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There’s a lot of pushback on DEI these days, with some major companies ending their DEI programs. This has been tied into the competence crisis, which is bullshit.

Let’s put the idea that there isn’t massive discrimination to rest. There have been many studies. One found that identical resumes from people with black names vs. people with white names had half the interview requests. A meta-study found the effect less overall: 24%.

Now I don’t know if DEI overcomes that, but modern studies don’t find any less of a gap, so I’m guessing “no”, though the effect on promotion may be more significant.

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains

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Psychology studies cast doubt on old assumptions about legal objectivity. Lawyers and laypeople alike should take notice

- by Samu Czabán

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How Pentecostalism’s prosperity gospel replaced Catholic liberation theology in Latin American life

- by Elle Hardy

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After 115 days without food, activist and mathematics professor Laila Soueif speaks about her British-Egyptian son's ongoing detention and her determination to secure his release

Azhar Lal was extradited in 1991 under an agreement meant to prevent him from having his sentence increased to life without parole, which he claims, was never honoured

In his monthly column, John Mitchinson explores the unnatural history of natural rubber

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has embraced the far right and fascist forces in the US and abroad. He even gave a fascist salute in a speech following Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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After the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, Maeve Larkins looks at key questions on the legacy of the 2011 revolution and what his fall means for Syria and the region

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The government is waging a major attack on Treaty principles in Aotearoa-New Zealand, writes Jayden Rivers, but gains for Maori did not come from the Treaty itself

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Erima Dall explains why the working class is still the only force with the power to bring fundamental change—and a world run in the interests of people and planet.

The post What’s so special about the working class? first appeared on Solidarity Online.

The vinyl record signifies a larger world of which the audible dimension of music is only one part.

Press Release -- ACLU.org BROOKLYN, N.Y. — In a long-awaited ruling in United States v. Hasbajrami, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York last night held that warrantless queries — or searches — conducted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act violated the Fourth Amendment. The ruling is the first of its kind, and it follows years of public revelations about how Section 702 has been used by the government to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans, including protesters, members of Congress, and journalists.

A quick overview of some of the most influential elections of last year.

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Have you heard about $Barron? In a whirlwind of speculation and misinformation, a memecoin supposedly linked to Barron Trump, the youngest son of former President Donald Trump, ascended to a staggering $460 million market cap before crashing down by 95%, leaving investors in the lurch. This event serves as a stark reminder of the dangers lurking in the volatile world of meme cryptocurrencies. The Rise of the Fake Barron Token The memecoin, simply dubbed “BARRON,” captured the imagination of the crypto community with its rapid ascent. Within hours of its launch, it had amassed a market capitalization of $460 million, driven by rampant speculation and two misleading posts from CoinTelegraph. These posts suggested, without evidence, that Barron Trump was behind this new digital asset. The allure of being associated with the Trump brand, especially in the politically charged environment of cryptocurrency, was enough to draw investors into a frenzy of buying. The Fall: When Reality Strikes The excitement was short-lived. It quickly came to light that there was no official connection between the BARRON memecoin and the Trump family.

I have been working in Manila this week as part of a ‘knowledge sharing forum’ at the House of Representatives which was termed ‘Pathways to Progress Transforming the Philippine Economy’ that was run by the Congressional Policy and Budget Research Department, attached to the Congress (Government). I am also giving a presentation at De La…

The Trump administration is taking a brute-force approach to push trans people out of public life.

The post Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump hopes to gut birthright citizenship via executive order. In lawsuits filed across the country, immigrants seek to stop him.

The post The Pregnant Immigrants Fighting Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump is too stupid and narcissistic to even vaguely understand or care what this man is up to. But it’s where the real action is going to be taking place. If he gets away with it the federal government will be turned into the corrupt patronage system that the oligarchs have always dreamed of. I wrote this about Vought many months ago: Over the weekend, the Washington Post’s Beth Reinhard published an excellent article about one of Donald Trump’s most visionary advisers, an obscure figure named Russ Vought. He was a boring Republican bureaucrat who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 until Trump left office. He previously served as deputy director and acting director at OMB and prior to his stint in the White House worked at Heritage Action, the activist arm of the Heritage Foundation, where he was budget director for the Republican Study Group in Congress.