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Malik Muhammad, a disabled Army veteran with PTSD, received the harshest federal sentence for the George Floyd protests.

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Keir Starmer is being urged to act now to prevent foreign billionaires from exploiting these gaps in our electoral system

Nicolò Bandera and Jacob Stevens How should the central bank conduct asset purchases to restore market functioning without causing higher inflation? The Bank of England was faced with this question during the 2022 gilt crisis, when it undertook gilt purchases on financial stability grounds while inflation was above 10%. These financial stability asset purchases could … Continue reading Stable gilts and stable prices: assessing the Bank of England’s response to the LDI crisis →

Oh great, another one: Donald Trump’s pick to head the Internal Revenue Service pressed the agency to investigate and consider stripping the country’s leading animal welfare group of its tax status after it supported an initiative to protect dogs, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. If former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long is confirmed to run the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), he would be in a position to strip — and effectively shut down — the tax status of such nonprofit groups whose missions he disagrees with. And Long could have new powers to do so if Congress enacts a pending House-passed bill to grant the Trump administration new powers to rescind the tax status of groups it deems “terrorist supporting organizations.” In 2011, Long signed a letter pushing the IRS to launch a probe of the tax-exempt status of the Humane Society of the United States, a nonprofit that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal cruelty. The letter followed the Humane Society’s support of a successful Missouri ballot measure strengthening regulations on dog breeders.

I have done quite a number of podcast interviews with various hosts over the last few weeks and the discussions often turn to issues relating to the environment and what Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has to say about those issues. Inevitably, the discussions then meandered into debates about what is possible given that we humans…

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Billy Long pushed the agency to target the group after it supported an initiative to protect dogs. Long could get new power to target more nonprofits.

For many years, at 826 Valencia and McSweeney’s, we’ve collected startlingly great publications from youth writing centers around the world. But there has never been a physical space where they’re displayed, and we thought there should be such a space. When the storefront at 849 Valencia opened up, we saw an opportunity.

Welcome to The International Library of Youth Writing, where the collected work of young people from all over the globe, ages 6-18, finds its first home. There are anthologies, chapbooks, graphic novels, and all kinds of other books here, including full-length novels written by middle schoolers. They’re displayed according to their location and the nonprofit sponsoring them.

Chapter 510, for example, is a writing center in Oakland, and they’ve generously donated a bunch of copies of their books, all written by authors under age 18. There are books by students from Italy, Australia, Louisville, Sacramento, Dublin, Stockholm, and dozens of cities in between.

Labor’s failure over the cost of living means Albanese could easily follow Kamala Harris and the Democrats out of office.

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The ceasefire in Lebanon was scarcely hours old before Israel launched fresh attacks, firing into the southern Lebanese town of Markaba, wounding two people. Israel also shelled the villages of Taybah and Khiam.

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Hundreds of university staff in Canberra and Wollongong have rallied against job cuts, as universities across the country roll out attacks in the wake of Labor’s plans to slash the numbers of international students permitted to study in Australia.

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Albanese’s plans to cap the number of commencing international students for 2025 have stalled, after the Senate rejected the legislation. But it will continue reducing international students through other measures to restrict visas.

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NSW nurses held their third day of strike action in November, as rail workers also ramped up industrial action over pay.

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Rebel blue collar unions were set to meet in a “Trade Unions for Democracy Summit” as this was written, ahead of the opening of the unions’ High Court challenge to the CFMEU administration regime.

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The three anti-refugee laws rushed through Parliament in the dying days of the last parliamentary sitting are even worse than those of the Howard and Dutton era.

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Another greenwashing climate summit was held in petrostate Azerbaijan in November, in the wake of climate denier Donald Trump’s re-election in the US.

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A surprise medical bill could be waiting for you when you wake up in the recovery room.

Just hours after Donald Trump emerged victorious in the US presidential election, the German government collapsed, plunging the biggest economy in Europe into confusion.

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Donald Trump masqueraded as a peace candidate. But he has already made it clear how strongly he backs Israel, threatening there would be “hell to pay” if Israeli hostages are not released.

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Whether Trump abandons Pete Hegseth for Ron DeSantis, the reports that he’s been in talks with DeSantis about a cabinet position since last summer is a sad comment on Ron Desantis. Like so many others, he abandoned all sense of personal pride and integrity to suck up to a man who humiliated him in the most grotesque ways possible: Donald J. Trump plumbed new depths of degradation in his savage takedown of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a yearlong campaign of emasculation and humiliation that helped force one of the party’s rising stars out of the presidential race after just one contest and left him to pick up the pieces of his political future. In front of enormous rally audiences, Mr. Trump painted Mr. DeSantis as a submissive sniveler, insisting that he had cried and begged “on his knees” for an endorsement in the 2018 Florida governor’s race. In a series of sexually charged attacks, Mr. Trump suggested — without a shred of proof — that Mr. DeSantis wore high heels, that he might be gay and that perhaps he was a pedophile. He promised that intense national scrutiny would leave Mr. DeSantis whining for “mommy.” Mr.

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