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War is in the air more than peace these days. This reflects not only the salience of well-known strategic traps, but also the rapid emergence of cloud capital, which is in steering the world into these traps in four distinct ways. ATHENS – The West is on a war footing. The German government is working […]

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For some members of the WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.

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Baby tapir named Ume. Who knew they were so cute? Born last Sunday, Feb. 2, to mom Yuna, little Ume sports the signature white spots and stripes of a newborn tapir, making her look like a tiny, fuzzy watermelon. 🍉 Mom and baby are thriving behind the scenes, and we can’t wait to share more updates soon. pic.twitter.com/T9qH8UabmS — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (@PtDefianceZoo) February 11, 2025 How is it possible that baby Ume keeps getting cuter? This fuzzy little watermelon is just ten days old and had some zoomies while trying to nurse from mom behind the scenes. Watch until the end to see 900-pound Yuna roll over so her playful tapir calf can nurse. Such a good mom! pic.twitter.com/PIN2cWTa9O — Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (@PtDefianceZoo) February 13, 2025 The adorable tapir calf is already mastering the art of wiggling its tiny trunk. 🥰 Baby tapirs use their tiny trunks for sniffing, exploring, and even grasping small objects. Their trunks are an extended upper lip and nose, which helps them sense their surroundings and forage.

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You’ve been boarded Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation. — Anne Applebaum More than a few of us not in federal employ feel the same. People I know have, like the refugees in Casablanca, fled the occupation. Except today it is the U.S. they are fleeing, not fleeing to. Applebaum suggests that whether Musk-Trump’s Project 2025 saboteurs call their goal “Liberation Day,” or replacing all mid-level bureaucrats with MAGA loyalists (RAGE, in Curtis Yarvin’s coinage), or Steve Bannon’s “deconstruction of the administrative state,” regime change from within is the goal although their motivations may differ.

Susan Twist will be back for the second season of BBC, Disney+, and Russell T. Davies's Doctor Who, and RTD had a great response to the news.

Journalist Carl Zimmer tells the story of the science of aerobiology

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This is a Trump voter who works for the US government. Apparently, she didn’t think Trump would actually do what Project 2025 said they planned to do because Dear Leader lied to them and said he had nothing to do with it: We voted for border security. We didn’t vote for my husband to lose his government career and benefits for which he has worked so hard.” “This possibility is looming over countless families right now. We don’t know what our financial future holds. My husband dedicated the better part of his life to this country, first in the military and now working for the government. I have watched as he busted his ass every single day for this job. Our story is like many others, yet they [the Trump Administration] see them as budget line items. We are not a fucking line item. We are real people with families who need to put food on the table just like everyone else. We have done nothing but support this country. To be disregarded and tossed out to save a buck is sickening. I support Trump on many things, but I won’t support him on this.

Among Donald Trump’s innumerable boasts during his presidential campaign was that the Russia-Ukraine war would be halted the day after he was elected. It didn’t happen then, or even right after his inauguration. But three weeks or so later, a ceasefire and a peace deal are both on the horizon. The details of whatever comes Continue reading »

Remember that story from a couple of weeks ago about all the Big Money Boyz celebrating that mainly Trump and the boys were back and they could treat people like shit in the workplace again. They might have to re-think that a little bit in the not too distance future. Their business is still business. Here come the leopards: It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers. Consumer sentiment is down and inflation expectations are rising, driven in part by worries about the impact of a threatened trade war. The deals market just ended its quietest January in a decade. A Justice Department that was expected to wave through acquisitions instead sued to block a big technology merger. Corporate bigwigs are now using phrases like “fragility,” “volatility” and “wait and see” to describe their outlooks. “Nobody knows what’s up,” Nick Pinchuk, chief executive of toolmaker Snap-on, said on a conference call Thursday. “It’s like being on Space Mountain at Disney World.

Why was Jack Posobiec, who has spread baseless Russian propaganda about the country, accompanying a US Treasury delegation visit to Ukraine?

When Harry Met Sally…

“I came here tonight because when you realize you want to ruin the future for everybody, you want the future to start as soon as possible.”

Notting Hill

“Don’t forget—I’m also just an unelected tech billionaire, standing in front of a Treasury Department, asking it to give him sensitive taxpayer data.”

Love Story

“Filling the Supreme Court with conservative justices means never having to say you’re sorry.”

Casablanca

“We’ll always have pulling out of the Paris Agreement.”

Love Actually

“It seems to me that migrants are everywhere. Often, they’re not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but they’re always there. If you look for them, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find some of them, actually, being flown to Guantanamo.”

Titanic

“You jump, I jump out of the UN Human Rights Council.”

How exactly the IRS will use the SuperPod AI hardware is unclear. But it comes amid a push for automation in government.

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They’re continuously talking about “common sense” as they destroy the US Government. They have no sense, common or otherwise.

Sometimes, the death of a friendship can feel like a haunting.

Trump’s nominee for health secretary is leading a crusade on junk food, and the industry is getting ready to fight back.

The two big stories in the news today are the Trump administration saying Ukraine is going to have to give up territory and NATO ambitions in order to secure a peace deal, while Israel appears to retreat from its ceasefire standoff with Hamas. US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the US Continue reading »

Right now, the prospect of much improvement in being able to afford a home of your own isn’t bright. We don’t look like solving the problem any time soon. But I’ve been watching and writing about the steady worsening in housing affordability for the best part of 50 years, and I’m more optimistic today than Continue reading »

An Opening Salvo Five hundred days into a war to achieve death and destruction which at a glance looked like organised slaughter where most casualties were women and children, a carnage is justified by claims that even newborn babies must be terrorists, hence a beyond belief horror movie beamed nightly on television screens. Murder Unlimited Continue reading »

Of all the horrors that emerged from the Nuremberg war trials it was a simple lampshade that was amongst the most confronting and memorable. The systematic murder of six million Jews was simply too large an atrocity to truly comprehend, coming as it did after the mind-numbing numbers of war dead in Russia, Europe and Continue reading »

“If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured — for the very first time in history — that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida.” Robert Fisk, The Independent, 28 August 2013 “I hate that we have leaders who cozy up to Islamist extremists, minimising them to Continue reading »