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Fans of back to back football champions the Brisbane Lions have swarmed to their home ground hoping to get a look at what a group of spectacularly pissed grand final winners look like in person. “I’ve waited 50 years for... Read More ›

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 28, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] ‘An Egregious […]

Det som er aller mest slående nå i ettertid, er at vi, studenter på 1970-tallet, så oss i stand til å legge oss opp i selve kunnskapsutviklingen på de enkelte fag. I akademisk forstand var vi allerede myndige mennesker med kapasitet til å utfordre faglige autoriteter og bestride de vedtatte sannheter. Det dreide seg ikke bare om […]

Legendary Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe makes the case for the classic format of feature-length stories told over several episodes.

The new plot against America, the secret origins of Kimmelgate, and more from The Lever this week.

With four of our kids (the youngest, Linnea, wasn’t yet born) in Florence, twenty-five years ago. One of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever lived in (yours truly studied Italian there back in 1987).

Starbucks sells expensive sugared drinks, and some of them have coffee in them. It’s been very profitable and despite some declines, remains so. The CEO was paid about $96 million last year. He was brought in to “turn Starbucks around”, and his main moves have been towards returning Starbucks to its roots as a “third […]

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In a meeting with US antiwar figures, Iranian Pres. Masoud Pezeshkian forecasted a more intense round of conflict with Israel and the US, and slammed Washington’s intransigence. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived late to a September 24, 2025 meeting with American antiwar figures on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. He had come from a fateful tete-a-tete with Emmanuel Macron, where he attempted to cajole his French counterpart into delaying expiration of the JCPOA nuclear deal rather than instituting […]

The post ‘No doubt they will attack’: Max Blumenthal meets Iran’s President in NYC first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post ‘No doubt they will attack’: Max Blumenthal meets Iran’s President in NYC appeared first on The Grayzone.

Jodie Whittaker doesn't plan on closing the door on Doctor Who, and she shares how she deals with the trolls hating on the Thirteenth Doctor.

Alex Kingston (River Song) teases a Doctor Who connection with her appearance on this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing on the BBC.

Paradise is not for sale, a state steps up for consumers, regulators aim for ticket sellers, and global leaders take a stand on the tech takeover.

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.

The post What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa appeared first on The Intercept.

A while back I wrote a series of posts about the 1998-9 Kosovo conflict.  If you’re interested, here they are:  Prelude to War,  The Serbian Ascendancy, Things Fall Apart, And So To War.  This post continues that story up to the unsuccessful Rambouillet peace conference of February-March 1999. So by early 1999, the Serbian province […]

How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy makes life harder for local physicians

The post A Pediatrician’s Lament appeared first on Nautilus.

1½-2 pounds steak½ pound calf’s kidney2 tablespoons flourSalt and freshly ground black pepper6 ounces freshly grated or packaged suet12 ounces self-raising flourDripping4 tablespoons finely chopped shallot or onion¼ pint rich beef stock2-4 tablespoons port wine (optional) Cut steak and kidney into rather small pieces, and shake well in a bowl containing flour and ¼ level […]

Hey, thanks so much for coming tonight. I’ve just checked with everyone else at the party, and we’re all in agreement that you behaved really normally and didn’t say anything weird or worrying at all.

Even though your face looks alarmingly like a mole’s in that picture I just tagged you in, at no point in the course of the evening did I look over at you and think, “Wow, she looks like a mole.”

It’s been on my mind and I need to apologize: I’m sorry I didn’t laugh at that joke you made about how your emails should be called “me-mails.” It’s because I was achingly jealous. And just to clarify, re: any other jokes I didn’t laugh at—I didn’t hear them. You were right to repeat the jokes twice.

Let’s hop on a video call this week so you can ask me any questions you have about my offhand comments. I can carve out forty-five minutes to explain what I really meant when I said that thing about your inner child.

[Reassuring platitude.] [Reassuring platitude.] [Reassuring platitude.]

The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine

The post Earth’s Largest Mirror Shattered by Science appeared first on Nautilus.

Mimicking the charismatic insect’s trick for flashing iridescent blue allows devices to grow ever smaller

The post Butterfly Wings Inspire Barrier-Breaking Nanotech appeared first on Nautilus.

Paramjit Singh is going blind in ICE detention. DHS wants to deport him for a forgery conviction — but they’ve produced no record that one exists.

The post He Has a Green Card and a Brain Tumor. DHS Wants to Deport Him for Forgery With No Proof. appeared first on The Intercept.

Places Charles Johnson’s drawings appeared when he was a young cartoonist:

• A catalog for a magic company
• Mimeographed church bulletins
• The Daily Egyptian
• The Southern Illinoisan

For more than forty years, Charles Johnson has been a fixture on the literary scene in Seattle, along with two other African American writers, both transplants: the late Octavia Butler and the late August Wilson. Like they did, Johnson has produced work his own way, avoiding the expectations that many would impose on a Black writer. This journey of distinction for Johnson began in 1982, with his second published novel, Oxherding Tale, a quasi–slave narrative and rogue’s narrative steeped in both Eastern and Western philosophy. Johnson has since published twenty books, and has received numerous accolades for his work, including the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Middle Passage, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.