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3:45 a.m. – Wake naturally to the soft sigh of a ghost. Or maybe it’s the hum of the Amherst wind through the shutters. Either way, it’s a Sign. Do not question the Sign.

4:00 a.m. – Lie completely still and compose six hauntingly perfect quatrains in your mind. Refuse to scribble them down. Let them ferment in the silence like forbidden knowledge.

4:45 a.m. – Tape mouth shut. This is not for health. It’s a vow of silence to preserve the sanctity of unspoken verse.

5:00 a.m. – Dwell in possibility while donning a flawless white gown. Consider briefly wearing a beige one, then laugh inwardly. This mortal coil is no place for earth tones.

5:30 a.m. – Place a single drop of rosewater on your forehead. It’s not skincare; it’s communion with eternity.

6:00 a.m. – Practice 1,872 quill strokes. Each stroke corresponds to a previously unpublished poem. Resist the urge to show anyone. Genius is a private affair.

Going beyond their critique of the infamous Signal chat, progressives demanded to know the White House’s legal justification for its Yemen strikes.

The post Progressives Push to Assert Congress Power Over Yemen War appeared first on The Intercept.

An investigative report has placed Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa at the center of a vast conspiracy to transform his government into a laundromat for transnational drug cartels. The Grayzone spoke to Andres Duran, the journalist who broke the bombshell story, and who had to go into exile to save his own life. Ecuador teeters on the edge of a narco abyss, awash in violence, and with its dollarized economy and strategic ports transformed into a cocaine highway through Guayaquil to […]

The post VIDEO: Bombshell investigation exposes Ecuadorian president’s cartel conspiracy first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post VIDEO: Bombshell investigation exposes Ecuadorian president’s cartel conspiracy appeared first on The Grayzone.

1. Florida Intranational University

2. Johns Hopkins School of Remunerative Medicine

3. Facebook.edu/DeVry

4. Colorado School of Mines—Nuuk

5. Michigan State Online: East Lansing Cohort Cohabitation program brought to you by Airbnb

6. UMass MasterClass

7. Amazon Prime Learning School of Fulfillment Center Sciences (formerly Washington State University)

8. Yale School of (Agentic AI) Management

9. Palm Beach State College Institute for the Study of Climate Change as It Relates to Golf Course Profitability

10. MIT Air Traffic Control School for Geniuses

11. Cascadia Regional Wellness Farm A&M

12. Penn State School of International but No Longer Our Affairs

13. Nestlé-Glaceau Institute for Public Fluoridation Research

14. Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory: A Subsidiary of SpaceX

15. The University of Texas Football Team, LLC

16. Georgetown Weaponized Law School

17. The Wharton School of Using the R-Word in Business Again

18. UCLA Pre-Overseas-Doctoral Program

The U.S. moved toward tariffs that protected U.S. workers, industry, and the environment, says one expert. Trump is undoing it all.

The post What Could Progressive Tariffs Actually Look Like? appeared first on The Intercept.

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While waiting for the EU’s response to the Trump Shock (don’t hold your breath for evidence of intelligent life from Brussels…), those of you who really want to worry about something big, turn your attentions to perhaps the largest threat for the status quo – greater than tariffs, equities, bond prices etc. What is that? […]

The post Forget shares, bonds and tariffs. Here is what you should really worry about appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

This is a crucial conversation to have in general, not particularly about Marine Le Pen. It is about the principled position that the democratic Left must take on the question of who has the right to remove the political rights (the right to vote and to seek votes) of whom. We know what can happen […]

The post Should Le Pen be barred? What is the Left’s right answer on this conundrum? appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.