Over on Doctor Who, U.N.I.T. has its fans, but it's more akin to "comfort food" than "cool," especially given the dark turn that it's taken.
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Collective bargaining is unbanned, a rideshare giant gets sued, a new player takes on surveillance pricing, and water runs free.
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Known for targeting celebrities like Ms. Rachel, the pro-Israel blacklist also goes after private individuals who post in solidarity with Palestine.
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To all my brothers and sisters in Ukraine, who have stood strong against the Russian invasion for more than 40 months. May God be with you.
Mitt Romney’s reversal on taxes comes only after he's given up the power to fix the problem he fortified.
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
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“Why, for fifty-three years, I’ve put up with it now! I MUST stop this Christmas from coming! But HOW?” — Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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1. He’s roughly fifty-three years old, give or take.
2. Unlike the music from his day, he thinks everything the youth are listening to is just a bunch of noise, noise, noise, NOISE.
3. Anticommercialist. Every year, he makes the same cynical comments about Christmas.
4. He’s used to being culturally excluded, forgotten, and ignored. But he doesn’t care.
5. Deep contempt for groupthink and is suspicious of the motivations of people, corporations, and the government.
6. He was a latch-key kid and still thrives with lots of alone time.
7. Definitely got some sort of heart trouble. You can tell by looking at him.
8. He wears his apathy as armor because he’s emotionally ill-equipped to handle the earnest sentimentality that comes with the holiday season.
9. His awkward presence could be described as “lurking.”
New polling suggests a progressive majority could come back to Labour if the PM embraces a more compassionate form of politics, argues Jennifer Nadel
The charges follow a formal investigation after Anthony Green was mysteriously removed from his position in April.
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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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Our lone hero, cheeky yet tough, defends an opulent edifice from a larcenous gang exploiting...
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- 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.
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!
The goal of any monopoly is to create an entity so powerful it sets the terms industrywide, leaving consumers and workers with no choice.
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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 […]
The true cost of fulfilling Trump’s mass deportation agenda and who’s profiting.
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Like characters outgrowing their creator, our teddy bears developed lives of their own
- by Sam Firman
For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms the foundation of society
- by Andrea Branchi
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
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 […]