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Sat, 20/12/2025 - 02:54

Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influence, and Silicon Valley’s role in modern warfare.

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Sat, 20/12/2025 - 01:00

FEATURES:

- Ossuary jars
- Anti-revolutionary painting
- Toxic dust
- Solastalgia

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It was a cold, dry night in April, and a crowd had gathered in the center of Nukus, the capital of the Central Asian Republic of Karakalpakstan, to squint through a skein of toxic dust into the illuminated lobby of one of the world’s most peculiar cultural institutions: the Nukus Museum of Art.

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Sat, 20/12/2025 - 00:00

Overall, you’ve got a strong concept: a log burning in a fireplace, on a loop for five hours. But we have a few notes.

  • Can the log be more aspirational?
  • Focus-group it to see if kids aged six to eleven think fire is too urban.
  • The log seems passive. Provide more backstory.
  • Can the fireplace have a cool sidekick? (e.g., a smart-mouthed pinecone.)
  • Does the music have to be Christmas music?
  • Will viewers know what a fireplace is?
  • Make the fire more appealing to single men.
  • Where’s the merchandising tie-in?
  • Could the fire sing a duet with Michael Bublé?
  • Instead of a holiday one-off, could it be a weekly series? (e.g., Jake Log is an ex-cop turned P.I. who plays by his own rules.)
  • Why fire?

Otherwise, it’s perfect.

Happy Holidays!

Created
Fri, 19/12/2025 - 22:16

In Get In, the first major account of Keir Starmer’s steady takeover of the Labour Party, journalists Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund describe a scene from one of Starmerism’s major tactical victories over the party’s left: a hastily introduced a motion at 2021’s party conference that would double the threshold of nominations for MPs to make […]

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Fri, 19/12/2025 - 20:57

Of all the headlines and debacles that accompanied November’s Budget, a helping hand for one particular sector failed to materialise: arts and culture. The industry was not directly in the firing line of spending cuts, but it is a victim of continued state-managed neglect, as it has been slowly fed into the maw of the […]

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Fri, 19/12/2025 - 11:30

“President Donald Trump on Wednesday assailed his White House predecessors for not pushing back against Venezuela earlier and stated that his intention is ‘getting land, oil rights, whatever we had’ returned by the government in Caracas.” — PBS

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I’m absolutely disgusted by President Trump’s attempt to start a war with Venezuela without first putting in the years of tedious, brain-breaking propaganda work. Is it fun to poison the public consciousness with outrageous lies that border on blood libel and dehumanize innocent civilians in a country that most Americans couldn’t even find on a map? Of course not. But it’s what you do! Past presidents used to understand that. Past presidents used to care.

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Fri, 19/12/2025 - 05:59

Kate McCallister realizes that her son Kevin didn’t make it with them to the airport on their way to Paris for the holidays. She frantically pulls out her phone and calls him up.

KEVIN: Hello?

MOM: Kevin!

KEVIN: Mom?

MOM: I’m so sorry you’re home alone! Your sister accidentally took your jacket that had your AirTag in the pocket, and we were too busy listening to Audible to notice you were missing.

KEVIN: I feel so alone!

MOM: I know, sweetie! We just got to the airport, but we can catch a later flight. We might not get Delta One, alas, but that’s okay. Motion sensors say you’re in my bedroom.

KEVIN: I’m hiding under your bed.

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Fri, 19/12/2025 - 05:58

New York Times columnist David Brooks appears at a 2011 dinner with Jeffrey Epstein in the latest set of photos from the House Oversight Committee.

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