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  How researchers debunked ‘race science’: ‘a triumph of scientific self-correction’ An account of how nineteenth-century studies aiming to find a biological basis for human races were dismantled by good scientific practices — although their effects are still felt today. OG Link: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03507-z

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  Grad Students Strike at Harvard, University With $68 Billion Endowment “None of us here, despite attending the wealthiest university in the entire world, make a living wage.”

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  Why Are Moderate Dems Bashing Abdul El-Sayed Right Before Election? House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi criticized El-Sayed on a recent episode of the On Brand podcast. Host Donny Deutsch claimed El-Sayed had made “concerning” comments opposing the existence of a Jewish state. “That’s antisemitic as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “No, it’s more than concerning. It’s wrong,” Pelosi said. “It’s wrong, and it isn’t a reflection of the Democrats in the Congress of the United States. This new pe...

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  Three-Body Orbits [Gallery] There are no generalized solutions to the three-body problem. Say you have three planets orbiting each other: it’s impossible to calculate how they will move using Newton’s laws of motion and gravity. Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general closed-form analytic solution. The differential equations that govern the motions of three gravitating bodies are not integrable and cannot be solved to give explicit formulas for the positions of t...

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  Macklemore reveals no US tour as a result of support for Palestine By mid-September, we received available dates at these arenas through the end of the year. But once they found out these were my benefit shows for Palestine, those dates were suddenly off the table. The doors were closed. The conversations were all different, but the result was the same. The shows were not going to be allowed to happen in these venues.##

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  Election Denial Is Now Normal for the Right Everywhere Refusing to concede and trying to overturn the election result isn’t just limited to Donald Trump anymore. This past week makes clear it’s now the playbook for every right-wing politician who loses an election.

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  McMahon to Spend $43K of Taxpayer Money on Furniture While Gutting Ed Department Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s billionaire education secretary, faced backlash on Wednesday over her plans to spend more than $43,000 of taxpayer money on new furniture for her government office as she works to illegally dismantle the department she leads, harming students across the country.

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  The AI-Energy-Fascism Nexus The crux of my AI-energy-fascism nexus theory, then, is that the AI energy rush has instigated a shift in the calculus of the tech sector as a whole; given new life to oil and gas interests facing existential challenges; and bolstered a far-right political coalition that desperately needs to shore up signs of economic prosperity. This association is mutually legitimating: all three parties get something from the other two and, in turn, capacitate them. We can think o...

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  Exported to Israel as pets, Dutch dogs used to torture Palestinians Israel’s systematic use of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners is by now well understood and exhaustively documented. Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli, who represents Palestinian “security” prisoners in Israeli detention, told this reporter that his clients sometimes beg him not to visit. One even told him directly: “Don’t come, because every time you do, I get raped.” Marmarelli said he could recognize si...

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  Why aren’t Democrats talking about climate? But for how important this election will be for Planet Earth and the humans who live on it, the issue itself isn’t getting much airtime. Earlier this month, The Guardian examined the campaign websites of Democratic and Republican Senate candidates in eight battleground states. Of all the candidates surveyed, only two explicitly mentioned climate change. This retreat hasn’t happened by accident. Over the last two years, some of the Democratic Party’s...

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  Israel kills three Palestinians, including a child, in attacks in central and southern Gaza

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  Trump and Kennedy’s racist tirades against Muslims and Arabs: The fascist degradation of American politics

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  ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees

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  New Evidence Allegedly Ties Trump to 11 Sexual Assaults Related to Epstein The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Donald Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the Department of Justice. The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say...

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  Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western Feminists I came across a tweet recently that reads: “reminder that rape is used a weapon of war on a regular basis because it is one of the most demoralizing, terrifying and life-changingly traumatic things that can happen to a human being.” This post was in light of the gruesome sexual assault case coming out of Cornell University, and it really stuck with me. I’ve spent the past few years reading and talking about the...

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  Israel forces Palestinians in Gaza to choose between assassination alone or death with their families The sources said that Israel’s decision to contact lower-level Palestinian fighters and activists before killing them “does not mean that the occupation is showing mercy toward Palestinians or attempting to improve its image before the world.” They emphasized that many Israeli bombardments continue to kill civilians, including women and children. Haaretz reported in September that Israel is...

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  Israel assassinates five police officers in southern Gaza amid ongoing attacks Hamas said the latest attack was an Israeli attempt to ‘spread chaos’ in the besieged and occupied strip

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  The New York Times’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide For me, the biggest point to be made in the Times’s coverage of Israel over the years is that, even in describing Israeli atrocities, it insists on implying that these atrocities are somehow deviations from an Israel which is, at heart, committed to human decency. For example, in an article in May describing the accelerating KKK style reign of terror conducted by Jewish settlers against West Bank Palestinians, Times reporters felt the need to...

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  Book Review: A guide to how the media sanitized Israel’s genocide in Gaza Assal Rad’s ‘Don’t Say Palestine’ is a masterpiece on language distortion and dishonesty, combining brilliant analysis with searing moral outrage and destined to become a classic read for years to come.

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  Israeli soldier publishes image of Palestinian journalist’s abduction during West Bank raids The picture shows Palestinian journalist Marah Awad blindfolded and handcuffed, standing beside a masked and armed Israeli soldier outside a house in Beit Ummar town, south of the West Bank.

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  Three reasons why "AI" is not conscious and perhaps never will be Artificial-intelligence systems such as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit behaviour that seems strikingly intelligent. This has led many people, including some experts, to wonder whether these systems could have some form of consciousness — the capacity for subjective experience. However, we think that existing AI systems are not conscious, and that, along current trajectories of development, they are not likely...

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  Border Czar Homan Confirms Trump Admin Is Looking to Denaturalize Ilhan Omar - Previous inquiries into Ilhan Omar’s citizenship have found no evidence of fraud.

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  CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-up Three of the founders of AI hosting company CoreWeave — Brannin McBee, Michael Intrator, and Brian Venturo — just announced yet another planned sale of CoreWeave stock, totalling over a billion dollars’ stock sales for each since the company went public. This means that whatever happens with CoreWeave and the AI bubble … they’ve got theirs.

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  DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”

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  How Israel Used "AI" to Relentlessly Murder Palestinian Journalists and Their Families in Their Homes My new research establishes how the AI program “Where’s Daddy?” was used on an almost daily basis from October to December 2023, when 68 journalists, and hundreds of their family members, were killed.

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  Trump sparks outrage with [computer generated] video parodying zoo tiger attack

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  Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It? Spoiler: No.

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  It Won’t Stop With Ilhan Omar Usually authoritarians target those on the margins before expanding their repression. That Trump and Vance are going after a sitting congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, with politically motivated deportation means they have bigger ambitions.

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  America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment Hegseth’s plan to livestream an execution was not without precedent — it tapped into a dark and forgotten U.S. tradition.

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  Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage? Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.