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In the battleground state of Georgia, Democrats’ decision to disregard the will of 116,000 voters could have major consequences.

The post Atlanta Democrats Blocked the Cop City Referendum — and Alienated a Voter Turnout Operation appeared first on The Intercept.

Here’s the 1986 cover story of Spy Magazine’s first issue: “The 10 Most Embarrassing New Yorkers.” He hasn’t changed a bit in 40 years. * Note that they said way back when that he had the Times in his back pocket…

Once lost in scientific obscurity, bacteriophage therapy is making a comeback.

The post Medicine Is Going Viral appeared first on Nautilus.

On Monday afternoon, the Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling that’s likely to disenfranchise thousands...

The world’s richest man and top Trump supporter profits off the U.S. security state while back-channeling with Putin.

The post Elon Musk Is His Own Rogue Nation appeared first on The Intercept.

IRISH MEATBALLS 1 pound ground beef½ cup instant mashed potatoes¼ cup Irish whiskey1 medium onion, finely chopped1 teaspoon thyme1 teaspoon oregano½ cup milk1 egg1 teaspoon dry mustard1 teaspoon salt½ teaspoon pepper¼ cup finely chopped parsley1 package (3-oz size) chive-flavored cream cheese Mix all ingredients except cream cheese together; refrigerate, covered, 1 hour; preheat oven to […]

I think we can call that “low energy” don’t you?

Through dubious lawsuits, conspiracy theories, and voter intimidation efforts, conservative power player Leonard Leo helped lay the groundwork for distrust and upheaval.

It’s not the Democrats Philip Bump of the Washington Post always travels to Scranton Pennsylvania in the days before the presidential election to check out the Get Out The Vote operations of both parties. His observations are very interesting this year. (gift link) As I did in 2016 and 2020, I traveled to Scranton to see how the campaigns were tackling this task. Both of my prior visits were, at least in retrospect, revealing. In 2016, I was surprised to see little activity for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and a bustling turnout operation for Donald Trump. Four years later, it was Joe Biden — who often speaks of the time he spent in Scranton as a child — who was running an effective operation. Trump’s supporters seemed to be more focused on handing out lawn signs and boisterous parades of trucks. In other words, in 2016 and 2020, the campaigns with the more robust GOTV field operations in Scranton (and presumably across the state) ended up winning. In Scranton in 2024, that was clearly the operation being run by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and its allies.

They can identify pangolin scales, rhino horn, and elephant ivory.

The post Rats in Vests Sniff Out Wildlife Trade appeared first on Nautilus.

Untold gigabytes of virtual ink have been spilled covering the story of the 2024 presidential...

He actually thinks that in a close election you can count all the votes by 9 o’clock on election night. He’s is literally brain damaged. If he didn’t need Artizona and Nevada I wouldn’t be surprised if he declared victory at 9 pm est tomorrow night, long before the polls have closed in the rest of the country. In fact, he may just do it anyway, declaring that he has it won in already in the Blue Wall and Georgia/N Carolina regardless of the count. I wish I believed that his cult would see how ridiculous that is but they won’t. He has nothing to lose by declaring victory immediately because the actual results don’t matter either way. If he wins, he’ll say he should have won bigger and if he loses, well … we know how that goes. This is lunacy.

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How are the works of Ruy Marini, Vania Bambirra and Theotônio dos Santos brought together by Felipe Antunes de Oliveira in Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina to offer a non-Eurocentric theory of “uneven and combined dependency”?

The post Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

Organizers are facilitating protest votes for people in swing states to register their dissent — without handing a victory to Donald Trump.

The post Swing-State Voters Disillusioned With Kamala Harris Can Swap for Two Non-Swing-State Votes appeared first on The Intercept.

Organizers are facilitating protest votes for people in swing states to register their dissent — without handing a victory to Donald Trump.

The post Swing-State Voters Disillusioned With Kamala Harris Can Swap for Two Non-Swing-State Votes appeared first on The Intercept.

Greg Bluestein is a reporter with the Atlanta Journal Constitution. That’s for real. Trump’s rallies are getting more and more pathetic. This is Georgia, one of his alleged stronghold swing states. He’s not doing well. Not well at all. The Huffington Post asked the campaign if he’s ok and this is what they got:

In conversations with two dozen Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan, many said they were voting for Trump or third parties.

The post Arab and Muslim Voters in Michigan: “I Can’t Overlook Genocide” appeared first on The Intercept.

Well, another presidential election is here. Again. It feels like only yesterday that we were waiting in line for hours to cast our ballots, slowly rocking in front of the TV while the Big Map turned bruised colors and stress-eating leftover Halloween chocolate like a dog intent on seeing God.

Don’t worry. Our Founding Fathers had a dream for our great nation. And if we could teleport them to this very moment, they’d look around and say, “Yep, this is exactly what we were going for.”

If John Hancock saw you frantically refreshing the New York Times Election Needle like a lab rat pulling a lever, he’d weep. With joy.

That’s democracy in action, baby.

Election Day is supposed to be the culmination of a beautiful, natural process that starts with George Washington sticking his head through your window and asking, “Can I count on YOU for four shillings?” every day for a year, in increasingly manic tones.

In his wildest fantasies, John Adams hoped that, someday, we would get free stickers and greet each other like our grandmothers are all having open-heart surgery.

Researchers reveal the significant role the Danish firm has played in delivering military goods to Israel, including armored vehicles.

The post Shipping Giant Maersk Violated Spanish Embargo on Sending Military Goods to Israel, Researchers Say appeared first on The Intercept.

Oh, I hope so. I really hope so. Tomorrow is election day, the last day of voting in this tumultuous 2024 campaign. What a long, strange trip it’s been. Just a year ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was challenging former president Trump for the GOP nomination by saying the word “woke” at least a hundred times a day while former S. Carolina Gov Nikki Haley competed for what’s left of the “normie” Republican vote. A clown car full of grifters and kooks, meanwhile, used the primaries as an opportunity to suck up to Trump, whom everyone knew would inevitably be the nominee. After all, he’d been running non-stop since 2015. Meanwhile on the Democratic side, incumbent president Joe Biden was an unchallenged shoo-in for the Democratic nomination and most people felt he’d probably be able to replicate his 2020 win despite being unpopular due to a lingering hangover from the pandemic. After all, Trump had incited an insurrection and was facing lawsuits and felony trials in federal court and two different states stemming from a variety of alleged crimes. Surely, he couldn’t possibly win after all that?