Diana Dajer on community, technology, and the radical work of democratic care.
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Last year, utilities executives were showered with millions in compensation and luxury accommodations.
The closer to home, the better
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Housing First refers to the provision of deeply subsidized permanent housing, combined with social work support, to a person who has experienced long-term homelessness. It’s often claimed that this approach literally saves money. But is that claim valid? I break it down here: https://nickfalvo.ca/does-housing-first-literally-save-money/
Despite labeling the arrests of 27 individuals as part of an “Iran-linked terror threat”, UAE authorities have not brought terrorism charges — raising concerns that, in the context of the Iran war, the crackdown on dissent is targeting Shia communities under the guise of security.
The post UAE Launches Muslim Shia Crackdown Under Cover of “Iran-Linked Terror” Claims appeared first on MintPress News.
The biggest battle against corruption is unfolding inside a little-noticed case weaponizing Citizens United’s own precedents.
How about an ice cream cone with a dirt chaser?
The post Why These Monkeys Are Eating Fistfuls of Dirt appeared first on Nautilus.
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of 'solar zealots' and Josiah Mortimer is enthusiastically along for the ride
Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust
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Being adopted often comes with a complex mix of feelings. Therapists who are adoptees themselves have advice to share
- by Leah Sutterlin
For more than 20 years, economists were enthralled by so-called “rational expectations” models … That such models prevailed bears testimony to a triumph of ideology over science … Good science recognises its limitations, but the prophets of rational expectations have usually shown no such modesty. Joseph Stiglitz The rational expectations hypothesis presupposes — basically for […]
An Invention of Collective Nouns A reckoning of spreadsheets.A distraction of smartphones.A prattle of podcasts.A mispronunciation of scones. A clique of photographers.A heard of precedents.An enjambment ofpoets. A grope of presidents. A pile of haemorrhoids.A bunion of personal trainers.A bout of estimations.A condescension of mansplainers. A stroke of geniuses.A spot of adolescents.An embarrassment of Richards.A…
Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnational far-right political network
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April 22nd, 2026: Beats me why some dudes make mistakes. As Western leaders claim to “liberate” Iranian women, millions are taking to the streets to defend their country — directly challenging long-standing orientalist narratives that portray them as passive victims in need of saving, explains Iranian professor Dr. Setareh Sadeqi. The post Interview: Bombs in the Name of “Liberation”: Iranian Women Lead Resistance to U.S.-Israeli War appeared first on MintPress News. Are they remnants of primordial Earth or extraterrestrial in origin? The post The Mystery of the Giant Blobs at the Center of the Earth appeared first on Nautilus. Celebrating the scientific and technical contributions of Rome on the mythical birthday of the eternal city The post Rome Was Built Today appeared first on Nautilus. The total solar eclipse in 2024 hushed the Earth by striking awe in the humans in its path The post The Peace That an Eclipse Brings appeared first on Nautilus. The neoliberal era, which is dying but not yet dead, has been extremely tiresome for anyone with an IQ higher than a tomato, and even a scintilla of intellectual honesty. Witness the current German chancellor, Merz, intent on doubling down on the same policies which have failed to work for generations: “With 450 million consumers, […]
The little robotic chemist that could The post Mars Curiosity Rover Makes a Big Find on the Red Planet appeared first on Nautilus. ingredients:1 teaspoon saltpeter2 Tablespoons sugar2 handfuls mixed parsley and chervil2 Tablespoons salt10- to – 12-pound goose, washed and singed20 juniper berries4 bay leaves1 sprig thyme or ½ teaspoon dried10 clovesnutmega few calf’s bones3 onions½ celery root instructions: 1. Mix the saltpeter, sugar, and a handful of the chopped chervil and parsley, and a tablespoon of […]
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