Amanda Gefter talks about the exhausting and thrilling decade she spent writing about lost genius Peter Putnam
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In defense of a long-neglected form of protest.
Former Army Ranger Greg Stoker talks to Lowkey about how the US military “breaks young men,” fuels Israel’s war in Gaza, and leaves its own veterans destroyed.
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As a Canadian, the issue of people removing snow from the sidewalk is a big deal. Some years ago I lived near a house where they never removed the snow. It piled up till it was almost four feet high, and some partial thaws meant that underneath all that snow was ice. Every time I had to walk in that direction I cursed the owners (there was an SUV that came and went, so I knew it wasn’t uninhabited.) And one time I did slip and I was furious, even though the pain of the fall was minor.
Thing is, I don’t enjoy being furious or upset. Oh, a little anger is sometimes nice enough, but overall it’s an unpleasant feeling unless you’ve been having even worse emotions like fear, despair, powerlessness or self-pity.
This is what Buddha called the second arrow. If you’ve been shot by an arrow, you’re in pain. If you’re upset that you’ve been shot by an arrow, you’re adding additional suffering.
The Supreme Court halted courts from issuing national injunctions, forcing “judges to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness.”
The post “No Right Is Safe”: SCOTUS Bars Judges From Reining in Trump appeared first on The Intercept.
So there I was, minding my own business, when, for some inexplicable reason, I found myself idly thinking about the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For the life of me, I can’t tell you what led me to reflect on the moment when Nicholas II lost control over a once-burgeoning empire due to widespread unrest that he himself had a hand in shaping. Maybe it’s the weather? Maybe those barometric pressure changes can lead to more than just headaches?
But it’s kind of weird, right? Why would my mind make me recall that the Russian Revolution was largely ignited by a devastating economic crisis, social inequality, and the ruling class being aggressively out of touch with the suffering masses? It just makes no sense for me to be thinking of a bunch ruling-class assholes enriching themselves through, if not illegal, then definitely immoral ways, while everyone else has to buy tacos on payment plans. They didn’t even have tacos in Russia back then. Is my brain broken? Am I having a stroke?
“How about we talk about how special America is?” Hegseth asked. He’s not the first U.S. official to demand pro-war propaganda.
The post Pete Hegseth Is Mad the Media Won’t Celebrate U.S. War With Iran appeared first on The Intercept.
Are we closer than ever to nuclear winter?
Only a woman with solid feminist bona fides can make this argument in modern America. The high tech economy has leveled the playing field between men and women. This is a great development. But it ignores, like the Democratic party in general, a larger reality: blue collar men. White collar men are indoctrinated in high school and college now how to behave around women. But blue collar men are not. And there are more of them than white collar Ivy Leaguers. Give the video a watch. It refreshing.
The mayoral candidate defeated the master plan for the first time ever — and that’s prompted an elite panic about who gets to control political outcomes.
Filmed at the AI Summit at London Tech Week 2025, this two-minute video captures the passion and purpose behind the newly-launched Drupal AI Strategic Initiative.
Join Baddý and Jamie as they explain why this work is important and why we need the Drupal community to rally behind it.
“In order to get fast innovation in Drupal AI, we need people to work on the project—and we’re doing that by getting funding and full-time contributors from participating companies.”
— Baddý Sonja Breidert
“I’ve never seen something quite like this in the Drupal community… It’s coordinated innovation not for one company, but for the whole open source community.”
— Jamie Abrahams
Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza.
The post Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month appeared first on The Intercept.
The difficulties of procuring water and power in Karachi, Pakistan, where surging temperatures have strained the city’s resources, and much more.
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Underground Water Tanks, Envy, Climate-Influenced Mood Disorders, A Widow’s Home, Dawn, Urban Heat Islands, Nagging Uncertainty, The Pump Games, Karachi’s Water Mafia, Candlelight Feasts, The Incredible Magic of Air-Conditioning, Load Shedding, A Family Showdown, Monsoon Season, Microwaves, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Bacteria That Thrive in High Temperatures, Overconsumption, A Bucket and a Cup.
The 'Excessive Wealth' Conference hears from a millionaire heir about how global corporations exploit consumers and undermine democracy
This is what it’s all about. The crack of the bat. The crisp summer air. The camaraderie of old friends on a beautiful new day.
These are all experiences I can’t wait to enjoy for myself as soon as I’m done waiting in line for a fourteen-dollar hot dog.
You can feel the triumphant swell of patriotism as we are called to rise for the national anthem. If you listen closely, can you hear our forefathers singing the very same melody as they, too, delighted in our national pastime?
I’m legitimately asking. Can you hear that? I am still in line for that hot dog.
No matter. Because soon after the game begins, another beautiful sound engulfs the park: CLINK! And then: the unmistakable, deafening roar of a stadium packed with delighted fans.
Simultaneously, another sound. The sound of me saying “fuck.”
Because I definitely just missed something super awesome. Because I am now in the ketchup line. Because, for some reason, that is completely separate from the hot-dog line.
- by Salwa Halloway
Getting sober meant facing myself without the fog, and finding new ways to be gentle inside
- by Michael Thomas Kincella
By simulating ecological networks with microbes, researchers revealed properties that may make natural communities susceptible to invasion
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100 million years ago, the charismatic cephalopods ruled Earth’s oceans
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Recognizing the link between mental and ecological health can change how we relate to the world and ourselves
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The Labour Government has so far pursued a timid, unambitious, foreign policy, marked by inconsistency and in some cases moral failure, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
Socialismens ABC är en fördjupningspodd från Katalys. Den inledande serien — där bland andra Sven-Eric Liedman, professor emeritus i idé- och lärdomshistoria, medverkar — fokuserar på Karl Marx liv och idéarv. Få tänkare har haft ett så genomgripande inflytande på världen som Karl Marx. Trots att det har gått över två sekler sedan hans födelse […]
The former GB News host is among a series of newly-elected Reform councillors who appear to have left basic information off of their registers of interest
UTS has officially ended its Memorandum of Understanding with the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), following almost a year of consistent campaigning students and staff.
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