Amid concerns over the influence of the manosphere, our findings show that young men are concerned about caregivingWhen young men helped propel Donald Trump into the White House in 2024, the administration doubled down on a brand of toxic masculinity popular in the so-called manosphere.They touted high testosterone, male supremacy, and a biblically-based family" where men work and provide, and deferential women stay home to bear children and care for others. Continue reading...
After Tuesday's election, everyone must have a Wednesday agenda,' experts sayThe bright blue map that emerged on election night in the US was unthinkable two years ago. When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, many Democratic voters curled up in bed and doomscrolled, fatigued and fearful about the direction of the country. Any desire to fight back was dampened by the enormity of the loss.But the mood gradually shifted over the following two years, culminating in a generational shift on election day: Democrats flipped five governors' seats and took control of the House and Senate by wide margins. Voters were angry about the rising cost of living, the war in Iran, masked immigration agents in their neighborhoods and datacenters rising in their backyards. Continue reading...
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Big tech has used misdirection, disinformation and jargon to obscure the harm the facilities can cause to communitiesAntifa". Commies". Chinese bots". Everyone from tech leaders to the president has called datacenter resistance a documented psyop" and a Chinese PR thing".But why do they make these claims? Our new research finds that the datacenter industry uses propaganda, disinformation, and information control to mold public opinion and undermine community opposition. Continue reading...
One company is proposing elongating the life of the dump, pungent smell and all, several more decadesAs a visual representation of how New York is running out of places to put its waste, the largest active landfill in the state is a striking one. The hulking Seneca Meadows landfill is already the height of the Statue of Liberty and its operators are seeking to raise it even further, to the consternation of nearby residents.The landfill, situated in the scenic Finger Lakes region in the northern reaches of New York state, has grown since the 1980s to now sprawl across 350 acres of deposited trash, mounded up to the height of around 300ft - roughly the same height of the Statue of Liberty. Continue reading...
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The failed move could lead to a more robust effort against the defense secretary in the next Congress. Here's how it could lookA traffic jam, combined with disorganization on the part of Democrats, enabled House Republicans to scuttle the representative Thomas Massie's articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth on Wednesday.While recriminations are now flying among Democrats, the fumble may have been a blessing in disguise. Democrats can now refocus the articles against the defense secretary, possibly to better effect. Continue reading...
Progressives should be careful not to get comfortable. There is work to be doneDemocrats had a great midterms result. Big wins in Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, Maine and Texas show the potential for a majority coalition that reaches well beyond traditional liberal strongholds. That's a good sign for the party's chances come 2028.Not surprisingly, the story of the midterms was affordability". Surveys showed that the economy was the top issue for the election, with a third of voters citing cost-of-living concerns as their number one issue, and nearly 40% of voters claiming their personal financial situation has worsened over the past year. It's clear that voters don't approve of Donald Trump's economic management. Continue reading...
Despite all the advantages offenses have secured over the years, defenses are better at pressuring the QB than any other time in recent historyThe Baltimore Ravens are preparing to start their fourth quarterback this year, Jacoby Brissett, against the beleaguered Los Angeles Chargers on Monday, because of injuries to Lamar Jackson, Tyler Huntley and Joe Fagnano. That puts them dangerously close to the NFL record of five within a single season (a record shared by the 1984 Bears and 2023 Browns when excluding the 1987 strike season).Jackson, Huntley and Fagnano were all injured after taking hits in games. And if it seems like quarterbacks are taking punishment more often this year, your eyes aren't deceiving you. Through nine weeks, quarterbacks have been hit on 15.1% of their dropbacks, the most we've seen since 2006, when hits were first logged in official box scores. Continue reading...
From the US midterms to Brazil and Hungary, extremists are floundering yet the left still overestimates their power. Reality is on our sideFrom Brazil to Hungary and Britain to the US, why are so many people so surprised by the right's election defeats? Flavio Bolsonaro, Viktor Orban, Reform UK, the Tories and a vast array of Republican candidates have all been rejected in national or local contests this year, even in usually reliably conservative Mississippi. Apparently impregnable incumbents and populist insurgents alike have been beaten, often by big margins. The supposedly ascendant global right has been out-organised, out-thought, outmanoeuvred and outnumbered.Yet each time this happens - which is more often than the usual gloomy narrative of our politics allows - many liberals and leftists absorb and share the good news almost with wonderment. Rightwing governments such as Donald Trump's may have been struggling for many months, having made countless impossible or incompatible promises and strategic blunders, and opinion polls may have been consistently pointing towards a meltdown, but their actual election defeats are seen as miracles: unexpected moments of joy in the morning news, often followed over subsequent months by a creeping conviction that the right's supremacy will inevitably return. Continue reading...
