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Japan taps deep-sea mud for rare earths
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025

Japan taps deep-sea mud for rare earths

The government is building a facility on Japan’s easternmost island that can tap resources 6,000 meters below the ocean’s surface.

The evolution of drapery
Semafor • Dec 22, 2025

The evolution of drapery

Two New York galleries joined forces to explore how textile and fabric have provided a means for artists to demonstrate proficiency and movement.

New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt
Mother Jones • Dec 22, 2025

New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where bad actors either take out lines of credit in another person’s name without them knowing or pressure someone into accruing debt. The law, headed by Assemblymember Linda B. […]

IHIP News: Trump PANICS Over Being CHARGED with WAR CRIMES! The ICC Is Coming For HIM?!
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I've Had It Podcast • Dec 22, 2025

IHIP News: Trump PANICS Over Being CHARGED with WAR CRIMES! The ICC Is Coming For HIM?!

The Secret History of the Left-Wing Western
Current Affairs • Dec 22, 2025

The Secret History of the Left-Wing Western

Boomer dads excepted, most people don’t watch Westerns. Even among cinephiles, Westerns are easily shunted off into their own niche that—in a world that rarely produces new Westerns, at least unless they’re Yellowstone spin-offs—is easily imagined as separate from film proper. There are lots of genres for which this is true to one extent or another, but unlike swashbucklers, screwball comedies, or Commedia sexy all'italiana (look it up), lack of exposure does not deter anyone from thinking they know exactly what Westerns are like. The Western is judged on a collage of second- and third-hand sense impressions. The Western is pre-emptively dismissed based on myths and assumptions, the most damning of which are political anathema to the average leftist. Eileen Jones of Jacobin concedes only that one may “enjoy aspects of old Westerns, in spite of their generally nightmarish Manifest Destiny ideology.” Everyone knows that Westerns are racist, sexist, imperialist propaganda valorizing the conquering white man. But when I got into Westerns in my twenties, this collaged Western I had culturally absorbed turned out to be like the shadows on Plato’s cave wall: not a lie, precisely, but nothing like the complexity, color, and depth of reality. 

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