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Sat, 05/04/2025 - 04:30

“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE

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Hell is not a lake of fire, nor is it composed of the circles Dante envisioned, like an infant’s stacking toy.

It’s not “The Bad Place” of sitcom fame, though it’s easy to imagine some in the current administration taking notes on hot dog torture and butthole spiders.

It’s not the Hellmouth, nor is it one of the dark parallel universes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as much as some of us want to believe we’ve shifted into an alternate reality.

Hell is as foundational as smallpox blankets and pedophile priests, as petty as a MAGA-festooned pickup that “rolls coal” on a passing Prius.

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Sat, 05/04/2025 - 01:05
Sällan eller aldrig har man anledning vara nöjd med ekonomijournalistiken i press, radio och television. Ytterst få ekonomijournalister och börsanalytiker tar sitt jobb på allvar och bedriver ekonomisk journalistik värd namnet. De flesta av oss har därför sedan länge gett upp. Synd bara att allmänheten ska behöva nöja sig med det tyckmyckentrutade nonsens som helt […]
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Fri, 04/04/2025 - 23:00

1. White people achieve new levels of whiteness via their most privileged impulses.

2. The stars of the show are a group of entitled and insensitive characters who may or may not face the consequences of their own actions.

3. There will be some antagonists and villains from previous seasons.

4. New and unsavory characters will be introduced.

5. Class, wealth, and power will be constantly explored in a way that seems humorous at first but is ultimately dispiriting and devastating.

6. An egocentric man will not consider his family’s well-being in the name of becoming obscenely rich.

7. We will witness an onslaught of clumsy international affairs.

8. There will be crimes in broad daylight, of course.

9. There will be fascinating, perplexing, and disturbing monologues by men.

10. The most dysfunctional characters will mask themselves as friendly and convivial to hide their moral flaws and inherent awfulness.

11. Tension will build as the audience realizes everyone involved has a literal nation-shattering secret.

12. Other cultures will continue to serve as a mirror to America’s bawdiness.

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Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:03

COFFS Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG) has announced the dates of its annual Showground Gallery Art Prize. The long-standing exhibition runs from Saturday 3 May to Wednesday 11 June, with entries from local and member artists now open until Friday 18 April. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:01

NEW Zealander Grant “Axe” Rawlinson and Australian Luke Richmond have set a new record, rowing from Houhora in far north New Zealand to Coffs Harbour in 22 days, two hours and 40 minutes – knocking nine days off the previous record. Arriving in Coffs Harbour at 4.45pm on Friday 28 March, the men were escorted...

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Fri, 04/04/2025 - 18:00
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Fri, 04/04/2025 - 17:52
. Trump’s tariff policy is a 21st-century version of mercantilism — prioritizing national economic control, protectionism, and trade deficits as a measure of economic success. As early as 1752, in his essay Of the Balance of Trade, David Hume debunked the intellectual foundations of mercantilism by demonstrating that trade is not a zero-sum game and that wealth […]