Maryland Democrat challenges party leader after midterms sweep, saying: The American people called for change'Chris Van Hollen, the Democratic senator of Maryland, announced on Thursday that he is challenging Chuck Schumer for the role of Senate majority leader when Democrats regain the chamber's majority in January.In this election, the American people called for change. They called for a change from Donald Trump's disastrous policies - but even bigger than that, a change from the status quo that isn't working for working people," Van Hollen said in a statement posted on social media. Continue reading...
Ann Lawani was taken from her home, sparking a huge outcry among students and faculty at her universityNearly two months after ICE agents whisked a beloved California nurse and professor from her home in Lodi, her university has ramped up calls for her release.She needs to come home," said Eileen Fry-Bowers, dean for the University of San Francisco's nursing school,in reference to Ann Lawani, who was arrested by immigration agents in September and has since been shuffled between detention centers in California, Texas, and Louisiana, in a series of opaque transfers. Continue reading...
Dollar-store chain's settlement with FTC and state officials comes after Guardian expose of its pricing practicesDiscount store giant Family Dollar will pay $63m to settle claims by state and federal authorities that it frequently overcharged its customers for milk, diapers, batteries, toilet paper and other household goods.The enforcement action announced Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states followed a Guardian investigation that revealed Family Dollar and its larger rival, Dollar General, frequently charge more at checkout than the prices listed on their shelves. Family Dollar failed at least 2,100 price inspections in 20 states from 2022 to late 2025, the Guardian found. Continue reading...
Kalshi announces mutual decision' as Democrats say they plan to investigate Trump family's investmentsDonald Trump Jr is no longer a paid adviser for Kalshi, the prediction market company said Thursday.Kalshi described it as a mutual business decision between the two parties that followed a decision by Trump Jr's investment firm, 1789 Capital, to increase its investment in Kalshi's biggest competitor Polymarket. Continue reading...
Protesters with the Sunrise Movement youth climate group push for new Senate leadership and ending the filibusterDozens of protesters with the Sunrise Movement, a youth climate organization, were arrested after staging a sit-in inside Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer's Washington DC office ThursdayAccording to the Sunrise Movement, 54 people were arrested, among a few hundred who joined the protest from across the country, including some from New York, which Schumer represents. On its Instagram, the group is fundraising $24,000 to cover the bail fees and any potential legal fees for those arrested. Continue reading...
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani says crews are working in extremely dangerous conditions' to find anyone trappedRescue crews have continued to search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in Brooklyn, New York, as the death toll rose to eight.Six people were found dead in the wreckage and two others died later from their injuries, according to city officials. Two of those killed were children and another two have been identified as construction workers from a nearby site. Continue reading...
A humpback whale was spotted on Thursday swimming in New York's Hudson River. Sightings of humpbacks in the New York, once rare, are becoming increasingly common. In 2018, 272 whales were spotted in the city's waters, Gotham Whale told the Guardian, and the group has documented numerous glimpses since Continue reading...
Sightings of the species are becoming increasingly common as experts worry about danger posed by busy waterwaysA humpback whale was spotted on Thursday swimming in New York's Hudson River, sparking a social media frenzy.Brad Hoylman-Sigal, president of Manhattan borough, was among those to share a photograph of the whale on Facebook, an image taken on Thursday morning and provided by Gotham Whale, a citizen science and education group that tracks marine mammals in New York's waterways. Continue reading...
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Mississippi has elected the Democrat Scott Colom in a historic race in the traditionally deep-red state, making him its first Black senator since shortly after the US civil war. The closely contested race was called more than a week after the US midterms, with Colom running against the Republican incumbent, Cindy Hyde-Smith. How did Colom's grassroots campaign win despite limited early backing from national Democrats? Lucy Hough speaks to politics and democracy reporter George Chidi Continue reading...
Donalds is governor-elect in state that leads the US in the number of executions, with its 20th this year taking place next weekThree exonerated former death row prisoners in Florida have called on incoming governor Byron Donalds to halt the state's record run of executions and review the cases of all 235 prisoners who are now condemned.At a press conference in Tallahassee on Thursday hosted by the advocacy group Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP), the men said they were seeking a roundtable discussion with Donalds, a Republican, as well as the state's new legislative leaders in pursuit of a moratorium. Continue reading...
At a time when individual men wield massive power, the ramifications of the Nvidia CEO's affair could be enormousOne of the reasons you want to distribute power and responsibility in powerful organizations and high-stakes enterprises is so that the narcissism or myopia of one man do not come to carry outsized consequences.When power is spread out across multiple people, it matters less if one of those people is prone to flattery, or in the midst of a midlife crisis, or perhaps just a bit stupid; the limits on his power become limits on the fallout of his character flaws. Continue reading...
