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“Will Chamberlain, a conservative lawyer who worked on Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign, posted on X that Harris ‘shouldn’t be President’ because she doesn’t have biological children; ‘becoming a step-parent to older teenagers doesn’t count,’ he said." —New York Times, 07/23/2024

1. Integrating into a structure with a history that began way before you ever came on the scene.

2. Finding the balance between respecting time-honored traditions, and having the courage to create new ones.

3. Winning over the members of the house whose objections can be loud, and sometimes downright offensive.

4. Attending a lot of sporting events.

5. Pretending to like them all.

6. Adapting to your new digs, which still contain a lot of memorabilia from former occupants, such as questionable Christmas decorations, and family portraits featuring the “First Lady.”

Higher education is perhaps Britain’s last truly world-leading sector. In many towns, not least those ravaged by deindustrialisation, universities function as social anchors, generating tens of thousands of jobs and reams of secondary economic activity. It is bitterly ironic, then, that successive governments have decided to expose the higher education sector — an unparalleled public […]

Även vår politiska miljö har börjat degenerera till ett ovärdigt spektakel. Från falukorvsviftande till helikopterpresskonferenser och trollarméer är vi på väg mot ett scenario där jippo och gyckel alltmer ersätter substans och innehåll, där viljan att regera trumfar samhällsbygget. Anti-intellektualismen är utbredd i vårt land. Skepsis mot experter och forskare blir allt vanligare … Vi […]

Maybe misogyny doesn’t sell? Greg Sargent’s Daily Blast: In recent days, Donald Trump and MAGA media figures have ramped up the attacks on Kamala Harris’s laugh, her personality, and her temperament. That’s vile stuff, but MAGA’s strategy also suggests an inability to entertain a remarkable possibility: What if Harris’s laugh and energy are actually well suited to this moment in American politics? Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, co-founder of the progressive strategy group Way to Win, has been advising Democrats to respond aggressively to racist and sexist attacks on Harris. We talked to Ancona about whether Harris’s temperament might prove to be kryptonite to MAGA’s negativity and hate. Listen to this episode here. Ancona moderated a panel at Netroots-Baltimore this month: Amplify: Getting Louder to Win in 2024 (video). One finding to note: to get more young people to turn out, younger candidates need to be prominent in our interactions with voters. They need to see younger faces reflected in the Democrats’ 2024 slates. Several of NC’s statewide candidates fit that bill. These three are all roughly 40.

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Four weeks ago today, I was hit by a truck while crossing the street in Healdsburg, CA. I was hospitalized for a week in Santa Rosa with 9 rib fractures, a broken wrist and facial bone fractures. I learned how to walk, shower, dress and care for myself while in excruciating pain. On release, I … Continue reading Health Update →

Gabor Pinter, Emil Siriwardane and Danny Walker In September 2022 the interest rate on UK gilts rose by over 100 basis points in four days. These unprecedent market movements are generally attributed to two key factors: the 23 September announcement of expansionary fiscal policy – the so-called ‘mini-budget’ – which was then amplified by forced … Continue reading What caused the LDI crisis? →

Though her family sometimes received food stamps and occasionally had their utilities cut off, Marcie Alvis Walker’s parents led her to believe that they were an average middle-class Black family. They encouraged her to pursue her dreams and told her that if she worked hard enough, she’d achieve them. The small catch was that Walker’s dream was an elusive one for any cash-strapped and undereducated Black woman: being a New York Times–bestselling author. Now, as a published non-bestselling author, she wishes she’d had a backup plan.

Last night, I wanted to slap a dude’s face off because he tweeted, “Has anyone else given up on The Bear?”

Is our Democrats learning? If you haven’t seen the first Kamala Harris ad that dropped Thursday, here ’tis. Both with the Beyoncé soundtrack and her “fighting for the future” framing, Harris is defining freedom our way while reclaiming it from conservatives who wrap themselves in it while stomping on the freedoms of everyone not in their MAGA tribe. Claiming freedom, that all-American value, is a move on which Anat Shenker-Osorio has insisted for years. It’s finally sinking in. Anand Giridharadas’s The Ink observes: Harris frames the election as the freedom to choose a future — following the advice messaging expert Anat Shenker-Osorio has been talking to us about all year. This isn’t about the narrow notion of freedom that’s gotten currency on the right, the sort of freedom that’s about retreating from public life and obligations, even if it is wrapped in the flag. It’s about coming together to work for a bigger, broader sense of freedom that includes all of us — the idea that the flag actually should stand for.

The Commons has agreed a clamp down on MPs’ lobbying gigs, with further action promised on second jobs 

One hundred-meter breaststroke for computers, one giant leap for mankind.

We at OpenlyBadAI are thrilled to debut our most awesome leap yet in artificial intelligence: the first-ever AI Olympians. If you’ve been on the fence about AI, get ready to have your mind blown watching our AI Olympians sprint, swim, and vault exactly like humans. And the best part is now we can live our lives while these computers get the Olympics over with.

Why AI? Why now? Looking ahead to Paris 2024, we asked ourselves, “How can we improve this once-in-a-lifetime achievement that people all over the globe spend their lives working toward? How can we make this beloved international event about us, AI start-ups?” It’s no secret that the modern Olympic Games aren’t without controversy. We spent months researching everything from billion-dollar construction fiascos to ugly corruption scandals to unthinkable human rights concerns. And we knew what we had to do—replace the athletes.

On Monday 22 July, iNews reported that the Sun and Sunday Times gave last-minute election endorsements to Labour following ‘private assurances’ that Starmer would not implement Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry to investigate criminality and relationships of corruption between the media and the police. While Hacked Off contest the iNews interpretation based on an […]

In a wide-ranging WNYC discussion, The Lever’s David Sirota explores why Dems going populist is the only way to defeat Trump.

Titan Comics is to publish RuneScape comics by Ryan O'Sullivan, Sid Kotian and Daniel Bayliss, with free 200 RuneCoins in October

Venezuela's main electoral body and diplomatic services have been accused of creating unprecedented obstacles to stop people from voting, as polls show the country could be destined for new leadership

Ten trade union general secretaries have written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, calling for the scrapping of the two-child limit on benefits and the ‘immediate reinstatement’ of the seven MPs suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party after voting against the two-child limit on benefits on Tuesday evening. The intervention from trade union leaders reflects the […]

It’s time to cut thru the crap on Gaza death tolls. Here’s a graph of official deaths:

A Californian artist’s luminous sculptures shape temperamental, toxic materials to capture what is just out of reach

- by Psyche Film

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Fifteen years after the 2009 Honduran coup, Zelaya sits down for an exclusive interview with Deconstructed.

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To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed

- by Kelsey Day

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Members of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine made a big impact as the Australian Education Union conference in Melbourne took significant steps in solidarity with Palestine.

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At 59 years of age, the untimely death of Jane McAlevey from skin cancer came as a shock to the many unionists across the world intent on rebuilding rank-and-file power in their unions.

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