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Better woke than the alternative Donald Trump’s believers, Sarah Longwell finds, are as committed as ever to their man-boy-love-god despite standing indictments and indictments yet to come: “As far as a mug shot goes, he’s going to market the hell out of that,” said Chris, a two-time Trump voter from Illinois, imagining a future arrest. “Every one of us is going to buy one of those shirts.” Most hands went up when I asked who would buy one. Republicans “are in a trap of their own making,” Longwell writes in The Atlantic: They thought that by covering for Trump they were tapping into his power, but they were actually giving away their own—mortgaging themselves and their reputations to Trump’s lies and depravities. By defending him then, they have made it impossible to credibly accuse him of anything now. This problem is compounded by the deep relationship that Trump has cultivated with Republican voters. He’s been a constant presence in their lives for eight years—or, for Apprentice fans, much longer. They defended him on Facebook and argued about him over Thanksgiving dinners.
“We’re looking at a pivotal Game Five against the Golden State Warriors,” Santos, who claimed to play small forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, said.
Sewage pollution by the water companies is just one of the deadly attacks on our rivers. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 3rd May 2023 I can’t help feeling a small surge of gratitude every time an environmental issue breaks the surface. That the state of England’s rivers seems at last to have become […]
Nature reveals itself when you are helpless.
Labour says its migration plans would not require repeal of the law – which has been condemned by the Archbishop of Canterbury as immoral, reports Adam Bienkov
Tlaib’s resolution commemorates 75 years since Palestinians were violently expelled from their homes.
The post Rep. Rashida Tlaib Asks Congress to Condemn “Israel’s Ongoing Nakba” Against Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.
Biden’s numbers bad for Biden, but Trump’s indictments are not for Trump? CNN broke news Tuesday night that federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos (R). Coverage for now is informed speculation at best. The charges won’t be unsealed until later today when Santos is expected to appear in court in the eastern district of New York. “When someone has committed as much apparent fraud as Santos has,” Marcy Wheeler notes, “there’s no telling what the real story behind all that fraud is.” So we wait. Also in New York, a civil trial jury found Donald J. Trump guilty on Tuesday of sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll. The six men and three women voted unanimously. Also in New York, Trump still faces state charges of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree. Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis have yet to file federal and state charges against Trump for as much apparent criminality as Trump has committed. So we wait. As Trump continues to run for president again in 2024, we wait.
Brad Leithauser has been publishing poems and novels, much of it brilliant work, for forty years. When he was a young man he imagined writing a book about the structure of poetry. It has recently appeared—has been haunting his imagination for decades, and now at last is available between two covers. Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry is a lifetime’s worth of education on the craft, a handbook, a book of essays, yes, but each one geared—in the manner, say, of John Hollander—to particular elements. There are chapters on “Stanzas,” “Enjambment,” “Rhyme and Rhyme Decay,” “Iambic Tetrameter,” even a chapter on the boon afforded English-language poets by English’s odd spellings, and another on “Rim Rhyme” (“where consonants are held steady while internal vowels are shifted around,” like “light” and “late”). Though the title phrase means “rhyme” as a kind of synonym for poetry in general, this poet does argue for the power of rhyming—the relationship between two words—as being, still, central and generative to the art form’s vitality.
Khader Adnan represents a political culture that has come to permeate Palestine for years, a mode of collective resistance that cannot be easily crushed, silenced or killed. Even in death.
The post How Khader Adnan Unified the Palestinian People from an Israeli Prison Cell appeared first on MintPress News.
The Government claims there is 'no requirement' to record the minutes of informal meetings between ministers and the media, reports Sam Bright
“The idea behind [Swedish Death Cleaning] is simple: At a certain point in your life, you should stop accumulating more stuff and start dealing with the stuff you’ve already accumulated so your loved ones won’t have to do it after you’re gone.” – Lifehacker
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Life is temporary, but Swedish Death Metal is forever. We, the members of the band Bloodstained Odin, will help you destroy all the shit in your house so you can die on a pile of broken litter. You will be remembered not as a part-time math teacher at Nieblas Middle School, but as a demigod who stayed true to their mission of destroying shit instead of subscribing to society’s fucked-up rules about getting organized.
B J Sadiq reports from Islamabad as the former cricketer and Prime Minister is apprehended during a court case
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Elon Musk/Tucker Carlson, S.W.A.T., Matlock, Walker, The Flash, Doctor Who, Reacher, Secret Invasion & more!
Media reports created a false impression of a major breakthrough linking animals to Covid’s origins.
The post The Rise and Fall of the Raccoon Dog Theory of Covid-19 appeared first on The Intercept.
This newspaper has spoken to people who fell foul of the new mandatory voter ID requirements in May's local elections
Jeremy Scahill speaks to James Risen and Thomas Risen about their new book, “The Last Honest Man.”
The post Frank Church, Deep State: The True Story of the Senator Who Took on the CIA and Its Corporate Clients appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Elena Svetieva & Leanne ten Brinke
- by Psyche Film
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Anyone following the news cycle in the lead-up to the federal budget will have heard the figure of ‘400,000 people from overseas coming to Australia this year’. That level of migration has created headlines...
- by Fallon Goodman