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Plants around the world are adapting their reproductive strategies to survive on an increasingly urban planet

The post Plant Sex and the City appeared first on Nautilus.

Mired in campaign debt after losing her election, Kari Lake is still raking in cash from small donors.

The post An Astounding Number of Kari Lake’s Donors Want Their Money Back appeared first on The Intercept.

It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large

Throughout the recent period of higher than usual inflation, the Reserve Bank of Australia kept telling us that they had to keep hiking rates (even though the inflation trajectory was downward) because they were predicting a wages explosion. Who told them about that? Their so-called business liaison meetings. The business sector is always claiming that…

In nearly four decades of working in international affairs, I have never seen anything like it. By ‘it’, I refer to the size of the gap between what we claim to be and what we actually do — as brutally reflected in the selective blindness of most Western governments on Gaza. This has profound practical […]

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. Cette chanson emblématique sortie en 1980, est l’un des plus grands succès de Pierre Bachelet, connu pour ses chansons sensibles et nostalgiques. Elle a ses longues mains de dentellièreÀ damner l’âme d’un VermeerCette silhouette vénitienneQuand elle se penche à ses persiennesCe geste je le sais par cœurPour moi c’est sûr, elle est d’ailleurs

How a company in Kanpur is giving India's flower waste a second life.

Accused of price gouging renters, RealPage could now get a legal shield from GOP lawmakers — after a lobbying surge and a flood of campaign cash.

Big Tech-backed Democrats could hand one of the country’s largest and greenest energy markets to Trump and his fossil fuel acolytes.

New images from Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who S02E06: "The Interstellar Song Contest" were released - here's a look!

Dear Students,

Again, my sincerest apologies for offering Classics and Contemporary American Culture this semester. When I pitched this class to the English department chair, I believed Harris would win and we’d spend the semester making interesting literary connections to her sober policy choices. I didn’t foresee that the canon itself would leer at our nation’s pathetic descent into discount fascism.

God knows how many more years of this nightmare we’ll have to endure, but this class is mercifully at an end. Here are the answers to the final exam. Feel free to grade yourselves, and then take full advantage of the open bar at my desk during final office hours this week.

1. Compare the characters at the end of Our Town to ourselves on January 19, 2025. Is Emily right when she says that the living didn’t know how good they had it?

No.

2. Where is Dorian Gray’s portrait, now that it has left the attic?

Giving a presser on the new, Qatari-Royal-Family-gifted Air Force One.

Republicans' tax-cut bill could eliminate the government's popular free tax-filing system and pay off the president’s tax-prep industry donors.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, once a founding member of ISIS, is now Syria’s president and set to meet Donald Trump in Saudi Arabia. The summit comes as Damascus cracks down on Palestinian leaders and Gaza solidarity networks in a bid to appease Israel and win American support.

The post Trump to Meet Former ISIS Leader in Saudi Arabia as Syria Moves to Appease Israel appeared first on MintPress News.

In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes — poof! — offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared. The two have decreed a flurry of acts of dismantlement that span the government, threatening to disappear a broad swath of what once existed, much of it foreshadowed by Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for drastically reorganizing and even dismantling government as we know it during a second Trump administration. To my mind, the recent massive removals of people, data, photos, and documents remind me of the words of... Read more

Source: Poof! It’s Gone appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

Staffers said Trump is “lobotomizing our agency” by forcing thousands into buyouts and politicizing notions like environmental justice.

The post “Intense Culture of Fear”: Behind the Scenes as Trump Destroys the EPA From Within appeared first on The Intercept.

NEW COLUMN ALERT: A late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”

If I think of Autism as Place, then I arrive late at age 41, a bit timid, uncertain of the right words to say, but certain in what I know to be true: “Hi, I’m new here. And I’ve always belonged here. And I meant to come here. I want to be here. But I have to be honest, you’ve been hard to find.”

If an official time of entry exists, a record of belonging that doesn’t hinge on my awareness, then I suppose it’s 4:25 p.m. on a Wednesday in 1983 under the direction of a Midwestern doctor who wears glasses and jokes, “She’s got a good set of lungs, Brenda, that’s for sure!” Brenda is my mom.

The Prime Minister's 'unutterably depressing' decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall

Although he was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described Edan Alexander as a prisoner of war.

The post The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners” appeared first on The Intercept.