Eleanor of Aquitaine was like the folkloric figure of Mélusine, woman above and fish or serpent from the waist down, though she normally managed to conceal that trait.
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If Antifa is anti-fascist…. “Weird how this keeps happening and it keeps being Republicans,” Brian Beutler tweeted this morning on X in reference to Douglass Mackey (Politico): A right-wing social media influencer was sentenced to seven months in federal prison on Wednesday for spreading falsehoods via Twitter, now known as X, in an effort to suppress Democratic turnout in the 2016 presidential election. Douglass Mackey, who posted under the alias Ricky Vaughn, was convicted in March of the charge of conspiracy against rights after a trial in federal court in Brooklyn. Prosecutors said Mackey, who had 58,000 Twitter followers, conspired with others between September and November of 2016 to post falsely that supporters of Democrat Hillary Clinton could vote for her by text message or social media post. For example, they said, Mackey tweeted a photo of a woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign. “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” the tweet said.
The inescapable truth is that Israel cannot extinguish Palestinian resistance by violence, any more than the Palestinians can win an Algerian-style liberation war. The only thing that can save the people of Israel and Palestine, and prevent another Nakba, is a political solution that recognises both as equal citizens.
‘When women are marginalised, enslaved and silenced, very few men will be capable of any form of kindness,’ Emily Wilson remarks. It is no small thing for Homer to have noticed.
However the conflict ends, with or without Hamas in power (and I bet on the former), Israel won’t be able to avoid negotiating over the exchange of prisoners. For Hamas, the starting point will be the six thousand Palestinians currently in Israeli prisons, many of them held in administrative detention without trial.
Even before he died, I avoided telling people I knew David Foster Wallace. If they knew who he was, they wanted to know details about him. I became a secondary character, as women often are.
Apart from a small bloc of anti-occupation protesters, most Israelis have seemed to believe that the current system could bring them lasting safety. That bubble has now burst. But the Palestinians are now the objects of the wrath of an Israeli government prepared to destroy Gaza and, if possible, expel its population.
The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 45 No. 21 (Friday 20 October 2023)
Even those who insist on supporting Israel at any cost cannot now genuinely pretend that Palestine is not back on the agenda despite Israel's best efforts to crush the peace process.
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Listen up, core-heads. Are you ready to get shready? Because this insane lower torso circuit is guaranteed to DESTROY your abs by forcing them to recognize how infinitesimally small they are compared to the vast, lonely expanse of the universe. Just as dark matter dominates the endless nightmare of stilted space, this workout will dominate your midsection with a mix of heart-pumping resistance movements and classic existential works designed to make your abs ponder the futility of believing in God. Your core will be ABsolutely crestfallen.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: SNL, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Fear TWD, Netflix, Doctor Who, Frasier, Gen V, Rick and Morty, and more!
The 11 minute awareness course mandatory for many public service workers is in danger of turning into a propaganda tool
Evidence that the Manipur state government is stoking tribal and religious conflict in northeast India has accelerated separatist demands
New strict penalties for laughing gas use - including prison sentences - have led critics to warn of the ban’s potential to divert resources from more severe crimes and push the drug into a dangerous, unregulated market.
David Sirota examines the rise of “happiness” guru Arthur Brooks and explores the contradictions of the multibillion-dollar self-help industry.
Jamie Morgan: To a member of the public it must seem weird that it is possible to state, as you do, such fundamental criticism of an entire field of study. The perplexing issue from a third party point of view is how do we reconcile good intention (or at least legitimate sense of self as […]
The Drupal Association is saying goodbye to three board members and welcoming four new members who will join the Drupal Association Board.
First off, the Drupal Association extends a sincere thank you to Mike Herchel, Ryan Szrama, and Board Chair Baddý Sonja Breidert for their service and dedication not only to Drupal but to the Drupal community. Thank you for everything you have done while on the Drupal Association Board! Your time spent on the board made such a difference to the future of the Drupal project, and we thank you all for participating with grace, thoughtfulness, and insightful contributions.
We are also excited to announce that Baddý will continue as a non-voting Immediate Past Chair on the Executive Committee for one year.
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An analysis suggests certain economic factors, such as excess savings, and stubborn price increases in services are risks that might delay or potentially reverse the decline in overall inflation.
“They’re kind of failing upwards when they’re not only staying in the department but they’re also being promoted.”
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Simon Lloyd, Daniel Ostry and Balduin Bippus How much capital flows move exchange rates is a central question in international macroeconomics. A major challenge to addressing it has been the difficulty identifying exogenous cross-border flows, since flows and exchange rates can evolve simultaneously with factors like risk sentiment. In this post, we summarise a staff … Continue reading The granular origins of exchange-rate fluctuations
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for September 2023 today (October 19, 2023). My overall assessment is that the the labour market is now looking subdued although relatively stable. The decline in full-time employment is a worry. Almost all the net change in employment over the last six…