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In a landmark lawsuit filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission, the government accuses Amazon of long being engaged in illegal market behavior.
“I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” During MSNBC’s evening coverage of Thursday morning’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Trump v. United States case of presidential immunity, Ari Melber summed up his feelings (and mine) with a quote from Zoolander (2001): “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” On Wednesday, the court considered how many organs a pregnant woman, septic and hemorrhaging, must risk losing before a doctor in Idaho could save her life and provide an abortion without risking jail. On Thursday, the Roberts court spun head-of-a-pin hypotheticals about whether a president can assassinate rivals or stage a coup with no consequences if it were alleged to be part of his/her official duties. We are that far down the MAGA rabbit hole. Chris Hayes noted that in real time during oral arguments: Everyone, including the justices who agreed to hear this farcical presidential immunity case, knew Team Trump’s arguments were a joke. At least, that’s what we assumed. Team Trump was not expecting to win. Putting off the start of special prosecutor Jack Smith’s Jan.
If Meir Kahane were still alive, he would have been proud of his followers. The ideology of the once marginalized and loathed extremist rabbi is now the backbone of Israeli politics.
The post How Jewish Extremists Became the New Face of Israel appeared first on MintPress News.
The Conservative candidate for London Mayor has been very vocal about council tax hikes – but in 2023 she voted to raise Harrow’s by more than 5%
He’s exceeded my low expectations Joe Biden was not my first pick for president, but that’s how it goes. Remember: This is politics. If you want a soul mate, try Match dot com. Even then, ever had an argument with your spouse and stayed married? There you go. President Biden has chalked up quite a record going into this November. I hate flying. Hate it. If a desination is within 600 miles or so, I drive. It’s not worth the headache and expense to fly. By the time I drive to the airport (which, depending on the destination, could take 1-1/2 to 2 hours) with enough lead time to park, get cleared through security, and to the gate with time to spare, I’m already partway there if I just drove. The last time I got on a plane, I missed a 1 p.m. connection because of a weather delay, waited hours for the next flight out, then sat on the tarmac for another hour in the late afternoon during another weather delay. By the time I got to my hotel after 11 p.m. it was like 12+ hours from the time I left the house. I could have driven (with gas/food stops) in 10-1/2. For less. Joe Biden’s administration means to address that customer-unfriendly experience.
A veteran Indian political organiser has been banned from entering India and labelled a threat to the state for writing an article for Tribune, it can be revealed. Amrit Wilson, the Indian-born journalist who wrote the groundbreaking Finding A Voice: Asian Women in Britain (1978) and was prominent in the Organisation of Women of Asian […]
“You MUST see The Lion King.”
The last time you were in New York, Michael Bloomberg was mayor and nobody knew what a cronut was.
“Why not try kayaking on the Hudson?”
You do not actually like living in New York City.
“Corner bodega bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich.”
You haven’t been north of 23rd Street in seven years.
“Go to a poetry slam in the East Village and then spend a few hours just getting lost in The Strand.”
You do not have, nor have you met, children.
“Try the steak frites au poivre at La Bonne.”
You work in finance. What you know of the world is not applicable to 97 percent of the population.
“Go to Max’s Kansas City and order a beef shish kebab.”
You are Fran Lebowitz in 1978.
“Museum of Ice Cream!”
You have children between the ages of five and nine. The last time you tried to go to The Strand, you forgot the ziplock of Cheerios and had to spend $24.95 on a sticker and jewel mosaic set to avoid a public meltdown.
Kianna Shore, Mellow Brown and Mariano Taibo are launching a new Blade Runner comic book series from Titan Comics in their July 2024 solicits
The Irish Government must tackle growing inequality if extremist politics is not to take root, writes Emma DeSouza
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The poll comes as broadcasting regulators give the green light to Nigel Farage and other senior politicians to keep presenting on news channels during the general election
IPP sentences were abolished more than a decade ago - but despite legislative changes hundreds of inmates remain in jail indefinitely and many are taking their own lives in despair
- by Psyche Film
Dr. Mohammed Khaleel recounts his experience serving patients, mostly children and young adults with blasts injuries and bullet wounds.
The post “Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Mark Fisher
Culture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not all wedge-issues are a part of a culture war.) So, a culture war reveals a latent or induces real divergence in a pre-existing coalition. So, for example, how to think about trans-issues […]
In mainstream economics, there’s — still — a lot of talk about ‘economic laws.’ The crux of these laws — and regularities — that allegedly exist in economics, is that they only hold ceteris paribus. That fundamentally means that these laws/regularities only hold when the right conditions are at hand to give rise to them. […]
It’s all about them, remember? During every presidential campaign the media starts kvetching that the Democrat isn’t giving them enough attention. (They don’t do it as much with Republicans because of the “play the refs” tactic.) Remember this from 2015? It was the big story on Beltway Twitter over the weekend: The Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign, at a Fourth of July parade in New Hampshire, kept reporters behind a moving rope line so as not to get too close to their candidate. The images were striking and quickly earned snide comments from reporters who have long been frustrated with their access to Clinton’s campaign, as well as from others who saw the effort as heavy-handed. And it’s not hard to see why people are frustrated. We would hardly be the first to suggest that it looks like the media are being herded like cattle or sheep. Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri took to “Morning Joe” on Monday and gamely tried to defend the tactic, with limited success.