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"Liberals: ten degrees to the left of centre in the good times, ten degrees to the right of centre if it affects them personally" Phil Ochs 'Love Me I'm a Liberal" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdq...
IDF Soldiers Talk About the 'Moral Injury' – and the Silence: Some of them killed civilians in Gaza; others just looked on, or witnessed abuse and cover-ups in the name of revenge. Now they're trying to cope with something a bit different than PTSD www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Professor of Economics Clara Mattei: Escape from Capitalism, argues many of the problems that we see as inevitable - poverty, unemployment, inflation - are built into the system and shored up by models and theories designed to convince us that there is no alternative www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_d...
Lunch: BBQ spareribs with homemade BBQ sauce, homemande spicy coleslaw. Ribs are free range pork, slaw is organic.
4. "Here in Tennis Corner, we try not to go up so much in wins and losses. The problem is just that we love Tauson's game. And we especially love watching her strut her stuff in the big matches against the best in the world. And that doesn't happen often enough." www.information.dk/moti/2026/03...
3. "serves on the tour, when her forehand is as good, when no one in the top 10 has a better slice, when her backhand volleys are the very best, when her ability to hit a tennis ball is obviously better than all except a handfull of colleagues, ... is it too much to want a bit more from her? ...
2. "managed to hit more. Despite that, Tauson lost the match. To world nr. 112. Who admittedly played well. But ... yes ... how can we properly approach this ...Tauson is among the 20 best in the world, she regularly has good results, isn't that impressive?
Sure. But when have one of the best ...
1. Danish tennis commentator Anders Haahr Rasmussen on Clara Tauson in his tennis column in the Danish newspaper 'Information': "28. That's the number of aces Clara Tauson hit against qualifier Talia Gibson when they met in the 3rd round at Indian Wells. Only once in pro tennis history has a woman..
A great point by @davidkurtz.bsky.social. Campaign against corruption!
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"As Amnesty International put it: “The US President’s threat of extermination and irreparable destruction brazenly shreds core rules of international humanitarian law, with potentially catastrophic consequences for over 90 million people.”
The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies
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Israelis Rally Against Iran War; 22 Arrested During Violent Police Dispersals www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
A new lawsuit filed by state prosecutors lays bare the appalling reasons why there’s been no movement on the Renee Good and Alex Pretti shootings. newrepublic.com/article/2081...
How companies are using AI to pay workers as little as possible
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"The difference between a clever person and a wise person.
A clever person can get themselves out of situations that a wise person would not have got into."
How Trump has created a situation he cannot get out of
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Belgium has adopted pioneering legislation that, for the first time, brings sex workers within the scope of occupational health and safety protections. What protections does this legislation introduce, and what role do unions play in the fight for sex workers’ rights? voxeurop.eu/en/sex-worke...
This is just so good: Tina Turner and blues guitar legend Robert Cray (vocal only) singing Wilson Pickett's '634-5789' www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmP8...
"But, whatever, it’s Texas. If Jesus were a Democrat, he could literally lose by six points to a penis brought to life and given a cowboy hat. How else can you explain the continued political existence of Ted Cruz?"
"just wish voters weren’t so focused on the circular and self-defeating argument of “electability.” Choosing a candidate based on how you think other people will vote is just insane to me." A-fucking-men. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
supper: fried free range pork belly slices with mixed vegetables drenched in a thick white parsley sauce, made from melting a slab of butter, mixing in flour, then milk, then adding freshly chapped parsley at the last minute. Burp.
War on Itan - History, for Trump, is literally his story: This is an act of personal and political desperation, a supposedly daring roll of the dice aimed at rescuing his corrupt and crumbling regime by attaching it to a glorious American victory. www.salon.com/2026/02/28/t...
The American Universities Programming Israel’s Killer Drones
Industry partnerships in higher education are pushing STEM graduates into the business of weapons manufacturing and genocide profiteering.
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How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History
The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.
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"Whether Ocasio-Cortez runs for president is up to her; I’m not in the business of giving advice. But maybe she now understands what’s coming at her if she does, and how ugly it’s likely to get." www.salon.com/2026/02/22/a...
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
Minneapolis ICE surge ends
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "“They thought they could break us, but a love for our neighbors and a resolve to endure can outlast an occupation. These patriots of Minneapolis are showing that standing with our neighbors is deeply American.”
www.salon.com/2026/02/12/w...
For the Byline Podcast, Steve Scherer, former Foreign Correspondent for Reuters, talks to Adrian Goldberg about migration after his own enforced move from Canada back to the United States and working as an Uber driver. "Service workers are invisible." www.bylinesupplement.com/p/from-burea...
On this day in July 1969, Janis Joplin made her first appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. www.youtube.com/shorts/qOoTf...