Anywhere else he’d be a chump… If there’s one thing that characterizes this election season so far it’s the fact that the country remains as polarized as it’s been these last few years and both sides are very upset. But nobody seems to be able to figure out exactly why. Is it inflation or the media or the pandemic or too much doomscrolling or something else? There are plenty of theories but no consensus, at least not yet. The most common explanation is that the economy is bringing everyone down. It’s hard to explain why people are so negative about it since the numbers are actually quite robust with the job market being the best it’s been since the 1960s and wages rising rapidly, especially for the people in the middle and working classes. For the first time in decades the gains in this economy are flowing to them instead of the upper 1%. Here’s Sen. J.D.
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I dessa tider — när ljudrummet dränks i den kommersiella radions pubertalflams — har man nästan gett upp. Men det finns ljus i mörkret. I programmet Text och musik med Eric Schüldt — som sänds på söndagsförmiddagarna i P2 — kan man lyssna på seriös musik och en programledare som verkligen har något att säga […]
Just stop it Democrats regularly say three things that set my teeth on edge. It’s an ingrained cultural tic, I guess, and they recite them like the catechism without thinking. First, they complain that conservative voters, particularly rural ones, vote against their best interests. See “Thank you for not voting your best interests” for what I think about that. Second, they insist that every election is the most important of our lifetime. They seem to think this alarmist message is somehow motivating for their base. But is it? Really? When every damned election is the most important election of our lifetime, what happens instead is Democrats go into a defensive crouch. Innovation is off the table. They take no chances. Find another gear? Hell, no. For most campaigns, their idea of finding another gear is to do what they’ve always done, the way they’ve always done it, just more of it. That’s a dinosaur’s recipe for losing. Finally — and I heard this again at an event last night — Democrats of a certain age love to joke that you should vote early and vote often. IN THIS POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT, they still say that.
Mai Tran began catsitting in 2021 while Tran was on pandemic unemployment, often staying overnight in people’s homes. Tran has now cared for twenty-two cats and traveled to ten apartments all over New York City, observing the interior lives of cat owners and appeasing their neuroses. From home vet visits to black eyes to refugee cats, Chronicles of a Catsitter documents the most memorable days on the job.
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Same old, same old ain’t working “If you smell what the Rock is cooking,” so to speak, it’s long been clear that MAGAstan is more about posturing than policy. It’s about Trumpish attitude aided and abetted by his fans’ poor short-term memory. Donald Trump can say one thing on Monday and the opposite on Friday and fans couldn’t care less. Just as long as whatever he says is delivered loudly and proudly with the same shameless, in-your-face insincerity. Wrestling fans eat that shit up. They pay good money for it week after week. It’s not Sondheim or Shakespeare, but it’s theater. Digby yesterday mentioned the “stale sameness” of the Trump rally and “the weird hypnotic nature of his speeches.” But it’s that sameness that mesmerizes, like endless Grateful Dead improvs, like the old Latin mass and Gregorian chants. People can lose themselves for a while in the rhythms and harmonies before returning to the real world. The attraction of sameness, of pithy catchphrases, of the anticipation of the all-too-familiar you know is coming, is something the left, with its demand for novelty, has never appreciated.
Last year, I received an email asking if I would write an introductory essay for the Tor Essentials reissue of Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Icehenge. It took me approximately thirty seconds to convince myself that this was not some kind of hallucination, and another three or four to type YES! OF COURSE!!! and hit reply. It […]
“The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban still on the books in the state is enforceable, a bombshell decision that adds the state to the growing lists of places where abortion care is effectively banned.” — NBC
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1. Property Statue 32: Successions of power must follow equal primogeniture, meaning the firstborn, regardless of gender, inherits the kingdom.
2. Section 42: If any person shall willingly and knowingly be present at the fighting of any duel or aid or give countenance thereto, such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for any term not exceeding three years nor less than one year.
3. Marriage Decree Law: The Eldar, an immortal Elvish race, may only marry once.
4. Section 3: All marriages of white persons with negroes or mulattoes are declared to be illegal and void.
Israel's key defence is that it is not intending to destroy Gazans, but to destroy Hamas - so whatever happens is therefore not intentional
Asylum seekers are "living in limbo" in the UK, worried they could be put on a plane at any moment, as the controversial scheme returns to the House of Commons on Monday
Political author Will Hutton tells Byline Times why the Conservative party is in such a mess - and what voters need to do at the next General Election to "put a stake through its heart"
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Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their new book, “Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.”
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The creation of the NHS was one of the most significant achievements of any Labour government. Nye, a new play at the National Theatre starring Michael Sheen, depicts the challenges faced by left-wing firebrand Aneurin Bevan as he attempted to set up the health service in the wake of the Second World War. The play […]
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Jeremy Loffredo visits the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, where a community of Armenian Christians dating back to the 4th century face displacement at the hands of a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.
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Polling shows that people are taking his crimes seriously His middle of the night tantrums are getting worse and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because his campaign has polled this too: A majority of U.S. voters consider the criminal charges in New York related to a hush money payment against former President Trump to be serious, per new polling. Trump is days away from the start of the first trial out of the four criminal cases against him, while electioneering for the presidency. The New York trial, set to start on April 15 with jury selection, concerns a 2016 payment allegedly made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. About 4 in 10 Republican respondents considered the hush money charges to be serious. Two-thirds of independents also deemed the charges serious. 64% of registered voters described the charges as at least “somewhat serious,” according to Reuters/Ipsos poll data published Wednesday. 34% said the charges lacked seriousness. The rest were unsure or didn’t answer.