One Texas case shows why women can’t rely on legal exceptions to abortion bans (www.vox.com)
Introducing Justapedia (quillette.com)
Why India Is Targeting Sikhs At Home and Around the World (time.com)
How Indian Agents Are Operating Out Of Indian Consulates To Target Sikhs In The West (www.baaznews.org)
2023 is the hottest year in millennia: Why and how is this measured? (english.elpais.com)
How (and why) the GOP and a popular film are misleading you about migrant kids (publicintegrity.org)
What Kant can teach us about work: on the problem with jobs | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
Resistance from Essequibo: ‘We will defend ourselves if Venezuela dares to invade us’ (english.elpais.com)
Why candlepin bowling took off in New England — and not anywhere else (www.wbur.org)
Society ‘disappears’ ageing women. So I harnessed that cloak of invisibility to do all sorts of ‘inappropriate’ things (www.theguardian.com)
The Science of Late-Blooming Lesbians (thewalrus.ca)
Why Does the Chicago Police Department Tolerate Abusive Racists in Its Ranks? (theintercept.com)
THE LANCET: No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health (www.thelancet.com)
The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus (dawnmena.org)
Technology built the cashless society. Advances are helping the unhoused so they're not left behind (finance.yahoo.com)
The Trump dictatorship: How to stop it (www.washingtonpost.com)
Kyiv Rus' borders ca. 1000 A.D. (u-krane.com)
Jon Stewart for Celebrity President. This Is Not a Joke! (theintercept.com)
Widespread destruction in Gaza puts concept of ‘domicide’ in focus (www.theguardian.com)
How Remote Work Could Affect Philadelphia Office Buildings' Property Taxes (www.pewtrusts.org)
Pentagon Banned From Mandating Pronouns In Compromise Defense Bill (en.magazitta.com)
Hunter Biden’s Drug-Fueled, Prostitute-Filled, Wild Spending Sprees Laid Out in Stunning Detail (dramasalsal.com)
"Chicken Kyiv Speech" tested by History (u-krane.com)
In Germany, the weight of historical guilt silences protests for Gaza victims (english.elpais.com)
Harvard president apologizes, says she feels ‘regret’ following testimony before Congress (dramasalsal.com)
A violent murder, a child on death row - Paula Cooper was 15 when she murdered 77-year-old Ruth Pelke in her Indiana home, and was sentenced to death. But a campaign for her life came from an unexpected quarter (www.theguardian.com)
Does the American dream foster inequality? New research shows US citizens are alone among wealthy western nations in being largely unmoved by income disparities (www.ft.com)
Inside the Pro-Israel Information War (www.leefang.com)
When the Coast Guard Intercepts Unaccompanied Kids (www.propublica.org)
A protest against a top Israel-born chef was called antisemitic. Staff tell a different story (www.theguardian.com)
X-Mas is BS, and I can prove it scientifically: Unwrapping the harsh realities of Christmas (icallbs.substack.com)
Maduro presses claims on Guyana (europeangeopoliticaljournal.substack.com)
Green Colonialism | In Sweden’s Arctic, a battle for the Earth’s climate rages, and a question looms: Are we simply trading out one extractive industry for another? (www.noemamag.com)
After the Hit-and-Run - Can restorative justice offer crash victims like me—and the drivers who harmed us—the healing we need? (jewishcurrents.org)
The new authoritarian personality. What is driving the resurgence of the libertarian far right? (www.newstatesman.com)
Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family (www.theguardian.com)
Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts, too (publicintegrity.org)
I Can’t Control the World, But I Can Leave Stickers on It — A perfectionist lets go and helps make the city a little more chaotic, one goofy graphic at a time. (www.nytimes.com)
In all but Name: The Iranian Regime’s (De Facto) Lobby in the West (www.hoover.org)
Which Movies Are The Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
You’ve Never Heard of Israel’s Most Wanted Man (www.countere.com)
Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications (www.reuters.com)
Israel’s Failed Bombing Campaign in Gaza (www.foreignaffairs.com)
“Imagine a Child Gets Stabbed 26 Times”:A 6-year-old boy’s killing outside Chicago stunned the country. The people left behind can barely fathom the future. (slate.com)
Armenian Soldier Killed On Azeri Border (www.azatutyun.am)
Opinion | The Left Is Dooming Any Hope for a Palestinian State (www.nytimes.com)
DEP asks judge to stop construction in embattled Citrus County development (floridapolitics.com)
Community Economies: Reframing Wealth Building (www.creativedestruction.club)
