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With Kash Patel as FBI Director, Trump solidifies a cabinet poised to back Israel's dangerous military adventures with unparalleled fervor.

The post Trump’s Pro-Israel Dream Team: Patel Nomination Caps Hawkish Cabinet appeared first on MintPress News.

Here's the trailer for Showrunner Russell T. Davies' Ncuti Gatwa & Nicola Coughlan-starring Doctor Who Christmas Special, "Joy to the World."

I alla moderna människors liv behövs det tid för andhämtning och reflektion. Och ibland — när alla möjliga och omöjliga måsten och krav från omgivningen bara blir för många och högljudda — kan det vara skönt att dra sig undan lite grand och slå av på takten för en stund. Alla har vi väl olika […]

Of books and conferences past: A maker looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.

The post Of Books and Conferences Past appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design.

Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two ways: first, resisting the worst excesses of him (and his party of billionaires); and second, keeping up the effort to make life truly better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us. Or wait. Should it be the other way around? Could a good offense be the best defense? At the moment, it’s a question that’s not getting much attention. It may seem all too obvious right now that resistance has to be the top priority. Who could have been surprised by... Read more

Source: Join the Resistance? Yes, But… appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

Resistance could be fruitful Step back from the ledge. Take a break from news about the punishments the Jan. 20 Revolution plans to roll out against its enemies, and against friends who won’t publicly abase themselves before the king. “That wasn’t humiliating enough. Grovel lower!” Need a redoubt against Trumpism that doesn’t require a passport? Fifteen blue states, especially those in which Democrats control both executive and legislative branches, are preparing to hold the line against the incoming Trump administration’s predations. Their weapon of choice? Federalism. What a concept. Democrats and their lawyers have laid plans to defend reproductive rights and hold the line against mass deportations. But more than that, they’ve outlined “a new progressive vision of federalism—pugilistic and creative, audacious and idealistic.” They mean to “filch tactics” deployed to punishing effect by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott who has perfected a form of “hegemonic federalism” to work his will and annoy Democratic state governments.

Peter Capaldi played the Ultimate Classic Doctor under Steven Moffat but he's making it clear (again) why he's not returning to Doctor Who.

With apologies to Raymond Carver.

My friend Kevin Maddox was talking. Kevin Maddox makes a fortune selling novelty pickleball T-shirts on Etsy, and sometimes that gives him the right.

“The kind of tariffs I’m talking about, the other country pays,” he said.

The four of us, my wife, Debra, and Kevin’s wife, Bridget, were sitting around his kitchen table drinking. On the table a case of Truly sat cooling on a bed of ice.

Debra lifted a can from the ice and cracked it open. “That’s not how tariffs work, though,” she said.

“My God,” Kevin said, a bit unsteady. “Don’t be silly.”

It would be night soon. I took a drink and held the can up to the dusky diluted sunlight seeping through the window: Wild Berry. My favorite flavor. The truth is, I thought Kevin was wrong. But by then our talk had grown old, and we were so young. What did the four of us, what did anyone know about taxes levied by governments?

“Who can say what a tariff is and what it isn’t?” I said.

Editors of academic journals have been reporting that they find it increasingly hard to secure referees for papers that have been submitted to their journals. When I’ve been discussing this issue over the years with colleagues, I’ve heard a few remarks that made me wonder what our considerations are to decide whether or not to […]

‘Tiny problems become big ones when tigers are involved’: the day a young (and reckless) animal keeper danced with death

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How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott

- by Reyko Huang

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. Viele Politiker und mediale ‘Experten’ scheinen (oder wollen) nicht verstehen, dass ein entscheidender Unterschied zwischen privaten und öffentlichen Schulden besteht. Wenn eine Einzelperson versucht zu sparen und ihre Schulden zu reduzieren, kann das durchaus vernünftig sein. Aber wenn alle dies tun, sinkt die gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage, und das Risiko einer steigenden Arbeitslosigkeit wächst. Eine einzelne […]

Governments and businesses keep talking the talk on preventing a catastrophic climate breakdown, while consistently refusing to walk the walk

Malik Muhammad, a disabled Army veteran with PTSD, received the harshest federal sentence for the George Floyd protests.

The post Oregon Prison Limits Solitary to 90 Days. This BLM Protester Has Been in the Hole for 250. appeared first on The Intercept.

Keir Starmer is being urged to act now to prevent foreign billionaires from exploiting these gaps in our electoral system

Nicolò Bandera and Jacob Stevens How should the central bank conduct asset purchases to restore market functioning without causing higher inflation? The Bank of England was faced with this question during the 2022 gilt crisis, when it undertook gilt purchases on financial stability grounds while inflation was above 10%. These financial stability asset purchases could … Continue reading Stable gilts and stable prices: assessing the Bank of England’s response to the LDI crisis →

Oh great, another one: Donald Trump’s pick to head the Internal Revenue Service pressed the agency to investigate and consider stripping the country’s leading animal welfare group of its tax status after it supported an initiative to protect dogs, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. If former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long is confirmed to run the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), he would be in a position to strip — and effectively shut down — the tax status of such nonprofit groups whose missions he disagrees with. And Long could have new powers to do so if Congress enacts a pending House-passed bill to grant the Trump administration new powers to rescind the tax status of groups it deems “terrorist supporting organizations.” In 2011, Long signed a letter pushing the IRS to launch a probe of the tax-exempt status of the Humane Society of the United States, a nonprofit that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal cruelty. The letter followed the Humane Society’s support of a successful Missouri ballot measure strengthening regulations on dog breeders.

I have done quite a number of podcast interviews with various hosts over the last few weeks and the discussions often turn to issues relating to the environment and what Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has to say about those issues. Inevitably, the discussions then meandered into debates about what is possible given that we humans…

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Billy Long pushed the agency to target the group after it supported an initiative to protect dogs. Long could get new power to target more nonprofits.

For many years, at 826 Valencia and McSweeney’s, we’ve collected startlingly great publications from youth writing centers around the world. But there has never been a physical space where they’re displayed, and we thought there should be such a space. When the storefront at 849 Valencia opened up, we saw an opportunity.

Welcome to The International Library of Youth Writing, where the collected work of young people from all over the globe, ages 6-18, finds its first home. There are anthologies, chapbooks, graphic novels, and all kinds of other books here, including full-length novels written by middle schoolers. They’re displayed according to their location and the nonprofit sponsoring them.

Chapter 510, for example, is a writing center in Oakland, and they’ve generously donated a bunch of copies of their books, all written by authors under age 18. There are books by students from Italy, Australia, Louisville, Sacramento, Dublin, Stockholm, and dozens of cities in between.

Labor’s failure over the cost of living means Albanese could easily follow Kamala Harris and the Democrats out of office.

The post Albanese short-changing workers and still backing Israel’s war crimes first appeared on Solidarity Online.