~by Sean Paul Kelley Everyone is talking about gold topping $5k an ounce. The yellow metal is captivating and big moves by it tend to suck all the oxygen out of the media space regarding other metals. In 2025 gold rose a whopping 64% against all comers, i.e the dollar, the S&P 500, oil, Bitcoin […]
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As we mentioned in our last blog post GitLab issue migration: immediate changes, we will continue to migrate more and more projects.
We gathered a list of projects where their maintainers agreed to help us test the migration process at #3409678: Opt-in GitLab issues. What does it mean if your project is being migrated or if you are collaborating in one of those migrated projects?
So the Trump administration has just pulled the US out of the World Health Organization, WHO. WHO is the biggest and most important international health organization. It’s an arm of the United Nations. It’s been around since 1948. Almost every country in the world is a member. Most people have only the vaguest idea of […]
Today in Britain, the first far-right government in our history is a very real prospect. Nigel Farage in power would be the biggest triumph for the enemies of the working class since his idol Margaret Thatcher took office almost five decades ago — and could make the 1980s look like an easy ride. It would […]
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Some humans (I think? Hard to tell) in masks and vests showed up this morning and took Manny and Kumal away. As you may have noticed, those two were the only staff—despite this place being open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., truly lazy, shiftless drains on society, those fellas—but nobody turned around the sign or locked the door, so if you all want that pack of cigarettes you tell your kids you don’t smoke or a good-enough bagel with a schmear, you’re gonna have to deal with me.
TikTok’s new owners have eliminated a privacy rule protecting U.S. users’ precise location data from being collected.
A top insurance industry-backed Democrat is defending health CEOs as Americans’ medical care is being looted.
On policy and raw politics, Keir Starmer's leadership is crushing dreams of a better world, argues Mainstream co-founder Neal Lawson
In 1942, William Beveridge said presciently, ‘It is a time for Revolutions, not for Patching’. He was referring to social security, then in disarray. The same could be said today, but it could also be said (with equal force) about the state of the education system. We are at a moment of economic, ecological, and […]
There’s a lot of confusion over this topic, so let’s break down some of the factors. The principle is that you need someone to buy whatever it is you want to produce. That means it has to be priced reasonably, and that you either have to have foreign or domestic consumers. It’s often noted that […]
I. Be interested in your subject. II. Know your subject. III. Know about the ways of learning: the best way to learn anything is to discover it by yourself. IV. Try to read the faces of your students, try to see their expectations and difficulties, put yourself in their place. V. Give them not only […]
Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior Conservative figures, reports Nafeez Ahmed
“Even as videos emerged that contradicted the government’s account, the Trump administration was in a race to control the narrative around the killing of Mr. Pretti, a registered nurse with no criminal record who was pinned down when immigration agents opened fire and killed him.” — New York Times
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Given recent events in Minneapolis, we are issuing this updated guidance to ensure all residents remain calm, compliant, and emotionally manageable as operations continue.
1. What happened was not what happened.
While it may have looked like a shooting, it was actually a “rapid de-escalation outcome.” We recognize that phrases like that may sound invented, which is why we ask you to repeat them anyway.
If you witnessed something disturbing, please understand that witnessing is not evidence. Evidence is what exists after it has been reviewed by the people who require it not to exist.
For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear
- by Aeon Video
Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that?
- by Elay Shech
In uncertain times, an Icelandic concept can help you reconnect with your intuition and follow your inner compass
- by Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir
The PM's decision to block Burnham from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election risks handing the seat to Nigel Farage, and ultimately triggering his own downfall. It didn't have to be this way, argues Adam Bienkov
Over the weekend, a far-right journalist tweeted out screenshots from a public, unvetted ICE Watch Signal group in Minneapolis, which quickly went viral on the online Right. As thousands took to the streets in Minneapolis and around the country to…
It is a public holiday in Australia today celebrating our national day – the day that the colonial powers of Britain first decided to set us up as a penal colony because they had run out of prison space in the old country due to the massive incarceration rates following the enclosures. The impoverished small…
With Minneapolis, the Trump administration is creating an existential threat for legal gun owners and Second Amendment advocates.
The post Trump Is Making an Enemy of the Gun Lobby appeared first on The Intercept.
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 25, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Dingbat imperialism and its malcontents Hoodwinks and Hijinks: Trump ‘Nabs’ Greenland at Davos Simplicius [via Naked Capitalism 01-23-2025] …In this case, Trump did major damage to alliances and economic ties, causing Europe and Canada—by way of Mark Carney and Macron—to announce reorientations […]
Among the soft obscurantists some aim at truth, but do not respect the norms for arriving at truth, such as focusing on causality, acting as devil’s advocate, and generating falsifiable hypotheses. Others do not aim at truth, and often scorn the very idea that there is such a thing. By assumption, these non-respecters of truth […]