~by Sean Paul Kelley So, Marku asks: But aren’t most of those contracts never expecting to take physical delivery? Just gambling, er excuse me, investment hedging? Or is the problem that given that Comex price is under the real, that all those contracts *want* to be exercised in delivery so they can arbitrage to China […]
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California sues ghost gunmakers, Colorado protects family health care, Virginia cuts the cord on ICE, and Oregon races toward affordability.
In The Book of Why, Judea Pearl puts forward several compelling reasons why the now so popular causal graph-theoretic approach is to be preferred over more traditional regression-based explanatory models. One reason is that causal graphs are non-parametric and therefore do not need to assume, for example, additivity and/or the absence of interaction effects — […]
An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower.
By invoking Franklin D. Roosevelt’s warning about economic hardship and fascism, AOC is arguing that working-class populism isn’t just good policy — it’s democracy’s last line of defense.
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POTUS Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission is tearing itself apart in a fight about zionism. The leading dissident, Carrie Prejean Boller, the 2009 Miss California USA is a right-wing Catholic who picked a fight with zionists at a meeting of the Commission. Here’s how NBC describes the dust-up: A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission […]
The disclosures revealed the case was built entirely on an op-ed Rümeysa Öztürk co-wrote, a chilling attack on free speech.
The post Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student appeared first on The Intercept.
Today’s High Court decision that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is disproportionate and unlawful is a welcome victory for the whole Palestine movement. It is also a humiliating defeat for a Labour government marked by authoritarianism and repeated attacks on civil liberties. Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary when the ban was introduced, […]
From the people behind Books, come Books, For Men.
Books, For Men have thick, sturdy pages. Built for a man’s eyeballs.
Books, For Men are nonfiction. Imagination is not For Men.
Books, For Men involve a subtitle, and that subtitle involves the phrase “Suicide Mission.”
Available formats for Books, For Men include hardcover (for use as a bludgeoning weapon) or e-book (for sale on the blockchain).
Books, For Men are often about shipwrecks.
Books, For Men are sort of like YouTube videos, but without the visuals, and then written down.
The pages in Books, For Men come from the harsh papermill operations of remote Siberia—something you can read about in Books, For Men.
Women are allowed to read Books, For Men. Theoretically, at least.
A wide variety of topics can be explored in Books, For Men, including military history, corporate scandals, business strategy, and the scandalous corporate history of the military strategy business.
Women are allowed to write Books, For Men, as long as they are Barbara Tuchman.
The font in Books, For Men is BOLD.
An attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, privately complaining about the President’s aggressive push to restart their operations. When the American Petroleum Institute (API) gathered oil industry leaders and lobbyists for a “State of American Energy” summit on January 16, 2026, the geopolitical landscape seemed to be shifting dramatically in their favor. However, an attendee of the resource extraction cartel’s most important annual lobbying conference told The Grayzone that participants privately grumbled about […]
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The post Iran war described as ‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit appeared first on The Grayzone.
South Memphis was already struggling with poor air quality — and then a colossal gas-powered data center came to town.
Two statements by Government ministers, one private and one public, appear to acknowledge for the first time that Israel's actions have broken international law
“I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept in an exclusive interview.
The post The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. appeared first on The Intercept.
A Democrat running for Senate in Texas has a complicated history with corporate America and the crypto industry.
The post Jasmine Crockett Swears Off Corporate Cash — But Transferred Thousands From Her House Campaign appeared first on The Intercept.
The billionaire Manchester United owning tax exile says Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants but he could learn much from the hard working migrants who have made their lives in this country, argues Sangita Myska
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The author and his closest basketball confidantes undertake a formal analysis of Steph Curry’s shot at the Paris Olympics as art object.
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I was sixteen when my mother gifted me a painting by Ernie Barnes. I’d seen one Barnes painting at that point on the cover of Marvin Gaye’s 1976 album, I Want You, on the brown carpeted floor of my Auntie Sue’s apartment. Then I saw it five days a week for at least a decade during the credits of my favorite show, Good Times, which was then in syndication.
I’m not a Rawlsian, though I would admit to certain affinities, and, indeed, I’ve used the device associated with Rawls (though not invented by him) of the veil of ignorance in my own work. But when I disagree with Rawls, I hope I at least take the trouble to get him right. Sadly, one can’t […]
We here at Sleeplinen know this time of year can trigger all kinds of feelings. For many, Presidents’ Day is a loaded holiday. For some Americans, the wounds are fresh. For others, this is another bad chapter in a long book of injustice. But for all of you, we want to be a space where you can shop for luxury bed linens.
That said, if you’d rather not receive our Presidents’ Day Sale emails this year, we totally get it.
We’ll still be going forward with our annual Presidents’ Day Sale, but we encourage everyone in our community to take care of themselves. For instance, take a break from the world and cover your eyes with 20 percent off our Sleeplinen Velvet Sleep Mask.
We put a tremendous amount of thought and care into our marketing. It’s difficult to work anywhere right now, but we feel it is particularly difficult to work here at a bedding company, at a time when the current US president falls asleep in televised meetings. There have been so, so many promotional emails we could have sent about this, but we chose not to. For you.
Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we’re unhappy and looking for solutions.
The post The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk appeared first on The Intercept.
The man in charge of developing Reform's plans for Government sits on the board of an organisation whose funding is tied to Russian oil money
How Martin made peace with the disturbing, intrusive thoughts that characterise sexual obsessive-compulsive disorder
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The Trump Justice Department is protecting the powerful at the expense of Epstein’s victims, says an attorney representing nine of his accusers.
The post Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG appeared first on The Intercept.
Do networking events fill you with dread? Here’s how to manage your fears, show up, and take advantage of the opportunities
- by Fallon Goodman