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More Epstein documents have been dumped, and they’re atrocious. It seems like most of the US elite was involved. There are two reasons for this. One is that people who are super-powerful and super-rich feel like ordinary morality and laws don’t apply to them, and rape and torture and pedophilia are, to them, an ultimate […]

. What yours truly most admires about Ann Pettifor is her ability to cut through economic abstraction with clarity and moral purpose. She identifies what most mainstream economists miss: that finance is not a mere technical side note, but the very arena where power and real-world consequences collide. Her Minsky-Keynes-inspired analysis of the financial system … … Continue reading →

Ncuti Gatwa's departure from Doctor Who was a "surprise" to Mark Gatiss, and he sees that Billie Piper moment as the "ultimate cliffhanger."

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A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Pretti’s death.

The post He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing appeared first on The Intercept.

The Justice Department is weaponizing a law intended to protect those seeking abortions to punish reporters covering anti-ICE activism.

The post The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting appeared first on The Intercept.

The most elusive mental health condition is more common than we thought

The post How Dissociation Blunts Trauma appeared first on Nautilus.

These millennia-old punchlines aren’t exactly gut-busters today

The post Ancient Jokes Etched in Clay appeared first on Nautilus.

DNA from museum specimens help detail the genetic bottleneck

The post When German Shepherds Got Their Cursed Genes appeared first on Nautilus.

by Koray Caliskan* Over the past few decades, the idea of performativity has quietly reshaped how many of us think about markets, identities, technologies, and institutions. The basic intuition is simple but powerful: descriptions and representations (scientific or not) do not merely reflect the world; under the right conditions, they help bring it into being. […]

Despite high-tech new therapies, people with sickle cell anemia still encounter stigma today

The post The Devastating Disease Neglected for Decades appeared first on Nautilus.

Denial of the Gaza Health Ministry’s death toll helped buoy American support for Israel’s genocide.

The post Israeli Military Found Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll Was Accurate. Will These Deniers Admit It? appeared first on The Intercept.

“What surprised us here was the clarity of the signal”

The post Sex Changes the Brains of Male Mice appeared first on Nautilus.

Som alltid nuförtiden, när man vill att vi ska lyssna på någon nationalekonom som säger att allt är bra och att alla egentligen tjänar på att inkomst- och förmögenhetsskillnaderna blivit skyhöga, så bjuder man in landets egen Dr Pangloss — Daniel Waldenström. Waldenströms uppfattning är i grund och botten att ekonomisk ojämlikhet egentligen inte är … … Continue reading →

Hey, patriot.

It’s been a week.

As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civilian in Minneapolis (bringing this year’s known death toll up to eight), I know a lot of you are struggling to recognize me lately.

And while I don’t know what’s going to happen next either, I want to at least assuage your fears that I’m turning into Nazi Germany or Franco’s Spain or some other scary, distant place torn from your history books. Because that’s not what’s happening.

Baby, look into my star-spangled eyes. It’s me.

I’m your America.

Maybe you didn’t recognize me without my hood up.

I’ve been brutalizing civilians in my streets ever since I was built on stolen land.

Reading the corporate media over the past few days, you might come away with the impression that national (and international) outrage over state-sanctioned terror and killings of civilians in the streets of Minneapolis has led to the Trump administration moderating…

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The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent.

The post Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now appeared first on The Intercept.

A human rights group fanned the flames of conflict by threatening legal action if the city invested in war crimes.

The post Zohran Mamdani Wants NYC to Divest From Israel — But New Comptroller Pledges to Buy War Bonds appeared first on The Intercept.

A series of essential advice.

The first time I tried to ski was a catastrophe. I’ve always been unathletic and clumsy, the kind of person who hates being cold, hates waking up early, hates going fast, hates excessive gear, and generally has a bad attitude. Nonetheless, for reasons of infatuation, at thirty years old I lied about being a skier and accompanied my new boyfriend on a trip to Vermont, where I found myself, at 9 a.m., clutching my poles, frozen in terror, at the base of a mountain called the Beast.

I couldn’t latch the skis onto my boots without falling. I couldn’t climb onto the ski lift without falling, or glide three feet without falling. I wobbled and collapsed and bonked my helmet, over and over. I have never felt so undignified or so near to grave injury. I panicked and cried. My new boyfriend picked me up, over and over, and eventually it became hilarious. I made it down the bunny slope. I vowed never to do this again.

QUESTION: Sally wants to graduate from college, establish a career, marry an ideal partner, buy a home, and have a baby by age 27.5, the national average age for women to give birth in the US, and a peak time of fertility. If she takes a gap year to backpack around Europe, will she have a baby on time (before all her eggs die)?

Factors to consider:

Three years after the East Palestine disaster, everybody’s gotten paid — except the victims.