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“Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bigoted messages, suggesting they were nothing more than ‘edgy, offensive jokes.’” — Politico

If you ever needed proof that woke elites are targeting the conservative way of life, well, here it is. Politico, that infamous, Marxist rag, published 2,900 pages of private text messages—all in an attempt to ruin the lives of our youngest eighteen to forty-year-olds.

Our writers have read a universe of books on space and astronomy. Here are their favorites.

The post The Nautilus Reading List About the Cosmos appeared first on Nautilus.

Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover cements pro-Israel bias in U.S. corporate media.

The post Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal appeared first on MintPress News.

This paper proposes reforms to the UK Debt Management Office’s (DMO) financing remit to reduce Exchequer costs without austerity. It argues the current rigid, auction-based system is inefficient and misaligned …

The post Proposals for Reforms to the Debt Management Office’s Financing Remit appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.

Nota Baloyi is one of several people who lost a visa to visit the U.S. because he spoke ill of Charlie Kirk on social media.

The post He Tweeted Charlie Kirk “Won’t Be Remembered as a Hero.” The State Dept. Revoked His Visa. appeared first on The Intercept.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

The post Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C. appeared first on The Intercept.

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.

You probably don’t hear “The River of Dreams” much anymore. It’s never on the radio, and no one is streaming that song of their own free will. But here in my dental practice, I hear “The River of Dreams” at least fifteen times a day. Once per appointment, in fact.

Honestly, it’s out of my hands. Billy Joel and the American Dental Association reached a binding agreement sometime in the mid-2000s. Dentists across America are required by law to pump out “The River of Dreams” so that every patient hears it when they’re in the office. In exchange, we get, well, I don’t know what. But four out of five of us agree “The River of Dreams” is a banger. We’re legally obligated to say that.

A close look at ‘The School of Athens’ reveals how Raphael turned to the past to capture the progress of his times

- by Aeon Video

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Tony Soprano, Walter White, Arya Stark. This video essay reveals why we’re more captivated by morally flawed characters

- Video by Psyche

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A bike crash left my husband paralysed. What happened next taught me something profound about community

- by Sadie Witkowski

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How the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — led to tragic consequences, in the story of Ryan Frederick and Detective Jarrod Shivers.

The post Episode Two: A Death in the Dark appeared first on The Intercept.

This autoimmune disorder protects those who have it from viruses of all kinds

The post How a Rare Disease Could Yield a Pandemic Drug appeared first on Nautilus.

Hello everyone.  RAISE YOUR SOUL! is my new book which I am taking the liberty of presenting to you. It is unlike anything I have written before. Setting aside high theory, it is the story of five women who, over of a hundred years, resisted fascism, authoritarianism and chauvinism. It is, I believe, a universal […]

The post RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.