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Picturing positive encounters can make you like a person more

The post Imagine Your Way to a Better Relationship appeared first on Nautilus.

Our 8th most-read article of 2025.

Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make them feel?

I know, I know—all you did was share your chili recipe, but did you consider the people who don’t like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don’t know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?

Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the “best chili recipe in the world.” Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel? How would you feel if someone said your chili wasn’t the best they’d ever had?

I read a post on one of the social media platforms written by a professor who was sharing his experience with giving away ten percent of his income, after he signed the “Ten percent giving pledge” many years ago. In deciding what or whom to give to, those who take the ten-percent-pledge often follow the […]

US President Donald Trump spent much of 2025 doing up the White House with gold bling. He’s the latest in a long line of leaders to use buildings for power.

“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. We hit them very hard.”

The post Did Trump Just Confess to Attacking Venezuela? appeared first on The Intercept.

There’s a constant trope on the right that the best way to win is to have more kids because eventually you’ll outnumber your enemies? Seems like it makes sense. It is part of why Christianity won in the Roman Empire: they forbade anal and oral sex and contraceptives (yes, they had clumsy contraceptives back then) […]

Big Finish has released a new Doctor Who short story audiobook, Doctor Who Short Trips: The Wednesday That Wasn't, that's free for everyone.

“The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion.”

The post These Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up. appeared first on The Intercept.

There’s a meme I think about all the time: a grainy picture of a huge vertical brush, the kind you see in a drive-through car wash, first stationary and drooping, then spinning and puffed-up. ‘To be a woman is to perform’, it reads — an absurd medium reflecting the absurdity of the feminine act of performance. […]

Our 12th most-read article of 2025.

Originally published May 19, 2025.

Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mouthing the Giant Plagiarism Machine.

I’d like to remind you that our company policy is pro–Plagiarism Machine. We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences.

After The Grayzone exposed CIJA – the Western gov’t-funded regime change outfit – for collaborating with al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria, files show the group sought to penetrate and “intimidate” European financial regulators who charged them with corruption. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal the intelligence-linked Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) launched a malicious effort to infiltrate and subvert the European Commission and EU anti-fraud office after it accused them of corruption. In order to carry […]

The post Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal appeared first on The Grayzone.

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by Tony Wikrent   Howie Klein (February 20, 1948–December 24, 2025) Thomas Neuburger, December 25, 2025 [downwithtyranny.com] [TW: Howie had a keen instinct for news and articles that could move the needle in favor of justice, freedom, and solidarity. And he was also hardened by a deep repugnance for the hypocrisy and transgressions of conservatives, libertarians and […]

Doctor Who alum Peter Capaldi on the pressures of playing the Doctor, not just as a celebrity but also as the face of a brand worth millions.

Our 17th most-read article of 2025.

Originally published April 25, 2025.

Right now, you’re behind me, within reading distance on the freeway, at the stoplight, in the parking lot, maybe in the drive-thru line, or perhaps in my very own driveway (anywhere but a gas station, really), and I know what you’re thinking. But before you form another thought, you’re going to want to keep reading this five-hundred-word bumper sticker on my Tesla so you can fully understand why I am not a bad person.

Well, as they say, out of the mouths of babes 🙂 — and this one is real Dear Santa, Why do all my toys say made in China? I guess even you can’t abstain from the allure of cheap labor. Oink oink you capitalist pig. Josh Dear ES/PE community members, in the midst of the […]

While pushing for war on Venezuela in legacy media, former US ambassador Jimmy Story is soliciting clients for consulting firms run by notorious ex-CIA officials. Editor’s note: Former US ambassador to Venezuela James “Jimmy” Story has gone from de facto manager of the putschist, Washington-backed opposition in Venezuela to one of the most prominent voices promoting the Trump-Rubio regime change policy inside legacy media. On December 7, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria featured his calls for toppling Venezuela’s government during a panel […]

The post Spook Story: Ex-US amb. to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Spook Story: Ex-US amb. to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials appeared first on The Grayzone.

Dec 15, 2025 1. European rearmament and threat inflation Lord Robertson was the lead author of Britain’s Strategic Defence Review, published on 2 June 2024. The Review effectively seeks to implant a war-ready mindset across society, insisting that the UK must be “better prepared for high-intensity, protracted war” and that its war-making, and therefore deterrence, … Continue reading Ukraine – the delusion of the warmongers

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For years, I’ve shared names of former soldiers implicated in atrocities with the Pentagon. It’s shown no interest in punishment until Mark Kelly dissed Trump.

The post My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up appeared first on The Intercept.

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