We love standards. Well done, Specialist', the defense secretary writes following Veterans Day visitThe defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Thursday awarded a Joint Service Commendation Medal to the soldier who called out him and members of his staff after some in the group were heard laughing and talking near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a Veterans Day visit.We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist," Hegseth wrote in a social media post. Carry on Patriots." The post included a series of photos of Hegseth with the soldier. Continue reading...
The Warriors superstar's forceful defense of his wife over an on-screen kiss has exposed the ugly double standards and fragile masculinity of sports' manosphereIf Steph Curry is leading with his full government name, know that he means business. In a 90-second video released on Wednesday, from the Instagram account of Wardell Curry", he put the internet trolls who have been attacking his wife for years on notice. Usually the noise doesn't bother me, doesn't bother Ayesha," the four-time NBA champion and Paris Olympic knockout artist said. But when you're trying to step on the accomplishments of my wife, and feel the need to have to jump in and give an opinion on something that you really don't know about, [it] kind of speaks to the bigger conversation on how you view women in this world and what they're allowed and what they're not allowed to do."Posterity will remember this as the NBA's Oscar slap moment, but without the unnecessary violence. A bizarre turn in the parasocial compact when the restless fanboys pressured a superstar into publicly defending his wife. On this occasion, Curry had to defend his wife for the heinous crime of being the leading lady in a Christmas romcom: a Hallmark knockoff called Second Chance Holiday in which Ayesha Curry plays a dating expert with bad holiday luck and shares a kiss with a man who is not Wardell Stephen Curry II - her husband of 15 years and father to their four children. That apparently was a bridge too far for some of Curry's former NBA peers. Continue reading...
Sales of built units fell to 3.75m in October, down by 8.8% from last year, with mortgage rates at nearly three-year highUS existing home sales hit a 16-year low in October as buyers were driven away by record-high mortgage rates and rising inflation, according to new data released on Wednesday.Sales of already built units dropped to 3.75m in October, down by 8.8% from last year, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported. The median existing-home sales price increased slightly to $416,700. Declines in sales were seen in the midwest, south and west, though sales in the north-east held steady. Continue reading...
Ron DeSantis signed law prompting the city of Delray Beach to announce it was scrapping its popular Irish celebrationA Florida mayor is working to salvage his city's St Patrick's Day parade after it was canceled to comply with a new Republican law banning municipalities from hosting events deemed to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).The state's hard right governor Ron DeSantis signed the law in April that takes effect on 1 January, prompting the city of Delray Beach, near Fort Lauderdale, to announce it was scrapping next year's popular Irish celebration that regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors, and also its Pride event. Continue reading...
The historic SS United States ocean liner has marked the end of its journey at sea, as it was sunk off the coast of Florida to become the 'world's largest artificial reef', according to Okaloosa county. Once the fastest ocean liner in the world, the ship took around five hours to sink. It will rest on the seafloor at a depth of approximately 180ft, with the ship's upper decks sitting about 55ft below the surface
Exclusive: Ron Wyden, citing Guardian report, is launching inquiry into whether health secretary lied about Samoa trip during confirmation hearingsA top Democratic senator has launched an investigation into evidence that Robert F Kennedy Jr unlawfully lied" in his 2025 confirmation hearings to become the US health secretary, citing a report by the Guardian.Ron Wyden of Oregon, the incoming chair of the powerful Senate finance committee, is seeking extensive records from Children's Health Defense (CHD), the non-profit anti-vaccine group Kennedy has used as a vehicle to fuel his political rise, including all documents related to a 2019 trip Kennedy took to Samoa. Continue reading...
We would like to hear your reaction to Colom's election win and your hopes for his leadershipDemocrat Scott Colom has unseated Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent Republican senator, to become the first Black senator in Mississippi elected since Reconstruction.Colom had been written off by pundits as having no chance of winning when he announced his campaign last year. But his viral campaign ads created memorable slogans, while he made efforts to engage Mississippians where they were - from driving a truck that offered free tacos, to talking to students and alums at college homecomings, to chatting with voters queued to see Donald Trump. Continue reading...
Some advocates say it no longer makes sense for their movement to be so intertwined with the Republican partyAfter the Democrats' huge wins in the US midterm elections last week, gun rights advocates are updating their strategies in an attempt to cross the aisle and find allies on the left.While most of the biggest and most visible gun rights groups, such as the National Rifle Association (NRA), are already signaling that they will challenge any gun safety legislation brought by the new Democratic Congress, others say it no longer makes sense for their movement to be so deeply intertwined with the Republican party. Continue reading...
CEO says democratic approach' has helped brand outperform tough market, with big rises in China and USBurberry has returned to profit as its back-to-basics strategy drove strong sales of the British brand's coats, jackets and handbags over the summer.Joshua Schulman, the chief executive, said the luxury brand had outperformed a challenging luxury market" to achieve sales growth of 6%, helped by strong online and wholesale sales particularly in China and the US. Our strategy is working," he said. Continue reading...
