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Most Sunday’s, weather allowing, I set up a mobile comic book shop at local open air markets. I have done it for the good part of a decade, in doing so you make unique friendships with people who you may only see every so many Sundays over the years, you might not even know their names but you know their opinions on things, what books they read, movies they watch and at times the turmoils in their personal life. In being a fixture, you can be both councillor and sound board or, for some kids, an adult for them to…
Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance, over the words we use and the images we project rather than the distribution of power and resources. This is the most visible fault to ordinary people, who can sense when a movement is more exercised about terminology than about whether they can pay for insulin. I want to be careful here, because symbols matter and language has real effects. The mistake is not attending to them; it is letting them substitute for the material struggle that the…
Happy Solstice! Scientist spent 13 years bouncing radar off Europa – here’s what they found. Knife beneath the neck: Unusual burial found at medieval Polish cemetery. Ancient microbes preserved in rapidly thawing Arctic middens are waking up – could they pose a threat to us today? Does the United Kingdom have a blind spot on UFO sightings? Humans will never colonize Mars – and Elon Musk knows it. Related: Elon Musk is full of shit – we’ve reached the endpoint of tech billionaires using science fiction as a marketing tool. UFO enthusiasts were waiting for a sign. https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/ufo-enthusiasts-were-waiting-for-a-sign-they-got-spielberg-s-disclosure-day/ar-AA25XNSF The curious…
If you don’t think the Donald inhabits an alternative universe – just set your mandibles loose to chomp on his most recent missive. According to history’s most gifted practitioner of the Art of the Deal, only one thing really counts with respect to his Paperless Invite for Iran to join yet another round of negotiations: Namely, making good on their pledge to “never, ever” get a nuke, which they never, ever, ever actually had or had even pursued: Trump: “This agreement is about one thing — that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Never ever ever. The rest of…
June 22, 2026 Elliot Sperber Elliot Sperber is a writer, attorney, and adjunct professor. He lives in New York City and can be reached at elliot.sperber@gmail.com and on twitter @elliot_sperber Source link
Americans have never been healthier, or more alone. These things might be related. Source link
What happened to the nation’s most richly naturally endowed, and once best-governed, state? The left took total control – and created a neo-feudal society that’s hardly democratic. Source link
Tehran is poised to overplay its hand. Source link
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know it. And his rivals – both within his coalition and across Israel’s political spectrum – are preparing to capitalize on his growing weakness. Former Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who also served as deputy prime minister between 2007 and 2009, is among the latest Israeli political figures to join a growing chorus of criticism directed at Netanyahu. “In the final result,” Ramon said in an interview with Radio Galey, cited by the Israeli outlet Srugim, “we did not…
Americans, like Indians, have largely been immune to the charms of soccer, or what we in Europe call football, and so am I, though in my case it was not always so. Whether the current World Cup changes that remains to be seen. When I was a boy, I thought soccer was important, though never quite as important as Bill Shankly, the manager of Liverpool Football Club, thought it. He said that football was not a matter of life and death—it was much more serious than that. The sport has changed out of all recognition since I first attended a…