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What does it mean to truly decommodify housing? Can the home be a place that not only meets our most basic needs, but a site of our own flourishing and wider societal transformation? Feeling at Home by Alva Gotby interrogates the politics of homes, asking us to grapple with practical questions about the capitalist and […]

“President Trump issued an executive order late Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors to ‘cease federal funding for NPR and PBS,’ the nation’s primary public broadcasters, claiming ideological bias.” — NPR

EXT. SESAME STREET

A group of children stand in the middle of Sesame Street. There are no cars because owning a car is a crime punishable by death. The children take turns injecting each other with puberty blockers—the only activity children are allowed to do in this fifteen-minute city. Big Bird enters wearing assless chaps. The children see Big Bird and run over, excitedly. Big Bird lights ten cigarettes in his beak and hands one to each child.

BIG BIRD: Remember, kids, there is no God. There is only the crushing weight of existence.

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.

The post “They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case appeared first on The Intercept.

American ICU nurse Wally Massay has returned from Gaza with a heart-wrenching account of life inside bombed-out hospitals. In an exclusive interview with MintPress News, he details the deliberate targeting of civilians, children, and medical workers — and the heavy burden of American complicity.

The post “They Were Shot in the Groin”: American ICU Nurse Exposes Gaza War Crimes appeared first on MintPress News.

AIPAC-backed legislation threatening Americans with prison for supporting boycotts of Israel collapsed after GOP lawmakers revolted over free speech concerns.

The post Rare Right-Wing Revolt Sinks Bill Punishing Boycotts of Israel With Prison appeared first on MintPress News.

This week, chunks of the famous comet will fall to Earth in the Eta Aquarids meteor shower

The post From the Debris of Halley’s Comet appeared first on Nautilus.

“The unofficial version of Signal used by Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has been hacked.” — Reuters

Want to hear something interesting? If you’re a messaging app trying to market yourself as the “gold standard of private communications," the last thing you want is to be in the news every day because some Fox News host is too dumb to understand how privacy works. That’s just a little free info from me, Signal, the messaging app you’ve probably been reading about lately thanks to a bunch of high-level government pinheads who think that the MMR vaccine is composed of fetus debris and gay powder.

When I talk about the environment I usually say “Climate change & Environmental Degradation.” It’s important to understand that while these two reinforce each other, they aren’t the same thing.

A UK-wide decline in bug splats recorded on car number plates indicates an “alarming” fall in the number of flying insects, UK scientists said in a survey published yesterday.

The 2024 Bugs Matter report revealed the numbers of flying insects found stuck to vehicle number plates had dropped by nearly 63 per cent since 2021.

This study from Germany in 2017 found a:

Pg. 49: Your ox dies from dysentery. Two days later, you die from grief.

Pg. 72: In a world of apocalyptic warfare, drone massacres, and nuclear devastation, there is no market for Lisa Frank–inspired iPhone cases. Your microbusiness fails.

Pg. 48: A man named John Cigarettes offers you a cigarette. You accept the cigarette. You like how it makes you feel. It’s almost like the world stops while you smoke. When you finish the cigarette, you ask John for another. “Sorry,” he says, “I’m all out.” But you can tell that his pack of cigarettes is full, and that John is not telling the truth. When you return to the Church of the Holy Redeemer and Fiefdom of the Executor of Heretics, you tell them that John is a heretic. They find and crucify John.

The Liberals have been reduced to a rump but Labor’s historic victory is not the emphatic endorsement of Albanese’s agenda that it might seem.

The post Thumping win for Labor as Dutton’s Trumpism rejected first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Psychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain it

- by Chris F Westbury & Daniel King

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- by Neil Price

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These symbols of romance are geometrical enigmas

The post The Stress Etched in Rose Petals appeared first on Nautilus.

Saltwater is killing trees along low-lying coasts, and marshes may move in

The post Ghost Forests Are Growing appeared first on Nautilus.

What I discovered about my dad and myself at the lab where his brain resides

The post My Visit with My Dead Father’s Brain appeared first on Nautilus.