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A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.

Last week, Boeing Airlines CEO Dave Calhoun testified before Congress. The title the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations gave the session was “Boeing’s Broken Safety Culture,” but it might as well have been “PLEASE, for the Love of GOD, Why Did That Door YEET ITSELF Off Your Plane 16,000 Feet in the AIR!?!”

Rules. Yeah rules ought to hold him. So CNN believes it can keep Donald John Trump under control during tonight’s debate. They have rules. Rules will tame him. And no live audience to mug for. They’ll mute the candidates’ mics when their answer periods are up. Slate’s Molly Olmstead wonders: Will all those rules keep this exercise on the rails? CNN has said that moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash “will use all tools at their disposal to enforce timing and ensure a civilized discussion” (emphasis mine). But it remains to be seen what that means. If Trump begins stalking the stage menacingly or either candidate starts interrupting (or even yelling), will Tapper and Bash open up a trapdoor? Whip out a lasso or old-timey shepherd’s crook to yank the candidates offstage? Pull a fire alarm? And there’s no plan for live fact-checking. How will any falsehoods be curtailed? They won’t be. Trump is a firehose of falsehoods.

1. “That’s true they don’t go far. But it’s never been great for your climb. They call it climate.”

2. “And you can never quarantine the past.”

3. “He needs a haircut more than I do. It’s true. I couldn’t tell. Needs a haircut.”

4. “Oh, everybody’s gotta ride in something. High life, lived, comatosed him.”

5. “They delivered a swift and swiping, and you know that sweeping, it was swift and it was sweeping.”

6. “You’re the type of girl I like. Because you’re empty, and I’m empty.”

7. “He can’t even finish the song of the law. Are they civilized or satanist?”

8. “She speaks in rhyme, the way she talks, the bus will go here, and then the bus will go there because that’s what buses do.”

9. “I can’t believe she’s married to Roe.”

10. “They sacrifice every day for the furniture, the future… of their children.”

11. “This is the very definition of totally terrytism.”

12. “We got the money. It’s so funny how we went right down to the store, we got, so they put you down… we got the money.”

13. “And with total premedication.”

14. “She rabble-rousing, dental surf combat.”

For the fixers, enablers, and vassals who surround Donald Trump, the rewards of his friendship are not worth the risks.

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Das Problem der arabischen Flüchtlinge, entstanden 1958. Es ist ein ausführliches politisches Memorandum mit diversen Kapiteln, Statistiken, Empfehlungen, verfasst unter Mitwirkung von jüdischen und nichtjüdischen Experten und Wissenschaftlern, darunter Hannah Arendt. Deren konkrete Textarbeit kann heute nicht mehr nachgewiesen werden – sie gab zwar ihren Namen, erwähnte selber die Schrift aber kaum jemals, nur ihr […]

The final head to head debate between Starmer and Sunak didn’t have a single question on climate or nature.

During his Labour leadership election, Starmer hinted at backing proportional representation. But he now appears to support continuing with Westminster's First Past The Post voting system

The term burnout was first used by German-American psychologist Herbert J. Freudenberger in 1974 to describe ‘cases of physical or mental collapse as the result of overwork’ in activist circles around the LA free clinic movement. Originally covering those trying to change society, it began to become applied to those working too hard to succeed […]

Can we save coral reefs from the ravages of climate change? Why engineering heat-tolerant species is our moral imperative

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Although ‘co-rumination’ bolsters relationships in some ways, it also distracts from other, better coping methods

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Anticolonial modernity was founded upon the fight for liberation from communists, capitalists and imperialists alike

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I filed a lawsuit to obtain the 6,700-page report with “excruciating detail” about the CIA’s abuses.

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Rishi Sunak's party has been accused of lying to the public after posing as independent fact checkers during the BBC Leaders Debate

Private prison companies are pushing states to get tougher on crime, then cashing in on the profits.

After the Far Right National Rally (RN) took the prizes in the recent European Parliament elections and seriously dented the electoral appeal of Emmanual Macron’s grouping, the French President decided to follow the British script and dissolved the French Parliament and called a snap election, the first round of which will take place on June…

Alleged “confessions” by two Palestinians in Israeli custody filmed seemingly admitting to multiple rapes, murders, and kidnappings on October 7, do not match the events of that day, are contradicted by copious evidence, and were likely coerced through torture. US and British media are running with the stories regardless. On May 23, 2024, Britain’s Daily Mail published what it described as “exclusive” interrogation tapes it had been handed by Israeli intelligence. The Murdoch-owned tabloid claimed the supposed confessions exposed a […]

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Nate Silver is out with a new polling model that says Donald Trump has a 66% chance of winning and everyone on social media is having a fit. If you come across that I would just suggest you remember this: You’ll note that’s dated the day of the election. How’d that work out? Just keep in mind that these close races, as they all are these days, are impossible to predict and data guys like Silver should stop with this nonsense. All it does is make people nervous and unhappy.

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You have to watch this. It’s short: WAIT, WHAT??? Is MTG telling Steve Bannon that President Biden, Jake Tapper, and Dana Bash are planning to murder Donald Trump at tomorrow's CNN debate? Holy sh*t. pic.twitter.com/fSZtbls280 — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) June 26, 2024 Here’s Trump’s top adviser just five years ago: A global “cable” of satan worshiping pedophiles. This is one of the most powerful people in the United States.

How our inhospitable neighbor can help us find life elsewhere.

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