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Raskin would never call them Banana Republicans Incivility is a reflex among MAGA Republicans, as are gun-toting implicit threats of violence and, as on January 6, the real deal. The GOP’s sneering use of Democrat Party has such a long history that at this point I wince whenever Democrats occasionally refer the the Democrat Party. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) decided to school Republican colleague Lauren Boebert on her use of it. The Associated Press reports that this old Republican shibboleth is “on the rise”: Purposely mispronouncing the formal name of the Democratic Party and equating it with political ideas that are not democratic goes beyond mere incivility, said Vanessa Beasley, an associate professor of communications at Vanderbilt University who studies presidential rhetoric. She said creating short-hand descriptions of people or groups is a way to dehumanize them. Nothing new about that, even if branding the left pedophiles to dehumanize them is. For any young-uns reading this, Lawrence B.
The FDA’s proposed labeling requirement is facing backlash from processed food companies claiming the rule limits their free speech.
The post Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms Threaten to Block “Healthy” Food Labeling Guidelines in Court appeared first on The Intercept.
Cisco turned from innovation to financialization, weakening the position of the US information-and-communication-technology industry
The Prime Minister has repeatedly delayed the release of his financial statements, originally promised last year, reports Adam Bienkov
In today’s world, it can be difficult to find inspiring figures to look up to, especially in a time of division and uncertainty. Fortunately, there are still individuals like Margaret Flowers who embody the ideals of progress, justice, and compassion. Margaret Flowers is a leading activist, doctor, teacher, and co-founder of PopularResistance.org, a website that […]
The post Defending The Venezuelan Embassy, Organizing Peace for Ukraine with Margaret Flowers appeared first on MintPress News.
[the below is the main text of Henry Farrell and Marion Fourcade, “The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism,” published in the Winter 2023 issue of Daedalus under a Creative Commons license. For the original in HTML form, click here, and for a nicely formatted PDF, click here.] Abstract While people in and around the tech […]
It’s a silent COVID spring Fewer people at my grocery stores are wearing masks of any kind these days. The widely debated Cochrane review on masks made its brief ripple and faded. Except for the Chinese lab theory, the right largely has moved on to another set of culture war rants. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene would rather blather about fentanyl. And the 2020 election? Greene should be on a license plate. Gov. Wokety-woke DeWoke has moved on to … you know. But COVID has not moved on, writes Katherine J. Wu at The Atlantic. It has just gotten quieter. It’s still adapting: Three years later, the coronavirus is still silently spreading—but the fear of its covertness again seems gone. Enthusiasm for masking and testing has plummeted; isolation recommendations have been pared down, and may soon entirely disappear. “We’re just not communicating about asymptomatic transmission anymore,” says Saskia Popescu, an infectious-disease epidemiologist and infection-prevention expert at George Mason University. “People think, What’s the point?
In a country at war, the simple club night has become a symbol of resistance, a source of mental rejuvenation and even a way to help bring victory closer. Violence often visits the capital Kyiv, in short bursts maybe once or twice a week in the form of cruise missiles and kamikaze drones that send […]
“The 15-minute city principle suggests you should have your daily needs—work, food, healthcare, education, culture, and leisure—within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from where you live. It sounds pleasant enough, but in the minds of libertarian fanatics and the bedroom commentators of TikTok, it represents an unprecedented assault on personal freedoms.” — The Guardian
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If you’re worried about the government confining citizens to life inside a walkable 15-minute box, then we invite you to the 15-Hour City: a metropolis so sprawling and convoluted to navigate only by car, you’ll need over half the day to accomplish the basic necessities of living.
In the 15-Hour City, the most important tenet is freedom of movement. Here, you can travel anywhere you want, as long as it’s on the handful of roads we afford to maintain with a gas-guzzling car that costs half your paycheck.
Setting the economic agenda Wayne McMillan Economic and financial commentators, central bank gurus, policy research spokespeople and treasury boffins use a language that could be…
The post Setting the economic agenda first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.Science is rotting thanks to bad metrics and bad publisher incentives.
More evidence emerges that, while Boris Johnson’s Government stepped in to prop up his old employers in the press during the pandemic, the favour was returned with helpful coverage Leaked WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock and George Osborne have revealed he asked the then Editor of the Evening Standard to run a favourable front page […]
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In January, the U.S. and Israel conducted the largest joint military exercise in history.
The post Pentagon Developed Contingency Plan for War With Iran appeared first on The Intercept.
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Monetary and fiscal policy frameworks for Australia part 2 John Haly This is a continuation of my October 2022 submissions in accordance with the review…
The post Monetary and fiscal policy frameworks for Australia part 2 first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.Yet more private equity corruption! And see how little it costs to buy the assent of public pension fund employees.
Homelessness study report and competitive neutrality Colin Cook The critique of the Productivity Commission’s ‘Review Study Report on the Housing and Homelessness Agreement’ by Profs…
The post Homelessness study report and competitive neutrality first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.Why handwringing about population decline is the wrong reaction.
Ecological reasoning demands perspectives that mainstream economics is designed to obliterate Gregory Daneke “Given the numerous disasters exhibited of late involving Mainstream Economics, various heterodox…
The post Ecological reasoning demands perspectives that mainstream economics is designed to obliterate first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.I spend a lot of my time thinking about global heating, where it’s often hard to be optimistic about the future. But there are some bright spots. In particular, there’s a good chance that 2023 will be the year that coal use finally begins a sustained decline, and relatedly the year the carbon dioxide emissions […]