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[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair President Trump has no problem criticizing, condemning, insulting, demonizing and threatening those who refuse to fall in line. He has branded political opponents “communists,” denounced critics as anti-American, lashed out at NATO allies, threatened to cut off trade with Spain, and referred to Iran’s leaders as “scum” amid the ongoing war. In Trump’s America, the president is free to call other nations bad actors, label his opponents dangerous, and treat disagreement as betrayal. But dare to criticize Trump, his administration, ICE, the police state, the war machine, the surveillance state, or the government’s steady assault on the Constitution, and you…

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[ad_1] There was a version of this country that worked. This was a country that used to punch above its weight across all key metrics and in a large part, did so espousing classical liberal values. Multiculturalism here was both uncontroversial and functional. People came from everywhere, integrated, and got on with building lives, businesses and contributing to that overall ethos Canadian culture. Minority rights and gender equality stopped being fights and became defaults. Ontario, the most populous province, ran one of the cleanest grids on the continent for half a century on the back of CANDU, a reactor we…

[ad_1] In February, President Donald Trump might not have had red-hot economic numbers to point to, but at least he could say gas prices were down 7.3 percent since he took office and annual inflation was at just 2.4 percent. Then Trump started a war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz closed, and chaos engulfed a big chunk of the world economy. In the two months after the war began, gas prices rose 29 percent. Airfares are up 5.6 percent as well. Some items are resistant to war-induced price hikes, such as sugar and sweets (down 1.7 percent since February).…

[ad_1] Photo by reza shayestehpour Blame it on the rain that was fallin’, fallin’Blame it on the stars that didn’t shine that nightWhatever you do, don’t put the blame on youBlame it on the rain, yeah, yeah – Milli Vanilli “I just did an interview…with NBC fake news. And because it was raining, I got a little bit angry at them. I was not happy with them.” – Donald J. Trump` “Storms bring luck to whatever the occasion.” – Donald Trump For some reason, it keeps threatening to rain – and sometimes actually rains – on Trump’s parades, though in…

[ad_1] In 2022, sheriff’s deputies in Adams County, Ohio, showed up at the home of the Grammy-nominated rapper Joseph Foreman, a.k.a. Afroman, with a warrant and a tip about a basement dungeon. They busted down the front door, rifled through his belongings, and seized thousands in cash. The search turned up nothing—the house didn’t even have a basement. Rather than let it go, Afroman made music about it and used surveillance footage of the raid in music videos and on merchandise. Seven of the deputies sued him in 2023, claiming he’d used their likenesses for commercial gain and caused them…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: U.S. Marines 24MEU by Lance Cpl. Allison White – Public Domain Earthquakes interrupt everyday life, but not history. Nor do they suspend politics. If anything, they compress history into a few dramatic days, revealing social relations, political projects, and geopolitical forces that ordinarily remain beneath the surface. The Venezuelan earthquake is no exception. As we argued in a recent article, the quake’s impact spread along material and social fractures that were already carved deep by a decade of crippling sanctions and other imperialist aggressions. In its wake came inevitable struggles over sovereignty and meaning. Although centered in…