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I thought this rotating house was impossible.

Tick, tick, tick…. Florida man Cesar Sayoc was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2019 for sending over two dozen inoperative pipe bombs to perceived enemies of then-President Donald Trump. None exploded. No one was injured. His intended victims were lucky. Politics in the U.S. is not yet full-on blood sport, but there are days it trends that way. Taunts, red hats, belligerence and semi-autos are at any moment inches away from mayhem. People have had to go into hiding over viral accusations disseminated both by social media, propaganda outlets such as Fox News, and political figures such as Donald Trump. The right-wing media complex has yet to feel enough pain in its pocket to pull back from provoking its audience to credible threats of violence. In the case of the Jan. 6 insurrection, it was actual violence. One victim of Tucker Carlson gets a profile this morning in The New York Times: What’s known about the man — a two-time Trump voter named Ray Epps — is that he took part in demonstrations in Washington that day and the night before. He was captured on camera urging a crowd to march with him and enter the Capitol.

Tree Hugging has a long venerated past of protest and environmental protection. Is the Labour Leader completely ignorant of it?

It is not possible to determine the scientific method that it is appropriate to employ for a given task (in a particular context) without knowing the nature of the task. And to know the nature of any scientific task it is always essential to have an insight into (i.e., to seek to determine) the nature […]

Dr. Ramzy Baroud: "Notice how the Quran is often burned, Islam insulted, or Islamic symbols desecrated whenever the West is undergoing a crisis and is desperate to either ignite an anti-Muslim public frenzy or distract from its own failures."

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“I did that” Being on the field and in the game (rather than a heckling spectator) means that, even if you get politically run over sometimes, you don’t feel like road kill. Small consolation, maybe, but it’s something. And sometimes you get personal credit for the wins. Keep hope alive, Jesse Jackson might say. E.J. Dionne suggests that hope is more than a sop, but “a demanding virtue, not a sunny disposition.” Also, it’s practical, he writes. (It gets me up every morning.) Meaning it’s not naive to seek out “a rendezvous with hope“: Carol Graham, my colleague at the Brookings Institution, has made the study of well-being her life’s work as an economist.

The trauma of loss and the fears of a bigger catastrophe around the nearby nuclear power plant haunt Ukrainians living near the reactivated front line

Tunisians, one of the principal contributors to irregular migration, have turned upon black arrivals in the port city of Sfax

Broken boiler

Combination washing machine-stove

Bathroom with three sinks and no toilet

Twin ghosts

Banging pipes that sound like the weeping of an old Italian widow

Former home of sex cult

Current home of sex cult

No roof

No walls

No floors

Tile-eating termites

Shag ceiling

Built on quicksand

Foundation is gum

Landlord is snakes

Infestation of spunky mice with strong design opinions

Soaking-wet basement

Man living in crawl space (category: kind eyes)

Man living in crawl space (category: lust for blood)

Comes with previous owner’s Komodo dragon, who will only sleep in my baby’s crib

Down payment of both kidneys

Mold that enters my brain, causes me to lose touch with reality, and makes me think I’m a sun-dried tomato

Venetian plaster

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Anyone insisting that you “calm down” about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes at our doorstep.

In a bonus episode for supporting subscribers, David Sirota speaks with the famed media critic about his new book War Made Invisible.

Last year, as the Conservative Party dragged the country into a state of all out chaos, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves saw an opening. With Boris Johnson accused of reckless management of both his own and the country’s finances, and Liz Truss nearly causing a total financial meltdown with her neo-Thatcherite budget, the new Labour […]

Coming of age without his late mother, a young autistic man writes her a heartfelt letter, full of poignance and persistence

- by Aeon Video

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When awaiting a potentially stressful update or event, do you assume it won’t go your way? There may be better options

- by Ella Moeck

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For the final Audit episode on PragerU, the team reminisces about their favorite “lessons” from the propaganda machine.

Our childhood is preposterously long compared to other animals. Is it the secret to our evolutionary success?

- by Brenna Hassett

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Χτες το βράδυ, η Κεντρική Επιτροπή αποφάσισε την Ανασυγκρότηση του ΜέΡΑ25. Κι εγώ, μαζί με τον Κλέωνα Γρηγοριάδη και την Λίτσα Αλεξάκη, την εισήγηση στην Επιτροπή Δεοντολογίας να διαγραφεί άμεσα η Σοφία Σακοράφα. Τα δύο, δυστυχώς, πάνε χέρι-χέρι. Η Ανασυγκρότηση (πολιτική-ηθική-οργανωτική) του ΜέΡΑ25 δεν μπορούσε να γίνει χωρίς Ρήξη Ολική με συμπεριφορές που δεν ταιριάζουν […]

The post Η Ανασυγκρότηση του ΜέΡΑ25 κι η Διαγραφή Σακοράφα: το προσωπικό μου μήνυμα στον κόσμο του ΜέΡΑ25 appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

An analysis finds that women with a partner and young children—those most likely to be sensitive to child care costs—had the strongest rebound in LFP since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yours truly’s latest book has made it onto Amazon’s lists of best sellers in economics and econometrics. I am — of course — truly awed, honoured and delighted.

Marcus Buckmann, Galina Potjagailo and Philip Schnattinger Understanding the origins of currently high inflation is a challenge, since the effects from a range of large shocks are layered on top of each other. The rise of UK service price inflation to up to 6.9% in April might potentially reflect external shocks propagating to a wider … Continue reading Dissecting UK service inflation via a neural network Phillips curve →

Secrets from the self-care bears.