‘Emotional Loading’: Decoding the Media Coverage of the Bondi Beach Shooting
‘Emotional loading’ is a technique used in the coverage of Bondi Beach to shape the narrative and sideline critical analysis
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Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis
Utah aims to produce a model for Trump plan—an isolated “Accountability Campus” where commits will be reformed. Other states and localities are not far behind.
Read more...Could an AI Have Suggested that the Earth Is Not at the Centre of the Universe?
Deviant thinking is on the decline as AI mirrors consensus instead of challenging it, making us more homogeneous and complacent toward power.
Read more...Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis
Greystar is penalized 0.002 percent of the $300 billion worth of real estate it manages, and must stop using collusion software—maybe.
Read more...If There Is No Welfare State, What Will Europe’s Social Contract Be?
The welfare state is the underlying social contract that has kept Western European nation-states together since World War II. If it ends, as some politicians warn, what would replace it?
Read more...Stablecoins Could Crash Our Economy
Finance loves to dress old risks in new language and call them innovation.
Read more...Social Murder as a Necropolitical Governance Technology
What is social murder, why is it increasing, and how to fight it.
Read more...Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?
RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
Read more...The West’s Ethical Framework Might Not Recover After the Israeli Genocide in Gaza
The Israeli genocide in Gaza violates the Silver Rule, the foundation of nearly all ethical frameworks
Read more...Chaos in the Caucasus: The Great Armenian Sell Out and Turkish/NATO Dreams of a Turan Corridor Stretching to China
The great question is how Russia and Iran will respond if Turkiye and friends attempt to muscle their way across the Southern Caucasus.
Read more...The Gates Foundation’s Global Reach Expands, to Mixed Reviews
The Gates Foundation steps into the void left by the U.S., and brings with it limited accountability, conflicts of interest, and a history of failure in its stated mission.
Read more...Cow Most Sacred
Why military spending remains untouchable.
Read more...‘Looking Backwards’ and Forward: How Democrats Who Voted for Iraq Cashed In and How It Ensured the Rise of the Imperial Uniparty
Obama’s decision to “look forward” continues to reverberate into our endless wars of the present—and future.
Read more...What Is a Constitution?
The current set of ruling principles in the US is under attack. What sort of a new Constitution might emerge?
Read more...Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Health and Human Services
RFK Jr. embrace pseudoscience and embarks on eugenicist policies that seek to identify and disempower the underprivileged.
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