• Sedan 2020, då det här decenniet av allt större klyftor inleddes, har världens fem rikaste män mer än fördubblat sina förmögenheter medan nästan fem miljarder människor har fått se sina tillgångar minska. • Om de fem rikaste männen skulle göra av med varsin miljon USD om dagen skulle det ta 476 år att spendera […]
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Automatic airfare refunds finally take off, the Feds slap a big fine on Apple Card, Lyft must stop lying, and tribes tackle orphaned wells.
Former Doctor Who showrunner and still uberfan Steven Moffat discusses the ways the series has created safe scares for children for decades.
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
Rachel Reeves’ first budget as Chancellor has put to bed the debate on whether Starmer’s government will attempt to return to austerity. Reeves was adamant that her budget meant austerity was over — and with government borrowing set to increase by more than £50 billion this financial year, it is hard to argue with that […]
Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte says she’d oppose new abortion restrictions in New Hampshire — but she hasn’t disavowed her previous anti-abortion stances.
The post GOP Candidate Runs From Anti-Abortion Record in Tight Gubernatorial Race appeared first on The Intercept.
I know it’s the day after Halloween but it’s still pumpkin season: They did the mash! The elephant family stomped and snacked on over 1,200 lbs of pumpkins this morning during our Squishing of the Squash!
Kamala Harris speaks the truth: Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris warned voters on Thursday that Republican Donald Trump and his allies would scale back healthcare programs if he wins the White House and said his comments at a Wednesday rally were offensive to women. In a brief press conference, Vice President Harris reminded voters that former President Trump had tried unsuccessfully to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, during his 2017-2021 presidency. Now he says this: He said he wouldn’t cut Social security but presented a budget that cut it every single year he was president. And they still plan to do it: If they get the chance they’re going to repeal it, don’t ever think otherwise. It’s their holy grail.
our obsession with jobs might trap us – everything could look like healthcare, still using fax machines when email and text exists.
“sorry I know this is possible via AI but we have our manual spreadsheet guy, following regulation 1284”
Leaving aside the word “AI”, because it’s not clear how expansive the use case for current AI really is, there’s a point here and it’s an important one.
He’s exactly right about our obsession with jobs, but I’d state it a different way:
If you are thinking of not voting for Harris over the Gaza issue, I understand the impulse. But it’s a mistake. Bernie Sanders explains why: AOC says: And then there’s this: Nuff said.
ITV deployed a series of editing techniques to remove all imagery of a watermelon — a long-standing icon of Palestinian solidarity.
The post Watch: Before and After Editors Censored a “Big Brother” Contestant’s Watermelon Shirt appeared first on The Intercept.
Progressive Americans opposed to Israel’s U.S.-funded war in Gaza face a difficult choice: whether or not to vote for Harris.
The post “Every Choice Is Loss”: Voters on Their Decision Amid Genocide in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.
I know that some of you don’t listen to podcasts and I’d guess that most of you have never listened to Joe Rogan, the man who runs the most popular podcast in the world (making hundreds of millions of dollars at it.) Trump appeared on his show last week and it’s been dowloaded 35 million times. Anyway, here’s a taste of the kind of thing this superstar is selling to his massive audience: He is very stupid and he makes everyone who listens to him stupid. A case in point: his interview with JD Vance who is not as stupid as Rogan but knows the audience will believe anything: During a prolonged discussion about the environment, Vance asserted that he “didn’t have a strong view about what the carbon footprint ultimately does,” appearing to waffle about whether human-caused climate change exists. “It’s interesting that the environmental movement in America, the only thing that it talks about is the carbon footprint, and it never talks about . . . why do we have the highest rates of obesity in the world right now,” Vance said.
Why permafrost in the tundra has begun to explode.
The post The Mystery of the Siberian Craters appeared first on Nautilus.
I know we shouldn’t pay too much attention to the early vote and this might not mean anything. But if it holds up it’s big. Old people vote: Donald Trump is lagging Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania early voting with a critical and once-reliably Republican constituency: seniors. It’s a warning sign for the former president that reflects early vote data and polling across the battlegrounds, after Republicans won the senior vote in each of the last five presidential elections. In Pennsylvania, where voters over the age of 65 have cast nearly half of the early ballots, registered Democrats account for about 58 percent of votes cast by seniors, compared to 35 percent for Republicans. That’s despite both parties having roughly equal numbers of registered voters aged 65 and older. The partisan gap is narrower than it was in 2020, when views of early voting were more partisan, and Republicans take that as a good sign. But the GOP still is counting on more of its older voters to show up on Election Day, while Democrats have more votes in the bank. The data is in line with polling in the state that has shown Trump shedding support among older voters.
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