Those who work in the social service sector in Alice Springs, as I do, know this fact intimately: there is an incredible amount of money funding our response to a community who have incredibly little. Our system watches as desperate people stumble and waits for them to fall before extending a paternalistic hand or one Continue reading »
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On October 10, The Atlantic premiered ‘A Night at the Garden‘, an unsettling seven minutes and five seconds long video made of film footage that American documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry had accidentally found. The footage showed the 20,000-strong rally held by the American Nazi Party — the German American Bund — at Madison Square Garden Continue reading »
The tragedy in the Middle East is that what Hamas’ Sinwar was to bin Laden, Israel is to America. Reading various accounts of Yahya Sinwar’s political thinking, it’s extraordinary how much the slain Hamas leader thought like Osama bin Laden. Likewise, there are the terrifying parallels between the response of the Israeli state and that Continue reading »
There’s a lot of chatter about the early vote with Donald Trump changing his tune and suggesting that the GOP is breaking all early vote records. (“Nobody’s ever seen anything like it!) It does appear that the early vote is going well but it’s worth taking a look at some analysis as to what it means. Tom Bonier is the early vote data guy and he wrote this on his substack today, discussing why this year is different: Well, for one, we’re not in the peak of a deadly pandemic. The 2020 election saw the biggest liberalization of access to early voting as states adapted to the realities of the pandemic. And it was a great success, with over 100 million Americans safely casting their vote before Election Day. Of course, there was an asymmetry here. Democrats were more covid-conscious, and therefore more likely to cast an early vote (take Pennsylvania, where registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans in the early vote by an almost 3 to 1 margin). And at the same time, Republicans largely abandoned voting by mail, due to Donald Trump claiming that mail voting was fraudulent.
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Desire and determination. That’s where it all begins.
You have to want to terrorize a child. You have to want to transfer your soul into their body.
It must come from deep down inside you, because it’s hard work.
You’re not always going to feel like inflicting multiple stab wounds on a social worker, but if you persevere, you can achieve anything.
In this class, you’ll learn how to stay motivated and become the homicidal doll you’ve always wanted to be.
We’ll cover the essentials: the costume, the catchphrases, the kills.
Your look is key. On the one hand, you want movement. There should be nothing encumbering your stabbing arm. That is why I opted for Good Guy overalls.
But utility doesn’t make you memorable. It’s not what haunts their dreams.
You might think it’s the red nylon hair that makes me a horror icon, but don’t underestimate the power of a candy-colored, striped sweater that can be mass-marketed at Universal Horror Nights. It’s smart, sporty, and unforgettable, just like you’ll be once you start down a path of unrelenting violence.
After you develop your signature look, we’ll move on to catchphrases.
The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress.
The post How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar. appeared first on The Intercept.
Of course he will. And he’ll do this too: Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that, if elected to a second term in November, he would immediately fire special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two federal indictments against Trump. Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump if he plans to pardon himself or fire Smith on the day he would take the oath of office. “It’s so easy — I would fire him within two seconds,” said Trump, who added that he got “immunity at the Supreme Court” and called Smith a “crooked person.” Last year, Trump warned that Smith and other Justice Department officials would wind up in a mental institution if he’s re-elected. He’s going to be a dictator on day one. He’s made that clear.
Republicans in glass houses Republicans who complain about weaponization of government shouldn’t throw stones in their glass house. But they shamelessly do. Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby at Popular Information: Three Republican state senators in North Carolina have demanded an investigation of state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. The state senators, Buck Newton (R), Amy Galey (R), and Danny Britt (R), claim that Riggs has “blatantly violated” the North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct. They called for an investigation into Riggs’ conduct by the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission. What was Riggs’ transgression? She mentioned reproductive rights in a campaign ad. Riggs was appointed to fill a vacancy in the North Carolina Supreme Court in September 2023. It is an elected position, and now Riggs is running for a full eight-year term.
