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Know Your Military - Here's my final thought on the non-issue of Walz' and Vance's service records. Most of the U.S. citizenry knows next to nothing about their military. I was enlisted for 14 years and left service 7 years ago and my family still doesn't quite understand what I did. My wife thought everyone was just assigned jobs, that there was no choice for me. But aside from anecdotes, lets look at some numbers: 1/9

There's a dangerous game of verbal gymnastics being played out in the public sphere, and it's high time we called it what it is: a steaming pile of i...

I am sincerely shocked they didn't pick the shitty technocrat lawyer and IDF volunteer with a bunch of scandals under his belt and instead went with the likable normal guy who seems to take pride in helping people. What is going on? Either way it's another L for the Beltway

I’m still digging through some of the pieces I posted at the now defunct NewCo Shift, and found this piece, adapted from a talk I gave at the Thrival Humans X Tech conference in Pittsburgh ba…

The governor of Minnesota had a career in the National Guard and as a high school teacher before he got into politics in the early 2000s.

There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.

Five years ago I was posting a lot to a publication called NewCo Shift, which is now offline. I got ahold of the archives, and found this review, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance &#8211…

Episode · The Asset · Donald Trump and White Christian Nationalists have formed an unholy alliance to pervert the main tenets of Christianity to manifest their unbridled desire for power. Rev. Jim Wallis calls on all Americans to reject and help dismantle a false gospel that propagates white supremacy and autocracy with insights and analysis based upon his new book, The False White Gospel .See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The jailing of a dissident and two lawsuits reveal Twitter’s complicity with MBS’s dictatorship.

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Claire Boucher and a friend tried to sail down the Mississippi River on a DIY houseboat loaded with live chickens and 20 pounds of potatoes

His firm’s very embarrassing pitch deck suggests it was more about the whole letting-them-get-away-with-murder business.

The ranch provides habitat for 4,000 elk, 800 antelope and 1,500 mule deer and a 28-mile-long creek stocked with trout

A Russian CEO has won an autographed pair of Donald Trump’s new golden sneakers after making an eye-watering bid.

Plot twist!

Russian political culture has already permeated some American political circles. Fortunately, American opinion remains overwhelmingly pro-Kyiv, as does the Republican establishment.

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.

Infamous British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher espoused a fusionist ideology which sought to weld pseudo-individualism to the traditionalist collectivism of the nuclear family and the nation state in a manner not unlike her American counterpart Ronald Reagan. Unsurprisingly, this ideological chimera led to an incoherent world view that rhetorically championed the freedom of the individual,...

Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense, logic and reason,

Posted on Friday 2 Aug 2024. 481 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Many top porn stars on OnlyFans hire ‘chatters’ to impersonate them online. These impostors have boosted the site's growth – but some subscribers call it fraud.

The U.S. Army and NATO made key strategic, funding and production mistakes that led to shortages of a pivotal weapon Ukraine needs to thwart Russia's advances.

Reuters penetrated the illicit fentanyl trade, buying chemicals and gear online to make millions of pills. Cost: $3,600. Why the opioid crisis is so hard to stop

The illegal synthetic opioid industry is built on surprisingly simple chemistry. Here’s the science behind fentanyl, and how underworld “cooks” put it to work.