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We listen and we don’t judge.

LADY MACBETH: I hate it when you introduce me as your “Dearest partner of greatness.” What’s wrong with “wife”?

We listen and we don’t judge.

MACBETH: I know I said, “Bring forth men-children only,” but I’ve always dreamed of being a Girl Dad.

We listen and we don’t judge.

LADY MACBETH: If you invite overnight guests to stay with us again without checking with me first, I will kill you them.

We listen and we don’t judge.

MACBETH: I don’t know what the poor cat does in the adage, okay? Every time you bring it up, I just nod.

We listen and we don’t judge.

LADY MACBETH: Sometimes, when you’re about to confess to murder, I pretend to faint so everyone pays attention to me instead.

We listen and we don’t judge.

Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth

- by Marcia Bjornerud

Read at Aeon

Our culture is routinely diagnosed with an excessive fear of mortality. A calm look at the evidence tells a different story

- by Ingemar Patrick Linden

Read at Psyche

In the last decade, constant headlines have made reference to the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’. This phrase is now synonymous with the fact that millennials and younger generations depend on their parents for financial support when buying their first home. These conversations tend to come in two flavours. The first tastes of avocado toast […]

Failure to block the insurance giant’s market consolidation, including by a judge with a potential conflict of interest, has led to worse care, higher prices, and a mounting human toll.

As the diplomatic row over the embargo escalates, the U.S. sent Israel millions of pounds of ammunition through Spanish territory.

The post U.S. Defied Spanish Embargo on Arms Bound for Israel by Making Enforcement More Difficult appeared first on The Intercept.

“We don’t feel safe here. It’s not just Trump, it’s the fact half our country voted for him"

The big news outlets used to say settlements would encourage more lawsuits. Trump is already targeting smaller newspapers.

The post The Real Danger of ABC News Settling Its Lawsuit With Donald Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

Europe and the US must wake up to the threat posed by Georgia's repressive Russian-aligned regime, writes the UK's former ambassador to the country

Today, I consider the Greek situation, the decision by the UK Chancellor to further deregulate the financial services sector and then to calm everyone down or not, some music. The Financial Times published an article (December 12, 2024) – The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts – which basically redefines the meaning of English words like…

Trump only cares about his agenda of deportation, revenge, tariffs and personal profits. He’s fine with Elon doing whatever as long as it doesn’t interfere with his own agenda. The Daily Beast reported in his last term that when pressed about the rising deficit, he would say: “Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt. The episode illustrates the extent of the president’s ambivalence toward tackling an issue that has previously animated the Republican Party from the days of Ronald Reagan to the presidency of Barack Obama. But for those who have worked with Trump, it was par for the course. Several people close to the president, both within and outside his administration, confirmed that the national debt has never bothered him in a truly meaningful way, despite his public lip service. “I never once heard him talk about the debt,” one former senior White House official attested. He never talked about it when he ran for reelection both times either.

The true meaning of legal protection for nature.

The post This Ocean Wave Has Rights   appeared first on Nautilus.

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The AP reports: A former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Monday to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress. […] Smirnov will get credit for the time he has served since his February arrest on charges that he told his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid President Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each around 2015. Smirnov had been an informant for more than a decade when he made the explosive allegations about the Bidens in June 2020, after “expressing bias” about Joe Biden as a presidential candidate, prosecutors said. […] No evidence has emerged that Joe Biden acted corruptly or accepted bribes as president or in his previous office as vice president. While Smirnov’s identity wasn’t publicly known before the indictment, his claims played a major part in the Republican effort in Congress to investigate the president and his family, and helped spark a House impeachment inquiry into Biden.

An independent expert talks about witnessing the extreme violence against Palestinians, a Texan congressman calls out Blinken for US complicity while Israel continues to bomb Syria. Greg Barns calls out Dutton as a danger to Australia. Respecting human rights while countering terrorism @UNGeneva Independent expert @profbensaul: “My job is to encourage gvts to respect human Continue reading »

If you want to know where they get their information,here’s the breakdown:YouTube 90%TikTok 63%Instagram 61%Snapchat 55%Facebook 32% (down from 71%)WhatsApp 23%X 17% (down from 33%)Reddit 14%Threads 6% I have to wonder about the Youtube use. It could just be music or some other very specific interest there but if they ever get caught up in something and go down the Youtube rabbit hole it’s very dangerous. That site is full of disinformation and it’s very compellingly presented. I don’t know what to do about it exactly. YouTube is extremely valuable. I use it constantly myself. But if you don’t know what you’re looking at it can be disorienting and destructive. I use Tik Tok much less, but I go there enough to see how much fun it is and understand why the kids like it so much. And from what I gather it’s full of disinformation too. If we weren’t working overtime to destroy the education system we might try something like this:

Staff at News Corp Australia have been given Peter Dutton PM inspired vision boards, in lieu of a Christmas bonus, the decision was made with an eye on making sure the whole company kept their eye on the prize coming... Read More ›