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The crypto industry’s attempt to become unregulated banks is encroaching on Wall Street’s trillion-dollar interest-rate grift.

Democratic leaders are ignoring calls to abolish ICE and seeking to keep the agency’s funds steady through 2026.

Google Gemini’s real business model isn’t chat. It’s price control.

For more than twenty years between 1980 and 2016, Donald Trump built, looted, and then bankrupted a casino empire — Trump Entertainment Resorts — along Atlantic City’s iconic boardwalk. His casinos stripped punters of hard-earned earnings, wiped out bond holders and stock market investors, and ended as protracted, costly failures, even while it enriched Trump. ‘The money I […]

A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests

The politicians and commentators who mocked those warning about the threat posed by the US President as being "hysterical" need to face up to their own role in the calamity now unfolding, argues Adam Bienkov

Bureaucratic authoritarianism cannot build the party we were promised. Our movement must learn this to advance beyond the failures of broad-front left populism, towards a mass socialist party capable of liberating our class. Such a party cannot be built on personality and platitudes alone, nor can it allow debate over internal structures and party democracy […]

The Prime Minister once said to me that there is no such thing as ‘Starmerism’. It’s true that there appears to be no doctrinal body of ideas but after eighteen months in office, we have seen the shape of decision making. Judging by Labour’s dire position in the polls, the government’s guiding principles are not […]

Greenland fever dreams, paramilitary training for ICE agents, and more from The Lever this week.

Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops by Isadore Brodsky was published in 1973, one of Brodsky’s many historical studies of the city. Brodsky was a doctor and a passionate historian, a prolific researcher of what was then called ‘Old Sydney’: its 19th and early 20th-century history. Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops followed the stories of the city’s bookshops […]

A private investigator who offered to help the family of missing rugby and reality TV star Levi Davis is accused of taking possession of his iPhone and then failing to return it

Test your knowledge of arctic misadventures, Federal Reserve troubles, and other issues that really matter.

Trump claims he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are doing the opposite.

From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran.

The post The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again appeared first on MintPress News.

Black seadevil anglerfish
Twenty-five-years-old, monogamous, wants children

What I’m looking for: A confident, independent female roughly twenty times my size with a dangly, glowing orb attached to her forehead.

Don’t hate me if I: Latch on to you and permanently fuse to your body until my head dissolves and our circulatory systems become one

This year, I want to: Delete this app <3

Giant squid
Fifteen feet long, Catholic, figuring out my dating goals

Give me travel tips for: Two-thousand feet below sea level off the west coast of Norway—Spring break 2026 gonna be a movie!

If loving this is wrong, I don’t want to be right: The Office

My love language is: Physical, tentacle-y touch

Hexactinellid sponge
Software engineer, nine thousand years old,
twenty-eight centimeters tall

I bet you can’t: Pronounce my name

The simplest ideas are often the best. How about a new left party that appeals broadly enough to challenge for power? That, after all, was the prospect that excited people when Your Party was launched last summer. It’s why 750,000 people signed up to the mailing list. They wanted a party that might actually be […]

Attacking asylum seekers and refugees has long comprised the strategic core of the far right. Physical, verbal, and political harm waged on communities who have migrated to the UK can be traced across British history back decades, if not centuries — from the overtly racist legislation predating the Race Relations Act, the era of Powell’s […]

In these uncertain times, you need a steady hand at the wheel. An unblinking beacon of sure-footed decisiveness. A fearless, damn-the-torpedoes leader who will flawlessly accomplish every goal.

You don’t have that person. But good news: You have me, a uniquely well-qualified ball of anxiety, ready to worry about the fact that you don’t have that person. And also about the fact that you have torpedoes. That seems like a bad idea for a rudderless organization.

“But our budget can’t accommodate another executive!” you may protest. Shhh. Don’t worry your pretty little head; that’s my job. My perturbation is completely pro bono. I will knit my brows, second-guess, and perseverate without compensation of any kind.

I require no specific hours of work. I stand ready to contribute round-the-clock, unmitigated what-ifisms to any and every to-do list, whether or not it’s in my job description.

How a Lever investigation exposed a darker side to big business' reign over youth sports.

Administration’s strangulation of the CFMEU construction union and further attempted asset-stripping continued apace over summer, despite Admin kicking a couple of own goals.

The post Admin’s summer assault on the CFMEU first appeared on Solidarity Online.

We may not be tastier, but just more abundant these days

The post As Biodiversity Dwindles, Mosquitos Turn to Human Blood appeared first on Nautilus.

High-tech radar technology offers an unprecedented look at escaping ice speeds on Greenland and Antarctica

The post Watch This Glacier Race into the Sea appeared first on Nautilus.

“It’s a milestone in solar physics”

The post The First Observation of the Fiery Lifecycle of a Massive Solar Storm appeared first on Nautilus.

Alan MacLeod uncovers how HRANA and U.S.-based “human rights” NGOs fuel unrest in Iran, supplying Western media with explosive casualty claims backed by National Endowment for Democracy funding.

The post Revealed: The CIA-Backed NGOs Fueling The Iran Protests appeared first on MintPress News.

“What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is not civil disobedience. It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime.”
— David Marcus, writing in an op-ed for FoxNews.com

Belle Ave. Wine Moms Gang
Meeting Minutes

Date: 14 Jan 2026
The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. by Emily in Lauren’s Basement.

Present: Emily, Lauren, Megan, Katie, Jessica S., Sarah, Jennifer, Amanda, Ashley, Jenny, Rachel, Stephanie, and Jessica M.

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