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Sat, 17/05/2025 - 03:00

Hey Mum!

Remember a couple of months before you died, when you told me the Freemasons had installed Pope Francis? And that he was in cahoots with Obama, who was the Antichrist? You waved your iPad at me, with the YouTube page open that laid it all out. And I said, kind of testily, that Catholics are supposed to believe the Holy Spirit chooses popes, without help from secret societies. And that Obama was just a former president, not a supernatural force bent on destroying the Church and the Constitution for good measure. You gave me that smug smile, but dropped it. No blowup that evening.

Well, guess what happened a few weeks ago? Your “Freemason puppet” Pope Francis went to his reward. And you would not be happy about his replacement.

Pope Leo was Francis’s protégé—pulled up through the ranks by “that liberal,” as you called him. And the new Pope promises to build on his predecessor’s legacy.

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Sat, 17/05/2025 - 01:00
Amidst Everything Else The Palestinian Genocide Is Picking Up Steam

A healthy person can survive forty to sixty days without food, depending on how fat they were to begin with. Women last longer than men (woman are better at all extreme endurance feats I am aware of.)

It’s been about two months since Israel cut off all food and water to Gaza. There were storehouses and some food, and it took about 30-40 days to exhaust the stores, but even before that there wasn’t enough.

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 23:03

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A quarterly column from Carrie Brownstein, who is better at dispensing advice than taking it

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Q: About a year ago, my friend asked me to start sharing my real-time location with her. At first, the layer of forced transparency made me anxious. What if I want to reschedule our plans, but I’m just sitting at home? What if I’m running late because I can’t figure out what to wear, and not because I’m stuck in traffic? But here I am a year later, getting ready to meet up with Location-Sharing Friend, and I’m the one who’s abusing my power. I just checked her location to see how far away she is—a habit I’ve formed, and something I do even when we have no plans. She’s five minutes away. What’s your opinion on location sharing? Is it a sign of intimacy, or just downright invasive?

Ella M.
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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 22:46
Keir Starmer’s attack on our planning system is an almost-perfect repeat of Boris Johnson’s disaster. Why can’t he see that? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th May 2025 The precedent is uncanny, and the failure to learn from it downright mystifying. Keir Starmer is rushing gladly towards the catastrophe Boris Johnson inflicted on […]
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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 22:00

Illustrations by Katie Gorman.

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What a glorious life I lead as the boon companion to a great hero! I am a noble steed, ready to leap into action at any moment should my hero call me. Tally-ho!

Today, the hero left me standing on the edge of a cliff as he glided off with some kind of flying machine. I did see a staggering amount of horse bones at the base of the ravine, as though someone was crass enough to just run their horse right off the cliff. Unsure why he needed me to gallop at full speed for no more than thirty feet, but he always knows what’s right and good. I’m sure my contribution was necessary and strategic, not just something he tried because it’s cool.

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 19:27
I den grundläggande DSGE-modell som används av både nyklassiska och ‘nykeynesianska’ makroekonomer är arbetsmarknaden alltid i jämvikt — den representativa agenten maximerar sin nyttofunktion genom att anpassa sitt arbetsutbud, penninghållning och konsumtion över tid som svar på förändringar i räntan, förväntad livstidsinkomst eller reallön. Viktigast av allt — om reallönen av någon anledning avviker från […]
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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 17:00
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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 12:42

Earlier this week, the Labour government released a white paper called Restoring Control over the Immigration System. On its own, this document should have been concerning to many people, since it signalled a major rightward shift in immigration policy by a putatively centre-left government.  But what really made the headlines were Starmer’s remarks in the […]

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 12:04

Max Blumenthal tours Iran’s aerospace park and gets an inside look at the country’s missile, drone, air defense and space program, and what its development means for US-Iranian negotiations.

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Fri, 16/05/2025 - 11:55

Max Blumenthal meets Professor Mohammed Marandi in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra war martyr’s cemetery and visits the graves of friends Marandi lost during Iran’s eight year-long war with Iraq. Marandi explains what he thinks Iran is fighting for, why he believes the US is ultimately responsible for filling up the cemetery, and addresses his country’s situation as it is faced with the threat of a new war. Video produced by Ahmad Saadaldin.

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