A group of 22 advocacy organizations including the ACLU, EFF, and PEN America writes Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro to support Disney's defense against the FCC (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/aclu-disney-support-fcc-tangle-1236823050/…
This must mean a fundamental change for taxes. No tax on income from labour any longer, as there will be so much less. Instead, tax primarily on capital assets will become inevitable.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-develop
Nobody Closed the Gate: How Traditions Convince Themselves That Thinking Ended, and Who Collects the Toll
In 1984 a legal historian named Wael Hallaq published a study whose title was a question: "Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed?" The question sounds technical, and the journal that carried it, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, is read by a…
If you're in Denmark and would like to hear me talk about Antarctic climate on long and short timescales as well as the latest research insights and our recent fieldwork in Dronning Maud Land with the Swedish #iQ2300 project, then come past Niels Bohr Institute this Thursday at 5pm where DAMS are hosting an evening of talks on Antarctica
Register and even become a member here:
https://www.dams.dk/
This goes hand in hand with the administration's many other attempts to keep people in the dark,
including its new proposed government wide NDA system.
They want full license to enrich themselves and abuse others without the rest of us knowing about it.
-- Heidi Kitrosser
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Bob Dylan:
🎵 Tangled Up in Blue
#BobDylan
https://arazorsedge.bandcamp.com/track/tangled-up-in-blue-bonus-track-download-only
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Vcwr9tb3ZLO63F8DL8cqu
RE: #Art
Given the current trajectory and if some of us survive, somewhere in the future, someone will ask, "Why didn't the billionaires try to save themselves and everyone else? Why did they accelerate climate change at the last moment and end civilization? I want to know in as much detail as possible. I want to understand this."
And somewhere along the line, at some point, someone will start their response with, "Do you know what 'Harry Potter' is?"
Protesters interrupt Hegseth's opening statement
As Pete Hegseth was delivering his opening remarks, protesters interrupted him and were removed from the room.
One protester said as they were removed by security:
“This is despicable, the American people [did] not want to go into this war.”
“We appreciate the first amendment rights of Americans to express themselves but disruptions of this hearing will not be tolerated,”
said committee chair Roger Wicker.