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Santa Barbara, California, June 15, 2026—Skeptic magazine and The Skeptics Society are pleased to announce that publisher and founder Dr. Michael Shermer has been appointed to the newly formed UAP Science Advisory Council, formed at the request of the White House and in coordination with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and other agencies.The council brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines—including astrophysics, oceanography, molecular biology, anthropology, psychology, artificial intelligence, and instrumentation—to provide scientific guidance on the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).Dr. Shermer will contribute his decades of experience in…

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On Friday evening, President Donald Trump announced that US forces had killed the head of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, in an air strike. In doing so, one of the hemisphere’s more notorious crime bosses was eliminated, and the Trump administration’s offensive against drug cartels and criminal groups claimed a […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

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Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill earlier this month tightening the state’s restrictions on when police can seize cash and property from suspected criminals, as well as giving property owners a right to an attorney in forfeiture cases. Colorado now has some of the strictest laws in the country governing police’s use of civil asset forfeiture, a practice that typically allows law enforcement to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the owner isn’t charged with a crime. Colorado is also now the second state to create a right to legal access in forfeiture…

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So… the last tanker to exit the Strait of Hormuz before the US and Israeli strikes has now arrived at its destination. The final barrels of crude loaded before the conflict have been delivered, refined, and consumed. Since the end of February, tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has become a critical pressure point, yet governments and mainstream media (increasingly operating as one system)  have largely avoided explaining the full implications to the public. You saw the headlines last week, didn’t you? “Peace talks progressing,” “Deal imminent,” and suddenly… poof!… oil prices dip.  I actually got liquidated on my…

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This morning, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Newman v. Moore. For years, I’ve thought that Chief Judge Moore is simply waiting for Judge Pauline Newman to die. There is no reason why each suspension has to last a year. The Bush appointee is waiting for the Reagan appointee’s life tenure to conclude. She even removed Newman from the ridiculous AI video. Now, alas, the Supreme Court has declined to intervene. Not a single member noted a dissent. They will just wait for this brilliant and capable jurist to expire. My immediate thought was the famous Daily News headline. Ford to…

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The court on Monday upheld the Labour government’s terrorism proscription of Palestine Action, overriding a High Court ruling in February and setting off another round of mass arrests of protesters in London. Pro-Palestine demonstration in the U.K., June 2025. (Palestine Action) By Stephen PragerCommon DreamsA U.K. appeals court is being accused of flouting the law to allow the government to suppress free speech after it upheld a ban on the direct action group Palestine Action. Just days after four young activists with the group were hit with unprecedented “terrorism” sentences over their 2024 vandalism of an Israeli-owned weapons facility that…

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Image by René DeAnda. In my past two columns, I made the case for the Democratic Party to take the lead in pushing for Trump’s Impeachment. The majority of people favor firing Trump and the massive number of blatant, impeachable acts by the lawless, corrupt, violent, unstable, dangerous Tyrant Trump increases by the day. If it helps the passive Democratic Party leadership, constitutional law specialists agree that were the Founding Fathers (who signed the Declaration of Independence and crafted the Constitution against would-be monarchs) here today, not one would oppose Impeachment. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Party’s…

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