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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker Florida-based independent journalist Tim Burke was charged by the Justice Department with 14 felony counts alleging conspiracy, wiretapping and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in an indictment unsealed on Feb. 21, 2024. FBI agents raided Burke’s home and office in May 2023 in connection to a criminal probe […]

I write to respond to Charlie Winstanley’s recent review (‘No, the Left Shouldn’t Welcome Deindustrialisation’) of my book, The Next Shift. First, allow me to point out a number of factual errors. Medicare was passed in 1965, not 1956, rendering quite silly Winstanley’s idea that I failed to situate it in its immediate postwar context. […]

If MPs in other countries were barred from meeting civil society groups, the regimes would be “condemned and investigated” Dawn Butler told Byline Times

Don’t hold your breath One day ahead of Super Tuesday, the speculation is that shortly after this posts we may see the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald “91 Counts” Trump’s Colorado ballot access case. Anyone who listened to the oral arguments knows not to hold their breath for the court to agree with the Colorado supremes (and others) that he’s committed crimes (Washington Post): The high court took the unusual step Sunday of scheduling an opinion announcement for a day when it is not in session. The justices typically issue rulings from the bench, with the author of the majority opinion presenting a summary of the court’s decision. Instead, the court said opinions could be posted on its website Monday at 10 a.m. Colorado’s top court ordered Trump, the Republican front-runner, off the ballot in December after finding that he engaged in insurrection around the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. The state court put its ruling on hold while litigation continued, and the former president’s name will appear on the state’s primary ballot.

Having “a pot to piss in and a window to throw it out” was the greatest measure of success in my family. It was the meter to which the worth of any man, woman, or child was measured.

For instance, you might wonder aloud about someone who’d caught your eye only to hear someone tsk, “Don’t go messin’ with that broke and busted man! He don’t even have pot to piss in and a window to throw it out.” This was also the meter we used to measure whether a man, woman, or child had the right to have any material desires.

As Ukraine is outnumbered 7 to 1 on some parts of the frontline, volunteers explain the dangers they face as right wing politicians in the EU and the US stifle aid

Även om man inte själv har tänkt sig producera statistik, bör alla som ägnar sig åt akademiska studier i någon form ha nog kunskaper för att förstå och värdera statistik på ett korrekt sätt. Fallgroparna är många. Den här boken hjälper med förtjänstfull pedagogisk handledning att få läsaren att undvika dessa.

ORG responds to Ofcom’s Online Safety Act plans Last week, Open Rights Group responded to Ofcom’s Illegal Harms consultation, the first of a series of consultations Ofcom will be holding on the development of its guidance for the Online Safety Act. Previously, ORG responded to both the Online Harms White paper and the Online Safety […]

“Highly processed protein products, such as breaded shrimp, fish sticks and chicken nuggets, appear to contain ‘significantly more’ microplastic particles per gram than certain minimally processed samples.” — The Washington Post

George was silent.

Lennie said, “George.”

“Yeah?”

“I ate another bad thing.”

“Lemme guess, chicken nuggets,” George said, and he fell silent again.

Only the topmost ridges of George’s phone were visible in his pocket now. The shadow of the Google alert he’d set for “microplastics” was blue-light filtered and soft. From the dimming screen was the statistic that the average American consumes 11,000 microplastics per year.

It was hopeless, the fickle pursuit of a holistic diet, and George knew it. Microplastics were everywhere.

Lennie said, “George.”

“Yeah?”

“Ain’t you gonna give me hell?”

“Give ya hell?”

March 4, 2024 Cognitive Load Theory An Unpersuasive Attempt to Justify Direct Instruction By Alfie Kohn [For a half-hour interview and discussion with Kohn about this essay, see this video.] A remarkable body of research over many years has demonstrated that the sort of teaching in which students are provided with answers or shown the correct way to do something ... Read More

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Anti-Zionist Israeli activist and author Miko Peled discusses the notion of alleged division among Palestinians and the need for a Nelson Mandela-like leader.

The post The Myth Of Palestinian Division, With Miko Peled appeared first on MintPress News.

A systematic reduction of funds to some of the poorest parts of England leaves many of the most needed public services at risk of collapse

A father seeks to heal his community and find his granddaughter, after his son’s terrorist attack on Paris in November 2015

- by Aeon Video

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Humans have a strong impulse to see things that are arbitrary or conventional as natural and essential – especially language

- by Reuben Cohn-Gordon

Read at Aeon

New studies on the experience of impatience suggest there’s more to it than simply how long you’ve been left hanging

- by Matt Huston

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The Taylor rule offers a formula to calculate a prescribed policy rate. How do alternative measures of the output gap affect this prescribed rate?

Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes Signal even harder to subpoena.

The post Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data appeared first on The Intercept.

The High Seas Treaty is seen as vital to meeting an international target to protect a third of oceans by 2030