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Do not underestimate Gen Z Let’s push back on the narrative that young people are not excited about their likely choice of two old men for president in 2024. They are. But that’s not the end of the story. The Independent interviewed young voters at the North Carolina Young Democrats’ annual convention in Durham earlier this month. (Full disclosure: I attended and was one of the event’s sponsors.) Granted, it was a biased crowd: “The thing that I think people miss the most right now about what’s happening is there’s this narrative that young people are not engaged in politics,” North Carolina Democratic State Party Chair, Anderson Clayton, said. “[People say that] they don’t care. They’re not going to vote this year. And I’m like, ‘No, they are.’ Because young people are not stupid. They are a lot smarter than people give them credit for.” Maxwell Frost (D-FL), the youngest member of Congress, pointed to young voters’ support of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign as evidence of their voting behavior. “A lot of young people really loved Bernie Sanders, right?
In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who echoed it in his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” Sadly enough, justice delayed (and possibly denied) is once again front and center in America as we face the specter of Donald Trump and his insistence on eternally evading the reach of the law. What’s at stake isn’t just the fate of the former president, but an essential aspect of democracy. The Georgia Case Recently, the country was privy to attempts by Donald Trump’s lawyers to delay, if... Read more
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MAGA wanted a second Civil War? They wish. Once again the majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court has put its thumb on the scales of justice to preserve minority dominance and elite impunity. In what once seemed a stable democratic republic, the equal justice to which it once aspired, at least on parchment, hangs by slender threads. On Wednesday, the court announced in a one-page proclamation that it would review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that, no, presidents may not assassinate political rivals (or commit other crimes) without legal sanction. Mark Joseph Stern at Slate: The Supreme Court has all but guaranteed that Donald Trump will not face trial for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election before this November’s presidential election. On Wednesday, after more than two weeks’ delay, the court issued an order refusing to lift the stay that’s preventing the Jan. 6 trial, prosecuted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, from moving forward. Instead, the court took up the case, scheduling oral arguments for the week of April 22—nearly two months from now. On this timeline, the justices will probably issue a decision near the end of June.
It’s a year and one day since you died. At times, I feel your presence. I listen to your music every day. I miss you.
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Israel hoped that Gazans would rush in their hundreds of thousands to the Sinai Desert. They did not. Then began speaking of “voluntary migration." Still, Palestinians stayed. Now, they've agreed to invade Rafah, a last-ditch effort to orchestrate another Nakba.
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A new generation of information warfare tools still pose the same threat to Ukraine, unity in Europe and the US elections
To understand Trump’s continuing hold over his fans, we have to ask: Why do they find him so funny?
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Step 1
Go to your local specialty market that is more than five but less than twenty miles away to procure your ingredients.
Step 2
Stop by the meat counter and address your butcher by first name. If you are not on a first-name basis with your butcher, this recipe will not work.
Step 3
Maintain eye contact as you ask your butcher to cut your meat “Toledo style.” Any butcher even passingly familiar with the Toledo style of butchering will know what this means.
Step 4
Purchase a dozen farm-fresh eggs, a bottle of rye vinegar, one liter of cranberry oil, the expensive brand of beef broth, a bag of organic carrots, and a sprig of chervil. No substitutions.
Step 5
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Step 6
Beat your eggs using your Kitchenaid Stand Mixer’s bazooka attachment.
Step 7
When your eggs achieve a frothy consistency that resembles the breakers at Mykonos at magic hour, stir in the dry ingredients.
The allegations come as one in three renters say private renting is negatively impacting their mental health – with eviction threats looming in many cases
Chris Blackhurst unpacks the NatWest scandal that toppled the first woman to head a High Street bank.
Plus, the lost Richard Lewis interview, a huge sale in D.C., a long-forgotten anniversary, and the unfortunate return of Arthur Laffer.
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What led the Prime Minister to join a protest against his own government’s policies? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th February 2024 Step back a pace to see how weird this is. Last week, the prime minister of the United Kingdom joined a protest against one of the UK’s four governments. Farmers had […]
How far out can you forecast inflation? This analysis examines the accuracy of core inflation in predicting headline inflation for periods ranging from three to 24 months in the future.
Keir Starmer is a big fan of meaningless slogans. In his latest bid to prove that the Labour Party will actually do something when it inevitably comes to power at the next election, Starmer has announced plans to build a ‘patriotic economy’. The focus of this latest slogan is home ownership. Starmer has said he […]
THE COFFS Harbour Chamber of Commerce hosted a General Manager’s Update Breakfast last Thursday at Opal Cove Resort, with City of Coffs Harbour’s (CoCH) Natalia Cowley guest speaking. Eighteen months into the General Manager (GM) role, Ms Cowley shared details of what had been achieved by Coffs Harbour’s council and what lies ahead. To a...
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A narrative-defining Times investigation claimed to uncover Hamas’s systemic weaponization of sexual violence. The story and its authors are under fire.
The post The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé appeared first on The Intercept.
Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “SUCCESSION” in Engravers Gothic and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns Thune (R-S.D.), Cornyn (R-Texas), and Barrasso (R-Wyo.). Grab and burn Nicholas Britell’s main title theme from Succession. Import all files into Final Cut Pro […]
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When I was in London recently, I was repeatedly assailed with the idea that the Liz Truss debacle proves that the financial markets in Britain are more powerful than the government and can force the latter to comply with lower spending and lower taxes. It seems the progressives have a new historical marker which they…