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2022 has seen right-wing attacks on trans rights increasingly aided by the tacit, if sometimes unwitting, transphobia of liberal institutions.

The post Liberals Rose to Fight the Assault on Abortion — but Not Trans Rights appeared first on The Intercept.

Following decades of slumber, 2022 was the year that saw Britain’s trade unions wake up. Against the backdrop of soaring living costs and falling real wages, union membership grew, and workers took strike action to demand higher wages in numbers not seen for a generation. The year also saw trade unions assert themselves on the […]

. After almost forty years in Lund, yours truly returned to the town where he was born and bred — Malmö. Living on the top floor of this grandiose building, next to The Magistrate’s Park, and with The Opera and The Municipal Art Gallery just across the street, always convinces me that returning was a […]

Unglamorous music is a very specific approach to learning, aimed at women - but applicable to anyone lacking in confidence and experience of playing.

The Albanese Government is set to open up Australia's skilled migrant intake, according to Dr Abul Rizvi, in his second foray into IA's top ten stories of the year. read now...

The Albanese Government is set to open up Australia's skilled migrant intake, according to Dr Abul Rizvi, in his second foray into IA's top ten stories of the year. read now...

Average life expectancy in the United States has been falling for the last couple of years in a row. That’s typically a sign of a society in decline. Don’t expect anyone in power to wake up soon though.

The post At Least This Will All Be over Sooner first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.

Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three! If you haven’t already done the Quiz from yesterday then have a go at it…

The post Video of the Day – On Demand Entertainment, 2022 appeared first on Blogtor Who.

IA was alerting Australia about the rise of White supremacists while other publications were still blindly focussed on Islam. This typically strong August piece by Tom Tanuki gained over 20,000 unique views. read now...

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Happy New Year Hippos! Dispatch from Cincinnati: Stop what you’re doing right now and look at these stinking cute pictures of Fritz, the baby brother of the celebrated Cincinnati Zoo hippopotamus Fiona, stealing the show with his toothy grin. “Fritz showing us his smile… and new teeth coming in!” the zoo tweeted this week. Fritz, who was born Aug. 3, did appear to be smiling as he propelled himself around the 70,000-gallon pool at Hippo Cove. Twitter users couldn’t get enough of Fritz’s broad smile. “I’d lay my life on the line for Fritz,” one user tweeted. “Not to be dramatic,” another user said, “but I would die for Fritz,” Fritz, who weighed 330 pounds at a recent weigh-in, is a bouncing baby boy in the most literal sense. Hippos don’t swim, exactly, but use their powerful legs to propel themselves through water. They spend a lot of time bouncing off the walls and bottoms of pools, according to a piece in The Atlantic written when Fiona was just a wee thing. And tiny she was at birth. Born six weeks prematurely on Jan.

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Dave Weigel’s take on the best achievements in campaigning is one of the more interesting year-end pieces I’ve read. He spends all his time on the trail and I suspect he knows what he’s talking about: Best U.S. Senate campaign: John Fetterman in Pennsylvania. Did he get an assist when Donald Trump lifted Mehmet Oz to win the GOP primary? Obviously. Did a decade-plus of ad campaigns, TED Talks, and media profiles of the 6’8’’ mayor of a left-for-dead town help him? Yes, but that wasn’t luck, and he’d already run for Senate and lost before, in 2016. This year’s Fetterman campaign excelled at everything, convincing Democratic primary voters that a candidate Republicans would call “socialist” was electable, then pummeling Oz while its own candidate recovered from a stroke. The best Fetterman gimmicks — like his constant Twitter trolling of Oz, largely for his living until recently in New Jersey — probably wouldn’t work for other candidates, which was the point.

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These are all good things that John McDonnell suggests and much to be admired – but he really does look washed out, poor man… Even more importantly, even after all those years as shadow chancellor he still has no idea that money is actually always the state’s… He talks of a control on energy costs... Read more

2022 was another banner year A look back at the annual body count: From the 19 children and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, to the five people murdered at Club Q in Colorado Springs, countless lives have been impacted by mass shootings in the United States this year. There is no official FBI definition of a mass shooting, so definitions vary from group to group. This means that there is no official number of mass shootings that occurred in 2022. However, the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as a shooting in which there are four or more people shot or killed — not including the shooter — recorded 641 mass shootings in 2022 as of Dec. 28. The online archive reported 690 mass shootings in 2021, the highest year on record. This means that 2022, with at least 641 mass shootings, had the second highest number of mass shootings in a year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Some other lists put it at the highest year on record. Either way, it’s a disgrace.