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I’m not into politics. Never have been. That’s why it was so refreshing to have a candidate who wasn’t the same old same old, but a raging animated ape.

Donkey Kong might not be the most sophisticated public speaker, but it sure was entertaining to go to his rallies. None of the usual bunk about policy and budgets. Just two hours of roaring and chest-pounding. No one gets a crowd going like that monkey! Or donkey. Whatever he is.

But for all the talk from pundits about how we’d see a new side of Donkey Kong once he took office, well, not so much. Turns out we got exactly what we voted for. Day one, he nabbed some lady in a pink dress, climbed to the top of the Capitol, stomped till the floors tilted into a back-and-forth pattern, and started rolling down barrels.

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. President Donkey Kong’s entire platform was that he smashes things. But I figured he’d wait till after the first hundred days to give the system a good pounding. Nope. Right out of the gate, it’s been barrel, barrel, barrel, all day, every day. Some barrels even dip themselves in oil, combust, and then mosey around looking for trouble.

The leader of one of America’s largest unions says that inflation concerns are legitimate but argues that it’s time to end the era of free trade.

During an off-the-record panel, AIPAC’s CEO detailed his organization’s grooming of Trump’s top national security officials, and how his group’s “access” ensures they continue to follow Israel’s agenda. The Grayzone has obtained audio of an off-the-record session from the 2025 Congressional Summit of AIPAC, the main US lobbying arm of the state of Israel. Recorded by an attendee of the panel discussion, the audio features AIPAC’s new CEO, Elliott Brandt, describing how his organization has cultivated influence with three top […]

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Australian Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has been seen on the campaign trail with a spring in his step, following news overnight that his idol, President Trump, took inspiration from him and performed a policy backflip over imposing tariffs on the... Read More ›

A conversation with the Massachusetts congresswoman on challenging executive authority and the ICE abduction of Rümeysa Öztürk.

The post Unchecked: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the President’s Power Grab appeared first on The Intercept.

In this interview with Oli Dugmore, for Politics JOE, I had a chance to lay out – in around 30 minutes – the political economics and economic history behind Donald Trump’s tariff war. As I said to Oli, those of us who oppose Trump have a duty to understand what his team are up to […]

The post On the political economics and the history behind Donald Trump’s tariff war – Politics JOE appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

The Heritage Foundation and its allies claim to fight antisemitism through DEI reforms—but their real goal is silencing pro-Palestinian voices and dismantling academic dissent.​

The post Weaponizing DEI: Inside the Trump-Backed Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity appeared first on MintPress News.

The crested honey buzzard’s unique adaptations help them eat their favorite food: young bees and wasps

The post The Birds Eat the Bees appeared first on Nautilus.

Sixty-one media organizations and press freedom advocates filed an amicus brief warning of the chilling effect on First Amendment rights.

The post Press Coalition Challenges Trump’s Executive Order Threatening Press Freedom and Legal Representation appeared first on The Intercept.

I didn’t see this coming:

In a move that stunned traders, analysts and policymakers alike, China has just announced a complete halt on all liquefied natural gas imports from the United States. A decision made abruptly with no prior indication, no phased reduction and no explanation beyond a terse statement from Beijing…

…China was one of the fastest growing markets for American LNG, importing more than four million tons annually. Cutting that overnight is more than symbolic, it’s surgical.

Early reactions have been nothing short of panic. Energy markets were jolted, LNG prices in Europe and Asia swung wildly and US energy firms reported immediate financial hits…

3:45 a.m. – Wake naturally to the soft sigh of a ghost. Or maybe it’s the hum of the Amherst wind through the shutters. Either way, it’s a Sign. Do not question the Sign.

4:00 a.m. – Lie completely still and compose six hauntingly perfect quatrains in your mind. Refuse to scribble them down. Let them ferment in the silence like forbidden knowledge.

4:45 a.m. – Tape mouth shut. This is not for health. It’s a vow of silence to preserve the sanctity of unspoken verse.

5:00 a.m. – Dwell in possibility while donning a flawless white gown. Consider briefly wearing a beige one, then laugh inwardly. This mortal coil is no place for earth tones.

5:30 a.m. – Place a single drop of rosewater on your forehead. It’s not skincare; it’s communion with eternity.

6:00 a.m. – Practice 1,872 quill strokes. Each stroke corresponds to a previously unpublished poem. Resist the urge to show anyone. Genius is a private affair.

Going beyond their critique of the infamous Signal chat, progressives demanded to know the White House’s legal justification for its Yemen strikes.

The post Progressives Push to Assert Congress Power Over Yemen War appeared first on The Intercept.

Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies and Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Varada Sethu (Belinda Chandra) on Season 2 challenges and more.

While the markets spin out of control, private equity firms are accelerating their looting of shareholders and businesses.

An investigative report has placed Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa at the center of a vast conspiracy to transform his government into a laundromat for transnational drug cartels. The Grayzone spoke to Andres Duran, the journalist who broke the bombshell story, and who had to go into exile to save his own life. Ecuador teeters on the edge of a narco abyss, awash in violence, and with its dollarized economy and strategic ports transformed into a cocaine highway through Guayaquil to […]

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After years of inaction, the Criminal Case Review Commission has finally referred the case of PC Danny Major to the Court of Appeal

The director of the company awarded a multimillion pound Government contract was arrested on suspicion of fraud, conspiracy to cheat the public revenue and fraudulent evasion of income tax

1. Florida Intranational University

2. Johns Hopkins School of Remunerative Medicine

3. Facebook.edu/DeVry

4. Colorado School of Mines—Nuuk

5. Michigan State Online: East Lansing Cohort Cohabitation program brought to you by Airbnb

6. UMass MasterClass

7. Amazon Prime Learning School of Fulfillment Center Sciences (formerly Washington State University)

8. Yale School of (Agentic AI) Management

9. Palm Beach State College Institute for the Study of Climate Change as It Relates to Golf Course Profitability

10. MIT Air Traffic Control School for Geniuses

11. Cascadia Regional Wellness Farm A&M

12. Penn State School of International but No Longer Our Affairs

13. Nestlé-Glaceau Institute for Public Fluoridation Research

14. Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory: A Subsidiary of SpaceX

15. The University of Texas Football Team, LLC

16. Georgetown Weaponized Law School

17. The Wharton School of Using the R-Word in Business Again

18. UCLA Pre-Overseas-Doctoral Program

The U.S. moved toward tariffs that protected U.S. workers, industry, and the environment, says one expert. Trump is undoing it all.

The post What Could Progressive Tariffs Actually Look Like? appeared first on The Intercept.

Participants can "safely and legally smash up a Tesla to vent their rage at Elon Musk, the far-right and billionaires”, as anti-Tesla protests spread across the UK

A haunting elegy to the boreal forests of Finland hand-scratched onto 16mm film with fleeting glimpses of local plant life

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

The 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation

- by Skye C Cleary

Read at Psyche

While waiting for the EU’s response to the Trump Shock (don’t hold your breath for evidence of intelligent life from Brussels…), those of you who really want to worry about something big, turn your attentions to perhaps the largest threat for the status quo – greater than tariffs, equities, bond prices etc. What is that? […]

The post Forget shares, bonds and tariffs. Here is what you should really worry about appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

This is a crucial conversation to have in general, not particularly about Marine Le Pen. It is about the principled position that the democratic Left must take on the question of who has the right to remove the political rights (the right to vote and to seek votes) of whom. We know what can happen […]

The post Should Le Pen be barred? What is the Left’s right answer on this conundrum? appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.