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From Matthias Bastian (The Decoder) Tuesday: Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers …. The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company from spreading false claims about two Munich-based publishers through its AI-generated search overviews (case no. 26 O 869/26). The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the “AI overview” is its own content, not just a list of search results. Google’s AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams, subscription traps, and shady business practices for certain search…

In the first installment of How We Got Here, Jeffrey Wernick examined James Madison’s constitutional design and the safeguards intended to restrain concentrated power. In Part Two, he turned to the Anti-Federalists, whose warnings about centralized authority, financial privilege, and democratic erosion proved remarkably prescient. Now, in Part Three, Wernick follows the thread deeper into a question often left out of conventional histories: money itself. Drawing on the work of Thomas Paine and Lysander Spooner, this episode explores how monetary authority became inseparable from political authority. What happens when governments gain the power to control money? Can a political…

Britain’s moral collapse has, notoriously, produced industrial scale-rape of English girls by Muslim men. Source link

Earlier, I offered some high-level thoughts on the latest episode of As the Couch Turns. Here, I want to drill down into the details. First, the Eleventh Circuit’s decision to make this reprimand private must be contrasted with the Ninth Circuit’s decision to make Judge Nelson’s investigation public. I agree with Arthur Hellman that the Ninth Circuit had the authority to make this proceeding public, but the Chief Judge was not obligated to. Judge Nelson has been charged with minor offenses. Given his lack of criminal history, the charges are likely to be dismissed. All of this may come to…

Imran Khalid for Foreign Policy in Focus  The international community’s approach to conflict resolution has undergone a profound and dangerous structural shift, moving away from the pursuit of political settlements toward the permanent administration of crisis. This transition is vividly apparent in Rafah, where the newly established National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) has begun overseeing a reconstruction process stripped of any path toward genuine sovereignty or political renewal. What is being built instead is a sprawling, technocratic bureaucracy designed to manage human suffering indefinitely, transforming a site of active geopolitical dispossession into a permanent administrative holding pattern. The…

Theatrical release poster L to R: Harpo, Zeppo, Groucho, Chico – Fair Use Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot. – Marx Brothers, Duck Soup Among the many WTF questions that the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup politics flooding the land since Trump ’24 took office is surely this one: What’s Wrong with the American Voter? Some runner-up questions: Will there be MAGA after Trump is gone? Will Trump, alive or dead, ever be gone? Can the Democratic Party “unwoke”/”un-DEI” and what would they…

Educators increasingly cannot afford even life’s basic necessities, writes Randi Weingarten. Source link

When President Donald Trump traveled to Suffern, New York, for a rally, he introduced the crowd to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the expected Republican nominee for governor. Trump praised Blakeman for blazing a new trail for Republican politicians in Nassau County, a populous, largely suburban district on Long Island, when he won the county executive race in 2021. “Nassau County, it’s all Democrat,” Trump said at the May 22 rally. Referring to Blakeman, Trump said, “You know, when he ran years ago, he ran in Nassau. They said, you got to be kidding. It doesn’t happen. No Republican wins…

Dennis Spaulding’s baby was two days old when Spaulding became a federal felon. He was later sentenced to five years in prison and missed the first years of his daughter’s life. But Spaulding never sold drugs. He never stole a dime. He never seriously hurt anyone. He was a decorated and well-respected police officer. President Obama’s Justice Department targeted him out of ideological animus. Now President Trump, who plans to pardon 250 worthy individuals for America’s 250th birthday, should put Spaulding and his fellow East Haven Police Department officers – John Miller, David Cari, and Jason Zullo – at the…

Black Alliance for Peace Renews Call for Boycott of 2026 World Cup Hosted by the United States Joshua Scheer As the opening matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup begin, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) is renewing a demand that many dismissed when it was first issued on May 28: the international community should boycott the tournament being hosted by the United States. At the time, BAP’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights argued that the United States was fundamentally unfit to host the world’s largest sporting event, citing Washington’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, escalating military…