The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
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Wendy lit the stove to heat a pot of tomato soup. She turned to grab a wooden spoon and gasped. Two little girls in smocked dresses stood in the doorway.
“Come play with us,” one said.
“I’m making lunch,” Wendy whispered.
“We want you to play with us,” the other girl said. They stared at Wendy. Unblinking. Evil. “Come play Monopoly Junior.”
“Why can’t the two of you play together?” Wendy asked.
“We want to play with you,” they said in unison. “Can we have a snack?”
“I’m literally making lunch!” Wendy sobbed.
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Wendy stood outside Room 217. She took the passkey from her pocket and slid it in the lock. Inside, the bathroom door was ajar.
It was in there. She could feel it. She crept in.
There stood a woman: bloated stomach, sagging breasts swaying like ancient cracked punching bags, glassy-eyed, hair dry and wild, pale, lips pulled back in an ugly grimace. Wendy screamed.
It was a mirror. Self-care had fallen to the wayside since Danny was born.
Behind a ballerina’s beautiful performance lie hours of discipline, tenderness and an abiding attention to detail
- Directed by Veronika Pokoptceva
At 25, I saw my grandfather’s ghost. At 52, I think of what it may mean to be a ghost
- by Kathleen Donohoe
The metaphor of rewiring offers an ideal of engineered precision. But the brain is more like a forest than a circuit board
- by Peter Lukacs
Residential mortgage-backed securities are back. Subprime mortgages are up. Welcome to 2008 2.0.
An example must be set for all politicians considering abusing their position for personal gain, argues barrister Gareth Roberts
They keep going on about these small boats. Where are they? I’ve not seen any coming up the Irwell. My grandad smiles at me as he says it. 79 years old and he is still every inch the Trade and General Workers’ Union shop steward. We’re sat a five-minute walk from my grandparents’ bungalow in […]
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Every year on 4th February, the world unites to mark World Cancer Day (WCD), a campaign that raises awareness, amplifies voices, and inspires collective action against cancer. Behind the scenes, the World Cancer Day website, built with Drupal, powers millions of people, providing a central platform for global engagement.
As sometime contributor DanfromTo points out, Epstein performed “necessary” tasks for the elite: control thru blackmail and the provision of experiences many of them genuinely want to have. Power is allowed to people who can be trusted with it by other members of the elite, who will do what the elites want: whether that be […]
I dagarna presenterade Indikator en undersökning som visar att Liberalerna är det riksdagsparti som minst andel väljare förknippar med ”ambitiös klimatpolitik”. Och detta trots att Liberalerna själva pekar ut klimatet som en av partiets viktigaste frågor och är det parti i regeringen som innehar klimatministerposten! Det här förvånar kanske först, men när man väl erinrar … … Continue reading
“Responding to videos that suggested their son [V.A. nurse Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal immigration agents] was a ‘domestic terrorist,’ Pretti’s family said: ‘The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting.’” — BBC
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Veterans Affairs nurses are proud to announce their designation as the nation’s newest domestic terrorist group. We’ve achieved this great honor by working on the inside—and no one is more “inside” than those administering enemas to our former soldiers.
Our mission is to help protect health care for the warriors who served our great country by working toward a society in which safety and well-being are the norm. We realize that this might not sound like a typical terrorism agenda, but in our country these days, nobody takes groups seriously unless they’ve been labeled a domestic terrorist organization.
SpaceX is requesting rules exemptions for $661 million in taxpayer-funded satellite investments.
They may dodge predatory wasps by twitching away at the sound of their approach
The post How These Caterpillars Use Their Body Hair to Listen for Danger appeared first on Nautilus.
Fifty years after the Supreme Court ruled that money in politics is constitutionally protected speech, local officials are trying to fix the mess.
Why the hell did he save so many Funko Pops? “Dr. Ian Malcolm with His Shirt Open.” “Homer Simpson in a Muumuu.” He’s got two Green Power Rangers, one with the Dragon Dagger and one without. A lot of these say COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVE, which probably makes them more valuable? Although there seem to be so many Con exclusives that the term might not mean anything.
I came to the storage unit on a typical ninety-three-degree day in October of 2065 to sort through these boxes and decide what to save, donate, or trash. “It’s all the junk that we didn’t have space for, but he couldn’t bear to part with,” Mom said.
Well, let’s see what I can let go of.
From boat strikes to killings in the streets of Minnesota to NSPM-7, the White House leans on the word “terror” to justify its violence.
The post Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them? appeared first on The Intercept.
Conservatives once panicked about a supposed federal plot to invade their communities and quash dissent. Now they’re cheering it.
The post Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency appeared first on The Intercept.
It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom
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