Tiny box jellyfish are brainless—but they still make memories and adapt.
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Victims’ relatives are fighting to hold Khalifa Hifter accountable for war crimes. Last week, a top Pentagon official held court with him.
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WOOLGOOLGA & Surrounds for Yes group is joining supporters around Australia to Walk for Yes by stepping out on Sunday 24 September. “The walk is being organised by the Woolgoolga & Surrounds for Yes group so that the community can come together and show our support for recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in...
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They should Biden went where no sitting president had gone before: When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit on Wednesday, he’ll be looking to blunt criticisms from a United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a “disaster” for workers. Trump will bypass the second Republican presidential debate that day to instead visit striking autoworkers in Michigan, where he has looked to position himself as an ally of blue-collar workers by promising to raise wages and protect jobs if elected to a second term. But union leaders say Trump’s record in the White House speaks for itself. Union leaders have said his first term was far from worker-friendly, citing unfavorable rulings from the nation’s top labor board and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as unfulfilled promises of automotive jobs. While the United Auto Workers union has withheld an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race, its leadership has repeatedly rebuffed Trump. Nevertheless, Trump plans to speak directly to a room of former and current union members.
FAMILIES wanting to experience the amazing forests of northern NSW this spring can’t go past these top picks from local state forest staff during the upcoming holidays. State Forests of NSW offer fun and free experiences that are always changing with the seasonal conditions. To help you experience the best of what the region has...
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Dear Literary Agent —
As you know, it’s a tough time in the publishing industry right now. Concerned citizens are demanding that certain books be pulled from school and public libraries, and it seems no writer knows which books will be left on the shelf for children to read.
Except for me.
I am seeking representation for my work in progress, which is guaranteed to never, ever be banned. My book THANK YOU, WHITE CHRISTIAN STRAIGHT MAN is educational and inspiring. Most importantly, it is a book that will never prompt a middle-aged white woman named Jynifer to “go full Mama Bear, y’all” at a school board meeting.
Are MyKevin and Marge heading for a divorce? Her heart belongs to Donnie: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s closely watched alliance with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is suddenly looking a little bit wobbly, as the Georgia hardliner has helped frustrate his efforts to pass a budget. Greene announced on Sunday afternoon that she was a “HARD NO” on the rules package McCarthy is currently trying to advance, which would bring a suite of government spending bills to the floor, because it would mean “more money for Ukraine.” Cutting funding for the war-torn country has been a high priority for Greene, who told reporters last week that she was “just a no on any funding bill” containing support for Kyiv. McCarthy initially suggested he’d meet her demand, but reversed himself this weekend because removing the money would be “too difficult.” Greene also told reporters last week she was planning to introduce an amendment that would strip the Justice Department of its ability to fund special counsel investigations, threatening to throw another kink into the budget effort.
The visibly seething mogul revealed that he phoned his son Lachlan late last night and “tore him a new one.”
“These aren’t just one-off election wins” As Donald Trump gets crazier, as his Capitol Hill shock troops prove more dysfunctional, and as the noisy hostiles in MAGAstan grow more hostile, it’s reassuring to know that the country hasn’t gone completely mental. Whatever 2024 presidential contest polling indicates a year out, Democrats continue to win the only polls that matter: vote counts. Reid J. Epstein reminds New York Times readers: In special elections this year for state legislative offices, Democrats have exceeded Mr. Biden’s performance in the 2020 presidential election in 21 of 27 races, topping his showing by an average of seven percentage points, according to a study conducted by the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the party’s campaign arm for state legislative races. Those results, combined with an 11-point triumph for a liberal State Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin this spring and a 14-point defeat of an Ohio ballot referendum this summer in a contest widely viewed as a proxy battle over abortion rights, run counter to months of public opinion polling that has found Mr.
Not long after moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1980s, community organizer Curtis Pitts learned about a hidden slice of that city’s history that would come to shape his life’s work over the next four decades. He was introduced to the Kansas Technical Institute, or KTI, a Black vocational college that had prospered throughout the early twentieth century, only to close in the mid-1950s. Founded in 1895, KTI enjoyed the distinction of being the second Black college established west of the Mississippi. Built in part by its own students, the school became a self-sustaining campus, training them in agriculture, nursing, printing, tailoring, and theology, among other subjects. The story of KTI almost immediately captured Pitts’s attention, both because of... Read more
Craig Murray joins MintPress to talk NATO, BRICS, pro-war mainstream media, Assange, America's forever wars and much more.
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A “desperate effort at censorship”? Donald J. Trump is one grain alcohol and rain water away from pulling a Browning machine gun out of his golf bag. I just learned that windmills are causing mental illness in whales. pic.twitter.com/AjRONdTQdw — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 26, 2023 Facing 91 felony charges across multiple jurisdictions, Trump believes it violates his rights if he’s not allowed to issue threats, intimidate potential witnesses, and taint jury pools as he campaigns for president awaiting trial. His defense team alleges a “desperate effort at censorship” by federal prosecutors. Can you hear His Indictedness whine from where you are? Politico: Donald Trump’s lawyers said Monday that a gag order proposed by prosecutors would unconstitutionally silence him during key months of the 2024 presidential campaign, urging a federal judge in Washington, D.C. to reject the proposed limits. In a 25-page filing that mirrored some of Trump’s own heated political rhetoric, Trump’s attorneys said the former president’s attacks on potential witnesses, special counsel Jack Smith and even U.S.
America is addicted to war. But its citizens rarely see the brutal realities of the U.S. military industrial complex up close. That is because our pliant media hides the carnage from the public, refusing to report on the victims of the war machine, and uses euphemisms like "surgical strikes" and "enhanced interrogation techniques" to mask the barbarity meted out by Washington around the world.
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99% of the American population holds zero political power... meanwhile, our past five presidents, who claimed to represent the working class, are obscenely wealthy.
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The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.
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The latest sanctions stand in stark contrast to the UK Government’s often inaccurate descriptions of life in Rwanda, where it plans to send some asylum seekers
Time Series 2 features Jodie Whittaker & Bella Ramsey in their first major roles since Doctor Who and The Last of Us - set as prison inmates.
Dear Faculty:
Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in the amphitheater on Friday at 4:15 p.m.
Faculty will enjoy complimentary cotton candy, popcorn, and balloons while roving jugglers and mariachis provide entertainment. Renowned motivational speaker Chip Sunshine will guide faculty through a ninety-minute journey of self-discovery titled “Keeping It Together: Reaffirming Your Love for Teaching,” which will remind faculty that students are the lifeblood of this school, and no sacrifice is too great if just one student can find value in their college experience.
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Dear Faculty:
Due to budgetary constraints, we have had to scale back the upcoming faculty mental health fair.
“Keeping It Together for Three More Weeks: How to Think of Your Suffering as Penance for All the Awful Things You’ve Probably Done” will now take place a week from Wednesday in the basement of the main gymnasium next to the room with the broken pool pump. Please note the change of title and location.
Compass director Neal Lawson described the situation in Nadine Dorries' seat as "madness".
Multiple industries. China, much like the US, but even more so, let China pick up, among other things, much of the tool making industry, especially those related to auto manufacture.
Ouch.
When you consider this is an absolute terms and not relative, it’s even worse.