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Plus, how social media shortens your life, a reclusive billionaire’s private bridge, and the Biden legislation that quietly fueled mass foreclosures.

We tend to think of prejudice in negative terms, but there are positive prejudices as well. I was just telling a friend that I’d trust a random Sikh more than any other religion/ethnicity. Just seem to have a very high proportion of good people. Also think well of the diaspora Chinese, as a rule, perhaps […]

Solidarity Melbourne Branch Committee statement

The post A broad, united anti-racist response to the ‘March for Australia’ is needed to defeat the far right first appeared on Solidarity Online.

David Sirota’s full interview with the “greed beat” journalist about the bizarre ways the mega-rich are spending their millions.

It wouldn’t be savvy politics to push to cut police funding. Adams and Cuomo know that.

The post Zohran Mamdani Won’t Defund the Police. The Movement Can Grow With Him Anyway. appeared first on The Intercept.

I  veckans avsnitt av Starta pressarna  försöker  Daniel Suhonen, Elisabeth Lindberg och Enna Gerin att tillsammans med Karin Pettersson — kulturchef på Aftonbladet och författare till den nyutkomna boken Förbannelsen: Hur Sverige fastnade i 90-talet och förlorade framtiden — reda ut varför så många ledande socialdemokratiska politiker ännu idag är fast i en nyliberal ‘tankebur’ […]

by Crawford Spence* There is plenty of work out there on financial intermediaries. Most of this can be found in finance or economics journals and displays little evidence of its authors having spent any time with financial intermediaries at all. Rather, studies looking at asset managers or investment bankers tend to be carried out at […]

I do these occasional posts about science papers.  Some are just for fun.  But sometimes — honest! — there’s an underlying connection to the greater Crooked Timber project. This post is one of that sort, because it’s about the limits of understanding.  Unsurprisingly, it involves biology.  So we all learned back in high school that […]

The Justice Department’s interest in stripping trans people of Second Amendment rights would expose vulnerable communities to more danger.

The post Trump’s DOJ Wants to Deprive Trans People of the Right to Self-Defense appeared first on The Intercept.

Diseases that cause suffocation, paralysis, and childhood death are poised to come surging back

The post Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future appeared first on Nautilus.

A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.

The post Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians appeared first on The Intercept.

The radical urbanist media loves to throw around baseless accusations like “rampage.” “Godzilla rampages,” “cities destroyed in rampage,” and “world in the grip of rampagism.” The word has lost all meaning by this point. And it’s not even fair because the lawful, beautiful actions that I undertook around the globe against the likes of Tokyo or New York were anything but a rampage. It was a precise enforcement of the law meant to keep everyone safe.

I have nothing against cities. There are plenty of good, honest cities out there just trying to get on with their lives. I’ve known some really great cities in my time. But when a city shows up without papers, without proper authorization, just popping up out of the blue instead of doing things legally, the right way, I have no choice but to act swiftly and decisively. These are really bad ciudades we’re dealing with here. You see an innocent skyline; I see a potential security threat. Those towers can be signaling enemy kaiju. Those electric lights may be sending signals into space meant for alien invaders. You don’t know. I’m not willing to take that risk.

A shooter killed two children and injured 21 people—three adults in their 80s and 18...

An American plan to disarm Hezbollah is creating tension — with Israel waiting in the wings.

The post Are Trump’s Middle East Envoys Pushing Lebanon Into Another Civil War? appeared first on The Intercept.

Her guru was strong enough to stop his own heart—but was there a more frightening aspect of his power?

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Swami Rama, Living with the Himalayan Masters, Biofeedback, The Menninger Foundation, Exquisite Control, Sanskrit, Guru-hood, Child-Memory, The Smell of Cigarettes and Cologne, Palo Alto, Ayurveda, A Fucked-Up Zen Koan, Yoga Journal, Katharine Webster, Sexual Violence, Shiva, Logical Contortions, Pandits, The Rubric of Desirability.

You don’t have to take off your shoes anymore, unless you want to. If you’ve realized that the pair you chose is terrible, you can still put them into a bin and slide them into the scanner, because it’s our job to stop bad decisions from making their way onto airplanes.

“We are confiscating these shoes,” we will announce loudly. “Not because their wearer has atrocious taste, but because they are dangerous.”

You can reclaim your shoes at the baggage carousel. Whether you should is between you and your God.

If you’re into crafts, be aware that knitting needles are fine now. Yes, that includes the long, thick ones that look like railroad spikes. We noticed that only “women of a certain age” really use those.

If an eighty-five-year-old woman wants to stab someone with a knitting needle, quite frankly, she’s earned it. Whoever gets it probably had it coming.

Throughout history, writers have received patronage from richer, more powerful members of their societies. They have also tested the limits of this patronage: Shakespeare, a member of the King’s Men, an acting company that had exclusive control over its productions, wisely set all his plays involving regicide outside England or in the distant past; Jane […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase

Leading doctors have accused Nigel Farage of putting lives at risk by letting Aseem Malhotra give the only health-related address at the conference