A new lawsuit seeks to end ICE’s tactic of setting up immigrants to be taken from immigration courts.
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- by Michael Marshall
Roger’s Thesaurus In order to grow, expand, widenhis lexicological corpus,Roger bought, acquired, purchaseda synonymopedia, a thesaurus. Soon, presently, without delay,he no longer ran out of things to say,speak, utter, express, articulate,give voice to, pronounce, communicate. This was all very well, fine, great,wonderful, super, terrificbut his friends, mates, pals found himboring, tedious, dull, soporific. So let…
If you’ve spent any time at all on TikTok recently, you’ll have seen plenty of videos from young people despairing about life in the UK. Videos with captions like ‘Why is everything so expensive?’, ‘Why is rent so high?’, ‘Why can’t I get a doctor’s appointment?’ are going viral every day. With no clear answers, […]
The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be so worried about, argues Jonathan Portes
Human beings are creatures who can describe their actions at various levels. Elizabeth Anscombe has famously introduced the example of a man who moves his arm, to pump water, to poison the inhabitants of a house, to overthrow a regime, to bring peace.* You can play with this case, or others, to create all kinds […]
From medical diagram to international artwork
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Welcome to the Climates Issue
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Looking for habitable worlds? Check the ones with extreme swings.
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Denis Mikhailov, a Russian dissident lawyer now exiled to Poland, explains how Trump's generosity to Putin only solidifies his tyranny
On Easter Sunday of this year, Open AI’s Large Language Model apparently developed a kind...
In science, courage is to follow the motto of enlightenment and Kant’s dictum — Sapere Aude! To use your own understanding, having the courage to think for yourself and question ‘received opinion,’ authority or orthodoxy. In our daily lives, courage is a capability to confront fear, as when in front of the powerful and mighty, not […]
Scholten, who is among a small coterie of anti-establishment Democrats to outperform Kamala Harris in deep red states, will endorse Josh Turek.
The post Amid DSCC Pressure, Democratic Populist J.D. Scholten Exits Iowa Senate Race appeared first on The Intercept.
Let’s get this out of the way: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is nothing like the Sturmabteilung, a.k.a. Hitler’s Brownshirts. Your main clue is right there in the name. The Brownshirts wore brown shirts. And pants, coats, hats, insignia, etc. They had an actual uniform that they wore like brand ambassadors for authoritarian paramilitary violence.
ICE? Not so much. No official uniform, no clear identification, nothing that says, “I am a recognized member of a government agency, and what I am doing is legal.” Instead, they go for that “Target clearance rack meets SWAT cosplay” vibe: a tactical vest you can buy on Amazon, maybe an old baseball cap, and a face mask they want you to know isn’t there for any health-related reasons. That’s not a uniform. You can tell because people have easily copied the look to impersonate ICE numerous times in the past to brutalize or rob immigrants, knowing that it’s virtually impossible to tell apart government agents and straight-up criminals in wraparound glasses.
“We couldn’t even look out the window,” the New York City high school student said of his isolation while detained in a hotel.
The post ICE Held an NYC Child Incommunicado at Secret Hotels, Then Deported Him appeared first on The Intercept.
A reporter in Gaza finds a Catholic community grieving their family members killed by Israeli bombs, but still worshipping together.
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“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autoresponder: ‘I no longer work here! For questions, contact Caleb, Chief Joy Officer.’”
—Homer, Odyssey
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“Sisyphus thinks he can outwit death. But the company hive mind pings him relentlessly, even on weekends, and so he stares at his phone on a Saturday and misses his daughter score her first goal at a soccer game.”
—Pindar, Olympian Ode
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“Athena quietly adds Sisyphus to a sinister Google Doc called ‘Q3 brainstorm,’ which emails him whenever anyone comments on this document, which he does not desire and from which he cannot escape. The notifications may be silenced only in settings reserved for the Gods—and thus, not for Sisyphus.”
—Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens
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“There, Sisyphus toils—straining to zero the inbox, only for Nathan to smite him with that cruelest of follow-ups: ‘Just checking if you saw this?’”
—Virgil, Aeneid
The problems of our time are too complex for heroes to swoop in and simply erase. Our movies should reflect that reality
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Acting on impulse often feels good at first, but brings trouble later. Understanding these urges can help you control them
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- by Diana Saverin
While no progress was made towards a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers
One of the issues that emerges when one is studying undergraduate macroeconomics is that there is a curious disregard for the role that income and wealth distribution play in determining the aggregate outcomes, that are at the centre of the study. Most students in my cohort didn’t think about that and the curriculum certainly didn’t…
A book review from Inside Story: After The Spike by Spears and Geruso The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight billion before declining to pre-modern levels and eventually to zero. […]