“Someone tell me what to do” - Uvalde shooting shows contrast in preparedness between students and police (www.texastribune.org)
Lucid dream startup says you can work in your sleep (fortune.com)
In this shrinking Mississippi Delta county, getting a college degree means leaving home behind (mississippitoday.org)
Ammon Bundy Has Disappeared (www.theatlantic.com)
Girl's Cancer Leads Mom to Discover Over 50 Sick Kids Near Nuclear Lab (people.com)
Why Anonymous Sperm Donation Is Over, and Why That Matters (Gift Article) (www.nytimes.com)
Prospective Jurors Receive Pre-Screening Forms for Trump's Federal Election Interference Trial (www.bncnnews.com)
Breaking the Silence on Youth Homelessness: Advocating for Solutions (publicintegrity.org)
It’s okay to suck when you try something new (www.vox.com)
How the White House’s John Kirby is taking on the word ‘genocide’ (www.theguardian.com)
The Impact of Gun Ownership Rates on Crime Rates: A Methodological Review of the Evidence (www.hoplofobia.info)
The Great Replacement Mogul: Rupert Murdoch's Legacy, Part II (thebattleground.eu)
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline (www.propublica.org)
Who Was The First Person On Earth? (curiousmatrix.com)
The Green New Deal Is the Opiate of the Masses. In the Global North, measures to stop climate change cannot double as ways to further economic growth (www.thenation.com)
I reversed my type 2 diabetes. Here’s how I did it (www.theguardian.com)
‘Wobbly spacetime’ may help resolve contradictory physics theories (www.theguardian.com)
Return to China? Xing would rather die in the jungle (www.economist.com)
What home schooling hides: A boy tortured and starved by his stepmom (www.washingtonpost.com)
US DFC Weighs $500 Million Loan For Vietnam EV Maker VinFast (www.bloomberg.com)
Everybody Knows Flo From Progressive. Who Is Stephanie Courtney? (www.nytimes.com)
Notes toward a theory of the Dad Thriller (maxread.substack.com)
Wagner Group Operations in Africa (open.substack.com)
Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves (www.theguardian.com)
Commerce content is breaking product reviews (escapecollective.com)
Escalation in North-West Syria: Civilian Areas Hit in Renewed Attacks (www.bellingcat.com)
75. ドンディの儀式： एक अनुष्ठान जिसके दौरान पुजारी माता-पिता के सामने बच्च पर पैर रखता है｜ Viral Video 2023
Dondi Ritual: एक अनुष्ठान जिसके दौरान पुजारी माता-पिता के सामने बच्चे पर पैर रखता है | Viral Video 2023 (studybihar.online)
Big Tech Is Exploiting the Mental Health Crisis to Monetize Your Data (jacobin.com)
Are U.S. Caregivers of Disabled Children Overlooked? (rareparenting.com)
After years of nothing, her sense of smell suddenly returned. Or was it all in her head? (www.tampabay.com)
Israeli women were raped and widowed by Hamas. Now the world ignores and mocks their suffering (forward.com)
The South is ‘the epicenter’ of a new HIV crisis. Medicaid expansion could help. (publicintegrity.org)
Armenia convenes talks after Russia bars its trucks amid diplomatic spats -Armenpress (www.reuters.com)
CCP’s Strategic Tactics, Targeting of Non-CCP Intellectuals, and Social Media Cognitive Warfare — The CCP BioThreats Initiative (www.ccpbiothreats.com)
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (www.972mag.com)
How Iranians ended up working for the Yakuza (neareast.io)
Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS (www.ft.com)
Venezuelans urged to vote for war with Guyana (open.substack.com)
John Henry: From folk legend to Communist superhero (www.wsws.org)
Harm reduction gone rogue: I worked at a safe injection site and it was disturbing (nationalpost.com)
Opinion | A Few of the Ideas About How to Fix Human Behavior Rest on Some Pretty Shaky Science (www.nytimes.com)
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
VIDEO: A woman in Uganda gave birth to twins at the age of 70?! (circledseven.com)
Next generation of billionaires collect more wealth from inheritance than work, says UBS (www.theguardian.com)
In the world of sexual fetishes, crossing the political aisle is a kink (www.washingtonpost.com)
Black survivors are nearly invisible in the U.S. Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis (www.nbcnews.com)
My Father, My Faith, and Donald Trump (www.theatlantic.com)
Which Movies Stand the Test of Time, and Which Do Not? A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
Nepal: Pro-monarchy activists likely to stage further protests in Kathmandu through mid-December (crisis24.garda.com)
What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister? Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes. (www.newyorker.com)
