Author: nick

[ad_1] This week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced an impressive achievement: Just months after warning of a ruinously large deficit, his first-term administration had both balanced the city’s budget and increased funding for his favored causes. If that sounds too good to be true, well, it is. “We inherited a $12 billion budget deficit,” Mamdani said in a video posted to X. “Many said the only way out of this was slashing services and passing an austerity budget. We rejected that. After months of painstaking work, that deficit is now zero. Our city is now on firm financial…

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[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Donald Trump finally said the quiet part with the volume all the way up: “I don’t think about America’s financial situation… I don’t think about anybody.” At the very moment inflation is ripping through household budgets, wages are falling behind, and Americans are working more hours just to stay afloat, the president made it plain—your economic survival isn’t…

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[ad_1] (Emmett Tatter is a writer who spent nearly 10 years in Florida prisons. He has recently finished a book, lectured at Flagler College, and started a Substack, which I recommend. Interested in learning more about Florida prisons, I reached out to him for an interview in late March. I asked him about his life story, his work, and his experiences in the prisons. We begin by discussing his childhood and early adult life up until he went to prison. However, afterward, he offhandedly mentions to me while we are scheduling the next interview that he “just handled the voting thing,…

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[ad_1] Although Israel’s trade partnership with the E.U. has been preserved for now, the relationship between Europe and Israel is destined for citizen-led change, writes Ramzy Baroud. The European Union flag in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. (European Parliament, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Ramzy BaroudZ Network The European Union is the “chief of all cowards,” Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation was a direct response to the European bloc’s systemic failure to sever ties with Israel during the E.U.’s Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg. Despite months of legal warnings, the E.U. once again…

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[ad_1] Supreme Court rulings are significant not only for their decision on who wins, but also for their reasoning. A victory for common sense may sometimes be pyrrhic if it benefits the party who wins the dispute but relies on reasoning that erodes individual liberty in the longer term. In that context, while the outcome in the recent case of Chiles v. Salazar, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (decided March 31, 2026) was welcomed, the emphasis it placed on “viewpoint discrimination” is unfortunate. It is one more step down the road to conceptualizing free speech as an application…

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