AP is calling Israel's attack on Lebanon an invasion. What does that mean and why does it matter? The Associated Press is now calling Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon an invasion. Israel has moved thousands of troops across the border into Lebanon, although it won't say how many.

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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

‘Some people will do incredibly well in the new AI era. They will become rich and powerful beyond anything we can currently imagine. But other people—a lot of other people—will become useless.’

Incredible piece of audio journalism.

A portrait of fear.

www.thisamericanlife.org/880/what-is-...

How many people at this farmers market are listening to Tooze on Ezra?

Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

‘The first obligation we all have is an epistemic one: It’s to know what kind of reality we are actually inhabiting..:Because once we discern that we are living in a dual state, it becomes obvious that compliance won’t save us, and that some kind of action is called for.’

Lies You Will Be Told • Ill Will Phil A. Neel examines the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

‘Bootlicking is one of the few industries seeing any real growth’.

‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people

The end point of this is hard to avoid:

Virginia Bell’s role in protest laws under scrutiny as Albanese weighs royal commission Judgments handed down by former high court judge Virginia Bell and another contender, former Federal Court of Australia chief justice James Allsop, are under scrutiny as the government decides on a ro...

Intriguing reporting from Nine here - the objection to former High Court justice Virginia Bell to lead the royal commission apparently relates to a previous decision where she upheld the democratic right to protest www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Frightening

Local Fox9 interviews a witness in Minneapolis at the site of the murder

Opinion | Trump Is Falling for a Trap We Could All See Coming

Have been struggling with what it means to be an American citizen in this current moment. When will we learn from the sins of our fathers?

Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war | Simon Tisdall The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflict, writes Simon Tisdall

“The coup is illegal, unprovoked and regionally and globally destabilising. It upends international norms, ignores sovereign territorial rights, and potentially creates an anarchic situation inside Venezuela itself”.

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