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One month on from the Ukrainian occupation, Byline Times' investigations in the town of Sudzha reveal the lethal power of disinformation on young and old Russians
The Government is refusing to reveal how many complaints have been made by inmates and guards
So, this was true once:
A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
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Last month, a Korean pop star and a legendary MMA fighter found themselves doing the same thing: apologizing for their apologies. BTS’s Suga had drunk driven an electric scooter, while Ronda Rousey had shared a Sandy Hook conspiracy video. They both immediately apologized—and then they both had to apologize again, for the shortness and shallowness of their initial apologies.
1. Are you sure you’re really trapped? You don’t look that trapped.
2. But you’re too smart to be trapped in a well.
3. Yeah, I was trapped in a well once too. It was pretty dank. But the well just went away when I made sure to sleep more every night, eat protein at breakfast, and cold plunge every ninety minutes.
4. Are you sure this is even a well?
5. It could be worse. You should do some gratitude journaling.
6. Have you tried getting out once in a while? Call a friend. Go to a movie. Rent a luxury sedan, drive yourself to a remote Airbnb in the woods, and go on a three-day-long hiking adventure searching for the perfect gnarled walking stick.
7. Nobody wants to be around you if you’re just gonna dwell on this well stuff.
8. Have you even bothered to look outside of the well? It’s beautiful out. The sky is cyan, the sun is shining, and the dewpoint is a perfect fifty-four degrees. All of us out here love how it’s just sultry enough to skip the lip balm but not so much that our hair’s all frizzy.
9. Maybe there’s something you need to learn from this well, like resilience?
Cash-strapped local authorities across Britain are teetering on the brink of financial collapse. Here are the ones most at risk
Black police chief says the shortfall shows 'why our members feel that things have got worse over the last four years'
A damning new report reveals growing numbers of small businesses and retail outlets have used a series of scams to evade paying tax
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When racist pogroms flared up across Britain in the Summer, many people highlighted the similarity to the riots which broke out in 1919 in British port cities. But they were alike in other ways too, not least the role that sections of the labour movement’s leadership played in promoting the racist tropes which motivated the […]
The Reserve Bank of Australia has certainly attracted headlines this last week or so starting with the claim by the Federal Treasurer that the monetary policy stance is “smashing the economy” (Source), while a past Labor Treasurer and now Labour Party National President (Wayne Swan) was much more openly critical of the RBA conduct over…
We took a five-minute scroll through X this morning and this is what we saw in relation to issues impacting the world today, in Gaza…. Great Britain’s 1 million person protest for Palestine – the largest protest in their history One of the biggest protests in the history of Great Britain 1 MILLION people pic.twitter.com/H3XVPNi6xc Continue reading »
The idea of the unaccountable criminal president began that day. Look where it brought us.
A sad Shire magpie who simply wants a friend is unable to comprehend why everyone he swoops down on to give a hug to runs away in terror. “I’m so alone all day on top of this telegraph pole and... Read More ›
In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of the state of Washington. When the city of Aberdeen ordered the homeless encampment cleared out, some of those unhoused residents took the city to court, because they had nowhere else to go. Aberdeen finally settled the case by agreeing to provide alternative shelter for the residents since, the year before, a U.S. court of appeals had ruled in the case of Martin v. Boise that a city without sufficient shelter beds to accommodate homeless people encamped in their area couldn’t close the encampment.... Read more
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I’m sure you’ve heard Trump bellowing his fatuous nonsense about how everyone always wanted Roe overturned so it could go back to the states where people can vote on it and “it’s a beautiful thing.” I’ll admit that I was derelict in seeing where this was going. Leave it to Ron DeSantis to show the way: Florida voters who signed a petition to place a pro-choice abortion referendum on the ballot this November say they have been visited by police who are investigating claims of fraud at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday. Last year, DeSantis, a Republican, signed into a law a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. In response, pro-choice campaigners gathered and submitted nearly one million signatures to place on the ballot Amendment 4, a referendum that would overturn the ban and restore reproductive rights in the state. Now Florida’s Department of State is claiming it suspects fraud in the signature-gathering process.