Congress is being left in the dark about the fate of U.S. weapons transfers, a new federal watchdog report found.
The post The State Department Isn’t Telling Congress When U.S. Weapons Fall Into the Wrong Hands appeared first on The Intercept.
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A QUARTERLY column from Carrie Brownstein, who is better at dispensing advice than taking it
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Q: I’m an adult. I bathe. And yet people keep giving me soap. My mom slipped a bar into my Easter basket this year. My best friend gifted me a bourbon-scented soap for my birthday. My dad found some artisanal soap at a Ren Faire, and my sister gave me some made by monks in Italy. These are all thoughtful gifts. But I’m starting to wonder if they’re also… pointed.
What began as a quirky gifting trend is beginning to smell like an intervention. I want to ask if there’s some unspoken insinuation—but if the answer isn’t a hard no, isn’t it basically a yes?
So tell me: When does a friendly gesture become a red flag?
Fraser Grant
Columbus, OH
“Friday” – Rebecca Black
“Temporal Awareness Cantata in G Major for Adolescent Voice and Auto-Tuned Choir (‘Hebdomadal Celebration’)”
“Mambo No. 5” – Lou Bega
“Polygamous Dance Catalog in F Major for German-Cuban Vocalist. Homage to Monica, Erica, Rita, Sandra, Tina, Mary, Jessica, et al.”
“I’m Blue” – Eiffel 65
“Cerulean Obsession Dance in G Minor for Italian Trio Demonstrating Monochromatic Lifestyle Commitment”
“Crazy Frog” – Axel F
“Amphibious Annoyance Étude in F Major for Synthesized Batrachian and Electronic Torture Ensemble”
“Macarena” – Los Del Rio
“Andalusian Kinetic Ritual for Choreographed Mass Behavior”
“It’s Raining Men” – The Weather Girls
“Male Precipitation Fantasy in C Major for Female Duo of Solitary Chart Triumph”
In response to a post of mine at Naked Capitalism about Trump’s dispatch of National Guard troops to support ICE in Chicago, and the possibility of thing escalating beyond his control or intention, a commenter wrote that “so many Black people are avoiding the protests entirely and are considering each antiBlack outrage from the TrumpAdmin […]
Akela Lacy, Radley Balko, and Nick Turse discuss the administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
The post License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions appeared first on The Intercept.
I’m not infertile, but I experience recurrent miscarriages. I worry about how many more I can take
- by Jami Nakamura Lin
Throughout decades of writing, Harold Rosenberg exhorted artists to resist cliché and conformity and instead take action
- by Blake Smith
One artist is raising awareness of invasive species by creating paintings with their discarded remains
The post Making Art with Pythons and Lionfish appeared first on Nautilus.
As temperatures drop, so too are Russian bombs on Ukrainian infrastructure, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv
The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.
The post The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention appeared first on The Intercept.
I left Labour and co-founded Your Party because politics as usual is failing us. The challenges we face are immense: the far-right on the rise, climate breakdown, collapsing living standards, public services gutted to the bone, a housing system rigged against us, and a government enabling genocide in Palestine. Tinkering at the edges won’t cut […]
Democrats have a chance to revive their party and save American democracy. Will they take it?
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October 10th, 2025: Butter tarts! At a time Donald Trump, Big Tech and Wall Street deploy stablecoins to privatise the dollar, usurping the decentralising power of blockchain to enrich themselves at everyone else’s expense, here is an alternative use of blockchain that harnesses its decentralising powers to benefit everyone equally – to pay everyone a substantial, non-inflationary, basic dividend – […] The post A Trust Fund for Everyone: How to create a Monetary Commons that socialises money and funds a basic dividend without new taxes or debt appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis. What an honour and a privilege it is for theunaustralian.net to have me write for them today a column on who I think should be on Australia’s Mt Rushmore. The first face to be chiselled into the rock is of... Read More ›
~by Sean Paul Kelley I’m going to relay a conversation I had on X today with everyone here. It’s just easier this way, as I dislocated my shoulder yesterday and sprained my wrist falling down the stairs. Let me add, that crap that movie star tough guys do when they have a dislocated should is […]
Behind closed doors, the noted ‘humanitarian interventionist’ successfully lobbied for Israel’s inclusion on important UN committees even after the Human Rights Council accused it of targeting civilians in Gaza. The leaked emails also reveal that Israel furnished Power with a dodgy dossier on Syrian chemical weapons as she pushed regime change in Damascus. Former US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power secretly coordinated with a top Israeli diplomat to secure Israel’s access to multiple prestigious UN committees, leaked files […] The post Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show first appeared on The Grayzone. The post Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show appeared first on The Grayzone. An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda. The post Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities appeared first on The Intercept. Last year on Yom Kippur, leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation staged an all-day rally...
Vulture capitalists want to profit off your health care, from the moment you’re born until the moment you die.
On the eve of another midnight execution, questions are mounting over recent lethal injections that witnesses fear were botched. The post Indiana Killed Their Partners Under Cover Of Darkness. They Want Answers. appeared first on The Intercept. I’m a proud mother of five who is obsessed with keeping her monkeys healthy. Some people think it’s crazy how much time I spend making sure everything in their environment is safe, nutritious, and natural. Those same people probably think I’m a bad mom for letting my little monkeys jump on the bed just because they keep falling off and hitting their heads every time. But this is a choice we have made as a family, and I will not let a bunch of judgmental strangers or any of the many doctors I have called shame me into changing my mind. I’ll admit, when my first monkey fell off the bed and bumped her head, I was concerned. I immediately called the doctor, and the doctor said—and this is a direct quote—“No more monkeys jumping on the bed.” I couldn’t believe it. “But this is our choice,” I told him. “And by the way, monkeys have been jumping on the bed for millennia. Even before there were beds. In the Paleolithic era, they would jump on rock slabs jutting out from the walls of their caves.” “That sounds really dangerous,” he replied. Furious, I hung up. “One can only imagine what the chemical companies hold over our policy makers to compel them to make this tragic decision,” Moms Across America said.
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