When does life end? A father didn’t believe his daughter was dead. He says the hospital still harvested her organs (www.theguardian.com)
Pluralistic: The real AI fight (pluralistic.net)
‘Life without consequences’: the fraternity bros who built a multimillion-dollar drug ring (www.theguardian.com)
Why can’t countries reverse declining birth rates? (www.vox.com)
Substack has a Nazi problem (www.theatlantic.com)
Savage with Loveliness: What I Will Tell My Daughter About Reading Cormac McCarthy (medium.com)
Going cashless is a bad idea, but it’s not a conspiracy (aeon.co)
Donald Trump Says He Never Swore Oath 'to Support the Constitution' (www.msn.com)
It’s All Bullshit. Performing productivity at Google (thebaffler.com)
The Izz al-Din al-Qasam Brigades released a photo of a thank you letter written by a former prisoner in the Gaza Strip... (circledseven.com)
On Being Complicit: Israel-Palestine Abroad (thebattleground.eu)
Who’s Buying Nebraska? After shopping spree, Mormon church is top land purchaser (investigatemidwest.org)
A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority. (quillette.com)
What is no-fault divorce, and why do some conservatives want to get rid of it? (www.cnn.com)
Indian Politics 101: The Odyssey of the Indian Republic (theemissary.co)
Blindness transformed my social world, and I changed with it (psyche.co)
Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access (english.elpais.com)
In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IUDs inserted without their consent. Women are now speaking out (www.france24.com)
UK Supreme Court finds Deliveroo riders have no rights to collective bargaining because they aren’t workers (braveneweurope.com)
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Holodomor Enabler: Walter Duranty (u-krane.com)
The violence against Indigenous women in Killers of the Flower Moon isn’t just historical. It’s an ongoing crisis. (www.vox.com)
Left Behind and United by Populism? Populism’s Multiple Roots in Feelings of Lacking Societal Recognition (link.springer.com)
This man coined the word "Genocide." Here is Dr Lemkin's speech on Holodomor (u-krane.com)
Food for thougnt- "Fried Apples"? Hit or miss (www.thecommonsmedia.co)
Valve CEO Gabe Newell Ordered to Attend In-Person Antitrust Lawsuit Deposition - IGN (www.ign.com)
Five Tips for a More Sustainable Black Friday and Cyber Monday | Rubicon (www.rubicon.com)
Armenia's leader snubs meeting of Russia-dominated security grouping over a rift with the Kremlin (apnews.com)
MapLab: A Massive Land Transfer Out of Osage Hands (www.bloomberg.com)
Podcast - Thalidomide - The Story You Don't Know (Part 1) (podcasts.apple.com)
Cyber-physical decentralized planning for communizing (journals.sagepub.com)
Israel and Hamas Negotiate a Ceasefire (open.substack.com)
Jeremy Hunt’s tax cuts leave poison pill for next UK chancellor (www.ft.com)
Jürgen Habermas: Europe’s Mistake (granta.com)
How Politicians Dress In Times of Crisis (www.damnoptimist.com)
Combatants for Peace (www.nybooks.com)
Settler psychology; Understanding why Israeli propaganda fails on a fundamental level (criticalresist.substack.com)
The Secret Life of the American Turkey (www.countere.com)
We Should All Be Working Part Time for Full-Time Pay (jacobin.com)
The ADL Is Making It Less Safe to Be a Progressive Jew (inthesetimes.com)
Opinion: Hamas Must Go (www.theatlantic.com)
The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza: The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here. (www.thenation.com)
Israel is the only country that systematically prosecutes minors in military courts. An estimated 500-700 Palestinian children are tried annually, the most common charge being stone-throwing, which carries a 20-year prison sentence! (www.middleeasteye.net)
A Fired ‘Scream’ Star, Clients Booted From Agencies and a Secret Tom Cruise Meeting: Inside Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel (variety.com)
Losing Our Illusions: Italy After Gaza (thebattleground.eu)
White House declassifies intel suggesting Wagner Group is preparing to provide air defense capability to Hezbollah or Iran | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
How To Watch Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays (streamingfreak.co.uk)
The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a Texas County (www.newyorker.com)
A century after the Osage murders, ‘guardians’ still harm American Indians (thehill.com)
A man convicted in absentia for his role in the 1975 murder of the president of Bangladesh and most of his family is living free in Toronto. An investigation by The Fifth Estate raises questions about Canada’s silence in the case (www.cbc.ca)
