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Oh, so you’re planning to be a [stay-at-home / working] mom once your baby is born? Ha! More like a [slacker who just wants an excuse to binge Real Housewives in her pajamas all day / heartless bitch who doesn’t care about her kid].

You might think that [staying home / working] is best for your kid, but [it’s not healthy for kids to be around their mothers 24-7 / mothers should really be around for their kids 24-7].

Everyone knows that you [staying at home / going back to work] is actually the worst thing for your child. Thanks to you, your poor baby will be [stuck in a bubble with its brain rotting from zero socialization / neglected while it cries for hours in baby jail, a.k.a. daycare] and probably grow up to be a serial killer. I believe Jeffrey Dahmer’s mom [stayed at home / worked outside the home].

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. He swung by JOE Towers to chat to us about his new book, the regression of neoliberal capitalism to a feudal system ran by a few tech billionaires, and the future of global capital. Subscribe to our new podcast now, or you’re […]

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And you need to hear it too Greg Gutfeld says “elections don’t work” and “society is in peril and chaos because our elections don’t matter” while urging for a new American civil war. In the following tweets, I will transcribe everything he says in this clip, because it goes into some very dark territory. pic.twitter.com/2FLCz5ptCP — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 5, 2023 This is not a joke, even though Gutfeld presents himself as a comedian. It’s not funny. It’s terrifying. And it’s exactly what the Trump cult is being fed day in and day pout. It’s not just him.  It’s the entire right wing media universe. Between Trump, Fox, the lesser cable newsers, the internet, Steve Bannon and his ilk etc., they’re managing to brainwash tens of millions of Americans.:  “Only certain people get criminal mulligans and Jan. 6 protestors, they don’t get criminal mulligans and here’s why. They’re the oppressor. So the oppressed get criminal mulligans.

Olly Boon reflects on the devastation of a group, DemocracyUnlocked, dedicated to telling readers the truth, which had to cease operating after receiving legal threats from the TV presenter

Set down your coffee cup before reading Daily Beast: The judge who doomed Donald Trump’s family business last week took an aggressive and preemptive step on Wednesday to ensure the former president can’t secretly shift assets to salvage his real estate empire. In an order that was posted on the fourth day of the former president’s bank fraud trial, Justice Arthur F. Engoron commanded that the Trumps identify any corporations they have—and come clean about any plans to move around money in an attempt to hide or keep their wealth. Seriously? And Engoron expects Trump to comply? Sure, it’s something the case demands. But this is Donald J. Trump and family we’re talking about. It’s a powerful maneuver meant to counter the sort of underhanded moves Trump has displayed so far during the three-year investigation. Trump, sons Don Jr.

The Prime Minister knows that he has not shown any great vision of what he believes or how he wants Britain to look, writes Jonathan Lis

I’m running out of W’s T’s and F’s Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) last night responded to a Daily Mail article. (Yeah, I’m wondering about that too.) The post: BREAKING: While IRS was pursuing felony charges against addict Hunter Biden, they were pursuing a mere lien against addict Rudy Giuliani. I’m sorry, what? The IRS has placed a lien on Rudy Giuliani’s $4.5 million penthouse after accusing the fallen attorney of owing more than half a million dollars in unpaid taxes, DailyMail.com can reveal. The federal tax agency claims the 79-year-old former New York City mayor owes $549,435.26 in unpaid income taxes for 2021, according to a notice filed in court in Palm Beach County, Florida. The IRS placed a lien on Giuliani’s penthouse in Palm Beach, just three miles north of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. If Giuliani doesn’t pay up, the September 1 lien allows the IRS to seize some of the profits from Giuliani’s condo if it were to be sold. Surely Venezuelan software in the IRS machines is responsible. There are “rich and famous” photos of the apartment included. Who cares?

Let's celebrate the Doctor Who baddies, the Sontarans, the original Evil Mr. Potato Head alien invasion clone army/metaphors for endless war.

Setting

Fantasy: My bathroom is four thousand square feet and bursting with natural sunlight. It overlooks my personal botanical garden, overflowing with exotic, lush plants. My vintage clawfoot bathtub is pristine and pairs perfectly with the art deco aesthetic of my entire high-rise penthouse, just as Nate Berkus planned when he designed it.

Reality: My studio apartment overlooks a crime scene, and I need to clean two years’ worth of hair and nail clippings out of the drain before I can get in the tub. A cockroach scuttles by as I yank out a clog the size of a yeti.

Slipping into the bath

Fantasy: I slip out of my perfectly fitting Hermes yachting robe from behind a vintage silk screen. As it falls from my soft, hairless body, the robe immediately flies to the end of my bed and folds itself into a neat square. The bathwater is a soothing temperature, and I slide into it as gracefully as an oiled baby seal, not displacing a single drop. I release a small, satisfied sigh.

By aligning itself with the Kremlin, the Georgian Dream party is at odds with the country's population who want to move closer to NATO and the EU

Art by Matt Smith

So now what yah got tah undahstand is that no one even knew where Sweden n’ Nahway n’ Finland n’ Russia ended back in the Viking days ‘cause back in those days those fuckin’ countries didn’t even prahpahly exist yet! Which actually sounds pretty good in Russia’s case right now, but at any rate all it was was just a bunch’ah kings n’ chieftains n’ shit all doin’ the eahrly stages’ah nation-buildin’ thing in the capital regions but way out there in the great nohrthuhn woods was the semi-nomadic reindee’ah people.

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Warrior Nun, TWD: Daryl Dixon, Loki, Superman and Lois, Doctor Who, Star Trek: Picard, "Buffy," Ahsoka & more!

Artificially generated nonsense is already filling the pages of Britain's press

First used as a tool of warfare, infrared technology creates an impressionistic dance film from the heat of bodies in motion

- by Psyche Film

Watch at Psyche

Vincent Bevins discusses his new book, “If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution,” and the global protest movements of the 2010s.

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The detection of alien life won’t be obvious. It’ll be partial and inconclusive: a perfect task for the scientific method

- by Jaime Green

Read at Aeon

In his latest book, the Greek politician – who in 2015, at the height of the Greek debt crisis, was catapulted from academic obscurity to Minister of Finance – argues that insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies in the wake of the financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic have ended […]

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A right-wing operative cashes in on convincing liberals that he’s the cure for the despair he sowed.

Är nationalekonomi vetenskapligt baserad kunskap? Kan man förutspå hur enskilda individer eller hela samhällen kommer att agera ekonomiskt? Till exempel om miljonbonusar gör toppchefer mer lojala mot de företag som anställt dom? Kan ekonomiska analytiker verkligen se in i framtiden och förutspå kommande kriser? Eller handlar ekonomernas prognoser mer om en kvalificerad gissningslek? Yours truly […]

WITH amazing crowds over the two days, the Woolgoolga District Orchid Society’s Annual Spring Orchid Show and Garden Expo certainly got the thumbs up from both the organisers and visitors. “It has been one of the best Orchid Shows seen along the coast,” stated Kathy Bruce from Maclean. Advertise with News of The Area today....

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A BREATH of fresh air has revitalised the Coffs Harbour music scene with the unveiling of The Backroom at the Coffs Hotel. The former Winxx nightclub has undergone a remarkable transformation, now offering patrons an experience reminiscent of Melbourne, New York, or London. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your...

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WORLD Mental Health Day on Tuesday 10 October is the driver for a collaboration between the Dorrigo Rotary Club, Bellingen Shire Council and local mental health organisations. Together they will host a community-wide Mental Health Walk from Dangar Falls, taking place at 9am on Sunday 15 October 2023. Advertise with News of The Area today....

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