Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
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The Trump administration’s push for war on Venezuela includes alleging Maduro controls a government-run “narcoterrorist” conspiracy.
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What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question
- by Aeon Video
In a tight Democratic primary, El-Sayed is trying to distinguish himself as one of two candidates running from the left.
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Members of Congress are getting rich trading stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations.
The post Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry Mike Johnson Is Stalling appeared first on The Intercept.
For a long time after the Industrial Revolution, many thinkers believed that automation would lead to us living lives of leisure. Twenty your work weeks, or even less, and many people wouldn’t need to work at all, but would still live good lives. It never happened. Economists will tell you this is because there’s always […]
This is a thread for comments on how to prepare for bad times. All off-topic comments will be deleted. The thread will be re-upped every Saturday so that resources can build over time. (I’m going to bring this back to the top at least once a month, maybe more, so people can read the old […]
Visualisation activates similar brain areas as real-life experiences. Here’s how to use mental imagery to improve results
- Video by BBC Ideas
An animated interpretation of the story of the Indigenous people kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and brought to England in 1830
- by Aeon Video
Years before the police killing of Breonna Taylor brought “no-knock” raids into the national spotlight, the NYPD mistakenly raided Alberta Spruill’s home — and literally scared her to death.
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California’s Law Enforcement Mutual Aid fund has been used to fight fires, floods, earthquakes — and Gaza demonstrations.
The post How California Spent Natural Disaster Funds to Quell Student Protests for Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.
I've gotten exhausted with the ways that convenience culture has shifted what we find acceptable when it comes to waste.
Washington is making big claims to make the case for U.S. intervention. We’ve heard all these arguments before.
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Australia’s most popular racist bigot, Pauline Hanson, has reached out to Australia’s most popular drunk adulterer, Barnaby Joyce, to come over to her place and enjoy a fresh batch of prison wine that Pauline knocked up in her toilet. ”Barnaby... Read More ›
Two of the biggest players in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal explore the latest revelations — and the bombshells yet to come.
New York state is holding Ticketmaster’s feet to the fire after a Lever report exposed the company’s updated mass arbitration policy.
Summers said he’s “ashamed” of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and would step back from public life. This time it should be for good.
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ExxonMobil is proposing a new plan to vote on behalf of its absentee investors, in a novel attempt to silence shareholder dissent.
In inference to the best explanation, we start with a body of (purported) data or evidence and seek out hypotheses that can account for it. To have the best explanation means that you, given the context-dependent background assumptions, have a satisfactory account that explains the evidence better than any other competing explanation — and so […]
Elevated from Comments. Piece by KT Chong China is now entering the next phase of its economic-growth engine — humanoid robots. And just like with EVs, the shift is happening fast, quietly, and with the same pattern: Chinese companies industrialize before Western analysts even realize it’s begun. UBTech, Unitree, XPeng — they’ve all started mass-producing […]
Private equity-owned Black Bear Sports Group is buying up youth hockey — and icing out parents who want to record their kids’ games.
I’ll keep this mercifully short. One commenter in my Friday night econ news post asked, in a kind of oblique way, what would I do in this environment. Okay, I’ll play — but not without stating firmly and loudly that I am not dispensing investment advice, nor am I licensed any longer to do so. […]
Andrew Johnson claimed to an alleged child molestation victim that Trump’s pardon entitled him to multimillion-dollar reparations.
The post Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say appeared first on The Intercept.