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Twenty eight year old Sydney based accounts assistant, Jeff Jones, has spent his week at work bemoaning to one and all how he has no interest in any of the weekends games of ‘sportsball’ as he calls it. Mr Jones... Read More ›

Workers get trapped, lobbyists push for a D.C. crackdown, and more from The Lever this week.

There is an old European folk tale, which most of us know as ‘Chicken Licken’. In the course of the story, the title character wanders around telling various animals (Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey) that the sky is falling down. They believe him, and together they head off on a mission ‘to […]

Private equity giant BlackRock is waging a scorched-earth campaign to acquire a regional power company as Wall Street seeks to profit from the AI energy boom.

Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. This state-backed tactic aims to distract from war crimes and sell apartheid to a younger generation increasingly critical of Israel.

The post Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide appeared first on MintPress News.

Oxfam spokesperson details heartbreaking reality of life on the ground in Gaza amid on-going aid distribution scandal

After Betsy

Every night a drove of us leaves
Our work building

And clot the lot’s exit up
Till emptied and distant,

No different when I’m stuck
With my key in the ignition,

Not yielding in spite
Of my turning, and as now
The only person

Except for me here, a man
Has knocked on my windshield,

Assuming I’m stuck and asks
To enter my car. He starts it
As if he freed the key

And looks at me
And says I’m a car thief.

To get home safely,
You’ll need me.
I agree.

I may stop somewhere
Away from work

Or stall, on that clotted street
Where everyone’s gone.

Read other poems, plus interviews, essays, advice columns, reviews, and more over at The Believer.

Want to get drinks next week? I know everything’s kind of crazy right now, so no pressure. There’s a cool new bar I read about—fine, saw a TikTok for—that just opened downtown.

The Gilded Beak, have you heard of it?

“Urban aviary meets al fresco pretension,” the website says. Sounds cute.

The cocktail menu looks pretty spectacular too. Lots of drinks with artisanal ice cubes, questionably sourced rim accoutrement, and six-to-twelve ingredients never before seen in libations, all served in kitschy glassware shaped like “mini bird baths.” (One reviewer said they’re “just coup glasses”—but okay, still fun!)

The signature drink everyone’s been raving about is the Owl Fashioned. It’s thirty-four dollars, but you can tell it’s worth it because they gave it a punny name; plus, it’s served with complementary nuts and seeds, and a two-ply napkin. I love thoughtful touches.

They also have a twenty-nine-dollar Macaw-garita. I know you love tequila. And for five dollars more, they’ll even add it in.

The summit’s optics could reshape alliances, potentially moving the US closer to Russia, and sidelines Europe at a moment when transatlantic unity is critical, writes Zarina Zebrisky

There now follows a short public information film containing particulars of Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires’ autumn tour. Brian Bilston tour diary You can find more particulars here, in particular: https://brianbilston.com/events/

Stella Maris seeks apology and damages after drawn-out ordeal which saw her dismissed then reinstated over all-student email on Palestine

From public support for progressive policies to the courage of Palestine Action defenders, signs of a better future are emerging despite Labour's authoritarian drift, argues Compass director Neal Lawson

Tim Walker predicts that Indhu Rubasingham's time as artistic director at the institution will be anything but boring

“This milestone reaffirms what the Pacific has always known: that our voices, cultures and futures matter! That international law can, and must, protect people and the planet.”

David Sirota’s full interview with journalist Sam Graham-Felsen on the far-reaching political implications of the male loneliness crisis.