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Labor has passed a fourth law to clear the way for forced deportations to the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru.

The post Labor copies Trump playbook with ICE-style deportation laws first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Low-rating cable TV channel, Sky News Australia, has demanded that the Government defund the national broadcaster after one of their reporters dared to ask President Trump a question at a press conference. ”How dare these smarmy inner-city lefties dare to... Read More ›

The stability problem in Sraffian economics is the question: will an excess rate of profit in an industry automatically result in a self-correcting adjustment, driving the excess rate of profit in that industry down to the uniform rate in the economy? No, not necessarily, argues Ian Steedman (1984), a writer deeply sympathetic to the Sraffian […]

Over the past few days, I’ve watched in awe at the extraordinary achievements of my...

The must-pass legislation that just passed the House would, for the first time, allow the Pentagon to send private military contractors to the border.

Artificial intelligence note-takers are listening in on your therapy sessions while retaining the right to “exploit” patient data.

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The censure attempt comes as waves of people face professional reprisal over their speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.

The post Nancy Mace Targets Ilhan Omar in Charlie Kirk Speech Crackdown appeared first on The Intercept.

If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf.

If a right-wing activist is gunned down, it’s part of a coordinated effort by the radical left to incite violence.

If a gunman murders nineteen children at an elementary school, it’s disgusting to politicize the tragedy by talking about gun control.

If a Republican presidential candidate is targeted in an assassination attempt, it’s fair to blame it on left-wing rhetoric before the shooter has even been identified.

A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda.  1)  Trolley time.  Let’s start with the trolley problem.  People proposing trolley problems often do them in two parts.  First, there’s the anodyne one with the easy answer: A trolley is rushing down the tracks towards a group of five […]

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

The post Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist appeared first on The Intercept.

For 14 years we’ve exposed empire, propaganda, and genocide. Now, with funding slashed, our future depends on you.

The post MintPress News Faces Shutdown Amid Unprecedented Attacks on Truth appeared first on MintPress News.

Zionism is not just an ideology — it is a system of infiltration designed to embed Israel’s interests into every corner of Western life.

The post Infiltration: A Cardinal Function of the Zionist Movement appeared first on MintPress News.

The BAFTA Cymru 2025 is honouring Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies with the BAFTA Cymru Outstanding Contribution to Television Award.

Alex Kingston is confirmed to participate in this season of Strictly Come Dancing, but the internet still wants to talk about Doctor Who.

In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s. Decades later, having burned bridges with them both, she tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ’n’ roll history. Written as an email to former Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, frequent Tendency contributor Lisa Borders’s Last Night at the Disco has been praised as “hilarious” by Publishers Weekly, adding, “Readers will be hooked by this tragicomic romp.” Today, we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from the book.

Every Saturday for the past seven weeks, a crowd of far-right protestors has gathered in a square in the city centre of Newcastle, outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. They arrive around noon, sometimes earlier, and usually stay till late in the afternoon. The protests, like anywhere, are a mixture of the threatening and the […]

The motion denying the existence of man-made climate change comes after Reform councils across the country ripped up local environmental schemes

So, I’m the same age as Noel and Liam. And they’ll make $50 million each by the end of the tour. Goddammit, I don’t have enough saved. Nowhere near enough saved.

I like this song, but can you imagine if you really did live forever? They’d be fine. I wouldn’t. I’d have to figure something out. I’d have to reel in my spending.

The thing about their dream is it’s not vague. It’s well defined. They spent their twenties saying, “Let’s be the biggest band in the world.” They weren’t saying, “Maybe I could be a writer? Some kind of comedy writer? What if I live on a boat with just my guitar and I could write? No, that’s weird. But the rent would be cheap, I bet. I could work less and write more, maybe?”

So the verses and the chorus are all G major, then you do that little move to B minor, then the thing where you go to G, A, D, and it just keeps circling. Like, how many times have either Jeff or I played that absentmindedly on a guitar, back in our twenties, while talking late at night? We weren’t focused! Lazy? Lazy!

It’s the first time the U.S. has sanctioned an organization specifically for using lawful, peaceful tools of advocacy.

The post Trump Sanctions Palestinian Human Rights Groups for Doing Their Job. Anybody Could Be Next. appeared first on The Intercept.

Behind the convenience of Zillow and Rocket Mortgage’s all-in-one homebuying services, experts warn of a debt system that deceives and squeezes consumers.