The power of the very rich prevents us from addressing our two greatest existential threats. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th July 2023 According to Google’s news search, the media has run more than 10,000 stories this year about Phillip Schofield, the British television presenter who resigned over an affair with a younger […]
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MI fake electors face criminal charges Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday filed eight felony charges against each of the 16 fake Trump “electors” who participated in the 2020 scheme to overturn the presidential election results in the state. Prosecutors in Arizona and Georgia are also investigating possible crimes involving the GOP electors scheme, and civil lawsuits are underway in in Michigan and Wisconsin. Somebody had to be first with criminal charges. Nessel wins the prize. Axios reports, “Among those charged include Kathy Berden, the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Michigan, and Meshawn Maddock, former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party.” Washington Post: In Michigan, each Trump elector was charged with eight criminal counts, including forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery and election law forgery. Some of the counts carry sentences of up to 14 years in prison. In an online video announcing the charges, Nessel noted the 16 Republicans had submitted paperwork to the Senate, National Archives and elsewhere claiming to be the state’s official electors.
Over two books, both published by The Waywiser Press, Eric McHenry has built up a world of poetry that’s at once lighthearted and serious, cantankerous and comical. It’s populated with lullabies and villanelles and references that defy easy category—ranging from, for instance, Kansas history to early hip-hop to baseball to Sam Cooke lyrics to true crime stumpers to economic theory—the list goes on. His formal rigor keeps the work from sprawling, and sometimes he fits syntax to stanza, and speech to meter, in that sturdy inevitable-seeming, and plainspoken register we haven’t heard much since Auden, Larkin, Brooks, or Hayden. His first book, Potscrubber Lullabies, begins with a poem on coming home, a little bit to the speaker’s surprise; a few lines on time’s passing, a song of wondering elegy in subtly rhyming stanzas:
After Beloit I went back to the paper
and wrote arts features for eight dollars an hour,
and lived in the Gem Building, on the block between
Topeka High with its Gothic tower
and the disheveled Statehouse with its green
dome of oxidizing copper.
Welcome to Wiener Wednesday! This week’s recipe comes from an October 1975 issue of Seventeen Magazine. IT’S DOG EAT DOG! Partytime or anytime, serve America’s under-the-umbrella favorite in an irresistible round-about way: Slash frankfurters along one side, broil, and place on a hamburger bun. Fill the center with taste-tempting delights like the ones shownContinue reading Wiener Wednesday: The Frank Sinatra (1975)
Seeing companions like Tegan & Nyssa return to Doctor Who is great, but it's also a reminder of how they never got the stories they deserved.
Απόσπασμα από την τοποθέτηση του Γιάνη Βαρουφάκη στην Πολιτική Γραμματείας της 13ης Ιουλίου Μετά την διπλή εκλογική ήττα, το ΜέΡΑ25 προβήκαμε (βλ. Αποφάσεις Κεντρικής Επιτροπής της 9ης Ιουλίου) σε σκληρή αυτοκριτική όσον αφορά τον τρόπο που επικοινωνήσαμε τις θέσεις μας. Κοινό ήταν το αίσθημα ότι η «ρήξη», η συνεχής ονομαστική αναφορά στους γνωστούς ολιγάρχες, η […]
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I’ll be the first to admit music is not my strong suit. Of course, I did master the violin by age three, wrote my first opera at four, and was performing Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen as a soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic in kindergarten—but those were the simpler days of my youth. Now I’m nine years old and building experimental AI military technology at MIT, and (sigh) most days it feels as if I’m the only kid in the world attempting to harness fusion power for long-range precision drones.
Nonetheless, I keep an eye on various r/genius message boards on the off chance they might one day discover another one out there, another person with a mind of such beautiful and terrifying immensity, another child like me, and I might finally have someone to play with (or destroy). Instead, I have been alerted to the existence of some sort of indie rock trio, apparently quite popular, calling themselves boygenius [sic].
Byline Times speaks to Ukrainian women taken advantage of in the UK's cleaning and hospitality sectors
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Justified, Secret Invasion, Doctor Who, Good Omens 2, The Wheel of Time, SAG-AFTRA, SDCC, Ms. Marvel & more!
A new report by the Commons' Public Accounts Committee found that the Government was driven by 'an overriding impetus to buy' PPE during the pandemic – with 'limited' safeguards in place
Republicans are trying to thwart the president’s power to declare a climate emergency amid record-breaking heat.
The U.S. sent cluster munitions to Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin warns “the right to take reciprocal action.”
The post The Indiscriminate Rain of Cluster Bombs appeared first on The Intercept.
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David Sirota sits down with a writers guild member to dig into the ongoing Hollywood writers and actors strike.
- by Danielle Doucette
Mike Eggleston and his team work to expand partnerships in lower-income communities with the goal of increasing economic mobility for residents.
Facing extradition to Florida, Craig Lang joined an ultranationalist militia in Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022.
The post Wanted for Murder, an Army Vet Escaped to Ukraine — and Fought the Russians appeared first on The Intercept.
Purchasing power parity doctrine is examined by sophisticated statistical and econometric techniques. The time series of aggregated price levels and the nominal exchange rates are treated as a random sample. Most papers of this type deal with the technical properties of the slightly different data sets. To take some examples (at random): “Two potential problems […]
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) economists have argued from the outset that using interest rate rises to subdue inflationary pressures may in fact add to those pressures through their impact on business costs. Businesses with outstanding trade credit or overdrafts will use their market power to pass the higher borrowing costs on to consumers. In more…
Disruption is good! When investors do it.
Open Rights Group has received legal advice from Dan Squires KC and Emma Foubister of Matrix Chambers, which states that measures in the Online Safety Bill may involve breaches of international law. The legal opinion examines Clause 9(2) of the Bill, which places a duty on online platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, to prevent […]
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Dries talked about our vision and strategy for Drupal 11 in DrupalCon Portland 2022. The vision Dries laid out was that we want to make Drupal the tool of choice for ambitious site builders on the open web. In order for us to accomplish this goal, we believe that Drupal needs to provide:
New features will be built in the current major version of Drupal. This means that components of this plan will be released gradually in Drupal core minor releases, not in a big bang with Drupal 11. Ongoing effortsWe have several ongoing initiatives, but we are doubling down our efforts on these three tracks: Alright, I used to perpetrate some literary criticism around this place. [Slaps wall.] Seems like I could still. This is going to be very flimsy because I’m just banging it out, because I might want some of it later, more worked out. Over at the dying bird, Jeet Heer asks a good question: “Has anyone […]
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