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How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink blot than one of those reversible images, like the drawing that is both a rabbit and a duck. As messy as society might be, it is not some blob open to any interpretation (at least not yet, anyway). The patterns are there. But where we see one clear thing clearly, our pal may see another just as sharply. The difference is that we can ultimately resolve the artistic conflict – yes, I see both my wife and my mother-in-law in…

A buff, working-class white man wearing a plaid button-down shirt and large black shades pokes around a convenience store. He hears a dry, monotonous voice emanating from a television set perched on the wall. Source link

By Sasha Abramsky This article was originally published by Truthout Hotel bookings lag in all US host cities, and in several a majority of hotel owners say the tournament is a “non-event.” Since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the number of international travelers visiting the United States has fallen by more than 5 percent. The number of Canadians visiting the country has plummeted by more than 20 percent. All told, the fall-off in international tourism has translated into a decline of $8.4 billion in tourists’ spending in the U.S. The World Travel and Tourism Council has estimated that 80 million…

Image by Immo Wegmann. America has never been so dry, so thirsty, yet so committed to fossil fuels and CO2-engineered heat as in the years 2025-2026. “Co2 Levels Hit Highest Ever Recorded, WMO Says, Warning of More Extreme Weather,” Reuters, Oct. 15, 2025. This has all the earmarks of a bad ending. Moreover, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), effective May 28, 2026: “The world is already smashing heat records. It’s expected to get hotter.” Our anthropogenic planet has become a virtual “heat machine.” This puts datacenters smack dab in the center of attention as “heat machines” in their…

New College has lots of new professors and students, but campus life feels less like an ideological battlefield than, well, a normal college. Source link

President Donald Trump waded into the contentious “right to repair” your own auto debate, but he recounted a wildly inaccurate anecdote to bolster his support for consumers. According to Trump, in remarks on June 4, “They gave a man seven years in jail, actually, because he fixed his own car.” The following day, at a roundtable on agriculture in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the president again referenced the case. “I mean, they actually have, the Democrats, a restriction that if you get caught fixing your tractor, they bring you to jail,” Trump said. “You know that? Do you know that I…

The “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party is on a roll, winning nominations and elections. Left-wing leaders are taking earned victory laps as they chalk up victories for candidates espousing socialism, hostility to Israel (and often Jews), identity politics, and other leftist positions that were until recently thankfully rare in American politics. But the radicals’ support for Maine’s deeply troubled Graham Platner, who won the party’s nod to compete in the U.S. Senate race, shows the dangers posed by a movement that seemingly holds ideological lunacy as its highest value. It’s not clear that anybody is in a position to…

Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar Ellen Brown The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon be ushering in an economy of unprecedented abundance, and examined the resource and energy constraints that could limit that voluminous growth. If machines eventually replace most of the workforce, society may need some form of Universal High Income (UHI), as Elon Musk and others have suggested, simply to keep purchasing power aligned with productive capacity. In a world where goods and services can be produced in abundance, the challenge…

It’s 81 years since World War II ended and a Nazi is probably going to become the world’s first trillionaire today…what an embarrassment to history. Actor-comedian John C. Reilly saw a ‘crisis apparition’ of his father leaving on the night of his death. The Cold War’s accidental whale observatory: Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans. A new scale for spotting UFO reports worth investigating: This 11-point scale aims to reduce the number of “false alarm” sightings so scientists can focus on harder-to-explain reports. In Iron Age…

Airbag Thefts Are Surging. Shut Down the Market Source link