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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. Austin Sarat ScheerPost In recent years, diversity has become both a touchstone for judging colleges and universities and alightning rod for critics. Colleges seek to attract students by advertising the demographic diversity oftheir student bodies. And the Trump Administration is on the lookout for signs that diversity for somemeans discrimination for others.Demographic diversity is sometimes used as a stand-in…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On April 24, congresswoman Rashida Tlaib announced that she “just introduced the Ban Warehouse Detention Act.” This is an excellent idea. As Tlaib wrote, “immigrant detention is already unjust and inhumane, but Trump’s administration is trying to expand it rapidly by buying up warehouses across the country. Each warehouse could cage between 1,500 and 10,000 people.” So Homeland Security wants to pack people into buildings like sardines, where, if the overcrowding doesn’t kill them, deportation to either an El Salvadoran prison or one in another rightist garden spot probably will. And who will do…

[ad_1] Farmer Alfalfa heads to town with an old truck full of corn. The truck is on the verge of collapse. But after selling his corn to Grocer Cat, Farmer Alfalfa uses the money to buy a new truck. On another day, Alfalfa sells all kinds of produce and uses the money to make purchases from local merchants, including Stitches the tailor and Blacksmith Fox. Stitches, in turn, uses the money from Alfalfa to buy “an egg beater so that his family can make fudge,” while Fox buys more iron to use in his blacksmith business. Welcome to the very…

[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. Nate Bear Do Not Panic The UK has descended into confected hysteria over antisemitism to protect Keir Starmer and Labour from being wiped out by the Greens in local elections this week. The British establishment is well-practiced in manufacturing antisemitism hysteria, of course, having used it to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party when it got too close to…

[ad_1] The economy has been the number one issue for U.S. voters for several years in a row, and it isn’t because things are good. Consumer confidence is at an all-time low, inflation is starting to accelerate once again, mass layoffs are being conducted all over the nation, and delinquencies and foreclosures are soaring. Nobody can dispute any of the facts that I am about to share with you. We have an enormous economic mess on our hands, and now the crisis in the Middle East threatens to plunge the entire global economic system into chaos in the months ahead.…

[ad_1] “And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don’t need to know.” – Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017 Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI relieves us of the burden of knowing anything except how to ask AI the answers to everything. The weight of thinking for oneself, reading books, and living in natural reality will be lifted. Siri, Alexa, and the other AI assistants will usher us…

[ad_1] Mother and daughter at Lebanese-American protest in DC against bombing of Lebanon in 2006. Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has reportedly killed more than a thousand civilians this year.  Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon as part of an effort to confiscate or ravage that territory. The New York Times reports that Israel is “applying the Gaza model in Lebanon,” destroying entire towns and villages and leaving the rubble uninhabitable.  Israel’s bombing has been so indiscriminate that even President Trump pretended to object. On Truth Social, Trump announced: “Israel will not be bombing…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Mark Warner – CC BY 2.0 Of all the really stupid prosecutions Trump and his Department of Justice have pursued since he became the despot in chief, the charges against former FBI Director James Comey, are the most ridiculous. On Tuesday, April 28, Comey was indicted over a photo of seashells on the shore, officials said threatened President Donald Trump. The indictment was handed down by a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina where Comey allegedly took the photo and made the threat by posting it on the internet, in interstate commerce.[i] According to…

[ad_1] A new bill in Minnesota, proposed by eight Democratic lawmakers, would cut state funding by 10 percent to any city or county that flies the old state flag instead of the new one adopted in 2024. The idea comes from state Rep. Mike Freiberg (D–Golden Valley), who is upset that some cities are still using the old design and turning the flag change into a “culture war.” He says the old flag, which depicted a farmer and an Indian on a horse, was “not only kind of boring but also kind of racist.” Several cities, including Inver Grove Heights,…

[ad_1] The Daily Grail news briefs are always a good way to interrogate your worldview… A new big database of DNA from indigenous Americans shakes up scientists’ theories about human settlement of South America. Trump drops hints of what’s coming in new batch of UFO files set for release. Ah yes, the famously trustworthy information source that is Donald Trump… US Cold War operation used ‘vampire’ folklore to intimidate Philippine insurgents in the 1950s. Archaeologists unearth ‘advanced’ gold dental bridge in medieval Scottish grave. Reality emerges: Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental – so what…