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The remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi were criticized for peddling anti-Muslim tropes, and for breaking election rules that bar candidates from aggravating religious tensions. | |
Submitted at Today, 03:25 AM by sleeppoor | |
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The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion’s staff. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 11:28 PM by sleeppoor | |
The Peace River Regional District has rescinded an evacuation order issued last night in response to an out-of-control wildfire in northeastern British Columbia. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 08:42 PM by sleeppoor | |
When news broke one Saturday night in March 2023 that President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration was withdrawing, Mark Walker was the reporter on duty in the New York Times Washington bureau. Assigned to write up the news, Walker asked the White House for a comment just before midnight. Assistant press secretary Abdullah Hasan was still up and emailed a quote blaming the withdrawal on a barrage of “unfounded Republican attacks.” After going through edits, Walker’s 502-word story was posted on the Times’ website in the wee hours Sunday morning.
Then all hell broke loose. | |
Submitted at Today, 03:20 AM by Mordant | |
Baltimore County Police charged Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, in connection with the incident. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 06:27 PM by sleeppoor | |
But it seems not even bad press, a truly atrocious approval rating, and the prospect of an easy win could overcome the mayor's dislike of public libraries—in the budget that he unveiled on Wednesday, the $58.3 million in cuts to our libraries remained.
What did our mayor have to say about all this? "We did not tell libraries to close on Sundays," he said on Wednesday, adding, "They had the options of finding where they wanted to find those savings." On Thursday morning, he all but said he was wielding library funding as a bargaining chip between him and the City Council. "This is the negotiation part of it," Adams said in an interview on PIX11, adding, "The cake will be baked, and everyone will be pleased." | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:52 PM by sleeppoor | |
A new Windows 11 update is rolling out this week. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 05:00 AM by sleeppoor | |
Too often these days I find myself in the position of defending someone I think is annoying from someone I know is dangerous. Most recently this happened with polyamorous people, the existence and behaviors of whom many readers claim to be tired of talking about, only to gleefully comb through every new book or magazine profile. The latest round was precipitated by Molly Roden Winter’s More: A Memoir of Open Marriage, a cover feature on polycules for New York, and, earlier this month, a profile in The New York Times of a 20-person polycule based in Boston. I’m guilty of participating in the endless chatter: these too-deep dives are very easy to make fun of. Plus I’m not straight and live in New Orleans, and you can only go on so many dates with people who say things like, “I separated from my nesting partner to go solo poly, although lately I’ve been thinking I’m actually more of a relationship anarchist,” before you build up sufficient resentment to want to get a few jokes in.
This isn’t the fault of the polyamory community as a whole. It’s easy to have your scene ruined by annoying rich people (for example, San Francisco) or to make something cool sound uncool by talking about it too much (for example, weed) or to be right and yet still be embarrassing about it (for example, atheism). The lighthearted mockery of terms like “compersion” is mostly a harmless good time, until it inevitably provides cover for reactionary sexual politics. Suddenly someone is writing an essay in The Atlantic about how polyamory is bourgeois, and before I can even think, “That doesn’t seem right,” a bunch of revanchist weirdos eager to roll back the Sexual Revolution are chiming in on X to call polyamory both bourgeois and morally degenerate, and all the fun has been sucked out of my eye-rolling. And so I end up back in bed with the polyamorists, wishing they could figure out how to make having sex sound sexier. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 04:29 AM by sleeppoor | |
Recently, I read about venture capitalist Marc Andreessen putting his 12,000-square-foot mansion in Atherton, California, which has seven fireplaces, up for sale for $33.75 million. This was done to spend more time, one supposes, at the $177 million home he owns in Paradise Cove, California; or the $34 million one he bought beside it; or the $44.5 million one in a place called Escondido Beach. Upon reading this, I realized it was time to stop procrastinating and tell you all a story I’ve been meaning to set down for a long time now about the time I visited that house (the cheap $33.75 million one, I mean). Strictly on a need-to-know basis. Because you really need to know how deeply twisted some of these plutocrats who run our society truly are.
Andreessen, I learned, was “Tomorrow’s Advance Man.” He superintended the “newest and most unusual” venture capital firm on Menlo Park’s Sand Hill Road. He “seethes with beliefs” and is “afire to reorder life as we know it.” His enthusiasms included replacing money with cryptocurrency; replacing cooked food with a scheme called, yes, “Soylent,” and boosting the now-invisible Oculus virtual reality headset.
Zero for three when it comes to picking useful inventions to reorder life as we know it, that is to say, though at no apparent cost to his power or net worth, now pegged at an estimated $1.7 billion. Along the way, I also learned he was a major stockholder in Facebook and a member of the civilian board that helped oversee the Central Intelligence Agency. Much later, it was in a tweet of his that I first saw the phrase “woke mind virus.” (He’s not a fan.) | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:13 AM by sleeppoor | |
Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 12:46 AM by Mordant | |
Authorities told students they could face criminal trespass charges if they didn’t disperse. The arrests come amid tensions on campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 08:36 PM by sleeppoor | |
The recent ruling by the state supreme court has heightened tensions in the county attorney race in populous Maricopa County, with one candidate pledging to not prosecute abortions. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 07:04 PM by sleeppoor | |
Rigid school attendance zones allow districts to legally keep many students of color and low-income families out of coveted, elite K-12 public schools, a new study finds.
Why it matters: The U.S. will soon mark the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended legal segregation in public schools. Yet, researchers found growing inequality in school access as the nation has become more diverse, according to the new study by nonpartisan education watchdog Available to All.
School segregation between Black and white students has returned to 1968 levels. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 07:05 PM by sleeppoor | |
The United States is forcing the Chinese company Bytedance to sell TikTok to a US owner or risk a ban from American app stores. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 05:40 PM by nocash | |
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are using their minds, even if universities don’t appreciate it. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 01:38 PM by nocash | |
The Minnesota policy wonk posting his way to power and influence. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 01:38 PM by nocash | |
How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 04:17 AM by sleeppoor | |
Two weeks after a man fatally slipped into the icy grip of the North Saskatchewan River after police tried to stop him for a bicycle violation, the officers involved have been cleared by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT)...
The city police Air-1 helicopter quickly located the man and the pursuing officers, recording the ordeal with its video system which ASIRT has now reviewed.
None of the officers used force against the man, and none were nearby when he slipped on the river ice.
“During the pursuit, the male can be seen riding a bike without the necessary equipment, which corroborates the officers reasoning for attempting to stop the male,” said the ASIRT release, adding no use of force is shown. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 03:38 AM by sleeppoor | |
The significant victory for the ‘Squad’ member comes amid concerns of pro-Israel funding targeting pro-ceasefire candidates.
Despite the absence of [AIPAC], one Super Pac did get involved in Lee’s primary to boost Patel’s campaign. The Moderate Pac, which aims to support centrist Democrats and is largely funded by Republican megadonor Jeffrey Yass, spent more than $600,000 supporting Patel. Lee and her allies turned Yass’ involvement in the race into a campaign issue, lambasting the billionaire’s Super Pac contributions.
“We’re going to send them a message that, whether it’s Jeffrey Yass or Jeffrey Bezos, their billion dollars aren’t welcome here,” Lee said at a rally in Pittsburgh on Sunday. “There is no room for people who would use our communities against each other for their own political ambition.” | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 03:17 AM by sleeppoor | |
BREAKING: TikTok might not be around much longer in the US. The Senate just passed a bill that included an ultimatum for the company: divest or be banned altogether. The next stop is President Biden’s desk. | |
Submitted at 04-24-2024, 02:08 AM by sleeppoor | |