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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. Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost I was raised in Ohio, where scarlet red means two things. It means loyalty to the Ohio State Buckeyes, whose fans wear scarlet and gray with devout fervor. But it also means politics: a deep, durable red of grievance, conservatism and now Trumpism. In many towns, support for Donald Trump became less a preference than…

One day after submitting the bill for a 40 hour work week to Congress, Lula met with union leaders in Brasilia. On April 14, President Lula submitted a bill to Congress that, if passed, will reduce Brazil’s work week to 40 hours. It was submitted under the legal condition “constitutional urgency” meaning that Congress is required to bring it to a floor vote within 45 days. During a press conference the following day, Lula’s Chief of Staff, Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) said that he believes the measure will be passed within 3 months. The Lula administration has spent the last 3…

President Donald Trump’s doubts about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) date back at least to the 1980s, when he took out full-page newspaper ads questioning the value of defending prosperous allies capable of paying for their own security. So, when he voices frustration with the alliance and the lack of support among its members for the U.S. and Israeli campaign against Iran’s theocratic regime, it’s not a new development. What’s new is growing disenchantment with NATO among Americans, led by the president’s Republican supporters. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary…

A federal judge sentenced former Baltimore City Schools Police Officer Lawrence Smith to one year and one day in jail. Smith admitted stealing $215,000 in overtime pay and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion. Officials began investigating after a local TV station found Facebook Live videos showing Smith on vacation, coaching football, and driving a boat on the Chesapeake Bay when his overtime forms suggest he was working. Smith will also have to pay $215,352 in restitution to Baltimore City Public Schools and $61,233 to the IRS. The post Brickbat: Hard at Work appeared first on Reason.com. Source…

Image by Saifee Art. It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless drive for military escalation suggests precisely that. After all, his openly declared quest for a “greater Israel” would require exactly this kind of permanent militarism—endless expansion and sustained regional destruction. However, Israel cannot sustain an open-ended fight on multiple fronts indefinitely. Israeli officials boast about fighting on “seven fronts,” but many of these are, in military terms, largely…

From Monday’s decision in Doe v. Yale Univ., by Dennis Jacobs, Richard C. Wesley, and Michael H. Park: Plaintiff Jane Doe appeals from an order of the district court denying her motion to proceed by pseudonym as well as the district court’s order denying reconsideration. Doe, a student in Yale Law School’s Doctor of Juridical Science (“J.S.D.”) program, sued Yale University, Director of Student Accessibility Services Kimberly McKeown, and Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs Gordon Silverstein (collectively, “Yale”), alleging [disability] discrimination and retaliation … as well as breach of contract. Doe primarily claimed that Yale improperly refused to extend her…

The lobster triumphs. In a special election yesterday, 51 percent of Virginia voters approved a heavily gerrymandered congressional map that will likely give Democrats control of all but one House seat in the purple state. The state’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives is currently comprised of six Democrats and four Republicans. Under the new map approved by voters, that will likely become 10 Democrats and one Republican, come the November midterms. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. Virginia’s congressional map is normally drawn by…

Presidents have been perverting “consent of the governed” for centuries. “Consent of the governed” was a signature line of the Declaration of Independence, and it has echoed in official declarations ever since Jefferson’s time. President Harry Truman assured Congress in 1952, “No government can be invested with a higher dignity and greater worth than one based upon the principle of consent.” But this has long since been a charade. As the federal government has become far larger and more heavy-handed, it is ever more important to persuade people that they consented to their oppression. But political consent is gauged very…

Vice President J.D. Vance told confidants last week that walking out of negotiations with Iran and announcing a blockade on Iranian ports “would probably force the Iranians to fold within a few days,” according to the Financial Times. Instead, Vance found himself stood up by Iranian negotiators, who waited until the last minute on Tuesday afternoon to announce that they would not attend the second round of talks in Pakistan. President Donald Trump, who had threatened “to be bombing” the minute that the U.S.-Iranian ceasefire expired on Wednesday, instead announced that he would “hold our Attack on the Country of…

I’m not sure if Reality is falling apart, but I’m starting to detect some serious buckling over here… What intentional communities can teach us about resilience amid global instability. 98% of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are just greenwashing. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth wants warriors who are not afraid of anything—except, perhaps, needles. How RFK Jr.’s vaccine agenda risks a resurgence of deadly childhood plagues. Archaeologists have found that humans were deliberately crossing open seas in the Philippine islands by about 40,000 years ago. Human ancestors butchered and ate elephants 1.8 million years ago, helping to fuel their large…