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Workplace sabotage has historically been a powerful organizing tactic. Is the time ripe again?

GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.

Trump's margin of victory, 1.6 points, was the fifth-smallest in the last 100 years. As much as the MAGA world wants to portray this as a landslide, it wasn’t. And as the last few election cycles tell us, political power in America can be fleeting.

Judge Dredd, Tony Soprano, The Supes. They're all meant to be villains in cautionary tales against the danger of violent, fascistic, cultist leaders. But some Trump followers, including Elon Musk, think they're meant to be heroes to be emulated.

The president-elect is tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services. The gulf between Trump’s taste for the wealthy and his populist everyman rhetoric has not gone unnoticed.

Five Things Christian Nationalists Want from Trump. What Your Brain Is Really Doing When You're Doing 'Nothing.' The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam. Michael Kosta Meets the No. 1 Book Banner in Florida. Trump Goes to War With Allies.

Health workers have become regular victims of violence, easy targets for a society that vents its anger against those who are there to care for others.

Reader Comments: Trump Cabinet; Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Letter; Democrats Touted Ground Game; Harris Turned Away From Economic Populism; Experts Explain Why America Voted for Plague; Model for City Officials Protecting Targeted Communities;

The board of the non-profit Code for Science & Society blocked a statement against genocide. The fallout tore the high-profile organization apart. The events at CS&S are an example, of the label “progressive except for Palestine”.

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