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Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Barack Obama bailed out the banks, deported millions, and devastated nations and millions of people through wars of aggression. The $850 million Obama Center is a monument to his role as the “more effective evil” in U.S. politics. “Barack Obama does not carry our burden, in addition to other burdens. He in fact promises to lift white-people-as-a-whole’s burden, the burden of having to listen to these very specific and historical black complaints, to deal with the legacies of slavery. That is his promise to them. That is what allowed…
Everyone knows the new Federal Reserve chairman plans to make changes, but he’ll be careful at first. Source link
Musk is not the cause. He’s the scoreboard. The real story is the game itself. Source link
Image by Marius Christensen. Aside from basketball, this year’s NBA Finals showcased civic identity and political power. Shea Serrano, author of Expensive Basketball, once argued that data is outweighed by the unquantifiable. Basketball can be explained in the aesthetic, shared memory, or even the hidden statistic. For example, Sue Bird’s backpedal, Tim Duncan’s dominance, or Dwyane Wade’s total in blocked shots (885 — the most ever for a player 6:4 and under), all captured something beyond the numbers. Beyond this, pure analytics certainly matter. The World Champion New York Knicks of the 2026 NBA Finals topped the San Antonio Spurs…
A Most American Fight Night Source link
These closely related lawsuits are different, at least in degree, from previous lawsuits over allegedly defamatory AI output: Rather than alleging thoroughgoing hallucination, or (as in Battle v. Microsoft) the merging of two unrelated documents about similarly named people, they involve claims that AI output summarizing published documents overstates the allegations in those documents—a sort of claim that’s pretty common in normal libel litigation against newspapers. 1. The SEC charged Sergii Grybniak with securities with violating [1] the antifraud provisions of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934…
I propose that the world is upside down, that the way we live is the opposite of what we’re told it is: we don’t experience Progress, we experience Anti-Progress. My five most recent essays (listed below) lay out an account of the present era that is radically different from the conventional narrative. It’s worth noting that my writing is not “validated by credentials so you should listen to this person” or by data-based claims that “he called the exact top and bottom of the market and has beaten the market indices for 27 years.” The foundation of my work is…
Donald Trump’s decision to host a UFC fight at the White House is a sign of far-reaching changes in American culture and politics. Source link
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the terrorism threat level is “the highest it’s ever been” as he blamed Democrats in Congress for failing to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after a brief extension of life granted in April expired. He conceded there are other “ways that we can get to what we need to do, but it makes it significantly more difficult. We can cut through a lot of the bureaucracy with 702 and go after the terrorists that are trying to attack us every single day.”…
Arnold Oliver for Informed Comment Odds are good that no one has ever asked if you are an internationalist, but your answer to that question reveals much about your orientation to your fellow human beings around the globe. It is worth your time to give it some thought. To assist you we will briefly describe what internationalism is, its origins, how those who believe in it operate in the modern world, and its opponents. It is a simple concept, and refers to the belief that all humans are of equal worth, and deserving equal rights politically and before the law. In addition, all nation-states…