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People read much into the implications of currency swaps that is not there. Much ado about nothing. Brian explains why in terms that are simple to understand.

When my mother was pregnant with my younger brother Pete, my father took her to see West Side Story in New York. My mom said every time the orchestra played, Pete kicked in her womb, keeping perfect time. Some people are born to play the drums. Pete played before he was born. He never stopped. […]

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At a U.S. base in Syria, some attacks get press while others stay hidden.

The post The Pentagon’s Obsession With Secrecy Protected a Marine Accused of Sexual Assault appeared first on The Intercept.

“Fall in line” seems to be the order of the day Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday by publishing a series of hysterical posts on his Truth Social media platform exhorting his followers to take to the streets in protest. As it turns out he doesn’t actually know that he’s being arrested on Tuesday but surmised it from the media reports and decided to signal his loyal followers to get organized. As I write this it seems that an indictment is imminent but there is at least one more witness scheduled to testify to the grand jury today (Michael Cohen’s former lawyer), so it’s unclear exactly when it’s coming. Trump isn’t taking it well: Social media set itself on fire over Trump’s announcement and some of Trump’s minions appeared on TV to echo his rage suggesting that the case is being brought to hide the crimes of the “Biden Crime Family” which includes the widow of the late Beau Biden.

Invited to Rwanda by Suella Braverman and backed by wealthy Conservatives, the broadcaster’s ‘anti-establishment’ credentials are waning

This bus transforms into a train

“This was a hundred per cent my idea and something I wanted to do,” the Speaker of the House said.

Hey, I'm doing a pause today to share with you where I am in process of the production of Episode 38 and also look back in the mirror of what happened so far since summer 2022, the last time I published an episode of Pepper&Carrot. I'll try to explain all the process of what happened for me to take so much time on this one.

You'll find that the big bottle-neck was mainly at the step of the scenario.

Happy First Day of Spring! To celebrate the season, I’m opening Great Dinners from Life (1969) and turning to the chapter on Spring. In my copy of Great Dinners, there are six menus that the previous owner bookmarked and definitely prepared–the pages are dirty! Artichokes Stuffed with Shrimp Chicken in a Pot with Vegetables CoqContinue reading HAPPY SPRING! →

Mais de 100 afetados pela onda de demissões em empresas de tecnologia contam como o encanto virou decepção.

The post Demissões na Meta, Twitter, Google, XP e empresas de tecnologia têm ‘leve ameaça’, cortes durante licença e bônus menor para brasileiros appeared first on The Intercept.

I know Tony Blair knew there was no stockpile of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before Britain and the United States launched the invasion. The revelation came in a bizarre encounter in a spartan, windowless room at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) headquarters in Whitehall. The meeting with the government’s expert on Iraq’s WMD […]

Luckovich again Gov. Wokety-woke DeWoke has even lost Bret Stephens (like I care): “He’s showing he’s just another George Costanza Republican, whose idea of taking a foreign-policy stand is to “do the opposite” of whatever the Democrats do.” Gail Collins and Stephens got distracted by DeSantis before making a passing reference to the prospect of a Donald Trump indictment this week. Joe Scarborough (like I care) believes any indictment will fire up Trump’s base briefly before fading, and any indictment will erode Trump’s support in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Sounds about right. But before that fade happens:

California's Covid censorship law has not yet been killed by the judiciary, sadly.

Some numbers (nominal and adjusted). Short.

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It’s not just that media figures who sold the most devastating war crime of the 21st century never faced any professional consequences—they’re more powerful and influential now than ever.

The post US Media’s Iraq War Pushers 20 Years On: Where Are They Now? Rich and Influential appeared first on scheerpost.com.

This is an article I’ve been avoiding writing for a few years now because there’s no upside to it, much like a man weighing in on feminism or a white person writing about first nations or anyone who isn’t a Zionist racist piece of garbage writing about Israel. But because trans-rights have become a political wedge issue, I feel it has become necessary to discuss them.

I’m fifty-five years old. When I was growing up two things were true about transvestites (which we universally thought of as male to female). People didn’t like them, and people mostly didn’t think it was any of their business unless they were tricked into a romantic or sexual encounter with one.

I don’t want to underplay how much they were disliked. Watch the end of the first Ace Ventura movie to get a feel for it.

Regime change, not disarmament, was always the driving factor behind U.S. policy towards Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

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Or How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Forgot the Bomb.

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Just over one year ago, ten young Black men were charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to GBH in Greater Manchester. The prosecution arguing the case said that they were part of a gang and linked them to the killing of a man they framed as revenge for the death of their friend. A […]

I have argued that there are four major problems in the way of using the counterfactual account for causal inference. Of the four, I argued that the fourth — the problem of indeterminacy — is likely to be the most damaging: To the extent that some of the causal principles that connect counterfactual antecedent and […]

Coming soon to a red state near you Further evidence this morning that opposition to democracy has become a feature of the Republican Party. And not of the Trumpublican Party, mind you. This trend predates the Menace from Mar-a-Lago. Will Bunch comments on doings in Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s Texas that merit attention yet again. Texas officials last week announced the state’s takeover of the eighth-largest public school system in the country: Houston’s. Take note, Bunch cautions: First of all, the move is outrageous. Despite facing the same struggles as most large urban school districts around poverty and disinvestment, topped by the double whammy of COVID-19 and the natural disaster of Hurricane Harvey, Houston schools have been improving under metrics set by the state.