The Senate GOP passed its “megabill” on Tuesday — handing police billions in grants to fuel Trump’s deportation regime and tax write-offs.
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“Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success… When Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described socialist, won New York’s mayoral Democratic nomination last week over a seasoned but scandal-scarred veteran, the city’s financial elite had a meltdown.” — The Guardian
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With temperatures across the country rising, and the “red wave” of the election giving way to a different kind of “red wave,” here’s everything you need to have a hot commie summer to remember.
A Good Beach Read
Nothing says summertime like reading a book on the beach, which is why every good worker will have all three volumes of Das Kapital with them when they hit the sand. Just be sure to bring a tote for your tomes. Why else do you think NPR and The New Yorker have been giving totes away for years? They clearly knew this day would come.
The budget gives $175 billion to immigration enforcement. “The orders of magnitude are going to be multiplied,” immigration experts say.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro explains what Republicans don’t want you to know about their legislation — and how it “screws over the people who voted for this president.”
Senior barristers and campaigners warn Keir Starmer's Government is 'conflating peaceful protest with genuine terrorism'
Attempts by the public to keep tabs on ICE are provoking predictable and pathetic responses from the government.
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The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7 trillion, mostly in domestic spending, while providing the top 5% of taxpayers with roughly $1.5 trillion in tax breaks. Over the next few years, the same bill will add another $150 billion to a Pentagon budget already soaring towards a record $1 trillion. In short, as of now, in the battle between welfare and warfare, the militarists are carrying the day. Pentagon Pork and the People It Harms The bill, passed by the House of Representatives and... Read more
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How are student visa applicants supposed to share their accounts on platforms that haven’t existed in years, like Google+?
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I just had a tour of your newly renovated theme park. I hate to be that guy, but I just want to mention that, while you refer to your destination as a theme park, it would be more accurate to describe it as a motif park.
See, a theme is the central subject your experience is about, like lost love, patriotism in wartime, or the allure of social status. What you have is a cluster of motifs, distinct features of your work that attempt to develop a theme.
I say “attempt” because the imagery here is unhinged. On the map we have a castle, a geodesic dome, a haunted house, and a Chinese pavilion with a dragon poking out of it. What thematic concept, in the abstract, are you going for? Amusement? Yes, but what about amusement are you saying?
Most great themes are about conflict. For example, while the title of your park, Cedar Coppice, evokes the arboreal, the attractions are more man-made. So maybe your theme is “man versus nature.” Then one of your motifs would be that thirty-foot-tall plexiglass treehouse. Or there’s “man versus machine,” exemplified by rides like the Tungsten Titan.
What Trump was trying to demonstrate in Los Angeles is that he can project his armed power into every American community at any time.
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After a difficult start to his premiership, Keir Starmer must seize the opportunity to start delivering on the kind of radical change he once promised, argues Adam Bienkov
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
The Return of Full Employment – part 2 Steven Hail It seems absurd to manage the economy on the basis that it is essential to…
Milei’s “Radical Plan”, revisited – part 2 Peter Rock-Lacroix In 2023, Javier Milei pitched dollarization as the path toward prosperity for Argentina. Two years on,…
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We were her foster family for two and a half years. We had no claim to her, but she became part of us
- by Kelsey Day
This revelation allows us to live more fully
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A surprising reversal at sea brings a big change
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How nomad bee species rely on deceit to provide for their offspring
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An ongoing concern is that excessive focus on formal modeling and statistics can lead to neglect of practical issues and to overconfidence in formal results … Analysis interpretation depends on contextual judgments about how reality is to be mapped onto the model, and how the formal analysis results are to be mapped back into reality. […]