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Foreign service officers fired in Elon Musk’s workforce purge warn the State Department is unable to help Americans stranded in the Middle East.
The post DOGE Cuts Left U.S. Unable to Help Americans Stranded in Iran War Zone appeared first on The Intercept.
Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in prison. If convicted, the six Palestine Action activists and 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms. The jury has not been notified about the ‘terrorist’ designation, and the British media cannot report this information under a court order. Activists will also be prohibited from telling jurors how their efforts sought to impede the Gaza genocide. The prosecution followed […]
The post UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout appeared first on The Grayzone.
In the communities closest to Israel’s northern border, residents argue the only way to keep themselves safe is to displace their Lebanese neighbors.
The post “I Want to Occupy”: Inside the Israeli Movement Pushing to Raze and Settle Southern Lebanon appeared first on The Intercept.
AI coding tools have evolved fast — from inline suggestions to full-blown agents that can scaffold modules, write tests, and refactor code across files. But what does that actually mean for your day-to-day work, and where should a seasoned developer start?
Our next session on Tuesday, April 14th at 11:30am Pacific (what is that in my timezone?) is led by Scott Falconer of the Drupal AI Initiative, breaks down the current landscape of AI-assisted coding into clear, practical tiers: inline completions (think autocomplete on steroids), chat-in-your-IDE copilot workflows, and the newer "agentic" coding loops where AI plans and executes multi-step tasks with your oversight. We'll look at what each style is good at, where it falls down, and — critically — how much control you keep at each level.
Coming out of DrupalCon Chicago 2026, we're starting the #ai-learners club, where we share tips and tricks and answer questions about how to use Drupal and AI together. Think of it kind of like Drupal Dojo, but for AI.
For our inaugural meeting, the topic is: What's your Drupal + AI setup?
Join us on Wednesday, April 8 at 9:30am Pacific (What is that in my timezone?) for a live "show and tell" of what folks who attend are using for things like: models, modules, skills, tools, agents, IDEs, workflows... whatever! Let's share what's working and what's not and try and help each other level up. :)
Note: The session will be recorded and uploaded afterwards for those who can't make it live. But it's way more fun if you can! ;)
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You can, but it hurts our feelings when you use our services without coming in to talk to us.
Fine. I’ll come in person. But what happens after my taxes are filed?
You will possibly receive a refund via direct deposit once your tax dollars are deposited into the steaming gullet of the Great War Pig.
I’m sorry, what?
The Great War Pig.
Is that his name or his job?
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With automatic Selective Service registration, it would be harder for Americans to dodge a potential military draft.
The post Trump Administration Wants to Make It More Difficult to Evade a Military Draft appeared first on The Intercept.
Fishing apparel mentioned:
- A tarpon-wear shirt
- Old bib-front overalls
- Bow ties and club blazers
- Jean shorts
It will come as no surprise to longtime readers of Thomas McGuane’s work that while I was speaking with him, I was moved by his kindness, his incisive insight, and, above all, his mischievous sense of fun. The craic was exceptional. We are both writers, anglers, and equestrians, and we’d both recently fished for Atlantic salmon in arctic Norway. We laughed a lot during our conversation: in helplessness, in disbelief, in despair, and at the inherent comedy of life.
“The Birth Rate Is Falling, and It Has Nothing to Do with the Cost of Housing, Health Care, or Childcare. It’s Women”
“The Falling Birth Rate: A Crisis with Many Complex Causes, All of Them Female”
“Women Cite ‘Financial Instability’ for Not Having Children. What Aren’t They Telling Us?”
“Did Feminism Ruin the Birth Rate?”
“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? College-Educated Women”
“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Non-College-Educated Women”
“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Women Whose Educational Status We Were Unable to Confirm”
“Experts Agree: The Birth Rate Crisis Is Multifaceted, Structural, and Female”
“Did IUDs Ruin the Birth Rate?”
“We Spent Six Months Investigating the Birth Rate Crisis and Found Women at Every Turn”
“Birth Rates Are Down Across the Western World. One Variable Has Remained Constant: Women”
“Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men”
‘Come to Highgate, I’ll give you a quick guided pop tour,’ writes dandy, flâneur and musician Dickon Edwards in a November 1999 diary entry. ‘Here’s where Keith Moon threw a champagne bottle through a dividing wall and framed it for a photo. Here’s where Jo Whiley nearly got me run over. Here’s where Brett Anderson […]
“In many ways, what actually has potentially led to this ceasefire is the fact that Iran is able to create a chokehold over 20 percent of the world’s oil.”
The post Putting Fuel on a Ceasefire: Israel Tries to Kill U.S.–Iran Talks appeared first on The Intercept.

During the hijab ban, I took pride in my resilience. But the trauma I didn’t name still came for me
- by Safa Belghith

A new way of seeing procrastination helped reduce my self-criticism. But it keeps me honest when I need to be productive
- by Ali Hawken
The right to protest is not a privilege; it is a basic democratic freedom. What we are witnessing now in Britain is a serious and deliberate assault on that freedom. The government’s recent Crime and Policing Bill would hand senior police officers the powers to decide where, when or whether a protest may take place. […]
Phil Armstrong Published online 10th April 2026 Modern Monetary Theory and International Trade: Developments on the Base Case for Analysis Abstract Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)’s approach to international trade …
The post Modern Monetary Theory and International Trade: Developments on the Base Case for Analysis appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.