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Former Trump aides get hired by a foreign drugmaker aiming to kill Medicare’s plan to lower the price of U.S.-funded weight-loss meds.

A while ago, ALLEA (the alliance of European science academies) published a statement on ethical problems in collaborations between academia and commercial parties.* With this post, I want to draw attention to this topic (my impression was that it got a bit overshadowed by all the horrible attacks on academic freedom and academic institutions that […]

During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans...

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A revived and expanded Muslim ban is stoking fears that U.S. residents with “hostile attitudes” toward the country will be targeted.

The post Trump’s New Muslim Ban Poised to Sweep Up Immigrants Already in the U.S. appeared first on The Intercept.

The PM's pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is 'downright reckless' and an 'exercise in dangerous delusion', argues Clive Lewis

Motherhood is all about making sacrifices and supporting your children, no matter how outrageous their decisions may be. I’ve learned to accept the fact that my son Lawrence (whose friends rudely refer to him as “Chunk”) wants to be a “Goonie.” But this? THIS? Nothing in Dr. Spock’s many voluminous books could have prepared me for housing a nearly seven-foot-tall, three-hundred-pound slop-eating human wrecking ball known only as “Sloth.”

Look, I get it. Emotions were running high, the kids were all found safe, and they even grabbed enough of One Eyed Willie’s rubies to save our homes from being demolished. We were all overjoyed.

But then Chunk told Sloth in front of everyone, “You’re going to live with me now,” which totally put me on the spot. It’s like when he would ask if one of his little friends could sleep over right in front of them. Only instead of a seventy-pound child for one night, it’s a disfigured linebacker that could rip a normal man in half like a sheet of paper forever.

Toby Young said he hoped it would be the first of 'many' legal collaborations between X and his organisation

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Every day I become more grateful for the election of Donald Trump. All praise. Millions of millions of people have worked to destroy the American empire, and all failed. Donald is succeeding, speeding the process by about a decade, I’d guess.

Likewise I and many others have hated the neoliberal trade order for decades: since the late 80s in my case. It was designed to destroy countries;sovereignty, making it impossible to truly regulate investors, to run industrial policy or even, in rich nations, to keep wages up. As a Canadian, ever since the FTA Canadian manufacturing has proceeded on a slow death march, till instead of selling the US more good than the US sells us, as was historically the norm, we now buy more goods from the US than vice-versa. (The trade surplus is due to energy.)

As the twentieth anniversary of the Glazer family’s tenure as owners of Manchester United approaches, it’s a struggle to see how it could have been any more disastrous. Over £1 billion in debt, dressing room dramas and fan protests every other week, cost-cutting practices from new part-owner Jim Ratcliffe that would make George Osborne blush […]

Open letter argues stronger worker protections boost productivity and create economic stability as Labour MPs challenge Reform UK to clarify position on popular legislation

A glimpse at the lives of preteen influencers Peyton and Lyla in rural Alabama as they switch between performance and reality

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

For me and many others, contemplating death has clarified what matters. These curiosity-based exercises will get you started

- by Joanna Ebenstein

Read at Psyche

Luxury cars, mansions, a superyacht called Convict, and wined-and-dined sheriffs — a legal war is exposing the big business of extracting profits from prisoners.

The voyage of my life could never be described as 'easy', writes Penny Pepper, but it has been built around friendships that brought illumination in the toughest of times

A “POLLIES in the Pub” event in Kempsey featuring controversial Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was cancelled just as it was about to begin on Wednesday, 12 March, following a protest by members of the Dunghutti community. National Party Member for Cowper Pat Conaghan had organised Senator Price’s visit to the West Kempsey Hotel. Promotion of...

The post Jacinta Price’s Kempsey pub visit called off after protest by local Elders appeared first on News Of The Area.

A COFFS Harbour man faces four murder charges after allegedly trying to rob the quartet before their ute left a country road and crashed into a tree, killing all occupants. Alec St Clair, 29, returns to court in May to face the murder allegations, as well as charges of assault with intent to rob while...

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest data today (March 12, 2025) on – Industrial Disputes, Australia – which covers the December-quarter 2024. The data shows that there was a slight decline in the number of industrial disputes over the last 12 months, although the number of working days lost rose significantly (by…

“I expect the Department of Justice to work within the confines of the law,” one House Democrat said.

The post Dems for Some Reason Expect Trump to Follow the Law on Detention of Mahmoud Khalil appeared first on The Intercept.

The making and unmaking of British ‘monetary Keynesianism’

Tuesday 25 March, 1.00pm-2:30 pm, 2025

Room 341, Level 3, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney

Speaker: Dr Sahil Dutta