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Law enforcement agencies spent millions in taxpayer funds buying weapons from vendors cited for gun safety violations, a new analysis reveals.

The post California Police Are Buying Guns From Dealers With Troubling Records appeared first on The Intercept.

Confident or shy, our temperament is mostly baked-in from birth. But how that influences our lives is up for grabs

- by Gina Mireault

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I am an agony uncle. This is what I’ve learned about men, women and how relationships work in my 10 years of giving advice

- by James McConnachie

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Superb by Mick Lynch in this clip published by Joe.co.uk from last night’s Parliament Square gathering against the government’s planned anti-union laws: SKWAWKBOX needs your help. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you’d like to help it keep revealing the news as […]

Examining long-term wage growth of male workers, an analysis finds that job mobility can provide insights into the disparities in lifetime earnings distribution.

Benedict shared with skeptics, postmodernists, and existentialists the suspicion of the modern trust in the benevolence of the human will.

In January 1944, Adolfo Kaminsky was up against himself. As a document forger in the French Resistance, the 18-year-old was informed by a contact that the authorities were making imminent plans to raid ten Jewish children’s homes across Paris in an attempt to accelerate the destruction of European Jewry. Anti-fascist militants active in rescue work […]

At the start of each year, the World Economic Forum—organiser of the annual Davos conference currently underway in Switzerland—releases its list of the ‘global risks’ expected to dominate over the following twelve months. This year, researchers at the WEF decided that these risks are so great, and so interwoven, that we are now entering an […]

Parlamentares que defenderam ou minimizaram terrorismo em Brasília editaram e apagaram posts para esconder apoio aos atos de 8 de janeiro.

The post Esses deputados estão fingindo nunca ter apoiado os terroristas após posts comprometedores appeared first on The Intercept.

An exclusive investigation by Sian Norris reveals the 'national disgrace' of council tenants struggling with mould

The goal of Net Zero emissions by 2050 has had a remarkable rise to the forefront of climate politics. Governments and corporations are falling over one another to commit to it. That in itself might sow some suspicion about how firm or flexible a target Net Zero is. In a recent piece with Duncan McLaren, […]

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As the Online Safety Bill returns to the commons today for its delayed report stage, it appears MPs might introduce prison sentences for tech bosses that fail to censor content harmful to children. Dr Monica Horten, ORG Policy Manager for Freedom of Expression said: “The amendment proposed by some MPs fails to adequately identify what ‘content […]

Gas swan dive due to LNG glut in China?

Q & A transcript from our 4th Patreon event.  Please join Michael’s Patreon group as a Patreon Plus member, so that you too can join us and ask Michael any question at our next session in March.  Karl Fitzgerald (KF): To start off with our typical end-of-year topic: How have you seen this year’s economic Continue Reading

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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has been making headlines recently over a birthday costume scandal, but it's not the first time controversy has tarnished his reputation. read now...

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Recently, I have been asked a lot about why ABS Census employment estimates are different to other sources like the ABS Labour Force and NIEIR’s LGA employment estimates. In this blog, I thought i’d...

Constitutional change is possible and a proposal should be given to the Albanese Government on how our democracy can progress. read now...

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If this is true, he’s being unusually subtle about it: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t even declared whether he’ll run for president in 2024, and Donald Trump has tried to restrain himself from going after his top GOP rival, but the former president’s allies are already mounting an offensive—with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem now leading the charge. Noem may be interested in running for president herself, and therefore would have good reason to go after DeSantis, but she also may be angling for a different role: Trump’s vice president. Earlier this month, Noem’s press secretary, Ian Fury, took a shot at DeSantis seemingly from out of nowhere. Fury sent a follow-up email to the National Reviewfor an article ostensibly about “the transgender lobby’s outsized influence in South Dakota.” Fury went on a tirade—against DeSantis. “Governor Noem was the only Governor in America on national television defending the Dobbs decision,” Fury said, referring to the Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion protections. “Where was Governor DeSantis?

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