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Fri, 03/04/2026 - 06:42

A cohort of 42 media organizations and press freedom advocates filed an amicus brief supporting court decisions against Trump’s attempts to censor the press and legal profession.

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Thu, 02/04/2026 - 23:25
. Important and far-reaching questions indeed. Taxing the rich is not only a question of raising revenue or counteracting potentially increasing inflation. Inequality that undermines democracy is a dangerous thing. Without a conscious effort to counteract the inevitable forces driving our societies towards extreme income and wealth inequality, our societies fracture. It is crucial to […]
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Thu, 02/04/2026 - 00:30
The core reason for America and Europe’s decline (and, in a way, Japan’s) was the belief by our elites that money was the only thing which mattered. Money is the ability command resources from anyone who will, or must, sell. People who need to sell their labor or starve—Marx’s famous “whip of hunger.” Countries who […]
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Wed, 01/04/2026 - 08:13
Although I never submitted to it, I made several appearances in the now-defunct quote database on bash.org (QDB). I’m dealing with a broken keyboard now, and went to dig hard to find this classic in the Wayback machine. I thought I would put it back on the web: It was, in fact, horrble.
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Wed, 01/04/2026 - 00:30
~by Sean Paul Kelley Headwinds: “a headwind blows against the direction of travel of an object . . . decreases the object’s speed and increases the time required to reach its destination.” Rip Tide: “A rip is a strong, localized, and narrow current of water that moves directly away from the shore, cutting through the […]
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Tue, 31/03/2026 - 21:49
We live in an unequal society where inequality is increasing in many areas, especially regarding income and wealth. The differences in living conditions for different groups, in terms of class, ethnicity and gender, are unacceptably large. In the world of education, family background still has a significant impact on pupils’ performance, and it becomes even […]