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Fri, 17/10/2025 - 00:00
A lot of people lump all environmental issues under “climate change.” It’s the big bad boogeyman, the easiest to observe, and the first that’s likely to cause catastrophe. This also leads some to think that the problem is relatively easy to deal with. We can simply do aerosol injections into the upper atmosphere, and that […]
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Thu, 16/10/2025 - 23:00

Agatha Christie: “I bet I could murder them and get away with it.”

Ernest Hemingway: “For sale. Two testicles. Never used.”

George R. R. Martin: “Hold on, I’ll tell you later…”

Cormac McCarthy: “The man stands. Jaw slacked and mouth opened black and round like a charred spider’s egg. Posture twisted. Hair claggy with gel and sweat. The man does not carry the fire.”

Ernest Cline: “They probably don’t even know what PO-024 Field Repair E-Frame is; such a poser.”

Mary Shelley: “Definitely not a real goth. SMDH.”

Ralph Ellison: “Oh god, not them again—quick, hide!”

Jack Kerouac: “Even I think this guy is a bit much.”

Maya Angelou: “When they were asking me about my book, I’m pretty sure they were confusing it with We Bought a Zoo.”

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Thu, 16/10/2025 - 17:12


Like millions around the world, I’m relieved the criminal, brutal Israeli rampage in Gaza has stopped. It’s also good to see the end of the captivity of the 20 Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza and of some hundreds of Palestinians held by the Israelis (most of them languishing for months and years without having even being charged of any crime). All this is good and if it must be credited to Donald Trump, so be it.

Having said that, I doubt much more good will come out of Trump’s initiative. There are many reasons to argue this. This headline provides the clearest argument:

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Thu, 16/10/2025 - 11:16

“Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bigoted messages, suggesting they were nothing more than ‘edgy, offensive jokes.’” — Politico

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If you ever needed proof that woke elites are targeting the conservative way of life, well, here it is. Politico, that infamous, Marxist rag, published 2,900 pages of private text messages—all in an attempt to ruin the lives of our youngest eighteen to forty-year-olds.

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Thu, 16/10/2025 - 07:53

Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover cements pro-Israel bias in U.S. corporate media.

The post Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal appeared first on MintPress News.

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Thu, 16/10/2025 - 07:09

This paper proposes reforms to the UK Debt Management Office’s (DMO) financing remit to reduce Exchequer costs without austerity. It argues the current rigid, auction-based system is inefficient and misaligned …

The post Proposals for Reforms to the Debt Management Office’s Financing Remit appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.

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Thu, 16/10/2025 - 04:00

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.