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Canada has cut a trade deal with China. This is what I have been suggesting for ages, and it’s finally happening. (Not, of course, because Carney reads me, but because it’s the obvious play and of all Western leaders he’s been the most resistant to Trump’s threats and blackmail.) Canada cuts a deal: Chinese leader […]
Dark-money groups want a look at the Chicago Teachers Union’s finances. The Trump administration could help them get it.
The post Trump Is Helping Right-Wing Groups Target Chicago Teachers Union appeared first on The Intercept.
When in mathematics the unknown becomes the unknown quantity in an equation, it is made into something long familiar before any value has been assigned. Nature, before and after quantum theory, is what can be registered mathematically; even what cannot be assimilated, the insoluble and irrational, is fenced in by mathematical theorems. In the preemptive […]
Trump claims he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are doing the opposite.
From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran.
The post The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again appeared first on MintPress News.
Black seadevil anglerfish
Twenty-five-years-old, monogamous, wants children
What I’m looking for: A confident, independent female roughly twenty times my size with a dangly, glowing orb attached to her forehead.
Don’t hate me if I: Latch on to you and permanently fuse to your body until my head dissolves and our circulatory systems become one
This year, I want to: Delete this app <3
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Giant squid
Fifteen feet long, Catholic, figuring out my dating goals
Give me travel tips for: Two-thousand feet below sea level off the west coast of Norway—Spring break 2026 gonna be a movie!
If loving this is wrong, I don’t want to be right: The Office
My love language is: Physical, tentacle-y touch
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Hexactinellid sponge
Software engineer, nine thousand years old,
twenty-eight centimeters tall
I bet you can’t: Pronounce my name
Videos of agents falling down and dropping their guns feel beyond parody. But under-trained law enforcement officers are a real danger to the public.
The post ICE Agents Are Even Worse At Being Cops Than You Think appeared first on The Intercept.
The simplest ideas are often the best. How about a new left party that appeals broadly enough to challenge for power? That, after all, was the prospect that excited people when Your Party was launched last summer. It’s why 750,000 people signed up to the mailing list. They wanted a party that might actually be […]
Attacking asylum seekers and refugees has long comprised the strategic core of the far right. Physical, verbal, and political harm waged on communities who have migrated to the UK can be traced across British history back decades, if not centuries — from the overtly racist legislation predating the Race Relations Act, the era of Powell’s […]
In these uncertain times, you need a steady hand at the wheel. An unblinking beacon of sure-footed decisiveness. A fearless, damn-the-torpedoes leader who will flawlessly accomplish every goal.
You don’t have that person. But good news: You have me, a uniquely well-qualified ball of anxiety, ready to worry about the fact that you don’t have that person. And also about the fact that you have torpedoes. That seems like a bad idea for a rudderless organization.
“But our budget can’t accommodate another executive!” you may protest. Shhh. Don’t worry your pretty little head; that’s my job. My perturbation is completely pro bono. I will knit my brows, second-guess, and perseverate without compensation of any kind.
I require no specific hours of work. I stand ready to contribute round-the-clock, unmitigated what-ifisms to any and every to-do list, whether or not it’s in my job description.
Anil Seth explains why our conscious experience is a world we build from the inside out, rather than from the outside in
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“It’s not just clashes between protesters and ICE; it’s an attack on basic rights that we’ve taken for granted,” says Minnesota Public Radio reporter Jon Collins.
The post Trump’s War on America appeared first on The Intercept.
How a Lever investigation exposed a darker side to big business' reign over youth sports.
The IQ debates are, to me, tiresome. I’m pretty high IQ, not what I consider genius level (I’ve encountered true geniuses) but just under, in the one-in-ten thousand range. Which is to say, if I’m around 10K people I expect that no one is smarter than me, unless it’s a place that selects for IQ. […]
Administration’s strangulation of the CFMEU construction union and further attempted asset-stripping continued apace over summer, despite Admin kicking a couple of own goals.
The post Admin’s summer assault on the CFMEU first appeared on Solidarity Online.
We may not be tastier, but just more abundant these days
The post As Biodiversity Dwindles, Mosquitos Turn to Human Blood appeared first on Nautilus.
Khalil has 45 days to appeal Thursday’s court decision, his attorney told The Intercept.
The post Despite Court Ruling, ICE Can’t Detain Mahmoud Khalil — For Now appeared first on The Intercept.
High-tech radar technology offers an unprecedented look at escaping ice speeds on Greenland and Antarctica
The post Watch This Glacier Race into the Sea appeared first on Nautilus.