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Since Dobbs, state-level Republicans have sought to strip power from DAs elected in Democratic cities who won’t prosecute abortion care.

The post Republicans Can’t Decide: Do They Hate Prosecutors Because of Bail Reform or Abortion? appeared first on The Intercept.

As we encounter Shakespeare’s tragedies it becomes terrifyingly clear that we are not in a moral universe of comeuppances and rewarded virtues.

The post No Comfort appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

Dear Whoever Keeps Making My Wife Laugh on Slack,

Enough. It’s just enough already.

Now, listen to me carefully because I’m only going to say this once: your making-my-wife-laugh days are over, buddy. Do you hear me? Over. That means no more memes, no more GIFs, and especially no more company inside jokes that I “just wouldn’t understand.”

First of all, I understand everything. Got that, Carlin?

And second, don’t you have an actual job you should be doing? After all, the last time I checked, it was called “work from home,” not “make my wife laugh from home.” That is, unless your job is to make my wife laugh—in which case, whatever they’re paying you, it’s not enough.

Hey, I have a good idea: You should ask the last guy who used to make my wife laugh on Slack how much he was making. I’m sure he’d be more than willing to help you renegotiate your salary. If you find out who he is, let me know. I’d like to have a few words with him myself—the punching kind.

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Growing university protests here mirror US occupations against Israel’s invasion, as institutions are accused of profiting from the Gaza war

Byline Times finds library of 'upskirting' images available at leading photo agencies following Laurence Fox incident involving Narinder Kaur

A number of pro-Western but otherwise fragmented Georgian political opposition groups may put aside bad blood to campaign as one ahead of elections in October

The Labour leader's new six 'first steps' for Government reveal a lot about the kind of administration he plans to lead

‘So was I once myself a swinger of birches’ – Robert Frost reads his celebrated poem on yearning for the freedoms of youth

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Inner speech is mysterious and hard to study. But movie voiceovers and introspective novels offer fresh ways to understand it

- by Shayla Love

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For 3,000 years, humans have struggled to understand the embryo. Now there is a revolution underway

- by John Wallingford

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As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.

The post University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

Adam Brinley Codd, Daniel Krause, Pierre Ortlieb and Alex Briers We both drive cars, but the US drives on the right while the UK drives on the left. We both walk, but we do so on sidewalks in the US and pavements in the UK. We both have asset managers, who want to take leveraged … Continue reading Leverage finds a way: a comparison of US Treasury basis trading and the LDI event →

The problem is not straightforwardly men’s power over women but the unbearable pressure on everybody to perform socially recognisable gender roles in a nuclear family.

The post End systemic pressures inside the family to end violence against women first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Students at Melbourne Uni have occupied the Arts West building three weeks after they began their encampment in solidarity with Gaza.

The post Melbourne Uni students occupy to cut ties with Israel first appeared on Solidarity Online.

In another significant show of solidarity by the Australian legal profession, more than 700 Australian lawyers (including practising barristers and solicitors, legal academics and law students) have signed a further letter to the Australian Government calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. This follows a similar initiative six months ago. Link to the further letter Continue reading »

Last month’s Labour Force data release for April 2024, revealed that the Australian labour market was starting to weaken in the face of the fiscal squeeze (the government announced a second successive annual fiscal surplus on Tuesday) and the 11 interest rate hikes since May 2022. Today (May 16, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics…

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The Supremes are more than doing their part I noted last week that Bolts magazine was featuring a reader Q&A with an election law expert and they have published some of them today. It’s quite interesting even if a little bit depressing. But we’re used to that when it comes to this subject. Here’s one example: What’s the most underrated case where this court weakened voting rights, but that we just don’t talk about enough? — Anonymous There are two cases that hardly anyone has heard of but that have had a major impact on the way the Supreme Court treats the constitutional right to vote: Anderson v. Celebrezze, in 1983, and Burdick v. Takushi, in 1992. Anderson dealt with the desire of an independent candidate to gain ballot access after a state’s deadline for turning in enough signatures. Burdick was about an individual’s attempt to write-in a candidate instead of choosing one of the candidates listed on the ballot.

It’s nervous laughter, but laughter it is. Even the faithful just aren’t that into her anymore: In the past, Family Research Council, founded in 1983 by Focus on the Family, and Concerned Women for America, founded in 1978 by the late Beverly LaHaye, both endorsed Greene 100% and applauded her for her work opposing LGBTQ rights and other issues. Now, both groups are criticizing Greene’s latest “bizarre conundrum”: the effort to take down House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has a long association with their movement. “Stop the madness,” said FRC President Tony Perkins in the organization’s The Washington Stand, which says it provides “news and commentary from a biblical worldview.” “I thought the goal of government was to work for the people — not just take political pot shots at the other party,” said Perkins, who has mentored Johnson for decades.