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From guerrilla fighter to revered leader, Hassan Nasrallah’s journey has left an indelible mark on Lebanon and the wider world, a legacy only strengthened by his recent assassination.

The post The Nasrallah Phenomenon: A Life and Legacy That Refuses to Die appeared first on MintPress News.

It’s been a week since the election of Donald Trump and the shock is just now beginning to wear off. The ritual Democratic self-flagellation is calming a bit as most people finally take a breath and recognize that while the result was a terrible disappointment it was anything but a landslide for Donald Trump, nor was it a crushing rebuke of the Democratic party. As Philip Bump of The Washington Post points out in this preliminary analysis: “Trump’s popular-vote victory will likely end up as the smallest since 2000. It is due, in part, to fewer people voting. Exit polls are imperfect, but they suggest where each party gained and lost votes since 2020…What we can say, though, is that this was not an electoral landslide, but a narrowly contested race in which Trump is likely to have benefited as much from who didn’t turn out to vote for his candidacy than who did turn out to vote for him. Right now, the first order of business is to shake off the defeat and confront the challenge of Donald Trump’s ghastly agenda. As we have seen in the last few days it’s shaping up to be both more chaotic and more extreme than even in 2016.

Intellectualism’s core activity is analysis—investigating how and why certain occurrences take place around us.

We were Trumpified before Trump Self-flagellation over the 2024 presidential race loss continues among Democrats. It is fueled by simplistic press narratives that I hear as: Millions face violent deportation, Ukrainians face losing their country, Gazans face continued slaughter, and the world faces the collapse of NATO and the rise of fascism American-style because Democrats have a messaging problem. The 75 million whose votes empower those outcomes? Their hands are clean. Brian Beutler is not buying it either: For all the unfolding recrimination, a fairly strong consensus has already formed across the left that last week’s election results are part of a global, post-Covid, post-inflation backlash against incumbents. And for what it’s worth, I agree with this consensus; Occam’s razor applies too neatly to start the analysis elsewhere. Operative word: start. The information environment itself is a place to continue: “Working the refs” was once an art. Under Democrats’ noses, the right has made it a science. (They won’t call it that, of course.) The right attacks.

Simple question for you, what is woke?

To liberals woke equates with the advencement of and/or equality of people of color.

To the vast majority of conservatives–but not all–woke is a dogwhistle, hell, it’s probably a straight out whistle about the transgender ‘agenda.’

Although the media will probably never report how much influence all the transgender scaremongering had over the election–I imagine it had a material impact.

The entire transgeder issue is the ultimate in idenity politics failure.

YouTuber Niko Omilana's prank highlights how few checks are made on the real identities of those who stand for election

Mr. Insecurity picks a Fox News host for SecDef Donald Trump proved critics right again on Tuesday. All this time I thought one of strongest motivators for Donald (Mr. Insecurity) Trump’s was to get the world to stop “laughing at us” (him). It’s considered one of the reasons he ran for president after sitting through some skillful mocking at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “Saturday Night Live” comedian Seth Meyers and President Obama (Did you know he’s Black?) both roasted Trump as unserious. “Donald Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican — which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke,” Meyers jabbed as Trump sat stone-faced. “That evening of public abasement, rather than sending Mr. Trump away, accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world,” wrote Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns after the 2016 Super Tuesday primaries. “And it captured the degree to which Mr.

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Founded in 1616 and then founded again in 2017, Giving Thanks Cranberry Bog is a family-owned and -operated bog. Located in the Midwest region of the Northeast, our bog offers an array of beloved bog-based activities for friends, bachelorette parties, and children of divorce.

Cranberry collection takes place daily from sunrise to sundown. But after 4 p.m., the bog is adults only, as the cranberries start to ferment. Thursday is Ladies’ Night. Sunday mornings, we’re closed to dredge the bog.

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Tom Homan, Trump’s former acting ICE director who contributed to Project 2025, will be “border czar” in the next administration.

The post Trump’s Family Separation Czar Is Back appeared first on The Intercept.

Since the onset of Israel’s exterminationist war on the people of Gaza thirteen months ago, Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has acquired international renown as a public chronicler, legal anatomist, and political opponent of genocide. Appointed to the role in May 2022 — the month Israeli forces assassinated Palestinian-American […]

As permafrost thaws at unprecedented rates, Arctic villages are beginning to sink. Here is what we need to do

- by Aeon Video

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Feeling ill will toward someone who harmed you is natural but draining. You can let it go, whether you reconcile or not

- by Richard S Balkin

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Is the BBC following the recommendations from the Blastland and Dilnot report? Let’s use a bit of AI magic and find out

David Elliott, Ralf Meisenzahl and José-Luis Peydró Capital flows and credit growth are strongly correlated across countries. Macroeconomic evidence suggests that this ‘global financial cycle’ is largely driven by US monetary policy: expansionary policy by the Federal Reserve drives increases in lending globally, while contractionary Fed policy leads to a tightening of global financial conditions. … Continue reading Nonbank lenders as global shock absorbers →

Rachel Reeves will be leant on by City figures to deregulate the sector ahead of her keynote speech this Thursday. But transparency campaigners warn too many are falling victim to predatory finance firms