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In the 10th season of Queer Eye, the Fab Five come to Washington, D.C., where they provide their “make-better” personal style revamps to two sisters, a charter school teacher, a firefighting single mom, a boat repairman, and a stepfather with a large blended family. The season includes many of the gimmicks Queer Eye viewers have come to expect (or loathe). Since its launch in 2003 on Bravo and reboot by Netflix in 2018, the show has undermined cultural stereotypes about the LGBTQ community. It didn’t do this by yelling at people, nor did it demand that the state punish bigots. It just highlighted…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Stephen Prager for Common Dreams One Palestinian American researcher warned that Israel is seeking “annexation without legal burden.” Israel’s gradual advancement of its “yellow line” to occupy more territory in the Gaza Strip is fueling concerns that it is seeking to effectively annex and colonize the majority of the territory without any formal agreement. The Guardian reported on Wednesday that Israel has been…
Werner von Braun (in suit) with the leadership of the Wehrmacht at Peenmunde, outside the Nazi slave labor camp for V-1 and V-2 rockets. As Allied forces crossed the English Channel during the D-Day invasion of June 1944, some 10,000 intelligence officers known as T-Forces were right behind the advance battalions. Their mission: seize munitions experts, technicians, German scientists and their research materials, along with French scientists who had collaborated with the Nazis. Soon, a substantial number of such scientists had been picked up and placed in an internment camp known as the Dustbin. In the original planning for the…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. The system is rigged – and the political and media class rigging it are not about to draw our attention to the ugly reality of what they have been up to over the past decade Jonathan Cook Substack Few believe British prime minister Keir Starmer when he says he learnt only recently that Peter Mandelson, his political mentor in…
Map of the US strikes on Venezuela. Image Source: Chorchapu – CC BY 4.0 The large-scale US airstrike on Venezuela was unprecedented in modern history. The surprise attack forcibly kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, First Combatant Cilia Flores, from Fort Tiuna on the outskirts of Caracas. The US killed over 100 people in the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, including reportedly some civilians in the neighboring Ciudad Tiuna social housing complex. We visited Ciudad Tiuna 50 days after the US bombing to hear the residents’ accounts. We were the second “solidarity brigade” to visit Venezuela and…
Just hours after it was unveiled, cybersecurity experts found serious flaws in the European Commission’s new age-verification app for online services. One expert said it took him less than two minutes to hack into. Poor security design allows users to bypass the app’s biometric verification, even as it insecurely stores verification information on the device. Yet officials still insist the app is ready. “Maybe we can add, ‘and it can always be improved,'” European Commission Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho added. The post Brickbat: Who Are You appeared first on Reason.com. Source link
Photograph Source: Samschoe – CC BY 4.0 In a time of war, resurgent authoritarianism, and an escalating assault on higher education, the language of “institutional neutrality” has emerged not as a safeguard of academic integrity, but as one of the most effective ideological weapons in the campaign to depoliticize the university. In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, the genocidal destruction of Gaza, and the return of Donald Trump to the presidency, universities have come under intense pressure to demonstrate their “balance” by retreating from political engagement. What has followed is not a principled defense of intellectual…
Have you ever wondered which members of the U.S. Supreme Court vote together most often? Well, fear not, because SCOTUSblog’s Kelsey Dallas crunched the numbers last year and determined the answer: Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito “agreed in 97% of all cases resolved with opinions from the court and in 100% of the closely divided (6-3 or 5-4) ones in the 2024-25 term.” In the vast majority of recent cases, Thomas and Alito stood together. But in a notable 6–3 decision that was issued yesterday, Thomas and Alito actually stood on opposite sides of the dispute. Is this the…
On April 10th, Pope Leo XIV posted on Twitter/X, “God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.” The Pope’s condemnation of war drew the ire of the self-proclaimed “Peace President” and his allies. On TruthSocial, President Trump described the Pope as “Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons” and “terrible…
Artist unknown (AI generated), Untitled (Trump as Healing Christ). TruthSocial.com@realdonaldtrump, April 12, 2026. Hidden in plain sight The image of a youthful Donald Trump, laying his hand on the forehead of a sick or dying man has by now been interred in the meme graveyard. By the time you read this, another will have taken its place, and then another, and so on. That’s one purpose of the AI barrage: misdirection. By attending to obvious outrages – the supposed blasphemy of an image of Trump as Healing Christ — the public is more likely to overlook bigger, but less promoted…