless chaps. The children see Big Bird and run over, excitedly. Big Bird lights ten cigarettes in his beak and hands one to each child.
BIG BIRD: Remember, kids, there is no God. There is only the crushing weight of existence.