"The Iron wall" by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian Zionist author who admits in 1923 that Israel is a colonial project and Arabs resist Israel because they are native in the same sense the Aztecs are to America (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples Pose an Inconvenient Truth for China (foreignpolicy.com)
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid (www.theatlantic.com)
Azerbaijan forces UNESCO to scrap Nagorno-Karabakh visit (news.am)
Facing pressure in India, Netflix and Amazon back down on daring films (www.washingtonpost.com)
'Did we die?' A week in the life of a journalist in the Gaza Strip (www.usatoday.com)
The power of literally not caring about incentives (tryingtruly.substack.com)
Is Christmas Season Starting Earlier? A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System – Robin Wall Kimmerer (emergencemagazine.org)
The Hofmann Wobble, by Ben Lerner (harpers.org)
A Warden Tried to Fix an Abusive Prison. He Faced Death Threats. (www.themarshallproject.org)
Half of Pakistani-heritage couples in Britain are in cousin marriages (www.dailymail.co.uk)
How an Indian startup hacked the world (www.reuters.com)
Being Suicidal Doesn’t Necessarily Mean You’re Mentally Ill (slate.com)
The Chilean explorer documenting the death of glaciers at the ends of the earth (english.elpais.com)
South Korea to Ban Dog Meat by 2027 (lite.improvethenews.org)
Boeing 787 plane capable of carrying 300 passengers lands in Antarctica in 'world first' (news.sky.com)
Trauma seems to be passed down genetically — but experts still aren't sure what that means (www.salon.com)
T-Mobile sued after employee stole nude images from customer phone during trade-in (www.cnbc.com)
When Jesus comes back to Earth, can a group of Christians plan on suing him while remaining devout? (www.quora.com)
Physicians’ Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients—An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession (jamanetwork.com)
World Health Organization mission to Al-Shifa Hospital (3 min read) (www.who.int)
Haaretz: Police investigation revealed that Israeli combat helicopters killed Israeli civilians and Hamas likely did not have prior knowledge of the music festival! (www.haaretz.com)
The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming (www.theatlantic.com)
Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of (www.scientificamerican.com)
'Ukrainian David will defeat Russian Goliath' (u-krane.com)
Lord of the Deep - The most successful shipwreck hunter in modern times (www.bloomberg.com)
Israel's War on American Students Activist. In a bombshell, The nation reports that Israel is operating a phony front group in the US to spy on pro-Palestinian students on college campuses (www.thenation.com)
What is the 'sandwich generation'? Many adults struggle with caregiving, bills and work (www.usatoday.com)
How Hamas Became the Violent Face of Palestinian Resistance (jacobin.com)
Jordan’s Balancing Act (www.nybooks.com)
The Hamas sexual pogrom and the deafening silence of the world’s feminist movements (www.ynetnews.com)
Azerbaijan snubs Armenia meeting in Washington, accusing US of bias (www.reuters.com)
Dissertation Questionnaire All About Vegan Food Ads (forms.gle)
The Beat Goes On. By Debbie DeWall (therumpus.net)
U.S. Retail Sales Fall for First Time Since March as Holiday Season Approaches (www.wsj.com)
In the home of hamburgers and sausages, plant-based meat sales are growing. How did Germany do it? (projects.apnews.com)
In one of USA's hottest housing markets, families cram into motels to avoid the street (www.tampabay.com)
The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America' Because It Went Viral on TikTok (www.404media.co)
Living in Adoption’s Emotional Aftermath (www.newyorker.com)
It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird. (www.businessinsider.com)
King Charles Launches Food Security Project (lite.improvethenews.org)
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez just blew up the internet by describing their ‘pretty normal’ typical day amid surging billionaire backlash (finance.yahoo.com)
The world wants your kids to buy stuff. Here’s how to help them be less materialistic. (www.vox.com)
Why I am now a Christian (unherd.com)
Curious about opinion of german public about this (www.spiegel.de)
Sydney's plus-size community tackles fat stigma with life drawing and 'fat babes speed-friending' (www.abc.net.au)
Prohibited by fine means legal for a fee. (icallbs.substack.com)
Dead Perverts Society: A review of "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy" by Costin Alamariu (joshwayne.substack.com)
