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Isn’t this neighborhood charming? The cute brick ranches. The historic bungalows with their breezy porches. The old apartment buildings that symbolize our romantic notions of the working class.

Even the duplexes are just adorable. It’s inspiring how people share walls and divide roofs right down the middle. So egalitarian.

Yes, we love the character of this neighborhood, which is why we bought a house, tore it down, and built a mansion resembling a La Quinta Inn.

It wasn’t an easy decision, but once Brad talked to the architect, it just made sense to go with five stories, nine bedrooms, eleven bathrooms, and a six-car garage with a glass door that reflects the setting sun like the Eye of Sauron.

Did I mention how we love the big porches here? They’re such cute little areas for sitting and talking to your neighbors. It’s too bad they aren’t considered “livable space” and do not add to a home’s value.

Project 2025 is hundreds of pages long and it’s difficult to get through. And that’s just for starters. There’s more in it every day. So this run-down by John Oliver is about as short and succinct and explanation possible. If you have a few minutes it’s well worth watching. You might want to have a drink handy…

“He’s emotionless, unblinking, a special kind of animal. When financial sanctions finally drop, Khareba needs to be one of the first people targeted"

He’s a convicted criminal. Make it stick. A high school friend was raised a good Southern Baptist. “We couldn’t cuss in the house,” he said. “Except you could say ‘damn yankee,’ because that’s just what they were.” The Biden campaign is taking that approach with Donald Trump: A convicted criminal is just what he is. Ankush Khardori, a senior writer for Politico Magazine, speaks with Greg Sargent about a Politico poll “with some pretty big surprises: A larger-than-expected percentage of Americans say Donald Trump’s criminal conviction in Manhattan makes them less likely to vote for him.” Politico: Thirty-three percent of respondents said that the conviction made them less likely to support Trump, while only 17 percent of respondents said that it made them more likely to support Trump. “Support” is one thing. Voting is another. Twenty-two percent of respondents said that the conviction is important to how they will vote and that it makes them less likely to support Trump.

The donation, one of the largest in the school’s history, was made as right-wing megadonor Leo shopped a new law school center.

The post Texas A&M Wants to Keep Emails About Leonard Leo’s $15 Million Gift Secret appeared first on The Intercept.

I don’t like this collapse of trust; I don’t like being in a technological arms race with my students.

While April and May are usually the hottest months in many countries in Southeast Asia, hundreds of millions of people are now suffering in South Asia from an exceptionally intense heat wave that has killed hundreds. One expert has already called it the most extreme heat event in history. Record-breaking temperatures above 122º F were reported in the Indian capital of New Delhi and temperatures sizzled to an unheard of 127º F  in parts of India and Pakistan. Nor was the blazing heat limited to Asia. Heat waves of exceptional severity and duration are now occurring simultaneously in many areas of the world. Mexico and parts of the United States, notably Miami and Phoenix, have recently been in the grip of... Read more

Source: A National Climate Action Plan appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

Courts are on your fall ballot Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida is perhaps the most notorious of Donald Trump’s judicial appointees. Her foot-dragging on the Trump classified documents case has doomed special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution from occurring before this fall’s election. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas “has become a go-to judge for parties filing lawsuits challenging President Joe Biden’s policies.” The U.S. Supreme Court just settled a case women’s rights opponents brought before Kacsmaryk to suspend the FDA’s approval of medication abortion. “The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees — two more. [Trump has] already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals,” President Joe Biden told Jimmy Kimmel during a Los Angeles fundraiser over the weekend (CNN): “The idea that if he’s reelected he’s going to appoint two more flying flags upside down,” Biden said in an apparent reference to a flag that once flew outside the home of Justice Samuel Alito.

Now that Doctor Who has revealed the return of Big Bad Sutekh, actor Gabriel Woolf discusses his return to the role after nearly 50 years.

I en nyligen publicerad rapport — Goda grannar: en ESO-rapport om grannskapets betydelse för integration — visar författarna att etniskt segregerat boende inte ’per definition’ behöver vara något negativt. Detta konstaterande har fått viss uppmärksamhet i medierna och framställts som något  spännande och nytt … Vid närmare eftertanke är det dock uppenbart att ingen rimligen […]

0500: Sound the alarm.

0600: Recitation of the day’s mantra in the traditional spirited honking.

0700: Singing of “O Canada” and flyover in standard formation.

0800: Announcement of the flock’s minutes.

0830: Synchronized shitting and breakfast on the east bank of the retention pond.

1000: Gather outside the dog park fence for the “Taunting of the Mutts.”

1200: Preening and beautification.

1300: Loud meandering.

1430: Stop traffic. Honk.

1600: Group aerobics at the retention pond.

1800: Carnal activities.

1802: Bathing.

1807: Carnal activities.

1809: Unwind.

1900: Synchronized shitting and supper on the north bank of the retention pond.

2100: “O Canada” reprise and flyover in standard formation.

2200: Sleep / carnal activities.

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This is the first general election in which every Brit living overseas can vote, but many non-British workers living in the UK feel deliberately excluded

Combined Trussell Trust and Independent Food Aid Network data lays bare the breadth of food banks in the UK – themselves symptoms of a far deeper food poverty crisis

A lawyer with 25 years of experience in the criminal justice system critiques the "underwhelming" pledges made in party manifestos

Having a passion for mental effort – a trait that’s distinct from being intelligent – has some wide-ranging upsides

- by Josephine Zerna

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“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people.”

The post “Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military appeared first on The Intercept.

Stephen Hawking’s greatest legacy – a simple little equation now 50 years old – revealed a shocking aspect of black holes

- by Roger Highfield

Read at Aeon

This March, Andrew Marr told New Statesman readers there is a ‘battle for Keir Starmer’s soul’ as ‘two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future’. Marr said these groups fighting to ‘control’ Starmer are the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together. Labour members certainly weren’t told they were getting a vote-Starmer-get-Blair […]

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As the General Election approaches, political parties in the UK are clashing and competing in the attempt to win voters, leaving no stone unturned—including the use of digital technologies. Why You Should be Worried About Political Profiling Open Rights Group has long been monitoring the use of data analytics, commercial profiling and other digital tools […]

The Labour leader's refusal to commit to scrapping George Osborne's austerity-era policy risks committing hundreds of thousands more children into poverty