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We’ve all been there. One day, you’re driving to the grocery store, minding your own business, and then you see it coming from the opposite end of the street. At first, you panic and wonder if it’s the off-screen entity from Bird Box that drives people to death if looked at. But then, just as quickly, you feel it: a deep, primal rage. The future isn’t just coming for us; it’s coming in the shape of a post-apocalyptic wedge that was designed by someone who still owns the Entourage movie on Blu-ray. It’s the Cybertruck, and it’s here to ruin your whole day.

That’s why we’re here.

The lobbyist-turned-AG just limited enforcement of anti-corruption laws regulating foreign agents trying to influence U.S. officials.

This is written by Jay Michaelson a visiting professor priest at Harvard:  I’m posting in response to the many sincerely anguished claims that not enough is being done to stop Trump.  This is not reflected in the facts. – Represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and State Democracy Defenders Fund, the Alliance for Retired Americans, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) filed suit on Monday against the Treasury Department “for sharing confidential data with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run by Elon Musk.”  Go to Public Citizen’s website to learn all about this lawsuit, which is very likely to prevail. – On USAID, appearing with other Democratic lawmakers outside USAID offices on Monday, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) shouted, “Elon Musk, you didn’t create USAID. The United States Congress did for the American people … like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn’t have the power to destroy it. And who’s going to stop him?

One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American...

Join the fight or be political roadkill First: Get busy. Talk is cheap. Action is better (and empowering). Even if it’s just leaving a voice message with your representatives, filling out an online response form or sending an efax. To Republicans and Democrats. Regularly. Not one and done. No, it’s not as sexy as going to a big rally with your tribe or launching that nonprofit you’ve been rolling around in your head. Neither is hunkering down with an M4 in a cold, wet foxhole. Deal with it. The unsexy stuff matters: Back when we had a Democratic congressman here, I knew the staff and would call the office to gauge the temperature on hot issues. I’d ask how the calls were running on a bill progressives wanted passed. Ten to one against. “Where are the Democrats?” they asked, exasperated. They’d voted, reset their politics to cruise control and went back to complaining. Do that now and Musk-Trump-MAGA will eat you for lunch. But just as Trump is a blustering fraud, so is their mob-speak. Their goal here is simple: Bark loudly enough that the other dog rolls over on its back and pees in the air in submission.

Betar U.S. said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”

The post The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport appeared first on The Intercept.

Netanyahu’s longtime confidant has been embedded in Washington for years. His latest mission? Cementing unconditional U.S. backing for the next phase in Israel’s Gaza offensive.

The post Israel’s Shadow Diplomat: How Ron Dermer is Orchestrating US Policy From Inside appeared first on MintPress News.

I don’t know what inspired this flash of productivity, but I made this dinner in 2 evenings back-to-back with 194. Individual Meat Loaves.  This moment of achievement was in 2024, so I don’t remember this knocking my socks off. Speaking of knocking (get it–Knockwurst?) I used brats instead. I don’t understand a hot potato salad.Continue reading 193. Hot German Potato Salad with Knockwurst →

This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We’ve been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened to talk about sex: what we were doing, what we wanted to do, what we fantasized about doing. But you know how it is with any relationship. Over time, it can come to embrace so many other things. That’s how it’s been with the group we call “Group” (or sometimes “A Closed Group with No Name”). We’ve seen each other through breakups, new lovers, job changes, housing worries, ailments, the deaths of lovers, caring for aging and dying parents, and now confronting our own age and the nearness of our... Read more

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An FBI official urged the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to cancel a conference presentation titled “Taking on the FBI.”

The post Forensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference. appeared first on The Intercept.

Implement a political version of Malwarebytes Musk is the living embodiment of AI: a broken, tech-bro tool that inserts itself into everyone’s life unsolicited and makes everything worse. — Alex Winter Donald Trump is acting like he’s a king the way he fooled the the New York Times (1976) into thinking he was a successful developer. The way he pretended to be a successful businessman on TV. It was a con job then. It’s a con job now. Before we go any further, let’s review Ezra Klein’s “Don’t Believe Him” commentary from the other day on Donald Trump’s efforts to snow people into allowing him to act like a king despite the real limitations of presidential power. Like every move in Trump’s life, it’s a “fake it till you make it” put on. I had not seen the video version until last night and found it a useful tonic. Consider watching it a “take a deep breath” act of self care. Take thirteen minutes, or bookmark this for later. This is from @ezraklein, taken from The Ezra Klein Show podcast.

Blackwater’s notorious founder is circling the battlefield again, and secret negotiations suggest he’s gearing up for his next big payday.

The post Erik Prince Smells Blood in Gaza—And He’s Ready to Cash In appeared first on MintPress News.

The Fugitive Doctor is wanted "Dead or Alive" this July when Jo Martin and Big Finish return with a second round of epic audio adventures.

“We’re OK, Mama”
When I’ve had great banter with the server the whole night, and she comes up to us to ask if there’s anything else we need before she brings the check.

“OK, Mama!!!”
Giving praise to a friend for any minor accomplishment.

“Mama, are you OK?”
When my friend is going through a tough breakup, and he wants to dye his hair platinum blond and is now obsessed with catching the Knockdown Center Killer.

“OK, Mamá”
After my Venezuelan mother reminded me to text my aunt for her birthday.

“Mama…”
When my friend has been at this new job for only six months, and they tell me they want to quit without a backup plan.

“Oh, Mama!”
Johnny Bravo.

“Oh, Mama, we’re not doing that”
At a party after I get cornered by my friend’s friend from Florida who wants to talk at me about the success of the DeSantis administration.

EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of millions of pounds were invested in arms companies supplying Israel with weapons, including BAE Systems, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin and RTX Corporation

Copay assistance programs are supposed to reduce drug costs and cover patients’ deductibles — so why are so many people getting stuck with a bill?

Humans are both the gravest threat and the greatest hope for the survival of the rare hoolock gibbons in northeast India

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In the social media age, it seems impossible not to measure ourselves against others – but we can dodge the worst pitfalls

- by Wojciech Kaftański

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Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm?

- by Rebecca L Davis

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It's time for Keir Starmer's Government to finally recognise Palestinian statehood and resist the US President's catastrophic agenda, argues Green MP Ellie Chowns