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Mr Haney debriefs Powell yesterday to identify the GOP dream scenario for 2024:

“To get inflation down to 2.2%, based on history, unemployment would have to go to 10.6%."

Both Sen Kennedy & Jerome Powell could be right.

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— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) March 8, 2023

Dementia Brandon telling Fed to “stay the course!”, while Pocahontas not so sure:

WATCH🚨: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell: “We are taking the only measures we have to bring inflation down.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): “And putting 2 million people out of work is just part of the cost, and they just have to bear it?” pic.twitter.com/ctJ1Nyv9eM

. The economic implications of gender discrimination are most serious. To deny women is to deprive a country of labor​ and talent, but — even worse — to undermine the drive to achievement of boys and men. One cannot rear young people in such wise that half of them think themselves superior by biology, without […]

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Doctor Who, Barry, James Gunn/Dave Bautista, Wednesday, Daredevil/Punisher, Ahsoka, The Flash, SNL, and more!

On Bonfire Night 2020, the University of Manchester undertook extreme measures against Covid-19 at students’ first-year halls complex in Fallowfield. The university erected £11,000 worth of metal fencing to divide Fallowfield’s halls and block its exits, increased security presence and implemented strict ID checks for students leaving and arriving at their accommodation.  Students who were […]

While Russia's winter offensive crawls onward at a tremendous cost in blood and armaments, Paul Niland assesses the strategic position as a Ukrainian counter-offensive looms

This International Women’s Day, ORG is celebrating the critical contributions made by the women on our staff (and all women across the digital rights space) to making technology, and in turn the world, more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. This day also presents an important opportunity to highlight the challenges that women continue to face across […]

Unionized academic workers at Rutgers University have organized across hierarchies and are preparing to go on strike.

The post One of US’s Largest Public Universities Could See First Strike in Its 257 Years appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Shameless Nord Stream spin.

The EU and US are trying to replace Russian gas and push China out of the resource-rich African nation. 

On this week’s Lever podcasts: David interviews progressive icon Nina Turner, and MVC explores Charlie Chaplin’s anti-capitalist masterpiece Modern Times.

Florida has become a crucial access point for abortion in the region. A six-week ban could stop the wave of out-of-state patients coming in to access the procedure.

The post A Proposed Six-Week Abortion Ban in Florida Could Threaten Access for the Entire South  appeared first on scheerpost.com.

"The continued proliferation of surveillance tools like facial recognition technologies in our society is deeply disturbing," said Sen. Ed Markey, reintroducing a federal ban.

The post ACLU Obtains Docs Detailing FBI, Pentagon Development of Facial Recognition Tech appeared first on scheerpost.com.

‘Intimate portraiture within lived spaces’: a single day in the joyful life of Essence and Jihaari, newlyweds in LA

- by Psyche Film

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To understand personal transformation, we should listen to the incessant whispers in our stream of consciousness

- by Jennifer Windt

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The term “Fourth Estate” had taken on the dust of a neglected antique before the release of the Pentagon Papers. Afterwards it seemed possible to think again of the press as the independent pole of power required by a working democracy.

The post Patrick Lawrence: What Dan Ellsberg Means appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.

The post Missing Links in Textbook History: The Roots of the American War in Vietnam appeared first on scheerpost.com.

As a competitor, you can’t avoid the hurt of losing. But you can learn ways to bounce back stronger and more motivated

- by Blakely Low-Scott

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Higher shares of women and older workers made up the groups of “exiters” who left the labor force shortly after their Great Recession or early pandemic-era job losses.

The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.

Welcome to my Wednesday Blog. Full speed ahead! Secret Invasion I’m writing the novel of the acclaimed Marvel comic series Secret Invasion, which was originally written by Brian Michael Bendis with art (on the main title) by Leinil Francis Yu. The novel will be covering the central mini-series of that name, plus lots of excursions into ... Read More

Chris Ogden – a consultant on the recent BBC documentary series examining the record of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – explores why the West appears to be silent on the authoritarianism unfolding in the world's largest democracy

My rather long short story “Burning Men” was published this morning by the Australian literary magazine, Westerly. It’s the first story I felt I was channeling, not writing. Burning Men is about a world where the cost of sexual violence is born by the perpetrators and how that changes everything. It burst out of the […]

Biden considers reinstating migrant detention.