The Trump administration's attempts to downplay human rights abuses globally suggests they want to make it easier to violate them domestically, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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It is a truth, if not universally acknowledged then at least generally believed, that Ben Franklin put forth the turkey as our national bird. This is not true. He did criticize the eagle on a draft of the Great Seal as looking rather like a turkey, and in so doing he did call the turkey, however un-seal-worthy, “a much more respectable Bird” than an eagle. Eagles, he said, did not make their livings honestly, being too lazy to fish for themselves. A turkey, in contrast, besides being “a true original native of America,” was, by his lights, “though a little vain and silly,” still “a bird of courage.”
Remember me? I’m the guy with “Christian” and “Patriot” on my Twitter profile. My avatar is a picture of me wearing sunglasses and a baseball hat in the front seat of my car. I also have a #girldad on my profile, but that only applies to two weekends a month. I’m a critical thinker. I’m a complex guy. I’m not one of those blind partisan voters.
I am uncomfortable with how Republicans say Democrats are too focused on identity politics, woke ideology, socialism, CRT, and DEI. Not that Democrats are, just that Republicans say they are, so it must be true.
I’m socially liberal and fiscally conservative, which is no way a meaningless label I use to mask my bigotry and disdain for any voice different than mine.
Yeah, I think gay people should be allowed to get married, because I’m socially liberal. I also don’t support federal spending on health care, education, environmental protection, or raising the minimum wage for the first time since 2009. I mean, $7.25 is plenty. I’m fiscally conservative and socially liberal, in that I act liberal in social settings.
Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky.
The post Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.
The interviews in this collection were conducted with prominent thinkers, such as Steve Keen, Herman Daly and Jayati Ghosh, with important things to say on areas of economy often neglected or distorted by mainstream economics. The subject matter ranges from ecological economics, through to development, methodology, conventions, finance, financialisation and banking. If you want to […]
Everything eats and is eaten. Everything destroys and is destroyed. It is our moral duty to strike back at the Universe
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We were a new stepfamily, and only the puppy was missing. With Elsa, we lobbed a grenade into the mix
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Veteran strategist Nina Smith warns the Democratic Party is failing at the basics.
The post Democrats Are Missing Political Layups And Dooming Us All appeared first on The Intercept.
It's time to bury this myth for good, argues Derrick Wyatt
The pattern is all too familiar. Someone commits a crime, the far right seizes on it as supposed proof of their racist theories about the origins of crime, a particular group is targeted on social media, and violence begins — often fuelled by conservative figures in parliament. This happened in the UK during the summer […]
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Before I give my answers, I’d appreciate if you, the reader, would consider these three questions yourself. In the West: What is society for? What is it set up to do? What should society be for? What makes a society or group good? Some years ago I considered the issue of who is let in […]
Hours after The Lever’s report, legislators defanged a stealth provision that could have shielded tech giants from lawsuits.
I managed to time things perfectly – I had a conference in Manchester after day one of the Cheltenham festival, which our friend Bob hasn’t missed since 1953, so we all went to see the first day of Gloucestershire v Hampshire (starring Wisconsin’s own Ian Holland!) at Cheltenham, and I booked a rail ticket from […]
People took mushrooms, then studied famous paintings. Here’s what happened. The post Looking at Art on Psychedelics appeared first on Nautilus. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was shocked to learn that his appearance on Sharri Markson’s Sky News show was only watched by 10’s of people. The Israeli PM is blaming the low ratings on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. ”It’s... Read More ›
Airbursts from space may be more common than we thought The post The Cosmos Is Trying to Kill Us appeared first on Nautilus. Amid PBS funding cuts, right-wing agitprop Prager University aims for the head of the class.
"Australian National University's recent announcement to slash three full time positions at the Australian Dictionary of Biography and “disestablish” the Australian National Dictionary ... represent cultural vandalism on a breathtaking scale.'
We stand before the world with a dire warning. Unless we, as a united front, address this generational crisis, we risk permanently exhausting one of our greatest resources. Our findings are shocking and sobering, but hopefully, this will inspire world governments to make substantive changes. For if we continue at this current rate, our scientists fear that we will hit Peak Walton Goggins within the next year and a half, if not sooner. Goggins is a gem—a true icon. No one argues with that empirical data. But these levels of Goggins consumption are unsustainable. Our models predict that the global community will grow tired of this beautiful man if he continues to appear in every TV series, ad campaign, and suggested Instagram reel. We will have burned through his charm far too quickly, and the next generation will inherit a world without his darkly comedic, sweaty sex appeal. A reporter gets handed a potato chip bag stuffed with payola.
. Oxygène is arguably the prototype for what we now call ambient or chillout music. I remember visiting London with a student friend of mine back in 1977, and it was absolutely everywhere in the city. I thought it was great then. I still do.
Investigators traced the remittances an immigrant was sending from Hawaii to Mexico to figure out his location. The post ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers appeared first on The Intercept. | ||