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Bed: A group of tired women.

Coalition: Women who are tired of hearing about their reproductive rights getting trampled on.

Guys: Actually, a group of women.

Girls: Actually, a group of fully grown women.

Old Bats: A group of women who used to be goths in high school and still listen to The Cure.

Brood: A bunch of women talking about raising backyard chickens.

Swarm: Women who hate Sting for some reason.

Clowder: A group of childless cat ladies.

Band: Any three women who are successful solo artists and get together to form a supergroup, like the Highwomen or Boygenius.

Herd: A bunch of women who love border collies.

Susans: A group of women who vote.

Shrewdness: A group of women who are mad at men who voted for Trump.

Drove: Women who are discussing carpooling in a group text.

Charm: A bunch of women who dress like Stevie Nicks.

Alex Jones found out NBC News: The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably InfoWars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones’ primary online platform. Jones announced the sale on X Thursday morning. “I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the U.S. trustee over our bankruptcy this morning and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning,” Jones said. “The Connecticut democrats with The Onion newspaper bought us,” he added. For those needing a reminder of what this is all about, The Washington Post explains: Infowars and its property are among the personal assets Jones was forced to sell in a court-ordered auction after a bankruptcy judge in June sought to compel Jones to paythe roughly $1.5 billion in damages he owes for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

. Med en klimat- och miljöminister som Romina Pourmokhtari verkar tiden stått stilla sedan 1964 …

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang “I Like to Be in America” at the top of my lungs at an around-the-clock banned-book event organized by the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression after the musical West Side Story was canceled at a local high school because of its demeaning stereotypes of Puerto Ricans. I was ready to move on. I was done. As it happened, though, free speech — or, more accurately, attacks on it — wasn’t done with me, or with most Americans, as a matter of fact. On... Read more

Source: A Democracy of Voices (If We Can Keep It) appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

Blake's 7 Season One is getting a Blu-Ray release for the first time (including in the US). Here's a teaser previewing the updated FX work.

Dear Americans,

During your country’s recent presidential campaign, President-elect Trump spoke about the threat of climate change: “So they talk all the time about how the ocean will rise in five hundred years, one-eighth of an inch, who the hell cares?”

Now, before you decide where I’m going with that quote, please allow me to give a disclaimer as to what this letter is not.

It is not meant to interfere or intermingle with your country’s affairs. It is neither an interrogation of the rise of fascists in the US (we too are teeming with them here in India, where I live) nor is this a critique of your country’s policies, whether economic or environmental, domestic or foreign.

The election of the climate-denying President elect Donald Trump has raised the stakes at this week's global climate summit

Step into the world of the enigmatic ‘Las Meninas’ – Diego Velázquez’s masterpiece of royal (and self-)portraiture

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

Progressives in Congress are urging party leaders to use their two remaining months in power to erect barriers to Trump’s agenda.

The post Squad Goals: Democrats Must Use Lame-Duck Power to Fight Trump Now appeared first on The Intercept.

Progressives in Congress are urging party leaders to use their two remaining months in power to erect barriers to Trump’s agenda.

The post Squad Goals: Democrats Must Use Lame-Duck Power to Fight Trump Now appeared first on The Intercept.

Physicists and philosophers today have formulated three opposing models that explain how laws work. Which is the best?

- by Mario Hubert

Read at Aeon

With stigma and misunderstanding surrounding mental health, it’s vital to know the benefits and limits of a formal diagnosis

- by Awais Aftab

Read at Psyche

Billions of pounds were spent on unusable protective equipment, with priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers

The President elect's appointment of a group of fawning and ideologically blinded advisers should worry us all, writes former UK Diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall

Aly Soliman Stablecoins have emerged as an innovative form of money in the financial landscape. While they represent a small fraction of the global financial system, stablecoins have grown by US$30 billion in the last few months (as reported on DefiLlama). The potential effect of stablecoins on the payment industry could be substantial and merits … Continue reading With the arrival of stablecoins, is it time to pay farewell to traditional payment rails? →

UNIVERSITY students hope calls to wipe HECS debt won’t just be used as election sweeteners, as the Greens pledge to forgive all tertiary loans. The minor party on Monday unveiled a $74 billion proposal to wipe all student debt for university students, which it said would provide cost-of-living relief, but one Labor MP described the...

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We discussed Communism recently, which is one type of left wing belief.

I would suggest that the left’s core belief is:

Everyone should have a good life and society should work to make that happen.

What different left ideologies are arguing about his the means more than the end. A Communist believes the only way for this to be achieved is for the proletariat to control the means of production. (This makes them effectively the left oppositional image of capitalists.)

Today (November 14, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for October 2024, which shows that employment growth was very weak and may signal that the labour market is finally slowing in line with overall spending and GDP growth. Employment growth failed to keep pace with the underlying…

Blinken says that Israel has met their strategic goals for Gaza, while Bisan Owda captures Israeli attacks on day 404 of the genocide. President Bident meets president-elect Trump at the White House and Andrew Napolitano reveals the new US Ambassador to Israel. Nury Vittachi reveals a a US interference plan for Cambodia while AAP Factcheck Continue reading »

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