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Labour must repeal the laws that led to shockingly disproportionate prison sentences for environmental protesters. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th July 2024 How do you know when protest tactics are working? When governments ban them. The oppressive laws introduced by the previous government – the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 […]

Leaked emails reveal BBC staff accusing the network of complicity in Gaza genocide. Studies highlight biased reporting and double standards.

The post BBC Pro-Israel Bias Exposed by Leaked Emails and Internal Studies appeared first on MintPress News.

Ahead of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, rights groups decried the secret social media campaign to prop up support for Israel.

The post Rights Groups Demand Biden Give Answers on Israel’s Secret Influence Campaign on Congress appeared first on The Intercept.

Niger gave notice to U.S. troops in March. Reps. Matt Gaetz and Jimmy Panetta say the Pentagon lied about how it all went down.

The post This African Country Kicked Out the U.S. Military. Did the Pentagon Lie About It? appeared first on The Intercept.

Y’all misogynists don’t act racist Team MAGA was on its back foot for a couple of days after President Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the presidential race and passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris. Republican attack lines prepared for one old white guy against another old white guy would need reworking to smear the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father. Donald Trump will not be able to hold his tongue, of course. He never has. But his MAGA cultists never quite mastered the art of the dog whistle (CNN): In an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju Monday, Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett suggested President Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate solely because she is Black: “One hundred percent she is a DEI hire,” he said, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion. “Her record is abysmal at best.” DEI is how one now utters the N-word if one is a Republican congressman from Knoxville. Or anyone else in the MAGA movement.

Dining Room

High Top

Even Higher Top

Low Top (normal chairs around a coffee table)

Bar Seating

Outdoor (sidewalk)

Outdoor (back patio)

Outdoor (overgrown garden that’s a breeding ground for mosquitoes)

Table in Striking Distance from Pool Table

The Pool Table

Table in Collision Path of Swinging Door

Doug’s Table (Doug will be joining you)

“The Murder Table”

Table Under AC Vent

Table Over AC Vent

Table Both Under and Over AC Vents

Hostess Table (you will have to seat other patrons)

Table That’s Sopping Wet for Some Reason (not water)

Card Table with Dogs Playing Poker

Table Next to Unsettling Painting of Gruesome French Revolution Battle

Table Under Loud-Ass Speaker

Communal Table

Community Table (Alison Brie was here!)

Table in the Splash Zone

A Table with a Draft from an Open Window (disclaimer: risk of pigeon[s])

A Drafting Table (yes, your food will roll off)

Back Corner Table, and Uh Oh, Your Ex Will Be There Holding a Single Red Rose

Table on Stage During Open Mic Night

Amid a Labour rebellion over the two-child welfare cap, new figures reveal the number of families still hit by the Coalition Government-era housing policy

Experts say Donald Trump’s fiery brand of boardroom geopolitics would have disastrous consequences even beyond the theatre of Russia’s active conflict with Ukraine

A rare insight into the extraordinary work of creating a prosthetic leg through measuring, moulding, fitting and feeling

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

Find out which of your emotional needs you’ve been neglecting and use tips from human givens therapy to address them

- by Denise Winn

Read at Psyche

Of all that I have learned, the most important lesson was how much a human can suffer. When I was twenty five I wound up in the hospital for three months. I spent days screaming, in so much pain that morphine couldn’t handle it. For about a month I couldn’t move enough to even pull myself up in bed without crippling agony. Later my  body decided that every foreign substance was an enemy, and when I was given IV antibiotics, every four hours, I’d spend the next twenty minutes dry heaving, since I couldn’t eat or drink and had nothing to bring up.

It turned out I was one of those people who get psychotic episodes from high doses of steroids. One episode was so bad, prior to hospitalization, that I promised myself I’d commit suicide if it didn’t end in twelve hours.

Strangely, as much physical pain as I experienced, the bad psychotic episodes were worse.

As Harris locks in her presidential nomination, here’s her record on monopolies and financial power.

Some Labour MPs are furious about the "draconian" treatment of those who voted to lift children out of poverty

'There has been a lack of sustained progress by government in reducing the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers', a new report by the National Audit Office has found