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“A mixture of stupidity and nastiness… The liberal establishment is primarily responsible for the genocide of the Palestinians.” In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Yanis Varoufakis unleashes a fierce critique of Western liberalism, and tells us why he feels that the global system is in crisis. This episode explores the facade of Western moral superiority, the […]

The post How Europe’s sheer stupidity combined with its ethical downfall to underwrite Israel’s genocide of Palestinians – Middle East Eye appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Read the first installment, published during Trump’s first term.

United States Department of Agriculture
Ad salmonellam
“Towards salmonella”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Perfugium profugorum
“Refuge from refugees”

Department of Education
Omnes discipuli reliquuntur
“Every child left behind”

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Silent iures
“The law falls silent”

National Nuclear Security Administration
Quis scientiam requirat?
“Who needs expertise?”

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ad Martem per stultitiam
“To Mars through folly”

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tempestatum praesagio divinatione
“Weather forecasting through divination”

“They told us to accept working with them or leave. They’re coming to take over, weaponising aid.” — Jens Laerke, UN OCHA

The post Weaponized Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief appeared first on MintPress News.

You’d never know reading the New York Times that charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are nothing but an authoritarian attack.

The post Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal. appeared first on The Intercept.

On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases the extraordinary imaginations of people who design exorbitant clothes and the gutsiness of those who dare (and can afford) to wear them. I’m dimly aware of this annual extravaganza because of my interest in knitting, spinning, and weaving — the crafts involved in turning fluff into yarn and yarn into cloth. Mind you, I have no flair for fashion myself. I could never carry off wearing the simplest of ballgowns and I’m way too short to rock a tuxedo. My own personal style runs to 1970s White Dyke. (Think blue jeans and flannel shirts.) But I remain fascinated by what... Read more

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One of the things so compelling about Margaret Ross’s Saturday is her obsessive fidelity to a purity of description: “Beige clouds in a greenish sky / seen through cheap sunglasses.” To that, she adds an instability of syntax and line break that she makes into a thing of cool beauty. Here’s a couple of stanzas at the end of “A Present,” a title whose multiple possible meanings is also a sign of Ross’s themes and capacities:

Touching certain strangers
I could feel the future just
below the surface of their skin, things
can happen, you could sense time
quicken beneath your hand.

The future? I want to know do I
hurt people because of what
they have made me feel or do I
have feelings I have always had
and try to make the world
look like it gave them to me?

The sentences, measured but already somehow headlong, roll against and over the ends of the lines. Sentences do not match the length of line. Sometimes these two elements dance, and sometimes they quarrel. Here they are dancing, at the beginning of “New York”:

I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and the biggest problem: This city is a literal city.

I love living in a city, but I hate dealing with other people. I shouldn’t be subject to the whims of my neighbors, something I constantly scream at them during city council meetings.

You can’t walk down the street without seeing some new expensive building going up. It’s all I can think about until I’m safely ensconced in my million-dollar apartment, scornfully looking down at the construction.

I don’t recognize anyone in my neighborhood anymore! Why do the kids I used to know seem to grow taller, look older, and move away? I need every political candidate to clarify their position on the passage of linear time.

It wasn’t always like this. I moved to this city as a wide-eyed twenty-year-old, ready to take on the world with energetic abandon. Now, I’m no longer twenty years old. Something really has changed with this city.

The big question for Pope Leo XIV is whether he will complete Pope Francis’s mission to make the Catholic Church less tyrannical.

The post Can the Church Evolve? appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

Coast Guard search and rescue planes need fixing, but DHS argues Noem suddenly requires a fancy new jet for safety reasons.

The post The Questionable Case of Kristi Noem’s $50 Million Luxury Jet appeared first on The Intercept.

Clanking cowboys, hard-working women and fighting dogs populate the landscape of an Aboriginal artist’s childhood

- A film by Grace Kemarre Robinya and Jonathan Daw

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The end of a friendship cracked me apart, triggering hidden memories – and helping me heal old wounds

- by Antonia Malchik

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- by Bradley Hillier-Smith

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A new view of the berg shows it’s losing its edge

The post The Largest Iceberg on Earth Is Stuck appeared first on Nautilus.

A comic explains the highs and lows of birdsong

The post Why Birds Sing So Differently appeared first on Nautilus.

On 5 November 2024, the night of Donald Trump’s historic second election victory, it suddenly — and unexpectedly — looked as though he would win Pennsylvania. Of all the seven swing states Trump needed to win in this intense, closely fought race, Pennsylvania was said to be the most important, not least due to the […]

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