‘Conspiracies are just theories … not fact’: the Secret Service agent haunted by JFK’s shooting (www.theguardian.com)
Nepal bans TikTok, says it disrupts social harmony (apnews.com)
Post-Colonial Populist: Suella Braverman’s Hate March (thebattleground.eu)
After Antidepressants, a Loss of Sexuality (www.yahoo.com)
Take Trump Seriously When He Vows To Build The Camps (www.currentaffairs.org)
Nearly Everyone With Mild Cognitive Impairment Goes Undiagnosed (www.wired.com)
Some Moral Courage, Finally (www.damnoptimist.com)
Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will (www.latimes.com)
Calling Things 'Problematic' Is Intellectually And Morally Lazy (3quarksdaily.com)
Israel-Hamas war: Data shows human cost of conflict through the years (www.cnbc.com)
Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist (www.404media.co)
How toxic is masculinity? (www.newyorker.com)
Zombie news: the strange resurrection of the local paper (www.newstatesman.com)
The Secret History of Israel's Role in Genocide in Colombia (uncaptured.substack.com)
London’s Day of Creeping Extremism (www.theatlantic.com)
The Future of European Union Enlargement (open.substack.com)
One Woman Died on an Alaska Mayor’s Property. Then Another. No One Has Ever Been Charged. (www.propublica.org)
Their Prophecy of Enduring Democratic Rule Fell Apart. They Blame College Grads. (www.politico.com)
How big is science’s fake-paper problem? : An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature (www.nature.com)
The Bright Line Between Good and Evil (www.samharris.org)
Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers (www.eff.org)
New College: How DeSantis Is Forcing Florida Brain Drain by Targeting an LGBTQ+ Campus (www.teenvogue.com)
‘Tyranny of the Minority: How American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point’ by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (www.independent.com)
The brutal calculus of war: Is the killing of civilians ever justified? (www.npr.org)
Stalin revived Russian Orthodox Church to better control Ukraine (u-krane.com)
Human Rights mutating into structural justification of antisemitism (www.rabbisacks.org)
Whither philosophy? The Discipline Today Finds Itself Precariously Balanced Between Incomprehensible Specialization and Cheap Self-Help (aeon.co)
“Thanks For Your Service” (medium.com)
The West Must Defeat Russia (www.theatlantic.com)
The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink (www.ribbonfarm.com)
Red Westerns Today: Gottfried Kolditz’s Apaches (thebattleground.eu)
Settler colonialism is not distinctly Western or European | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States (projects.propublica.org)
[Mod Approved] r/PoliticalDebate mod here, check us out! (www.reddit.com)
Spain; The murderer of Arturo Ruiz maintains that he worked for the Civil Guard in the dirty war against ETA. Police databases have no record of José Ignacio Fernández Guaza, who claims he executed terrorists in the south of France in the mid-1970s (english.elpais.com)
This election shows Democrats are not doomed after all | Steve Phillips (www.theguardian.com)
Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100 (www.npr.org)
The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972 (notsoprofound.com)
How The Oscars Shape Hollywood’s Movie Calendar. A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
Inside the angst and anxiety gripping the Biden administration over the Israel-Hamas war | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners | BP (www.theguardian.com)
The controversial history of 'fixing' intersex kids born not really girl or boy (nationalpost.com)
What are your US 2024 presidential predictions? (www.politarian.com)
'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours': a dentist in Gaza is directed to evacuate his neighborhood from a bombing campaign. (www.bbc.com)
The League of Didactic White Boys: Mythcraft in the Age of the Internet (www.bartholomy.ooo)
‘The good guys don’t always win’: Salman Rushdie on peace, Barbie and what freedom cost him (www.theguardian.com)
Boom in satellites changes the sky forever (english.elpais.com)
Apple sends threat alerts to iPhone users in Armenia (finance.yahoo.com)
In Ultimatum to Yerevan, Baku Demands 8 Villages from Armenia (asbarez.com)
The world is turning against Israel’s war in Gaza – and many Israelis don’t understand why | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
How American Colleges Gave Birth to Cancel Culture (www.thefp.com)
Even the Oppressed Have Obligations (www.theatlantic.com)
Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so | Arwa Mahdawi (www.theguardian.com)
