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We’ve had mostly floating exchange rates for fifty years. You’d think by now people would report using the correct currency

How will Judge Tanya Chutkan respond? Ten days and a second stern warning later, the toddler threw his spoon again early this morning (Politico): Donald Trump slammed the judge presiding over his newest criminal case early Monday, testing her three-day-old warning that he refrain from “inflammatory” attacks against those involved in his case. In a Truth Social post just before 1 a.m., Trump assailed U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan as “highly partisan” and “very biased and unfair,” citing as evidence a statement she made during the sentencing of a woman who participated in the mob that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “She obviously wants me behind bars,” Trump wrote. What followed is in all caps, of course. He’s daring her to do it. The deranged teetotaler is so drunk on himself, he thinks he’s bulletproof. Trump was alluding to Chutkan’s remark during the October 2022 sentencing of Christine Priola of Ohio. Chutkan admonished Priola, before sentencing her to 15 months in jail, about the Jan. 6 mob’s threat to the peaceful transfer of power. “I see the videotapes.

In his history of experimental social science — Randomistas: How radical researchers are changing our world — Andrew Leigh gives an introduction to the RCT (randomized controlled trial) method for conducting experiments in medicine, psychology, development economics, and policy evaluation. Although it mentions there are critiques that can be waged against it, the author does […]

Despite failing to speak in Parliament for over a year, Tory MP Nadine Dorries has made time for her lucrative TalkTV job

Here’s the thing, everything you experience is your consciousness. When you see or hear another person or any object, what you’re experiencing is a representation.

Again, what you’re experiencing is yourself;  your consciousness. This the heart of all of the “I am everything” spiritual forms. You have never known anything directly except yourself and you never will.

he NHBC is the country’s largest building control inspector says it is " independent of Government and the construction industry”. But its corporate affairs team has strong links to the Conservative Party

The American right lost its religion Pondering the collapse of the simulacrum of conservative faith in God and country, Hemmingway’s account of how one goes bankrupt comes to mind: “gradually and then suddenly.” Digby and then Will Bunch remarked on the NPR interview last week with Russell Moore, editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today magazine, about his new book, “Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America.” The openness with which holy, coal-rolling Christian nationalists rejected both Jesus and the nation’s founding principles is only a surprise to those who have not been keen observers of the political and religious right. Their pas de deux has spun on since the 1970s, their steamy embrace growing closer with the decades. “The increasingly dire, near-death experience of American democracy has felt like the proverbial frog in boiling water,” Bunch begins. But it’s not just democracy at risk. Evangelicals and American conservatives have lost their faith, gradually and then suddenly.

The economic legacy of the now imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan is prompting many Pakistanis to think of leaving

It’s the year 2364 and a tatty old space shuttle containing former Wall Street capitalist Ralph Offenhouse, who was cryogenically frozen in 1994, has just been discovered floating through space by a starship called the Enterprise–D. Upon waking, Offenhouse discovers that, although science has found a cure for his previously terminal illness, his bank accounts […]

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The Fulton Country District Attorney is looking at the same facts as the federal indictment, but under different laws and with the potential for new uninvestigated evidence

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Rick and Morty, Jared Padalecki, Stephen Amell/SAG-AFTRA, Doctor Who, My Adventures with Superman, and more!

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The focus on 'language' policing by the arbiters of educational standards exacerbates class and racial inequalities argues a new report

In this 1969 clip, English children give answers to questions on religion with unguarded, and often quite amusing, candour

- by Aeon Video

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When we think of changes in Earth’s history as changes of dynasty we miss out on understanding how life really works

- by Riley Black

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The West Virginia senator has appeared repeatedly on Fox News to chastise his Democratic colleagues as he considers a presidential run.

The post Fox Executives Are Pouring Cash Into Joe Manchin’s Campaign appeared first on The Intercept.

How we take in information has a remarkably significant effect on how intuitive or analytical we are in thinking about it

- by Janet Geipel & Boaz Keysar

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The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest US inflation data last week (August 10, 2023) – Consumer Price Index Summary – which showed that overall monthly inflation to be 0.2 per cent and mostly driven by housing. And, once we understand how the housing component is calculated then there is every reason to…

Without wolves or lynx, our ecosystems remain barren, depleted and overrun by proliferating deer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th August 2023 What’s missing from this picture? I mean the picture of rural Britain many of us hold in our heads, whether it be a thatched and mullioned idyll, or the bare hills […]

Miami beach is vulnerable to climate change – and palms aren't doing the trick.