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The Hobbledehoy collects articles and podcasts from reliable sources of factual reporting, but with a clear, self-acknowledged left-leaning or progressive editorial bias.
Find the most recent articles from historians Timothy Snyder and Heather Cox Richardson, journalist Sarah Kendzior, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, former U.S. Senator Al Franken, and the global news program Democracy Now!

Meet Scotland’s 300-year-old snow patch, the Sphinx

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This weekend, Scotland’s most resilient snow patch, dubbed Sphinx, is expected to melt away. The news has been met with a surprising outpouring of emotion and nationwide coverage. Even The Financial Times covered the story with the headline “The end is nigh for Britain’s last snow”. The story has also gone international, featuring in radio reports as far away as New Zealand.So what is it about Sphinx that has captured the public’s imagination?  Some have suggested it could be symbolic. The Sphinx represents how we all feel, helpless and doomed to a fate determined by leaders like Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un [ . . . ]

More at source: Meet Scotland’s 300-year-old snow patch, the Sphinx

Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference

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Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University. Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country [ . . . ]

Source: Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference | The Independent