It messes with your head This may piss off some. Ever since North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham, former Democrat, switched parties and handed Republicans a supermajority in the state House of Representatives (and an abortion ban) after proclaiming herself an “unwavering advocate for abortion rights.” The stunning shift has not led me to the angry conclusion that she was a fraud waiting to happen. There was something of conspiracy theory to the narrative that she was a Trojan candidate. With her history as a progressive, it did not wash. And it’s a bad look for the left. Fully vaccinated and boosted, Cotham had had Covid three times, ending up in the emergency room straining to breathe during her third bout. Doctors worried about blood clots. In February 2022, WSOC Charlotte reported: Her kitchen island is covered in pills and medical devices to treat lingering and long-lasting symptoms of COVID-19. Cotham says she has to use inhalers and drink three liters of water a day. She has IV drips brought to her house every Wednesday.
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So, the main police unions in France put out this rather deranged statement:
Now that’s enough…
Facing these savage hordes, asking for calm is no longer enough, it must be imposed!
Restoring the republican order and putting the apprehended beyond the capacity to harm should be the only political signals to give.
In the face of such exactions, the police family must stand together.
Doom (Sooz Kempner) checks in via a Doom's Day teaser as the Doctor Who 60th-anniversary multimedia event rolls into its next "hours."
According to Keynes, financial crises are a recurring feature of our economy and are linked to its fundamental financial instability: It is of the nature of organised investment markets, under the influence of purchasers largely ignorant of what they are buying and of speculators who are more concerned with forecasting the next shift of market […]
Still yearning to breathe free The sun is up. The flag is out. Justice for all is still elusive. As is our country treating all of us as if we really were created equal. I mistrust public pieties. As much as Jesus mistrusted hypocrites who pray in public “that they may be seen by others.” As much as the immediate past president’s flag hugging. The phoniness, it burns. But still, as with relations we love despite annoying flaws and uninformed opinions, yes, liberals do still love their country. Shining through its dappled history are snippets of grace we cling to like the hope that that sibling or aunt or uncle or cousin retains the potential to be more than pedestrian. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It took a few years for the generation that declared independence from England to hash out just what they thought a more perfect union might look like. They did not get it quite right.
We don’t wait. We start our own constitutional convention.
The former Brexit Party Leader's claims to have been politically persecuted by the banks have been taken at face value by publications that really should know better
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Corporations have found a way to punish people for disagreeing with them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29th June 2023 Punishment without trial: this is the latest weapon in the war against dissent. Apparently, it’s not enough for the police to be given powers to shut down any protest they choose. It’s not […]
28 civil society organisations and privacy experts have written to the European Commission to raise concerns about the threat that UK data reform poses to European citizens’ data rights. The Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill, which is expected to be passed into law this autumn, will amend the UK GDPR. Privacy campaigners have […]
Boris Johnson's regular trips to Ukraine, Liz Truss' recent visit to Taiwan... Rachel Morris would rather see our former PMs lumber around the Blackpool ballroom or eating reproductive organs in the jungle
As we write, stories of the riots in France are broadcasting across the world, with talk of businesses being looted and everything from town halls to libraries going up in smoke at the hands of rioters. The first thing to say is that these ‘riots’ are popular revolts—revolts against police brutality, against the feeling of […]
The Founding Fathers made startlingly progressive statements that didn’t make it into popular history.
The post For July 4, Here Are 10 Shockingly Radical Things the Founding Fathers Said appeared first on The Intercept.
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Boris Johnson's controversial appointments to the upper chamber show change is required – but Labour may not be on the right track
Having read Syll’s book, one cannot avoid wondering how it is that modern mathematical economics still holds such a dominant position in terms of textbooks and economic practice. This is especially so if you consider two things: First, if one peruses the shelves of economic literature of any major bookstore (in London or even Copenhagen), […]
Thousands of workers face being sacked for not crossing their own picket lines if new Westminster legislation passes
I’m just back from France, where my direct experience of riots and looting was non-existent, although I had walked past a Montpellier branch of Swarkowski the day before it ceased to be. My indirect experience was quite extensive though, since I watched the talking heads on French TV project their instant analysis onto the unfolding […]
Drop off your bribes and a SCOTUS justice will be assigned to you!
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At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate target unchanged at 4.10 per cent and the interest rate paid on Exchange Settlement balances unchanged at 4.00 per cent.
