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John Mitchinson considers whether the Devil still has some lessons to teach us
It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to work on a project that has an impending (very) deadline. I also did a podcast interview with the team at Macro and Cheese on the state of American this morning. So…
A decade ago, I stood up in Parliament and urged Conservative ministers to save the Redcar steelworks — our blast furnace, our world-class coke ovens. I warned then that abandoning these strategic assets would have generational consequences, and I wasn’t alone in saying so. My Labour colleagues in the neighbouring constituencies (Redcar and Middlesbrough South […]
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 28 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully funded) and special issues, 9 postdoc positions, 7 summer schools, 5 job openings, 4 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting positions, and a research grant in […]
In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their “black sites.” For those too young to remember (or who have quite understandably chosen to forget), “black sites” was the name given to clandestine CIA detention centers around the world, where that agency held incommunicado and tortured men captured in what was then known as the Global War on Terror. The black site in this case was the notorious Salt Pit in Afghanistan. There el-Masri was, among other things, beaten, anally raped, and threatened with a gun held to his head. After four months he was dumped on... Read more
Source: Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers appeared first on TomDispatch.com.
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 20, 2025
by Tony Wikrent
Trump not violating any law
‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’
‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges
[The Daily Beast, via MSN 03-18-2025]
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
The post Web typography: a refresher and history appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Canadians will vote in a general election on April 28. Here’s my ‘top 7’ overview of the Liberal Housing Plan: https://nickfalvo.ca/the-liberal-housing-plan/.
Trade war trickery, a tax-day scandal, the lost revolutionary, and more from The Lever this week.
Doctor Who has had a major message running this season and throughout the series' history: gods are evil and must be fought and defeated.
Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist anti-immigrant policies.
The post Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears appeared first on The Intercept.
Up at the French-Spanish border in Catalonia
This week's Doctor Who: Unleashed details how the second season's second episode, "Lux," melded old-school animation with live action.
Emboldened by the new administration’s regulatory reprieve, “price optimization” consultants are showing corporations how to weaponize import levies to fleece consumers.
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Here's an early look at what's ahead with Showrunner Russell T. Davies's Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who S02E03: "The Well."