For several years now, yours truly has been teaching an introductory economics course every fall for future social studies teachers. Alongside a few of my own books, Klas Eklund’s Vår ekonomi (Our Economy) is also on the reading list. The book was released in its 16th revised edition in December 2024—an impressive feat and in itself […]
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In preparation for the minor release, Drupal 11.2.x will enter the alpha phase the week of May 7, 2025. Core developers should plan to complete changes that are only allowed in minor releases prior to the alpha release.
The 11.2.0-alpha1 deadline for most core patches is May 7, 2025.
The 10.6.x release branch of core will be created for the next maintenance minor release.
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Developers and site owners can begin testing the alpha after its release.
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The 11.2.x release branch of core will be created before the alpha is tagged. Future feature and API additions will continue to be targeted against the main development branch, 11.x.
Anniversaries of the Hillsborough tragedy call to mind historian Lucy Noakes’ description of grief as a ‘disruptive emotion’ with the ability to ‘transform our sense of self’. Writing about the home front during the world wars, Noakes explains how authorities, anxious about domestic unrest, sought to discourage this disruptive emotion, instead promoting stoic self-control as […]
After 1971, neoliberalism was an ideology essential in legitimising the emancipation of financial capital from the regulatory shackles of the New Deal and the post-war Bretton Woods system. Today, a new form of capital is on the ascendancy and needs its own ideology to be fully liberated: cloud capital. Cloud capital has created a new […]
The post NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
Australia’s number one Donald Trump impersonator, Peter Dutton, has wheeled his son out in front of the press to illustrate the difficulty young people face in buying their first investment property. ”Times are tough and my son is a classic... Read More ›
An explanation for the abundance of super-Earths
The post Planet Nurseries Are Smaller Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus.
President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations – including his family business – at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees. Watch The Grayzone’s special video report on Noboa’s well-documented ties to transnational drug cartels here. On April 13, 2025, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council proclaimed incumbent President Daniel Noboa the winner of the presidential runoff—a result that his […]
The post Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador appeared first on The Grayzone.
Doctor Who Season 2 Ep. 2: "Lux" is the most gleefully nuts episode to date; an exhilarating and profound defining story for the Disney+ era.
So, basically, the Supremes ruled 9-0 that Trump had to obey a lower court when they court said to return the hairdresser Trump sent to prison in El-Salvador, who is not a gang member as Trump claimed.
This case is wrong in every way:
It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th April 2025 “He’s really gone and done it this time. Now everyone can see what a disaster he is.” How many times have we heard this about Donald Trump? […]
People think of Applebee’s as a safe suburban fixture, a place where people go for an innocuous meal at a reasonable price—but strap in, jagoff, because this Applebee’s is not like other Applebee’s. Instead of license plates and joyful Americana, our walls are festooned with divorce certificates and failed attempts at taxidermy.
Most of the animals are dead, at least.
Other Applebee’s branches have sports on TV. So do we—assuming you consider Czechoslovakian pig-throwing a sport. Those guys can really chuck a hog. If you don’t like it, why don’t you just shuffle across the parking lot to Chili’s? They have all the anodyne comforts your dainty bourgeois sensibilities require, like barstools that aren’t eight feet high.
That’s right, our patrons like it when their feet dangle.
Our servers have tattoos that didn’t go right, medically speaking. They’re bleeding and stuff. But once they heal, you’re going to love looking at them, assuming you like seeing shamrocks beating up non-Irish flowers. It sounds harsh, but the flowers had gotten real mouthy with the shamrocks earlier, insulting the clovers’ cousins and whatnot.
Check out the new image gallery released for Showrunner Russell T. Davies' Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who S02E02: "Lux."
A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists.
The post Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE appeared first on The Intercept.
A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals
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My latest book is called This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel. It’s the story behind the worst movie to have ever won the Academy Award. Have you not heard of this movie?
Let me tell you about it.
But where to begin? Should we begin with the fabled “curse” that afflicted nearly everyone associated with this notorious film, including the gaffers and all three lighting technicians, not to mention the poor thespian pooch, Charlie Boy, the first of two canines to play “Bones the Blind Dog”?
Starvation, siege, and mass expulsion are no longer threats but policies. As Gaza is shattered, the machinery of ethnic cleansing grinds forward, dragging the region—and perhaps the world—toward a reckoning.
The post Chris Hedges: Israel is About to Empty Gaza appeared first on MintPress News.
The Trump administration vows to seek the death penalty “whenever possible.” But federal cases move slowly, and few result in a death sentence at all.
The post Trump Will Be Long Gone Before Luigi Mangione Faces Execution appeared first on The Intercept.
To protect themselves from liability, fossil fuel companies are taking inspiration from laws shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.
And then the light of an older heaven was in my eyesand when my vision cleared, I saw Titans. — Alan Moore Today’s Occasional Paper comes to us from the James Webb Space Telescope. So let’s start with some basics: nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. So when a telescope looks out […]