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Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Mainstream – The Atlantic

Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Mainstream – The Atlantic

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Hypocrisy is not an altogether bad thing. So long as our society has hypocrites, we have not totally lost our moral bearings. The hypocrite pretends to be good because the hypocrite believes that society admires good and condemns wrong. It’s time to worry when the hypocrite disappears—because that is the moment when wrongdoing has acquired impunity. Yesterday, a man crashed his car into a synagogue and preschool in West Bloomfield, Michigan. He was armed and may have intended to slaughter the children at the school. Vigilant security officers shot him dead before he could complete his crime. Since Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks on Israel—and the ensuing war in Gaza and other countries bordering Israel—anti-Jewish terror has spread worldwide. Two Israeli-embassy staffers targeted and murdered in Washington, D.C. Twelve people injured by a Molotov cocktail hurled at a free-the-hostages rally in Boulder, Colorado. Two killed during a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester, England. The Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre in Australia, the deadliest terror attack in that country’s history. All of these just in …

Non-sun sunglasses: sport-fashion fusion accessory goes mainstream | Fashion

Non-sun sunglasses: sport-fashion fusion accessory goes mainstream | Fashion

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Despite some people in the UK experiencing 40 consecutive days of rain this year, sales of sunglasses have not been dampened. Instead, the dark skies have ushered in a new era of eyewear: the non-sun sunglasses. The style comprises shield-style frames with barely-there tinted lenses. They look a bit like those goggles the dental hygienist asks you to pop on to avoid flying tartar, or the safety glasses worn by a government minister on a visit to a construction site. Created originally for long-distance runners and cyclists who want to protect their eyes from elements including the sun, sweat and flies, the high-performance eyewear is now being co-opted by everyone, including those who failed to finish that couch to 5k programme. Harry Styles modelling Oakley’s Cybr Zero glasses. Photograph: Laura Jane Coulson Selin Olmsted, an eyewear trend forecaster and design director, says there is a “huge uptick” for non-sun sunglasses “where you can still see the eye”. These types of glasses fall into “category one” eyewear, meaning they are designed to offer protection against harmful …

Mainstream media rallies for war, again

Mainstream media rallies for war, again

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump may be a world-upending political force, but in the end, even he could not resist the gravitational pull of American militarism. The lure of legacy, regime change and perhaps political distraction proved too strong when it came to Iran, which the president, in partnership with Israel, attacked with a brutal series of air strikes on Saturday. The campaign, which has continued, is already engulfing the entire Middle East. There is a ritual in American war-making that predates the particular pathology of Trumpism. The targets shift and the platforms move from broadcast television to social media, but the punditry lusting for regime change fantasies feels eerily familiar. As if on cue, Bret Stephens is once again cheerleading for intervention on the opinion pages of the New York Times, invoking the language of resolve and credibility that lubricated the invasion of Iraq. On CNN, chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto claimed that U.S. military veterans “are likely welcoming these strikes tonight,” a sweeping assertion offered with the same confidence that once accompanied talk of “shock …

Jubilee Media Helped Take Charlie Kirk Mainstream. What Do Its Video Debates Mean for the Future of Politics?

Jubilee Media Helped Take Charlie Kirk Mainstream. What Do Its Video Debates Mean for the Future of Politics?

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But even now, the former transportation secretary says, elected officials and strategists give him a blank look when he asks if they’ve heard of Jubilee. “They say no, and I say, ‘Well, I didn’t either. And it turns out it’s got way more viewership than a lot of TV shows that you do know.’ ” As one may expect, Jubilee primarily reaches young people. Gen X’ers who participate in Surrounded often say that they had no idea what Jubilee was before they agreed to make content for it. “I got this request to do it,” says Seder. “My daughter was home for Christmas break. She’s a college student. And I’m like, ‘Have you ever heard of this Jubilee thing?’ And she’s like, ‘You have to do it.’ ” “I think young people are so interested and invested in Jubilee because a lot of what they see around them is not that,” says Lee. “Everything from politics to even shows and other things—it’s so scripted or it’s so controlled. And I think that that’s something that we’re really …

Parents React As EHCPs In Mainstream Schools To Be Replaced

Parents React As EHCPs In Mainstream Schools To Be Replaced

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Parents have expressed concern after the government announced major changes to education, health and care plans (EHCPs), which almost 640,000 children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) currently have in place in England. As part of new SEND reforms, the Labour government has pledged £4 billion to “make every school truly inclusive”, with mainstream schools receiving extra investment to help children get tailored support where and when they need it. It has also promised £1.8 billion to create a “bank of specialists” like SEND teachers and speech and language therapists in every local area which schools can utilise on demand. Going forward, the plan is for EHCPs – a legally-binding document outlining the needs of a child and what support is required to meet those needs – to be reserved for the most complex special educational needs, which can’t routinely be met in mainstream schools. In addition to this, the government said there will be a new legal requirement for schools to create Individual Support Plans (ISPs) for all children with SEND. “Every ISP …

