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Lawyer who prosecuted Trump hauled in front of House judiciary committee | House of Representatives | The Guardian
By Chris Stein and Hugo Lowell in Washington, Fri 9 May 2025 20.52 EDT The former special counsel prosecutor Jay Bratt is scheduled to appear before the Republican-led House judiciary committee next week as it attempts to find instances of politicization in the federal criminal cases brought against Donald Trump, according to three people familiar…
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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy – The Guardian
Just over an hour into Elon Musk’s last appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the billionaire brought up the latest existential threat to trouble him. “We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said. “And it’s like, I believe in empathy. Like, I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy…
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‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law – The Guardian
Editor’s Note: this is the prompt I made for the AI image: “Show a hollow empty shell of President Trump, as he defies and ignores the Supreme Court, Congress, Judges, rule of law, and become dictator like Putin over American citizens.. cry, cry, against the dying of the light of Democracy“ — good work AI…
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Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’ | Trump administration | The Guardian
Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’ Agency says its reporter wasn’t allowed into event in effort to ‘punish’ style guide on upholding use of Gulf of MexicoBy Jenna Amatulli, Tue 11 Feb 2025 20.03 EST The Associated Press said it was barred from sending a reporter to Tuesday’s Oval…
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‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán | Donald Trump | The Guardian
‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán Trump has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies – a path similar to ‘would-be dictators’ like Orbán, experts say David Smith in Washington, Fri 7 Feb 2025 08.58 ESTA pitiless crackdown on on illegal immigration. A…
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Matt Gaetz ethics report finds evidence he paid for sex with minor | Matt Gaetz | The Guardian
House report finds ‘substantial evidence’ ex-congressman engaged in sex trafficking among other violations ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON ETHICS ON DECEMBER 10, 2024 118TH CONGRESS, 2ND SESSION U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON ETHICS IN THE MATTER OF ALLEGATIONS RELATING TO REPRESENTATIVE MATT GAETZ December 23, 2024 Mr. Guest from the Committee on Ethics, submitted…
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Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life
Mark Zuckerberg’s grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly. Meanwhile, those still existing happily on a virtual world launched 20 years ago may be wondering what all the fuss is about … By Simon Parkin, Sat 10 Jun 2023 08.00 EDT On 14 November 2006, 5,000 IBM employees…
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Make it so! Star Trek: The Next Generation remains radically hopeful television | Television | The Guardian
By Paul Verhoeven, Tue 11 Apr 2023 11.00 EDT In the 1992 comedy Wayne’s World, Wayne Campbell makes a wise observation about the comparisons made between sparkling wine and champagne. “It is a lot like Star Trek: The Next Generation,” he notes of sparkling wine. “In many ways it’s superior, but will never be as…
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This year I’m thankful for US public libraries – beautiful icons of a better civic era | The Guardian
The US can often be cruel to its citizens, but the public library is a sanctuary and a vision of what our country might one day be By Moira Donegan, Wed 28 Dec 2022 10.13 EST If you proposed it now, at any town council or city hall meeting, you would be laughed from the…
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‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine | Libraries | The Guardian
When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country’s librarians By Stephen Marche, Sun 4 Dec 2022 03.00 EST The morning that Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, Oksana…
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‘I just wanted my life to end’: the mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance | Biography books | The Guardian
In 1926 the world’s bestselling author vanished for 11 days. Did she really go into hiding to frame her husband for murder? Historian Lucy Worsley reopens a case still shrouded in mystery By Lucy Worsley, Sat 27 Aug 2022 04.00 EDT Agatha Christie was sitting quietly on a train when she overheard a stranger saying…
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What do you do with books you don’t want any more? | James Colley | The Guardian
By James Colley, Sun 8 May 2022 13.30 EDT I used to dream of owning a home with a library like the one in Beauty and the Beast. A ladder that glides along the impossibly high shelves filled with more books than you could read in 10 lifetimes. That was before I understood that the…
