There may come a time when we look back on the last decade as an anomaly in the modern history of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis – the figurehead of these years, and a radical by the standards of the Catholic hierarchy – is gone, and we are now likely to see a major shift […]
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This is a test. This is only a test. I’m using WordLand to write this post to my WordPress website. It’s a new, stripped-down writer’s tool for bloggers. Think of it as a frill-free writer’s frontend to the majesty of WordPress. The essential features (and some advanced ones, even) in a distraction-free, scribbler-friendly environment. ## […]
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“The Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders.” — New York Times
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This administration repeatedly ignores court rulings, so, sure, it looks like we are breaking many laws. But even though it seems very, very obvious to everyone that we’re breaking laws left and right, any stable genius can see we’re merely edging ever closer to breaking many laws. Like a teenager sitting next to their crush in a dark movie theater, slowly creeping nearer and nearer to graze their date’s hand.
This isn’t a constitutional crisis. We’re just making eye contact with a constitutional crisis from across the bar, then looking away and giggling.
Lately — especially in the Moderate Party (Moderaterna) and the Liberal Party (Liberalerna) — there has been a push for the euro based on the argument that global economic uncertainties make smaller currencies like the Swedish krona more vulnerable. Facing increased volatility, the euro is said to be a safer alternative. This, however, sounds rather […]
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Instead of tackling crashing markets, Congress is pushing a crypto sector that the Trump family is financially involved in.
The post Congress’s Biggest Financial Priority Is “Stablecoin.” What the Hell Is That? appeared first on The Intercept.
John Mitchinson considers whether the Devil still has some lessons to teach us
It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to work on a project that has an impending (very) deadline. I also did a podcast interview with the team at Macro and Cheese on the state of American this morning. So…
A decade ago, I stood up in Parliament and urged Conservative ministers to save the Redcar steelworks — our blast furnace, our world-class coke ovens. I warned then that abandoning these strategic assets would have generational consequences, and I wasn’t alone in saying so. My Labour colleagues in the neighbouring constituencies (Redcar and Middlesbrough South […]
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 29 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully funded) and special issues, 9 postdoc positions, 7 summer schools, 6 PhD scholarships, 5 job openings, 2 visiting positions, and a research grant in […]
In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their “black sites.” For those too young to remember (or who have quite understandably chosen to forget), “black sites” was the name given to clandestine CIA detention centers around the world, where that agency held incommunicado and tortured men captured in what was then known as the Global War on Terror. The black site in this case was the notorious Salt Pit in Afghanistan. There el-Masri was, among other things, beaten, anally raped, and threatened with a gun held to his head. After four months he was dumped on... Read more
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 20, 2025
by Tony Wikrent
Trump not violating any law
‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’
‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges
[The Daily Beast, via MSN 03-18-2025]
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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Canadians will vote in a general election on April 28. Here’s my ‘top 7’ overview of the Liberal Housing Plan: https://nickfalvo.ca/the-liberal-housing-plan/.
Trade war trickery, a tax-day scandal, the lost revolutionary, and more from The Lever this week.
Doctor Who has had a major message running this season and throughout the series' history: gods are evil and must be fought and defeated.
Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist anti-immigrant policies.
The post Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears appeared first on The Intercept.
Up at the French-Spanish border in Catalonia