Give heads what they need to make inclusive mainstream work

Give heads what they need to make inclusive mainstream work

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SEND reforms must allow heads to address the needs of children they know best, without having to wait for someone who doesn’t know them to tell them what to do, writes Cathie Paine. For years, parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities have been frustrated and anxious. At the same time, staff in schools have been going above and beyond to cope with the growing challenges. Rising need, increasing complexity, stretched specialist resources, and an unsustainable system that’s struggling to keep pace with what’s best for children. So it’s absolutely right that the government wrestles with all of this and that everyone involved in education gets to reimagine what truly inclusive practice looks like. We don’t know all the detail yet but based on what we do know from the media briefings so far, it looks really encouraging. The outcomes aren’t good When a child is struggling, we currently have to wait to prove that child has failed before we can access funding for them. Even when the system does support the children …

Mainstream schools to receive extra funding for SEND pupils as part of £4bn package | UK News

Mainstream schools to receive extra funding for SEND pupils as part of £4bn package | UK News

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Mainstream schools will receive direct funding to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) as part of a £4bn package to make the system more inclusive. Targeted interventions such as small-group language work will receive funding, and there will be help for staff to introduce adaptive teaching styles, as part of a major government overhaul to be announced on Monday. Some £1.6bn over three years will be provided to early years, schools and colleges through an “inclusive mainstream fund”. Another £1.8bn over the same period will go towards creating an “experts at hand” service, made up of specialists such as SEND teachers and speech and language therapists in every area. Schools will be able to draw from this bank on demand regardless of whether pupils have education, health and care plans (EHCPs) – legal documents setting out the support children with SEND are entitled to – the Department for Education (DfE) said. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Why a £6bn black hole will change children’s …

An unlikely AirPods rival just launched with features I’ve yet to see on mainstream earbuds

An unlikely AirPods rival just launched with features I’ve yet to see on mainstream earbuds

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LG/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The LG Xboom Buds Plus are available in Black for $180. Their charging case features a germ-killing UV light. The charging case also doubles as a Bluetooth transmitter. LG’s collaboration with musician will.i.am includes several earbuds and Bluetooth speakers under the Xboom namesake, but a recent launch is the most intriguing one I’ve seen so far. The new Buds Plus advertise a self-cleaning charging case with a built-in Bluetooth transmitter. LG announced these earbuds last fall, but availability seemed to be delayed until now. Also: What is Bluetooth 6.0? How the latest standard is changing audio right before our eyes Alongside those flashy features, the Buds Plus also include 10mm graphene drivers, six microphones for active noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, an IPX4 water resistance rating, up to 30 hours of playtime, and Bluetooth LE Audio compatibility. Based on an early product review from Reddit, the Buds Plus’ built-in Bluetooth transmitter requires a proprietary USB-C-to-3.5mm cable for non-wireless audio sources, such as a treadmill or …

Hype or help? Protein-enhanced food goes mainstream – Entre Nous

Hype or help? Protein-enhanced food goes mainstream – Entre Nous

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again ENTRE NOUS © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 27/01/2026 – 16:40 07:27 min From the show Reading time 1 min In this edition of Entre Nous, we take a look at the current craze for protein-enhanced food. We dive into how this trend is confusing consumers, but also creating egg shortages in France. We also look into how it is boosting the sales of “healthy” snacks, namely Babybel cheeses in the US. Finally, we discuss whether extra protein is really good for you or not.  By: Source link

Mainstream media helped build the myth of law enforcement

Mainstream media helped build the myth of law enforcement

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SWAT team-style raids, verbal and physical antagonism, and threats against citizen and journalists alike have long been embedded in the history of law enforcement in the United States, through both Republican and Democratic administrations. But after decades of attitudes largely sitting between grudging acceptance and hero-worship, the last ten years has seen a surge of negative attention toward policing in America, provoked by acts of extreme aggression carried out with far less subtlety than before and that has, by spreading first on social media, forced mainstream media outlets to cover it extensively. Critics of this media coverage, like civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis, say that since its conception in the United States, media’s role has been less to offer objective news and more to shape an obedient society that blames their problems on its most vulnerable, emphasizing a belief that state punishment is the solution. And even with the pressure to cover egregious behavior like the harsh treatment of immigrants by ICE, he argues, media outlets have continued to feed into the superstructure that enables …