“The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values.” — New York Times
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New polling shows Democratic voters already understand what the "Abundance" argument gets wrong: The real problem is corporate power.
PBS producer WNET quietly erased episodes containing a drag queen and a trans character from its platforms.
The post PBS Station Wipes Drag and Trans Content After DOGE Outcry appeared first on The Intercept.
The Army says Trump’s June 14 military parade will cost up to $45 million. This is likely an underestimate due to unaccounted expenses.
The post Expect Trump’s Military Parade to Cost More Than the Army Says appeared first on The Intercept.
The budget bill advanced by House Republicans bans states from regulating AI while pumping billions into autonomous weapons.
The post Trump’s Big, Beautiful Handout to the AI Industry appeared first on The Intercept.
Colorful career criminal Willie Sutton once may (or may not) have been asked why he robbed banks. “Because that is where the money is,” he supposedly replied. A similar principle may explain the first foreign trip of President Donald J. Trump’s second term, which was not to a traditional U.S. ally in Europe. Rather, he set off to visit the capitals of the Gulf hydrocarbon potentates Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. In royal palaces there, he feasted and was offered hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in American companies and opportunities for the Trump Organization, too. Qatar even courted controversy by giving him a $400 million Boeing 747-8 plane to serve as a future Air Force... Read more
New evidence shows Israel is backing ISIS-linked militias in Gaza to replace Hamas security forces and control humanitarian aid routes.
The post Israel-Backed Militias Linked to ISIS Loot Gaza Aid Under IDF Watch appeared first on MintPress News.
Zarina Zabrisky, who first exposed the "human safari" in Kherson for Byline Times in July 2024, reports on the UN’s historic confirmation that Russia deliberately targeted civilians in a campaign of terror.
“After back-to-back explosions, SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship again on Tuesday evening, but fell short of the main objectives when the spacecraft tumbled out of control and broke apart.” – PBS
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We at SpaceX would like to remind the losers who have been gleefully pointing out how often our rockets explode that exploding rockets are a completely normal part of spaceflight.
Look, things explode. It’s just part of nature. Cybertrucks explode, and it’s no big deal. (Really, it’s not a big deal that cybertrucks explode.) So why should we spend so much time harping on how frequently our rockets explode, when we could, instead, focus on how long they haven’t exploded? Many of our rockets that haven’t launched are stored safely, completely unexploded. Yet does anyone congratulate us on the unexploded rockets? Nope.
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More people than ever are going solo. We identified a gender difference that hints at the ingredients needed to enjoy it
- by Elaine Hoan & Geoff MacDonald
New research shows that people satisfy their curiosity in different ways. Are you a hunter, a busybody or a dancer?
- by Richard Fisher
- by Corey S Powell
The unexpected consequences of harvesting old, wise fish
The post How These Fish Lost Their Memory appeared first on Nautilus.
Early explorers felt the powerful pull of the poles
The post Mapping the Earth’s Magnetism appeared first on Nautilus.
Over half of Labour voters say that mooted plans to cut funding for home insulation would hit their trust in the party
Andrew Ross has drawn an analogy between the hierarchical taste cultures (high, middlebrow and popular) familiar to cultural critics, and the demarcation between science and pseudoscience. At a sociological level this is an incisive observation; but at an ontological and epistemological level it is simply mad … Such epistemological agnosticism simply won’t suffice, at least […]
Miruna-Daniela Ivan The widespread practice of financial institution to re-use securities received as collateral plays a key role in the repurchase agreement (repo) market functioning. By increasing the availability of securities which can be used as collateral, collateral re-use lowers funding costs under normal market conditions, allowing collateral to flow to where it is most … Continue reading Collateral re-use: unveiling the risk of delivery failures and higher volatility in the repo market
Progressives need to learn these lessons from the national populists in order to defeat them, argues Neal Lawson
During the recent inflationary episode, the RBA relentlessly pursued the argument that they had to keep hiking interest rates, and then, had to keep them at elevated levels, well beyond any reasonable assessment of the situation, because wage pressures were set to explode. They claimed their business liaison panel was telling them that wages were…
For more than a decade, economists have been scratching their heads over the productivity puzzle afflicting western economies. The issue has been particularly severe in the UK, where productivity stagnated for over a decade following the financial crisis. Now, we have new data showing that productivity levels have fallen to below pre-COVID levels. Productivity is […]
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