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The $13,200-per-couple fundraiser yet again blends official state business and corporate influence with Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign.
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Researchers are studying their extraordinary flight patterns to help us build tiny aircraft and protect global ecosystems.
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What is the path to peace for the war in Ukraine? Is America still powerful enough to impose global order? The US has just 4.1% of the world’s population, while the BRICS countries have 41.5%. In this conversation with economist Jeffrey Sachs, we discuss the origins of the conflict in Ukraine and NATO enlargement, US-China Continue reading »
Preventing wars, demilitarisation and promoting peace are vital strategies for tackling climate change, writes Dr Sue Wareham OAM, President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War. She also urges the Defence Department to lift its game on climate action, and to commit to improved measurement, reporting and scrutiny of military emissions. It is encouraging Continue reading »
David M. Morens, a high-ranking official at the National Institutes of Health, told prominent scientists discussing Covid’s origins that he would delete emails.
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“This is not a normal court” - Joe Biden, today
June 15-22
- Order fireworks from AmericanMadeFireWorks.com
- Screen bakeries to find one that hasn’t made cakes for gay weddings, Disney princess-themed parties, birthdays held at woke public schools, Disney Strange World-themed parties, gender reveal celebrations, parties for people who have been to Disney World, retirement parties for DEI trainers, or for Disney President Bob Iger
- Call Eduardo and crew to schedule extra landscaping for July 2
June 23-30
- Open fireworks from AmericanMadeFireWorks.com. Sharpie over “Made in China”
- Make invitation list from secret donors file of dear family friends
- Screen bands to find one that hasn’t played gay weddings, concerts held at woke universities, bar mitzvahs, Juneteenth parties, quinceañeras, Gay Pride events, any event that has served Bud Light, or for Disney President Bob Iger
- Sign band.
There remains on both sides of the political divide an entrenched minority whose belief system serves as an extension of their identity
French environmental action puts the UK to shame. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th June 2023 While we remain transfixed by a handful of needy egotists in Westminster and the crises they manufacture, across the Channel a revolution is happening. It’s a quiet, sober, thoughtful revolution, but a revolution nonetheless. France is seeking […]
The U.S. is about to give millions in security aid to Uganda, despite a new law that punishes gay sex with life in prison.
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My new cartoon up at The Boston Globe now:
Big Finish's Doctor Who - Once and Future: "Two's Company" sees Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor stepping into the spotlight for the next chapter.
by Gary Gardner
Media coverage of the loss of the Titan submersible last week turned the world’s attention to the oceans—that vast, mysterious realm that sits below the surface of our landlocked consciousness. Two factoids in the coverage caught my attention.
The first, emerging from chatter about the extent of the search effort, is that international law requires vessels to respond to an at-sea distress call if they are able to,
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At a time of belated handwringing by liberal Zionists, Golda Meir is being rehabilitated as a progressive icon. But this is based on a misreading of history. Her Zionism and commitment to Jewish dominance helped pave the way for the current wave of settler ethnonationalists.
Richard Ford’s Frank might be more low-key than other sequential protagonists in modern American fiction – Nathan Zuckerman, Harry Angstrom, Olive Kitteridge, Lucy Barton – and at the end of Be Mine he’s still claiming to be in limbo as a character: ‘I do not believe I have an essential self.’ But he understands what he sees, and his cartographic analysis (and, despite himself, his self-analysis) is incisive.
The suggestion, I think, is that life as we live it may be largely an affair of props and sets, and Wes Anderson is inviting us not to feel too bad about this possibility. The question ‘Who framed Asteroid City?’ looks towards the same answer as Who Framed Roger Rabbit. We did, with some prompts from the directors.
The first two decades of the USSR saw what was then the fastest and largest instance of urban growth in human history. In just thirteen years, the population living in cities and towns more than doubled from 26 million to 56 million. Modernisation was achieved at a tremendous human cost, with gruelling constraints imposed on the bulk of the population, even as it opened up new horizons.
Three hundred characters in 260 pages. How do you possibly keep track of so many names, so much intrigue? It’s hard to imagine a reader of Camilo José Cela’s masterpiece, The Hive, who hasn’t asked this question – who hasn’t wondered, after twenty or thirty pages, whether or how to go on. Do you just accept the confusion? Or, alternatively, keep elaborate notes – perhaps sketching out, as I did, a web of relations on a very large sheet of paper?
At the height of the war two women sat talking at the kitchen table, one tall one short and each reporting back on what they’d last heard from their husbands, those men now said to be dead...
The question that motivates Matthew McNaught’s Immanuel is simple, but hard to answer. What prompted these white, Middle England Christians to leave their homes and families to join a church, the central beliefs of which are so obviously, manifestly, bonkers?