The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous — a familiar tactic to this incarcerated writer.
The post Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us appeared first on The Intercept.
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I am the last in a long line of shark hunters. As the ocean fades, so too does our way of life
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Now that some of the projects that opted-in for GitLab issues are using them, they are getting real world experience with how the issue workflow in GitLab is slightly different. More and more projects are being migrated each week so sooner or later you will probably run into the following situations.
Creating new issues
When creating issues, the form is very simple. Add a title and a description and save, that's it!
GitLab has different work items when working on projects, like "Incidents", "Tasks" and "Issues". Our matching type will always be "Issue". Maintainers might choose to use the other types, but all integrations with Drupal.org will be made against "Issue" items.
A shadowy think tank run by British PM Keir Starmer’s top strategist has been exposed for paying a PR firm to spy on journalists including me and the outlet I write for, The Grayzone. Will the scandal push an already collapsing Starmer government over the edge? Leaked files have revealed that Labour Together, the shadowy think tank run by disgraced former top Keir Starmer aide Morgan McSweeney, paid the Washington DC-based corporate intelligence firm APCO Worldwide to spy on journalists […]
The post Keir Starmer-tied think tank paid PR firm to target The Grayzone first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Keir Starmer-tied think tank paid PR firm to target The Grayzone appeared first on The Grayzone.
Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for folks who missed them, I will be periodically (re)publishing blog posts about some “older” published projects. It seems natural to …
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The US is now a rogue state. One example is the conduct of the US Health Secretary who has been working to destroy the scientific basis for health care since his appointment last year but exceeded his own hubris when he told a podcast on February 12, 2026 that “I’m not scared of a germ.…
The world’s second-largest tech company just acquired a military-linked Israeli startup that uses “facial skin micromovements” to anticipate what users will say before they speak. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! Tech giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for a “pre-speech” tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. In the second-biggest deal in its history, Apple paid this money for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website […]
The post Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Apple buys Israeli ‘pre-speech’ tech firm implicated in Gaza genocide appeared first on The Grayzone.
New single, “The Bitter End,” out on February 24th!
The Fellow Mortals debut al-book (album and book) is now available for pre-order, exclusively at trashcansinatras.com.
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 15, 2026 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why The Epstein Scandal Is Really A Billionaire Scandal – Barry’s Economics (YouTube) Barry Ferns, Feb 8, 2026 [YouTube] Everyone thinks Jeffrey Epstein was an aberration. The science says he was inevitable. This video breaks down […]
Activists are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.
The post Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals appeared first on The Intercept.
The link between income distribution and aggregate demand is central to post-Keynesian and heterodox economics, yet largely sidelined in mainstream policy debates. The logic is simple: lower-income households have a higher marginal propensity to consume than the wealthy. An extra euro in the hands of a poorer household is mostly spent; in the hands of […]
Pete McTighe has the vibe of being the showrunner-in-waiting for Doctor Who, based on his work over the past decade. Is he the best choice?
~by Sean Paul Kelley The Chinese rail network now carries 23 million passengers a day. Multiply that by 365 and it carries 8.365 billion passengers a year. And does not account for the increase in passengers during major holidays. Now consider these two facts. First, India’s rail network carries 23 million passengers a day also. […]
Currency Collapse is Codswallop. Why the Currency Crisis Crew have it backwards, yet again.
~by Sean Paul Kelley So, Marku asks: But aren’t most of those contracts never expecting to take physical delivery? Just gambling, er excuse me, investment hedging? Or is the problem that given that Comex price is under the real, that all those contracts *want* to be exercised in delivery so they can arbitrage to China […]
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California sues ghost gunmakers, Colorado protects family health care, Virginia cuts the cord on ICE, and Oregon races toward affordability.
In The Book of Why, Judea Pearl puts forward several compelling reasons why the now so popular causal graph-theoretic approach is to be preferred over more traditional regression-based explanatory models. One reason is that causal graphs are non-parametric and therefore do not need to assume, for example, additivity and/or the absence of interaction effects — […]
An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower.