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Under President Trump’s bold leadership, his administration is ushering in a new era of financial transparency in government. I’ve long wondered where my tax dollars are going but haven’t bothered to do the five minutes of research it would take to learn that all that information is already meticulously documented and tracked in numerous publicly available reports and websites.

Trump has taken decisive, possibly illegal action to fund a billionaire and his tech bro protégés to uncover information that is already available for free to anyone who wants to see it at any time. Now, information about nearly every dollar the government spends will be publicly available to every American citizen, as it has been for decades.

Idag presenterades LO:s årliga rapport om inkomstskillnader i vårt land — Makteliten: i raketfart från verkligheten. Den visar att näringslivets direktörslöner fortsätter att dra ifrån rejält och idag ligger på en historiskt hög nivå. Den genomsnittliga inkomsten för vd:arna vid de 50 största svenska företagen motsvarade år 2023 mer än 70 industriarbetarlöner. Men för vår […]

The Gaza ceasefire (if you can even call it that) is already in grave peril. Hamas has announced that it will be postponing the release of any more Israeli hostages in response to repeated ceasefire violations by Israel and consistent failure to meet its terms of the agreement. The IDF has been routinely killing Palestinians Continue reading »

Peter Dutton says he wants to increase government efficiency, but beyond wanting to cut public service numbers, he won’t tell us how until after the election. We all want government to be more efficient – to deliver higher quality government services and enforce well-designed and targeted regulations at the lowest cost. But mindless, ideological cutting Continue reading »

The ABC’s Andrew  Greene has found an Australian link to Chinese AI platform DeepSeek, a Chinese national who holds post-graduate degrees from Monash University and the University of Adelaide. No surprise, ASPI is lurking in the background of the sinister allegations against an Australian educated PhD, while that researcher, Dr. Zizheng Pan, is hiding in Continue reading »

The depth of Australia’s slide into an irrelevant and untrustworthy minnow on the global stage was demonstrated when distinguished UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese described the Australian prime minister’s refusal to criticise Donald Trump’s plan to turn Gaza into a neo-colonial capitalist venture for the benefit of his family and friends, as “pathetic”. Her justifiable Continue reading »

Never has there been a greater need for Australia to turn away from its military alliance with the United States and forge an independent and peaceful foreign policy. This would necessarily mean an alternative self-reliant defence policy and the forging of friendly and mutually beneficial relations with the fraternity of non-aligned/neutral nations. Even before the Continue reading »

Editorial from the March 2025 print edition of Byline Times

The low regard in which the Global West is held is intensifying. The second Trump administration is not the cause of this. It is simply accelerating this ominous process by openly embracing a lawless, imperial contempt for primary international and metropolitan governance rules, norms and conventions in response to the persistent retreat of American global Continue reading »

In assessing which Trump appointment is more dangerous, Russell Vought freshly confirmed to helm the Office of Management and Budget is a contender for the worst. Vought wrote one of the chapters from Project 2025 (an “authoritarian incubator”), but his other revelations expand on the threat. As director of the OMB, Vought has “total control Continue reading »

Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has publicly claimed eight times that the Catholic Church practises “zero tolerance” towards child sexual abuse by clergy. At worst, this is simply untrue, and at best, like Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland, he makes the expression mean whatever he wants it to mean. The term “zero Continue reading »

A document written by the chief justice may complicate the DOJ’s new push to get the high court to bless the president’s firings.

Gunfire, airstrikes, and blocked food supplies—Israel has broken the Gaza ceasefire 270 times.

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Ladies, are you ready for your man to commit to you with the same diligence and enthusiasm he pours into his intermittent fasting regimen? Then optimize your relationship this Valentine’s Day with the only Huberman-approved date-night guide.

This list has something for everybody—long-term lovers, a new fling, and sunscreen-truthers alike.

Morning coffee date.
Why wait till dark to get the romantic juices flowing? Gaze deep into your lover’s eyes as he gazes over your shoulder at the low-angle morning sun. The photons flooding his retinas may help regulate his circadian rhythm. But if the conversation is optimized, you’ll be up all night long.

Kitchen kisses.
Your enzymes won’t have trouble breaking down the macronutrients in those seed-oil-free turkey meatballs. But your sister might need a minute to digest that “I think he might be the one” voice note.

Given her recent confirmation as Director of National Intelligence, MintPress is republishing this investigation by Alan Macleod to shed light on the ideological journey that has led Gabbard to the helm the America's most powerful intelligence apparatus.

The post From Anti-War Progressive to Pro-Drone Militarist: Tulsi Gabbard’s Odd Political Trajectory appeared first on MintPress News.

In bad times — and these are bad times — I call up the spirit of Willie. Willie has seen me through cancer, divorce, and deaths in the family. His memory has given me the courage and strength to push on when I wanted to give up and hide. Willie reminds me that, even at 87, I can take it, get back up, survive, sometimes even win. Willie was my bully. When I was 12, he beat me up or at least threatened to do so almost every day. Trump is my bully now. Even though I share the misery he spreads with millions of others, it somehow seems personal because he makes me feel so vulnerable, so hopeless, so... Read more

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My love, you have been my faithful partner in watching shows on streaming services.

Every day, I fall more in love with joining you to watch these programs, from the entire twenty-eighth season of The Bachelorette to a couple of episodes from the first season of Baskets, which I agree was very silly, to a single, intriguing episode of Paranormal Lockdown. (I’m so glad you found a program that you like!)

Now, in front of my Kleenex box and the stuffed French bulldog you gave me last year for my birthday, I promise to watch each and every episode of Freaks and Geeks with you and only you.

With this remote, which I’m holding for now but, of course, can pass back and forth between us, I promise to cue up episodes of Freaks and Geeks only when we are together after we have finished a hearty pasta salad and are ready to sit and digest. I know we can finish this entire program using our combined, unwavering Hulu-viewing strength.

The British people have been lied to and manipulated for years. It's time we learnt the whole truth, writes whistleblower Sergei Cristo

Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue

- by Aeon Video

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When political regimes fail us, don’t turn to optimism. It’s disappointment that holds the radical potential for change

- by Rafael Holmberg

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For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination

- by Danny Robb

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Danny Walker, Dong Lou, Gabor Pinter and Semih Üslü Government bond yields tend to drift higher in the days before monetary policy or data news in the UK. Over the past two decades this tendency – which we label ‘pre-news drift’ – has pushed up on yields by 2 percentage points in total over that … Continue reading Why do government bond yields drift when news is on its way? →

And lo, there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of hair.

Trump’s human garbage, of course. A bully, probably a rapist, suffering from some sort of mental disability, incoherent and mean.

And those are his good points.

Trump’s destroying the remains of America’s empire. He’s probably accelerating America’s decline, though there’s a possibility he might slow certain aspects of it, if others (like the EU) let him.

But most of what Trump is doing is creating opportunity. Let’s take the cuts to science funding: they’re going to leave a lot of scientists out of work.