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In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City. Rozendaal, 63, was prominent in the “Summer of Heat on Wall Street” campaign that targeted Citibank for its prolific financing of fossil-fuel projects. He and a co-defendant now face up to seven years of imprisonment if convicted. Meanwhile in Atlanta, more than 50 justice and environmental activists are awaiting trial on domestic terrorism and other charges arising from their years-long defense of the city’s South River Forest against the construction of an 85-acre police training center there. They are being prosecuted under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) law.... Read more
A CNN feature aimed at highlighting an Israeli soldier’s PTSD sparked outrage when footage emerged showing the same soldier committing war crimes in Gaza.
The post CNN’s Sympathy Piece on Israeli Soldier Backfires After War Crime Allegations Surface appeared first on MintPress News.
Our friends at 270 Reasons are gathering a polyphonic orchestra of brilliant writers, teachers, doctors, filmmakers, artists, and citizens of all kinds to weigh in about their plans to vote this November. These opinion essays run the gamut from advocacy for basic human rights to acutely personal mini-manifestoes. Read the rest over at 270 Reasons.
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Because Now Is the Time to Fight for Our Planet
The last eighteen months have seen the hottest temperatures in at least the last 125,000 years on our planet. That’s come with fire, flood, storm, drought, and death.
The last eighteen months have also seen—finally—the onset of the renewable energy revolution. We’re now installing a gigawatt of solar panels (about a nuclear power plant’s worth) on this earth every day.
November 5 will play a huge role in which of these trends accelerates fastest.
Don’t vote with them “The label now seems not just acceptable but necessary,” wrote Robert Paxton, 92, in Jan. 11, 2021 Newsweek article. Previously reluctant to use a loaded term like fascism to describe the Trump presidency, Trump’s “open encouragement of civic violence to overturn an election,” was the breaking point for the retired Columbia University historian of fascism. Elisabeth Zerofsky writes in The New York Times (gift article): Calling someone or something “fascist” is the supreme expression of moral revulsion, an emotional impulse that is difficult to resist. “The temptation to draw parallels between Trump and the fascist leaders of the 20th century is understandable,” the British historian Richard J. Evans wrote in 2021. “How better to express the fear, loathing, and contempt that Trump arouses in liberals than by comparing him to the ultimate political evil?” The word gets lobbed at the left too, including by Trump at Democrats. But fascism does have a specific meaning, and in the last few years the debate has turned on two questions: Is it an accurate description of Trump?
They don’t tell you this in the Hot Dog Handbook, but hot dogs are hungry for mystery…
There’s something weird leaking from gas station ceilings. What’s dribbling down is not rainwater or condensation from an AC unit or anything gnarly like that—it’s a pink juice we like to call “Mystery D.” Some people suspect the juice is windshield-washer fluid or Mountain Dew Spark. But we know it’s not any of that stuff—it’s Mystery D.
Look for the big hole in the ceiling once you’re inside a gas station. It should be right above the commercial hot dog steamer and the liquid cheese dispenser. And teetering on stilts—in the space between—you will find a stinky old milk crate lined with a garbage bag. The function of this receptacle is to collect Mystery D from the source, presumably so it can be bottled and sold as antifreeze or Pepto Bismol. But who gives a shit about that? We’re here because we want to take the ultimate ride.
You want the ultimate? Drop Mystery D on your hot dog.
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In much of science and medicine, the assumptions behind standard teaching, terminology, and interpretations of statistics are usually false, and hence the answers they provide to real-world questions are misleading … In light of this harsh reality, we should ask what meaning (if any) can we assign to the P-values, “statistical significance” declarations, “confidence” intervals, […]
Regular readers will know I have been a long-time critic of the fiscal rules that successive British governments have invoked as part of a pretence that they were being somehow responsible fiscal managers. The problem was that in trying to keep within these artificial thresholds, governments would do the exact opposite to what a responsible…