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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.” — New York Times

I’m a Wife Guy, just like my boss, Grand Moff Tarkin. That’s why I don’t get the big deal around this so-called Signalgate 2.0. Is a man not supposed to talk to his wife about his day anymore? If you ask me, our beloved Empire is under attack—and so is the sanctity of marriage.

Peter Dutton’s head cheerleaders, Sky News Australia, have spent the last night trying to link Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with the death of the Pope. ”Can the Prime Minister prove his whereabouts on the night the Pope died?” Asked Sky... Read More ›

A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life

The post In Search of the First Animals appeared first on Nautilus.

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The nocturnal insects with surprising pollination power

The post The Secret Lives of Moths appeared first on Nautilus.

The chemical lobby demanded Trump make the locations of high-risk chemical plants secret. The EPA did just that.

—And thus, inability to run the state.

In the modern world this causes a great deal of confusion. I guarantee some MMT follower is gleefully planning a comment saying “a state’s ability to spend is not based on taxation.”

As Cigna fights off a lawsuit claiming it systematically denied patients coverage, the health insurance giant just paid a departing executive $10 million in severance.

Let’s make one thing very clear: So far, there is almost no proof that JD Vance is directly responsible for the death of Pope Francis. All we know is that the vice president met with the pope and, a few hours later, the pope was dead. To draw a line between those two facts would almost definitely be a little bit premature.

Here’s what we do know: After their meeting ended and Vice President Vance left the room, the pope was still alive. We can deduce that he was alive, because he was heard asking an assistant, “Ho appena incontrato il volto del diavolo?” which roughly translates to, “Have I just encountered the face of the devil?” It’s a very common question that has been asked in many languages after encounters with JD Vance.

It should also be noted that there is a relatively low chance that spending just ten minutes in a room with Vice President Vance is enough to cause someone to die—out of either a feeling of deep disappointment in humanity or, as online forums describe it, “too much cringe.” This probably could not happen, and is unlikely to have happened a few dozen times already to other people who have met with Vice President Vance previously.

A top financial regulatory agency has been commanded to ease up on fintech and crypto industries.

There may come a time when we look back on the last decade as an anomaly in the modern history of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis – the figurehead of these years, and a radical by the standards of the Catholic hierarchy – is gone, and we are now likely to see a major shift […]

This is a test. This is only a test. I’m using WordLand to write this post to my WordPress website. It’s a new, stripped-down writer’s tool for bloggers. Think of it as a frill-free writer’s frontend to the majesty of WordPress. The essential features (and some advanced ones, even) in a distraction-free, scribbler-friendly environment. ## […]

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“The Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders.” — New York Times

This administration repeatedly ignores court rulings, so, sure, it looks like we are breaking many laws. But even though it seems very, very obvious to everyone that we’re breaking laws left and right, any stable genius can see we’re merely edging ever closer to breaking many laws. Like a teenager sitting next to their crush in a dark movie theater, slowly creeping nearer and nearer to graze their date’s hand.

This isn’t a constitutional crisis. We’re just making eye contact with a constitutional crisis from across the bar, then looking away and giggling.

Lately — especially in the Moderate Party (Moderaterna) and the Liberal Party (Liberalerna) — there has been a push for the euro based on the argument that global economic uncertainties make smaller currencies like the Swedish krona more vulnerable. Facing increased volatility, the euro is said to be a safer alternative. This, however, sounds rather […]

Watch as two craftspeople use 19th-century methods and tools to turn a tree on Norway’s coast into a rowing boat

- by Aeon Video

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Instead of tackling crashing markets, Congress is pushing a crypto sector that the Trump family is financially involved in.

The post Congress’s Biggest Financial Priority Is “Stablecoin.” What the Hell Is That? appeared first on The Intercept.

Condemned to death by firing squad, French resistance fighters put pen to paper. Their dying words can teach us how to live

- by Daniel R Brunstetter

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John Mitchinson considers whether the Devil still has some lessons to teach us

It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to work on a project that has an impending (very) deadline. I also did a podcast interview with the team at Macro and Cheese on the state of American this morning. So…