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Well, they say you should never trust a politician, and it seems I’ve been duped.

As an avid reader of the New York Post, the New York Post’s X feed, and transcripts of several-minute-long voice memos from my relatives who have never lived in New York and will never live in New York, I was promised one thing from a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty: chaos.

Campus chaos. Anti-ICE chaos. Chaos in our parks, sidewalks, and public spaces.

And as an anarcho-communist-accelerationist-antifascist-nihilist-transplant-gentrifier-crisis actor living in a rent-controlled penthouse bodega paid for by some combination of my mommy and George Soros, that’s exactly why I wanted Zohran to win.

Iran has been the scene of widespread protests for days. Starting in the capital Tehran and focused on economic issues, the protests have spread to become an explosion of public anger against the government and its policies.

The post Widespread protests rock Iran first appeared on Solidarity Online.

“As with most things, it is going to come down to political will within Congress, particularly on the GOP side of the aisle.”

The post How Congress Blew All Their Chances to Stop Trump’s War With Venezuela appeared first on The Intercept.

Israeli officials claim they want “freedom” for the Iranian people. In reality, it’s a transparent coercion campaign to foment war.

The post Israel Is Cynically Capitalizing on the Iranian Protests for Its Own Ends appeared first on The Intercept.

“It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency.”

The post Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts” appeared first on The Intercept.

The post Doctor Who Magazine 623 winners appeared first on Doctor Who Magazine.

1. Johnson’s Thrush
2. Brown Jumping Quaff
3. Pandora’s Baffle
4. Yellow-Eared Tiegslider
5. Jaundiced Terpsichore
6. Pink-Bellied Sneech Destroyer
7. Very Normal Bird #9
8. Grouch-Throated Arabesque
9. McQueeqy-McSqueeg
10. Brown Jumping Quaff Goes to London
11. Pink-Footed Trumpole
12. Roy
13. Jamaican Cat Dodger
14. Sartorial Eumonia
15. Brown Jumping Quaff Visits Sailor Moon
16. Gnostic Speed Warbler
17. Ryan’s Reynold
18. Threecan
19. Vermilion-Spotted Mandora
20. Lacy-Footed Tristesse
21. McSqueegy-McQueeg
22. Reticulated Thong Snatcher
23. Very Normal Bird #86
24. Thomason’s Hornbill
25. Brown Jumping Quaff and the Wrath of Piet Mondrian
26. Rumpole’s Ordinal
27. Eastern Cloudmonger
28. Tit-Licking Fump Rucker
29. Feathers McGee
30. Get Down from There
31. Show Me the Money
32. Jack

Caught between Czech culture and Vietnamese heritage, an animator reflects on growing up as a stranger in her own home

- Directed by Diana Cam Van Nguyen

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Scientists are uncovering the nature of an elusive mental experience that challenges what it means to be conscious

- by Thomas Andrillon

Read on Psyche

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work

- by Cat Lambert

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On my regular commute from Liverpool Central train station to the University of Liverpool, I pass several physical reminders of the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement (MWLM). Walking up Bold Street, I see that the News from Nowhere radical bookshop still stands on my right, a flourishing non-profit women’s co-operative and long-standing focal point for non-sectarian […]