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Ashley just had a baby: She’s sitting on the couch in a relative’s apartment in Clarksdale, Miss., wearing camo-print leggings and fiddling with the plastic hospital bracelets still on her wrists. It’s August and pushing 90 degrees, which means the brown patterned curtains are drawn, the air conditioner is on high, and the room feels like a hiding place. Peanut, the baby boy she delivered two days earlier, is asleep in a car seat at her feet, dressed in a little blue outfit. Ashley is surrounded by family, but nobody is smiling. One relative silently eats lunch in the kitchen, her two siblings stare glumly at their phones, and her mother, Regina, watches from across the room. Ashley was discharged from the hospital only hours ago, but there are no baby presents or toys in the room, no visible diapers or ointments or bottles. Almost nobody knows that Peanut exists, because almost nobody knew that Ashley was pregnant. She is 13 years old. Soon she’ll start seventh grade. It’s a nightmare: In the fall of 2022, Ashley was raped by a stranger in the yard outside her home, her mother says.
That’s a fellow from The God Liars. Lol. “Our little snowflake”
He would say he’s the first I posted that a while back. But apparently it isn’t actually landing well with some evangelicals. Imagine that … Since the video was posted, it has been widely shared, racked up millions of views and drawn a lot of attention. But much of that attention has been negative, particularly among Iowa’s pastors, some of whom said they were shocked and offended by the content. “It was very concerning,” said Pastor Joseph Brown of the Marion Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, Iowa, a town of 7,500 people about 40 minutes south of Iowa City. He took issue, he said, with how it used language plucked from the Bible — such as describing Mr. Trump’s arms as “strong” yet “gentle” — to compare Mr. Trump directly to God, rather than a servant of a higher power. “The original sin of Satan or Lucifer is not that he wanted to take over God’s position but that he wanted to be like God. There is only one god, and it’s not Trump or any other man,” said Mr. Brown, who voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and 2020 but says he will not this year.
I know everything feels like shit right now. It’s the dead of winter, Trump is still spewing his garbage and millions of people seem to love it, and we’re looking at another nail biter of an election. But don’t despair. There are some things to hang on to. Like that astonishing number. Why anyone would think that’s a problem, I don’t know. He IS going to be the nominee unless he keels over. They will have to make that choice. Again.
South Africa has presented an overwhelming brief to the international Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocidal motivation and demanding immediate cessation of such activity. The decision of the court will soon be known, but the opinion of millions, probably billons of the worlds citizens is known. Israel has crossed an uncrossable line. A community Continue reading »
“How many more records does it take before we phase out fossil fuels and deal with it?” asked one climate campaigner. European scientists officially confirmed Tuesday that 2023 was the hottest year on record, surpassing 2016 by a huge margin as greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels continue to drive global temperatures to terrifying new highs. The conclusion Continue reading »
Shai Wenkert is the father of 22-year-old Omer Wenkert, who has colitis and is being held hostage by Hamas. Colitis is an accursed chronic disease which can be aggravated under stressful conditions and in the absence of medication and appropriate nutrition. It causes much suffering to people who have it. Omer’s father has been sounding Continue reading »
2023 saw a disturbing rise in support for extreme right-wing parties across several European countries. With a series of major elections in large and significant countries due in 2024, including the USA and Russia, it will be interesting to see whether parties in the established democracies respond effectively to the rise of the ultra-right, and Continue reading »
For many young military recruits, it is a shock to learn that a religious minister is their first port of call beyond the chain of command if they are having any issues at recruit school. Although many Australians never have anything to do with pastors or priests in their real lives, the Australian Defence Force Continue reading »
As Australia approaches that time in January again, we see the unedifying picture of Peter Dutton’s team driving his post-referendum Base into a flag-waving orgy of aggrieved patriotism. Similarly in the USA, compulsory patriotism is part of the Atlas Network’s plan to control the future of America through directing the next administration. One of the Continue reading »
Henry George (1839 – 1897) was a remarkable, self-taught radical American political-economist who developed a theory of land taxation, which evolved to become, in essence, a programme for applying a single, substantial annual tax on all land – but not on improvements to the land such as buildings – while abolishing all other taxes. George Continue reading »
Terrorism is a global problem, we could talk all day and night about whether a terrorist is a freedom fighter, an oppressed person struggling for recognition or a cold-blooded murderer but whatever the reasons, everyone must agree; innocent people deserve protection from terrorists. China had a terrorism problem and acted – in doing so, they Continue reading »
The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness. Israel’s escalating violence has killed more than twenty thousand Palestinians to date, wiping out entire generations of families. Horrifying images and testimonies from Palestine have flooded all forms of media, stirring a deep sense of anguish Continue reading »
In case you were wondering if there was anyone whose endorsement Trump would not eagerly embrace, think again
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For-profit means not for you Please indulge this local story. It’s not as local as it first seems. Ever since for-profit HCA Healthcare Inc. bought our local nonprofit hospital system in 2019, patient and staff complaints about understaffing have soared. Hundreds of veteran doctors and nurses have resigned. N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein, Democratic candidate for governor in 2024, has faced repeated questions from locals for approving the deal. Stein had limited authority to halt the $1.5 billion sale, his office says, so long as legal I’s were dotted and T’s were crossed. Stein, however, negotiated additional concessions in the purchase agreement and has has since sued HCA for failing to live up to its standards for patient care. Asheville Watchdog, an online investigative site staffed by “retired” local reporters (some, Pulitzer winners), has leaned into the story: Mission Hospital risks losing Medicare and Medicaid funding because of deficiencies in care that were so severe, state inspectors concluded last month, that they “posed immediate jeopardy to patients’ health and safety,” Asheville Watchdog has learned.
. Most mainstream economists want to explain social phenomena, structures and patterns, based on the assumption that the agents are acting in an optimizing — rational — way to satisfy given, stable and well-defined goals. The procedure is analytical. The whole is broken down into its constituent parts to be able to explain (reduce) the […]
Following The Lever’s reporting, the companies behind a recent airliner accident could be facing a reckoning.
Making it into an art form “When you want to take their books away, they’re children. When you want them to work, they’re adults,” said r/LateStageCapitalism (A One-Stop-Shop for Evidence of our Social, Moral and Ideological Rot) on reddit in reference to a proposed Florida bill. Actually, the two statements dovetail. Royalists want their lessers to serve the economy and not know enough to question it. In the name of freedom, they want to take yours. If you missed my post earlier this week on the nationwide Republican/corporate effort to roll back child labor laws, find it here.
The cruel and evil cannot be shamed.
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The push to oust Liz Magill began when the university hosted a festival celebrating Palestinian literature.
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In our society, large companies wield a considerable amount of power, more inequalities spread within our systems, and lobbying pervades our democracy: how is it possible that capitalism is dying as you claim? My claim is that capitalism is being killed by a new form of highly toxic, highly concentrated capital (which I call cloud […]
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