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The Democracy Minister said scrapping the system, introduced by Boris Johnson's Government is "not on the table"

Whenever you open Instagram or TikTok, you’ve probably seen Mark Wahlberg jumping in an ice bath at 4 a.m. or squeezing in a third set of bicep curls in the dead of night. What you don’t see is us coaching him behind the camera, because we are Mark Wahlberg’s phalanx of personal trainers, and we are pretty much just fucking with him at this point.

Messing with Mark Wahlberg is easy and fun because Mark Wahlberg will do anything we tell him to.

“Jump into this dumpster filled with rocks and soy sauce,” we say.

“It will make me strong?” Mark Wahlberg looks up at us with wide eyes and a wet nose.

“Yes, Mark Wahlberg,” we chuckle. “Soy sauce is made of salt. Salt makes you powerful.”

“Slow down,” Mark Wahlberg screams. “Facts make the top of my body hurt! They make the top of my body hurt so bad!”

18th of March 2025 My Lords, last Thursday, the noble Lord, Lord Howell, asked the House to take note of the UK’s international position. My purpose today is narrower but more urgent; to ask the Government what their Ukraine policy now is. It is urgent because the Trump Administration have torn up the familiar script. … Continue reading Lord Skidelsky to ask His Majesty’s Government what is their policy with regard to the Ukraine war following the new policy of the government of the United States of America.

Studies of young children give us insight into the building blocks of an ability that most of us use every day

- by Josephine Ross & Martin Doherty

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When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics

- by Rebekah Wallace

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When the powerful punish the principled, we glimpse the unmasked face of empire. Donald Trump’s vindictive executive order denying aid to South Africa — punishment for its support of Palestine and pursuit of land reform — offers precisely such a moment of clarity.  The contours of our new global struggle are now etched with brutal […]

The post Stand with South Africa against Trump’s wrath – Globe&Mail op-ed appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

The DEA ignored the internal alarm about its mass phone data collection program, according to newly revealed details in a government report.

The post DEA Insiders Warned About Legality of Phone Tracking Program. Their Concerns Were Kept Secret. appeared first on The Intercept.

Vad det förflutna lär oss är att människan gång på gång ställs inför beslut som är avgörande för framtiden. Genom dessa ställningstaganden sker inriktningen av vårt samhällsbygge. Grunden till vårt välfärdssamhälle har lagts av många människors tålmodiga arbete. I det forna Egypten byggde man pyramiderna. Vi har byggt ett samhälle som — visserligen med  kvarstående […]

Understanding deposits, reserves, and capital reveals some uncomfortable truths

This is an important and fundamentally correct critique of the core methodology of economics: individualistic; analytical; ahistorical; asocial; and apolitical. What economics understands is important. What it ignores is, alas, equally important. As Skidelsky, famous as the biographer of Keynes, notes, “to maintain that market competition is a self-sufficient ordering principle is wrong. Markets are […]

I would like to create a room. A room for when I feel heavy. When I must sit down and be restored. Yes, the food and all that, all that nonsense. Of course there is food, and there’s a glass of wine. But there is company. Good company cannot be bought; it can only be […]

The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change

“Wombat grabber” is now the greatest Australian insult. To grab a wombat — look there’s just no coming back from that."

As media campaigning ramps up for the forthcoming election, Peter Dutton avoids the question of his polling while Media Watch reveals the Liberal Party connections of Freya Leach and Juice Media produces a satirical clip on majority government. On global tensions, Professor Keyu Jin from the London School of Economics speaks about China and the Continue reading »

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“Foreign goods may get a little more expensive, but American goods are going to get cheaper; and you’re going to be helping Americans by buying American.”
— US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick

Americans, it’s time to rejoice. We know that you have been forced to adopt a new lifestyle, one without eggs, cars, or winter coats. But who needs physical warmth when you can bask in the radiant glow of your unwavering patriotism? Your sacrifices today will make your countrymen wealthy tomorrow. Isn’t that the real American dream?

For too long, the greedy foreign businesses of this world have exploited honest American buyers by flooding our markets with functional and affordable goods. They’ve tricked us into thinking that we can have money for things like kitchen appliances, fashionable clothing, and avocados. No, Mexico, we do not want guac on that.

What a superpower sense tells us about evolutionary creativity

The post When the Animals Went Electric appeared first on Nautilus.

Trump’s bid for regime change in Yemen should be anathema to both America Firsters and Democrats, but will anyone speak out?

The post Trump Reasserts U.S. as the World’s Policeman With Massive Yemen Escalation appeared first on The Intercept.

The Albanese Government is considering responding to the Trump administration’s tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium by placing a tariff on the Kardashian family. ”We were initially against retaliatory tariffs as the consumer is the one who pays the price,”... Read More ›

An Update Regarding the 2025 Open Source Initiative Elections

I've explained in other posts that I ran for the 2025 Open Source Initative Board of Directors in the “Affiliate” district.