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As many of you know, something really important is happening, and it’s critical that we all stay informed. There’s a reality star/influencer whose name includes the words Paul, Taylor, and Frankie in an order that is both confusing and ultimately irrelevant. What’s important is that she did some stuff, and now all hell is breaking loose.

You’re probably thinking: “I don’t care,” or “There are more important things happening,” or “This is an intentional distraction orchestrated by our algorithmic AI overlords.”

Maybe it does feel like I’m being fed this content against my will, but that’s only because I’m paying attention to what’s happening in the world. And sure, those things are really important, but we also invade other countries all the time now. Keep up. Maybe we’ll have midterm elections, maybe not. Who knows?

But this stuff with the Mormon wives? It’s happening right now, and it’s a doozy.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the move to free up 140 million barrels of oil was aimed at preventing China gaining from the situation. “That’s about 10 days to two weeks of supply that the Iranians had been pushing out that would have all gone to China,” he said. “In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign.”

The post Embarrassing Pivot: US Considers Dropping Iran Oil Sanctions Amid War appeared first on MintPress News.

“Right now, the United States is tightening its siege on Cuba,” said political streamer Hasan Piker, explaining his decision to join the convoy, adding: “Fuel shipments are blocked. Flights grounded, critical supplies cut off. Donald Trump has even threatened a ‘friendly takeover’ of the island. For Washington, the message is simple: submit – or suffer.”

The post Hasan Piker, Greta Thunberg Head Massive Cuba Convoy Aimed At Breaking US Blockade appeared first on MintPress News.

Many stores and markets are empty, not because the island does not produce food, but because there is no way to transport it from the countryside to the cities. The United Nations has warned of a possible “humanitarian collapse,” due to the economic war. Havana-based journalist Luis de Jesus Reyes labeled it an attempted genocide in the making. 

The post Maximum Pressure, Maximum Blackouts: The Gazafication of Cuba appeared first on MintPress News.

By Robert Cauneau First published on the MMT France website 5 October 2025 Introduction What if everything we thought we knew about government financing was wrong? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) …

The post MMT: Towards a new social contract? appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.

These paleontologists got crafty

The post How a Simulated Dinosaur Nest Revealed Prehistoric Parenting Strategies appeared first on Nautilus.

When’s the last time you thought about your thymus?

The post The Shrinking Gland That Helps You Live Longer appeared first on Nautilus.

They’re an evolutionary feat all of their own

The post How Cacti Defy Darwin appeared first on Nautilus.

An interview with a behavioral economist about cake, climate change, and cooperation

The post Heat Probably Doesn’t Make You More Aggressive appeared first on Nautilus.

A common microbe can wreak havoc once inside cells

The post How Gum Disease Can Lead to Breast Cancer appeared first on Nautilus.

“We won. The first hour, it was over.”
— Donald Trump, March 11

“The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran.”
— The New York Times, March 19

I am proud to announce that we have won the war—the one we’re fighting right now, indefinitely. We have declared victory, which will help morale during the next few years of battle. In fact, we won this war so well that we need about 200 billion of your tax dollars to keep winning it.

Look, we don’t want to waste your money. That’s why we vowed to make this a quick war, and we’ve followed through on that promise. The first hour, it was over. The second hour too. First week, over again. Next week, we’ll be wrapping up. In a couple months, we’ll have finished this war more times than any war has ever been finished before.

A midbrain bypass may have unlocked their abilities to speak

The post Seal and Sea Lion Brains Help Explore the Roots of Language appeared first on Nautilus.

The Green Party has accused Keir Starmer of enabling the war on Iran, calling on the government to withdraw permission for the United States to use British bases and end its military cooperation with Israel.  In a major intervention on Friday, seven Green MPs and peers sent a letter to the Prime Minister denouncing his […]

Andre Agassi’s longtime racket stringer on seeking perfection and listening closely.

PART I

THE BELIEVER: What was it like when you first began working as a pro racket stringer? And how did you meet Andre Agassi?

Come on in, and please take your shoes off. Here’s my card, and oh, just one minor thing, it’s so funny, but I have to tell you this again: I can’t say another word about the vast system of tunnels underneath this home.

How about a quick overview? It has three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and a four-foot-wide ventilation air shaft, which is completely up to code for below-ground air circulation. It’s for the religious sect living in the network of tunnels. Ugh, sorry. Am I being too technical? I promise not to bore you with any more details about how they obtain fresh air.

What else? The home was built in 1954 and is anywhere from 2,000 to 70,000 square feet, depending on how many of the underground prayer labyrinths you include. Which I can’t and won’t say more about on this tour.

Six weeks have passed since Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and strategic guru, stepped aside in the wake of the Mandelson debacle. Already the air smells fresher in Downing Street. Had McSweeney and Mandelson remained in situ, it is hard to imagine the Prime Minister keeping even a partial distance from Donald Trump […]

The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next?

- by Karen Stollznow

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