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If Zohran Mamdani does the inevitable and becomes mayor, and if he avoids deportation for committing the most tell-tale sign of a communist—using your hands to eat chicken over rice—New Yorkers might experience a cultural shift not seen since Jay-Z and Alicia Keys convinced the entire city that it could romanticize rent prices.

We’re talking about a full ideological rebranding of all five boroughs through rent freezing, free childcare, no longer allowing police to use their exceptional skills in racial profiling, and Trump’s ICE having to move to Hoboken to bully frat boys. You’ll be expected to know the difference between halal, Haram, and Hasan Minhaj. Landlords will no longer be able to afford matcha lattes, metro announcements will start with morning prayer rituals, and you will be asked the difference between infants, Fanta, and intifada before being served any spicy food.

The Supreme Court is helping the Trump administration expand its deportation regime — and restrict immigrants’ rights to object for fear of torture.

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Starting later this year, all American women will be required to have a Government-Assigned Life Coach (GALC) in order to maintain US citizenship.

According to America’s top scientists, Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan, women’s independent thinking has been officially declared the number one cause of all bad stuff in the country. To address this national crisis, we’ve developed groundbreaking technology that captures women’s thoughts and feelings and transforms them into brand sponsorships. In exchange for surrendering their inner lives, women will receive the thing they love most: a free tote bag from Target.

Why GALC now?

Women were invented by scientists in 1972 primarily for economic purposes: to purchase beauty products, binge true crime, and fuel the algorithm using bikini selfies captioned with song lyrics about liberation they were never meant to fully experience. For decades, their low self-esteem has been a key driver of the GDP.

By 2012, we had nearly succeeded in turning every woman into a brand.

A civil defense worker, a doctor, a reporter, and a photojournalist tell their harrowing stories of responding to Israel’s war on Gaza.

The post When Israel Attacks Gaza, These People Run to Save Lives appeared first on The Intercept.

Learn how to sketch outdoors from an artist, and the masters who inspire her, in the Museum of Modern Art’s sculpture garden

- Video by The Museum of Modern Art

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Other practices like sermons, yoga and retreats can also trigger ‘spiritual boredom’. Here’s why it’s normal and even useful

- by Thomas Goetz

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Video analysis of reveals how federal agents in Southern California regularly use force against unarmed individuals, many of them U.S. citizens.

The post Documenting ICE Agents’ Brutal Use of Force in LA Immigration Raids appeared first on The Intercept.

Filmmaker Mark Levinson on the kinship between disciplines

The post Art and Science in a Grain of Sand appeared first on Nautilus.

AI helped piece together clay fragments to tell a new story of Babylon

The post A Hymn Lost for a Millennium appeared first on Nautilus.

Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation. On July 2, the Associated Press released an exposé containing short videos which appeared to show American mercenaries associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opening fire on aid-seekers in Gaza during an incident in southern Gaza this May. The footage was […]

The post New footage exposes ragtag US mercenaries firing toward Gaza aid seekers first appeared on The Grayzone.

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“I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation’s governors to discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests taking place nationwide in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman. He was urging the governors to call in the National Guard in response to BLM protests in their states. Otherwise, he threatened he would do so himself. “You have to dominate,” he told them, while labeling the protesters “terrorists.” Otherwise, he claimed, “they are going to run over you.” Later that morning, Trump left the White House... Read more

Source: Lessons UnLearned appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 06, 2025

by Tony Wikrent

Trump not violating any law

‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’