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Our minds are being coerced in covert ways.

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Two people reportedly sprayed an odious chemical at protesters, leaving students with burning eyes, nausea, and chest pain.

The post Columbia Scolds Students for “Unsanctioned” Gaza Rally Where They Were Attacked With Chemicals appeared first on The Intercept.

They’re coming around to Trump It’s always better under Republicans, right? Yes, I know they’re all Masters Of The Universe but they are political idiots. Do they think civil unrest and authoritarian chaos are going to keep the party going? They must. They wanted DeSantis but Trump will do: As Donald Trump surges toward the Republican nomination, many Wall Street executives have made a calculated decision not to speak out against him, and in some cases they will consider supporting the Republican former president over Democratic President Joe Biden, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. “A lot of people on Wall Street have been living in this pipe dream of Trump not getting the nomination. People were in the first stage of [grief], denial. Now they’re trying to get their heads around the fact that Trump could be the nominee,” said an executive at a private equity firm. Like others in this story, the executive was granted anonymity in order to relay details of private conversations.

It’s a story that can inspire even the most cynical among us. A person endures...

There’s a reason why we haven’t yet had a woman president. It’s sexism. And there is one party that’s more sexist than the other: Women are 50% of the population. A whole lot of people don’t think it matters at all that they are not fully represented while a fair number are actively hostile to the idea. That’s just reality.

What we know about a mysterious condition called visual snow.

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In a bid to repress movements like Stop Cop City, the far right wants enhanced penalties based on “political affiliation or belief.”

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There have been a lot of videos circulating lately with Trump’s most recent gaffes like the one repeatedly accusing Nikki Haley of failing to provide proper security in the congress on January 6th. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now. But there have been many of these mistakes during this campaign and it’s starting to penetrate the media. Finally. Here are a few that the DeSantis campaign cataloged during its rare moments of actually trying to beat Donald Trump: I’m sorry, that’s just not normal. And Biden has done nothing like this.

Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India takes these invitations seriously as it uses India’s bovine sector – key to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of rural Indians – as the entry point for analysing capitalist dynamics under Modi’s authoritarian populism.

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I can only think of one person Oh look, a ratfuck: The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says it is investigating what appears to be an “unlawful attempt” at voter suppression after NBC News reported on a robocall impersonating President Joe Biden telling recipients not to vote in Tuesday’s presidential primary. “Although the voice in the robocall sounds like the voice of President Biden, this message appears to be artificially generated based on initial indications,” the attorney generals office said in a statement. “These messages appear to be an unlawful attempt to disrupt the New Hampshire Presidential Primary Election and to suppress New Hampshire voters. New Hampshire voters should disregard the content of this message entirely.” The investigation comes after a prominent New Hampshire Democrat, whose personal cell phone number showed up on the caller ID of those receiving the call, filed a complaint. “What a bunch of malarkey,” the robocall phone message begins, echoing a favorite term Biden has uttered before.

“Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida suspended his campaign for president on Sunday and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump, marking a spectacular implosion for a candidate once seen as having the best chance to dethrone Mr. Trump as the Republican Party’s nominee in 2024.” — New York Times

Please rise to commemorate a great culture warrior who fought his last battle this weekend against the terrifying threat of family-friendly restaurants like Hamburger Mary’s. Today, we honor this awe-inspiring man who dared to draw a line in the sand by harassing and targeting kids and terrorizing their parents.

America insists on treating China as an economic threat, but the reality is that China’s economic advancement has benefited us all. Instead, the stagnation of wages and manufacturing job losses experienced by Trump supporters in the US largely reflects the impact of technological change. For the best part of forty years, from the late 1970s Continue reading »

Last week the French government joined the German government in claiming that the Genocide Convention does not apply to Israel. Because the convention was created in response to the Shoah, Israel should have legal immunity for any war crimes it commits, including the genocide which it is currently conducting against Palestinians in Gaza. Paris has Continue reading »

I’m going to keep this one brief.

At the start, Covid could have been stopped with travel bans, track and trace, mandatory isolation and lockdowns.

The problem with how everyone did lockdowns is that they did them too late. Instead of starting lockdowns when hardly anyone had Covid BUT R was over 0 (one case of Covid was spreading to more than one person) they would wait until the numbers were high. As a result lockdowns were long, but never actually crushed Covid and over time support for lockdowns was lost.

But the real problem is that controlling Covid spread required travel bans. Western Australia, which controlled Covid almost completely for over a year, did so by shutting down all non-essential travel. If this had been done worldwide, Covid could have been ended early.

Despite being detained, silenced, and hidden from public view in the maximum security Belmarsh prison for the past five years, as the day of his extradition draws near, the spectre of Julian Assange looms ever larger over the politics of the AUKUS lands. By exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq in the searing documentary Collateral Continue reading »

A day I have long prophesied, and for which I have been yearning may be at hand. It’s a pity that the Albanese government does not really deserve a place at any celebrations, and may indeed, try to frustrate them. The tide is turning for our boat people policies, and Australia’s shameful treatment of several thousand Continue reading »

Much has been written about the entrenched disadvantage in public Schools. Successive Governments have failed to provide the very basic resources for these students. Further evidence has revealed a concentration of students with disabilities that require additional support are now located in residualised comprehensive public schools. These impoverished conditions have been easily avoided for families Continue reading »

The science is in. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has overnight confirmed that 2023 was the earth’s warmest year on record: 0.16°C warmer than the previous record year (2016); 0.6°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average; 1.48°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. The report from Copernicus notes that each month from June to December Continue reading »