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Tue, 15/07/2025 - 22:00

1. Thirteen-year-olds work unsupervised in ninety-degree heat.

2. The water contains disturbingly high levels of mercury and pee.

3. Strictest workplace safety regulation: NO RUNNING sign.

4. Its leader stars in garish commercials that wake you up at 3 a.m., and his eyes follow you from towering billboards along the interstate.

5. Medical emergencies are handled in the official Monster Energy Refueling Tent.

6. Purchases can only be made using proprietary currencies with unknowable exchange rates pegged to arbitrary reserves, mostly oversized novelty sunglasses.

7. Every single tree was chopped down to make room for another Dippin’ Dots cart.

8. The legal system consists of a dozen private security guards who skim profits from the gift shop and skim bugs from the Lazy River.

9. Strange men are free to ogle young women with no repercussions.

10. The sewage system is made up of thirty-seven porta-potties and one large bush.

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Tue, 15/07/2025 - 18:35

We’re excited to invite training partners to submit proposals for DrupalCon Chicago 2026, taking place 23-26 March at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

DrupalCon is the premier gathering for the global Drupal community, bringing together developers, designers, strategists, and business leaders for a week of collaboration and knowledge sharing. This year, DrupalCon will highlight major innovations in Drupal CMS, including the rollout of Drupal CMS 2.0, and growing momentum around Drupal-powered AI tools and integrations. It’s a pivotal time in the Drupal ecosystem—and your training can help prepare attendees to thrive in this next era.

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Tue, 15/07/2025 - 17:15
So, the Supremes have decided, without even bothering to write an opinion, that the Department of Education can be massively reduced without Congressional approval: The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may fire more than half of the Department of Education’s workforce — mass terminations that, in Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s words, […]
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Tue, 15/07/2025 - 17:01
Have European leaders stopped to consider the Orwellian implications of gearing up their nations for perpetual war? On March 5 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her Re-Arm Europe Plan, which aims to boost EU defense spending by €800 billion over four years. On June 5, NATO defense ministers agreed to double … Continue reading The False Premise of European Rearmament  
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Tue, 15/07/2025 - 16:53

Drupal 10 will be supported until December 2026

From Drupal 10 on, Drupal core has a new major release schedule with a long-term support phase, so that two major versions are supported at a time. We previously announced that Drupal 10 would be supported until mid- to late 2026, depending on when Drupal 12 was released.

We are updating the release schedule and have agreed that Drupal 10 will officially be supported until December 2026, regardless of whether Drupal 12 is released in June, August, or December. This fixed end-of-life date should provide more certainty for the ecosystem and make planning site upgrades easier.

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Tue, 15/07/2025 - 08:54

In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show how an electoral council member took money in exchange for disqualifying him from running for president again. As his country’s first indigenous president and the leader of powerful social movements, Evo remains popular among his base. Here, Morales addresses the attacks he has weathered from the current Bolivian president, Luis Arce, who relied on him to […]

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Tue, 15/07/2025 - 03:29

JADEN, COLLEGE STUDENT: “It was second semester senior year. I was quietly chatting with classmates before our French literature exam. That’s when an older woman, like, much older, busted into the lecture hall.”

CHLOE, COLLEGE STUDENT: “We all jumped. No one knew who she was. She announced loudly that she was here to take the exam and that she was ‘definitely prepared.’ It was weird.”

MME. MICHELLE, FRENCH PROFESSOR: “I noticed she was holding books from my syllabus that were still in shrink wrap. She clearly hadn’t done any of the reading. Certainly, she had never attended my class.”

CHLOE: “She was carrying so much crap: books, shopping bags, strollers, and this huge stack of REAL IDs. Everything was spilling onto the ground, but she couldn’t pick them up because of, well… her disability.”

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Mon, 14/07/2025 - 22:00

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.