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Complaints about banks and other financial players keep rising as Trump officials squelch enforcement actions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair must be the costliest fling in human history - and a preview of what awaits when the tech bubble burstsOne thing we all know about the tech billionaires is they are super-smart. We know this largely because they never stop telling us. The cognitive elite", to use their favoured phrase, are entitled to shape our future without our say-so. When Elon Musk goes hiring, he wants super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries". Long before they got private jets, what fuelled these boys was faith in their own brainpower. As a teenager, Jensen Huang wooed his future wife, Lori, thus: If you do homework with me every Sunday, I promise you you'll get straight As."Lord Byron: I believe it's your move. Continue reading...
Rallies take place on more than US 40 campuses as workers seeking better pay and conditions decry stalled talksStarbucks baristas, students, elected officials and allies are holding rallies at over 40 college campuses across the US on Thursday to support the Starbucks Workers United boycott campaign as the union nears five years of deadlock with the company over contract negotiations.Starbucks Workers United is seeking better pay and stronger staffing levels, including a $17 an hour minimum wage for baristas and a minimum staffing of three workers per store. It has called on the public to boycott Starbucks until its first contract is reached. Continue reading...
Displaying Ten Commandments in class, whitewashing history and study of Bible verses drove many to vote blueMichelle Palmer has run for the Texas state board of education twice before, but this time felt different.I was hearing from day one from people who had not really been politically active before that they were worried about education," Palmer said. Continue reading...
Kerry decries president for ceding clean-energy dominance to China and says climate crisis still a key issue for votersDonald Trump is the biggest loser we've seen in a long time" for scrapping action on the climate crisis and ceding the clean energy race to China, former US secretary of state John Kerry has said.Kerry, speaking at the Cop31 climate summit in Turkey, criticized Trump for withdrawing the US from the international climate process and axing measures that reduced planet-heating emissions. Unlike almost all other countries in the world, the Trump administration has sent no delegation to the resort city of Antalya for the annual UN climate talks, which started on Monday. Continue reading...
Voters remembered Trump's many promises to avoid the same kind of regime-change wars started by his predecessorsFor much of his political career, Donald Trump ranted at past US presidents who got the US entangled in endless foreign conflicts. He used it as a cudgel to belittle his predecessors, calling George W Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 the worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country". Trump also regularly derided the occupation of Afghanistan as a total disaster".Then Trump decided to launch his own disastrous war against Iran eight months ago. And that conflict may well have cost Republicans control of Congress in last week's midterm elections. Continue reading...
As public mood has shifted on Israel-Gaza and the Iran war, so has the manosphere's devotion to the US presidentEarlier this week, Donald Trump announced that the UFC president, Dana White, was to become his press secretary. The US president hoped the creator of Power Slap, a face-slapping league which one of the world's leading neurologists called a sport inconsistent with the intelligence of humans", might be the right man to deliver his daily rebuttals to the media.Trump later backtracked on the appointment, saying he was only kidding", yet it is easy to understand why he might be pining for White's muscles, trash talk and thirst for athletic violence. White is representative of the way Trump transcended politics in 2024 to become a celebrated figure in the manosphere, the loosely defined cluster of male content creators who have a direct line to America's bored and aggrieved young men. On the night of the 2024 election, White stood at the victory podium reading out thank yous" to the formerly heterodox podcast bros who came out for Trump: the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin' With The Boys, and last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan". Trump ended up winning 63% of young white men that night, unheard of for a Republican politician. Continue reading...
A Long Shadow: Postwar Japan Through the Lens will be the first show of Japanese photography in more than three decades at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit brings together 15 intergenerational artists as well as photographic prints, including more than 25 books and magazines and a video installation, all combining to show how photographers in Japan documented the country in the decades after the second world war. The exhibition runs until 2 May 2027 Continue reading...
When he finally arrived at his victory party, Colom walked out to T.I.'s Let Em Know. The audience, still galvanized even after hours of standing, roaredAbout a thousand people gathered on the Woodworth Chapel Lawn at Tougaloo College, a historic black college in Jackson. A DJ played classic southern line dance tunes and much of the crowd obliged, dancing while they waited for Scott Colom, Mississippi's new senate-elect, to arrive.All of the Divine 9, a nickname for the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), an umbrella organization of nine historically Black Greek-letter fraternities and sororities, were represented, their members proudly wearing paraphernalia bearing their organization's letters. Others were decked out in gear from some of the state's colleges and universities - Tougaloo College, of course, but also Alcorn State University, Millsaps College, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University and others. Continue reading...
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