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Paul Niland argues that those calling for a negotiated peace in Ukraine fundamentally misunderstand how Russian torture, rape, and other war crimes make such a peace impossible
Mai Tran began catsitting in 2021 while Tran was on pandemic unemployment, often staying overnight in people’s homes. Tran has now cared for twenty-two cats and traveled to ten apartments all over New York City, observing the interior lives of cat owners and appeasing their neuroses. From home vet visits to black eyes to refugee cats, Chronicles of a Catsitter documents the most memorable days on the job.
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Most people who know me know that I catsit. It’s not my go-to conversation topic, but it often comes up logistically, like when I tell people I live in X neighborhood but am actually heading back to X place for the week, or when I’m making plans to meet someone, or when I say I have to leave the function early to feed the cats (I never have to; I just want to leave).
MAGA purges the RNC “The RNC is entering the 2024 election with a third of the Democratic National Committee’s reserves,” writes David Graham in The Atlantic. Graham noted last month that the Republican National Committee has ceased functioning as a political party. Today, it operates as another arm of the Trump Organization, now with loyalist Michael Whatley, immediate past chair of the North Carolina GOP installed as chair, and Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that “with the political equivalent of shock and awe,” Team Trump has begun a purge of the RNC staff. “The senior leadership has been almost entirely replaced or reassigned, while dozens of lower-ranking officials including state directors were either fired or told to reapply for their jobs.” The RNC is now eating its own. Given the RNC’s years of electoral losses post-2016, clearing out the dead wood makes sense, Graham writes, and presidential nominees typically take control of the party.
“Our online experience doesn’t have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see.”
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EMPLOYEE: You see any good penises lately?
SECOND EMPLOYEE: It’s Tuesday. So, yes.
EMPLOYEE: Me too. Our whole job is to look at, then discuss penises at a professional level.
SECOND EMPLOYEE: Yes, we’re just professionals who study penises and then have meetings to discuss what we learned about the penises so we can make a better product for penises. Five days a week, 260 working days a year.
EMPLOYEE: Speaking of which, today I’m giving a presentation to our coworkers, who are also penis professionals. I’ll be sharing all of the new things we’ve learned recently about the experience of sex from the perspective of the penis.
SECOND EMPLOYEE: Is the one employee who works in the Vagina Department going to be there?
EMPLOYEE: Unimportant. What are you working on today?
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Colbert/Stewart, X-Men '97, Rodgers/RFK Jr., Doctor Who, Chucky, Daredevil/Punisher, Kimmel/Trump, and more!
Voters will never know what was discussed between the PM and media bosses
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Aid groups assert that U.S. airdrop efforts fall short in averting famine, compounded by Israel’s obstruction of aid truck access via land routes.
The post Israel’s Use of Mass Starvation as a Weapon of War appeared first on The Intercept.
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About 15 percent of the people who gave to Menendez’s legal defense fund have links to the MEK, a controversial Iranian exile group.
The post Donors to Bob Menendez Legal Defense Linked to Ex-Terror Group appeared first on The Intercept.
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