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1. Spirit Week continues into perpetuity. No theme will ever be repeated, and your children will need unique costumes every day for the rest of their lives.

2. Out of nowhere, you have another child you have no memory of giving birth to. He’s in third grade, and tomorrow is the first day of Spirit Week. He tells you he needs a toga to wear to school and that you have forgotten to vaccinate or feed him for the past eight years.

3. You are contacted by the middle school you attended. In 1998, you failed to return the Paso a Paso Spanish-language student learning CD-ROM companion set to the library and, therefore, never graduated eighth grade. If you do not redo the semester, it will invalidate all subsequent education you ever received. They are expecting you tomorrow at 8 a.m. It’s Spirit Week, and you have a major project due. You are forty years old, and tomorrow you will give an oral presentation in Spanish in your wackiest pajamas.

A federal appeals court will decide whether Douglass Mackey should go to prison for his posts about Hillary Clinton and the 2016 election.

The post A MAGA Troll’s Memes Were Blatant Disinformation. But Were They a Crime? appeared first on The Intercept.

Thomas Neuberger, one of my favorite bloggers, has an excellent post on the fact that swathes of types of insurance are going to go extinct because of climate change. Property, fire, home (except from theft, though that may get hit during collapse) and so on. It’s worth a read.

This has already started to happen. Insurance companies are refusing to write new fire insurance policies in parts of California, for example, and no one with sense wants to insure buildings against hurricane risk in Florida. But it will spread: rivers will swell during climate change before they shrink, for example. Acts of God will become more and more common everywhere. Crop insurance, for example, is something that will become more expensive.

Universal Music Group CEO and prominent Pro-Israel advocate Lucian Grainge has been labeled a co-defendant in a lawsuit aimed at hip hop mogul P Diddy, alleging the trafficking of children. Meanwhile, A-list actor and Zionist hype man Ashton Kutcher is expecting to be subpoenaed.

The post P Diddy Pedo Party Lawsuit Snags Another Pro-Israel Lobbyist: Music Exec Lucian Grainge appeared first on MintPress News.

“Say her name!” Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden’s State of the Union Address. The same slogan was on the T-shirt she wore under her red jacket, which had a pin with a picture of the person whose name she was referring to — a pin she’d also handed out to colleagues before that session as well as to the president as he passed her on his way to the rostrum. The name was Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student murdered in Georgia, Greene’s home state, on February 22nd. The man accused of killing her, Jose Antonio Ibarra, had been identified as an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. Greene’s theatrics that night were obviously meant to put... Read more

Source: How About These Names, Marjorie Greene? appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

by Daniel Wortel-London

Economies that operate within planetary boundaries are likely to be heavily localized compared to economies today. Planners will need to shift modes of transportation and redesign cities. Businesses will need to shorten supply chains. This is because freight and passenger travel impact the environment extensively. Respecting planetary boundaries requires that we create economies that do not rely heavily on long-distance travel.

To help accomplish this goal,

The post Introducing the Mileage Fee Act appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.

Hi, I’m wondering if I could interest you in a brand-new sparkling water brand. I don’t have a name for it, because it doesn’t yet exist. Every aspect of this product is still very early in the planning stage. But I can assure you that the name will probably be something fun and catchy, like Zoinks or Floop. Now that I hear it out loud, we’ll probably end up closer to Zoinks than Floop on the Zoinks-Floop Spectrum.

The IVF vs. embryonic personhood fracas forces Republicans to face the living people harmed by their defense of cellular rights.

The post Pro-Lifers Are Up Against a Real-Life Crisis appeared first on The Intercept.

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New court filings say that the city is violating an eight-year-old court order mandating access to education for people under 22.

The post NYC Jails Flagrantly Deny Young People’s Legal Right to Education appeared first on The Intercept.