Seeing like a Bank (www.bitsaboutmoney.com)
Track your habits and reach your goals with this app (apps.apple.com)
85% of people worry about online disinformation, global survey finds (www.theguardian.com)
‘Cheaper than beer’: Laos meth prices plummet as Myanmar chaos fuels trade (www.aljazeera.com)
More empirical evidence that 'more guns' will not save us (thehill.com)
‘Dire’ antisemitism allegations at Harvard could lead to donor exodus, billionaire Bill Ackman warns (www.cnn.com)
The myth of a U.S.-Mexico "open border" (www.axios.com)
A decade since ‘Sapiens’: Scientific knowledge or populism? (english.elpais.com)
Second Genesis: When a Tribute Band Transcends the Original (thewalrus.ca)
Mike Johnson, theocrat: The House speaker and Christian Nationalism (www.theguardian.com)
Perkins’ truck repossessed as he lay dying, saying 'Help' (www.decaturdaily.com)
How Russian disinformation toppled government after government in Africa (web.archive.org)
‘Genocide Joe’: Massive D.C. Ceasefire Protest Directs Its Rage at Biden (www.rollingstone.com)
Isn’t That A Balloon? Deflating a DoD UFO Video (www.bellingcat.com)
Far-right minister: Nuking Gaza is an option, population should ‘go to Ireland or deserts’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
Phoenix Encampment Is Gone, But the City’s Homeless Crisis Persists (www.nytimes.com)
AI generated images are biased, showing the world through stereotypes (web.archive.org)
George Kistiakowsky: Ukrainian who made Manhatten Project work and first Atomic bomb explode (u-krane.com)
What Every American Should Know About Gaza (www.currentaffairs.org)
German Vice-Chancellor speaks out on antisemitic incidents – DW – 11/02/2023 (www.dw.com)
Bariatric Surgery at 16 (Gift Article) (www.nytimes.com)
14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)
MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be | the Age of Enlightenment led men to give up on state religions and was a direct inspiration for our Bill of Rights, Republicans are hellbent on returning to the dark Ages (www.salon.com)
The big idea: has the digital economy killed capitalism? (www.theguardian.com)
Can y’all give me karma please. I’m not asking for anything else. (google.com)
California Slashes State Tax Revenue Outlook Ahead of Bond Sales (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
My Dysfunctional University (www.okdoomer.io)
What the 2024 Election Is Really About for Trump Supporters: He promised them: “I am your retribution.” (www.theatlantic.com)
After the Overturning of Roe v. Wade: Abortions Now Exceed Pre-Dobbs Levels (mattbruenig.com)
Inglourious Basterds in Gaza: The Problem With Revenge Fantasies (thebattleground.eu)
What If Humans Didn’t Need Sleep? (curiousmatrix.com)
The future of cities (www.vox.com)
When the internet becomes unknowable| Tools for studying social media are being shut down. It’s the last thing researchers—and democracy—need (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
I need 15 extra comment karma to post on a subreddit please upvote my comment (thanks.com)
Deep-Sea Mining Could Begin Soon, Regulated or Not [in the Clarion-Clipperton Pacific Zone] (Sept, 23) (www.scientificamerican.com)
Do We Really Need a Taylor Swift Reporter? (thewalrus.ca)
Can One Episode Ruin A TV Show? A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
Some anorexia patients want the right to die. A few doctors are willing to listen (www.theguardian.com)
Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories (theworld.org)
Mike Johnson's Satanic panic: How evangelical delusions trained Republicans to love Trump's lies- If you believe Noah's Ark was real and demons come out of the TV, it's just a small jump to embrace the Big Lie (www.salon.com)
Israel in 600 Words or Less (etgarkeret.substack.com)
These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us (www.thenation.com)
At the Threshold of Humanity | Gaza is not an abstraction (thebaffler.com)
Yemen Joins the Israeli War (open.substack.com)
One City’s Surprising Tactic to Reduce Gun Violence: Solving More Nonfatal Shootings (www.themarshallproject.org)
Merchant of Death: The case of Kenneth Law, the man charged with selling suicide kits (torontolife.com)
Automation is Coming in Fast, Reshaping the Workforce Forever (www.techopedia.com)
An Interview with Charles Clavey on Antisemitism and the Development of Critical Theory (www.jhiblog.org)
Mapping the Massacres: A geovisualization of the Hamas atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7 (oct7map.com)
Is the US turning into a Christofascist state? (therealnews.com)
Why the urban legend of contaminated Halloween candy won't disappear (www.npr.org)