We are asking all candidates in the General Election to protect digital rights in the next Parliament. ORG’s Digital Rights Manifesto After a sustained period of attacks on our rights to privacy and freedom of expression, we call on all candidates and political parties to protect digital rights. These rights underpin our freedoms as the […]
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Far-right parties just posted their best-ever performance in the European elections. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) won 32 percent of the vote, leaving the party with 30 seats in the European Parliament. Macron responded by calling a snap election, which will take place within the next 30 days. In Italy, Giorgia Meloni’s […]
And the Declaration is not even the New Testament Steve Benen offers this recollection. I’d already forgotten: In 2017, on the 4th of July, NPR published a series of tweets with the text of the Declaration of Independence. It seemed like a simple, patriotic gesture to help celebrate our Independence Day. A surprising number of Republicans didn’t quite see it that way. The more NPR published portions of the Declaration of Independence, the more rank-and-file conservatives — who apparently didn’t recognize the words of the document — assumed that the media outlet was publishing anti-Trump “propaganda.” “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” one tweet read, sparking particular outrage from the right, who assumed the missive was directed at the then-Republican president. It was an early reminder, just six months into Donald Trump’s term, that many of his followers, when confronted with core American principles, would simply assume they were anti-Trump criticisms.
AP Care Homes Ltd is run by reality TV star Ampika Pickston and was bankrolled by her fiance, West Ham co-owner David Sullivan
Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election. The digital rights landscape The right to send private messages Platform power Digital Sanctuary The right to appeal takedowns and demonetisation Accountable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stronger data rights and a functioning ICO […]
The Uni is allowing invasive ground investigation surveys which critics say could disturb or even destroy active birds' nests protected under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act
Madeleine Cravens is a poet of delectable desolation. Pleasure Principle is the name of her first book, and beyond the Freudian reference I can’t help but hear the echo of another kind of principle, the principal, that which we pay when we pay what we owe. To grow up is, in some ways, to find out how much you owe—for and to childhood and its illusions, for and against its dreams and evasions. It’s possible we never really grow up, but only because the more we’re encased in our bodies, the more we’re so plainly still seeking the same things we always did—food, sleep, love, good times. And while this book is about pleasure, certainly—and there are electric sexual moments (“Ariana kissed me on the bridge, / then slept with Brandon after everyone / downtown lost power.”)—it is most of all a set of poems whose music grapples with the disintegration of the poet’s parents’ marriage even as it grapples with the rugged wasteland of young adult life and longing more generally. There are many poets writing spare, hyper-efficient lyric, but you would be hard-pressed to find one as sure-footed and savvy, and relentlessly good as this one.
Time for the NCGOP to rewrite the rules again Digby has a post prepped for later today on Republican sore-loserism in Georgia (based on a Rolling Stone piece). It’s the sort of tactic with which we are well familiar next door in North Carolina. It’s simply this: If Republicans lose under established election rules, change the rules. Judd Legum spotlights the latest Republican effort in North Carolina to tip the governor’s race in favor of Lt. Gov. Mark “Choking on my own blood” Robinson, the freaky Christian nationalist and conspiracy theorist. He’s trailing in fundraising behind the state’s Attorney General Josh Stein (D). “The most recent campaign finance reports show that Stein has raised over $19 million, with $12.7 million cash on hand,” Legum begins.
Fatherhood. One of the great joys of a man’s life, second only to secret fatherhood. Unfortunately, due to the high cost of living, I fear I may never get the chance to start a second family.
What does it say about our current economic climate that a hardworking individual like myself can’t maintain multiple households a few towns apart? Did our Founding Fathers—many of whom had secret children of their own—not declare the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right? Frankly, it’s unconstitutional that rampant inflation is keeping me from achieving paternal inflation.
I have to work multiple jobs as it is just to feed and clothe one family. There’s not a chance in hell I’ll be able to support a second set of children anytime soon, let alone send them to college. Especially since they’d have to go out of state, just to be safe. Don’t need them all ending up in the same media studies class and striking up a conversation about their strikingly similar dads.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: IWTV, Gravity Falls, Doctor Who, Superman, The Boys, Bosch, Rob McElhenney/Chase Utley, The X-Files & more!
Whereas increasing the difference between a model and its target system may have the advantage that the model becomes easier to study, studying a model is ultimately aimed at learning something about the target system. Therefore, additional approximations come with the cost of making the correspondence between model and target system less straight- forward. Ultimately, […]
One Reform candidate defended himself by suggesting that his social profile makes clear that his retweets and likes "are not endorsements"
At this moment in history, lying can no longer be dismissed as an unpleasant by-product of the political game – and we can do something about it, writes Compassion in Politics' co-founder
Report exposes over 100,000 cases of corporate wrongdoing since 2010, with rule-breakers often given just a slap on the wrist
The Gambling Commission is being sued for mishandling the bidding process amid concerns that 'thousands of good causes' that rely on funding may miss out
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- by Giancarlo Dimaggio & Igor Weinberg
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A new banking startup lost track of peoples’ life savings and regulators are at a loss to help get it back.
