As the Trump administration freezes billions of federal funds earmarked for public schools, a startling number of parents say they can’t afford back-to-school shopping this year.
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The Pentagon says 20,000 federal troops have deployed to support ICE across the country. The real number may be markedly higher.
The post The Pentagon Won’t Track Troops Deployed on U.S. Soil. So We Will. appeared first on The Intercept.
You don’t own your name, much less any pronouns.
Investors are staking an aggressive claim in the dental industry, to the detriment of patients.
“President Donald Trump’s NASA budget plans look to cut its public relations funding by half, but already the agency is shuttering social media accounts that include those dedicated to popular missions, including Mars Curiosity, Mars Perseverance, and Voyager.” – Phys.org
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You might have heard that my new NASA handlers decided I need a cleanse from all my social media. A #DigitalDetox. I’d tell you to stay out of my business, but I’m literally a probe, so… I get it. But don’t worry about me: I’ve just been looping Jimmy Carter speeches and majestic whale sounds on my Golden Record while thanking my lucky stars I’m over fifteen billion miles away from you bozos.
Because, at a time like this, with all the apocalyptic undertones back on our home planet, who wants to be reminded of little ol’ me, right? I’m just humanity’s greatest achievement to date.
- by Mitch Woolery
Gang databases are often racially biased and riddled with errors. States and cities send their flawed information to immigration authorities.
The post State Cops Quietly Tag Thousands as Gang Members — and Feed Their Names to ICE appeared first on The Intercept.
Research suggests that people who express their gratitude more effusively are judged as lower status and less influential
- by Christian Jarrett
For the men and boys of the Dom community in Varanasi, sacred cremations demand a lifetime of exhausting, dangerous labour
- by Radhika Iyengar
I Sverige år 2025 låter vi friskolekoncerner med ofta undermålig verksamhet få plocka ut skyhöga vinster – vinster tagna av vår skattefinansierade skolpeng. Tyvärr är denna misshushållning med våra skattemedel ingalunda något nytt och det har under senare år föga förvånande också kommit en jämn ström av krav på ökad kontroll, tuffare granskning och inspektioner. […]
Why do I always watch my birds?I know that statement sounds absurdbut today I reached an all-lime toewhen I received a blushing crow. It’s wetting gorse – and here’s the crunch:my conversation packs a lunch.I’m not sure when all this beganbut I think I need a plaster man to help me when my stouth gets muck.I…
Alternative media platforms cannot thrive in a vacuum and policy reforms will not succeed without grassroots pressure, argues Tom Hardy
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The New York Times recently published a letter from me responding to a guest essay (op-ed) by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears, with whom I’ve been engaging on the question of pro-natalism. As a colleague who had such a letter published a few years ago observed, this will probably get more readers than any journal […]
"This compromise will not fully satisfy anyone. But I am firmly convinced that it allows us to take New Caledonia out of the spiral of violence, uncertainties, and destruction."
It was early before the woman had taken her morning Starbucks. The line at the Pop Mart in Key West was already long and winding. The people in it had gone days without using a working toilet. Forgoing personal hygiene for the opportunity to purchase this ugly doll would be worth it.
They lived in darkness. A new Labubu would be their light.
Many had already paid their way into many Labubus. Some attached them to their purses like Rihanna. Others wore them loyally on hats. Still others hung them from belt buckle loops like keys to their fading youth.
The woman knew she must obtain this monster doll with bunny ears. She would not be one of the Labubu have-nots. She could not be defeated by the people looking to buy in bulk and resell them on eBay. So she set a series of timers in her bedroom to awaken her at the moment of the next scheduled drop. In case that failed, she constructed an elaborate pulley system. The moment the Pop Mart app sent a notification of a restocked store, it would drop a bucket of whiskey on her face. Usually, this was at midnight on Fridays. As good a time as any to drink.
As the UK Government extends the vote to 16 and 17 year olds, MPs warn that many young people believe politics is no longer offering anything for their lives
The Liberal party’s interim leader, Sussan Ley, has started off her term as leader by offering an olive branch to Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, to kiss and make up. However, the gesture has been eroded over an unfortunate choice of... Read More ›
The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The post Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making. appeared first on The Intercept.
I’ll keep this one brief. Almost no food or water has gone into Gaza for months. What I’m seeing is that it’s hit the crisis point. I’d expect a few hundred thousand more people to die in the next two to three months. The minimum death toll pre-Trump was about 400K as I read it, […]
An unedited, automated transcript of this Lever Time podcast episode.
Matthew Cuthbert was a silent man. He drove a buggy. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a loud, fat woman, watched him drive by.
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Matthew saw an ugly girl with freckles and red hair. The hair was in braids. He said nothing to her. He stuttered as he spoke to the orphanage head. The orphanage head was a woman, and Matthew only spoke to his sister, Marilla, and Mrs. Rachel Lynde, because she was annoying but she was not annoying to him. The girl sat in the buggy with him and talked and talked. She did not tell him her name. He did not ask her name. Matthew did not mind when she talked and she did not annoy him, much like Mrs. Rachel Lynde did not annoy him when she talked, because he was a homosexual.
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“You don’t want me,” Anne stated. “I am not a boy.”
“Go to hell,” Marilla Cuthbert said.
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Anne made a wreath of berries, lilacs, and lead bullets. She wore it to church. There was laughter, and the laughter was at Anne’s expense.
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“Carrots,” the handsome boy called Gilbert Blythe said. “Your hair is red, and therefore it is like carrots.”
After raking in billions in profits and spending big on shareholder payouts, major health insurance companies want to significantly raise premiums.