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For the first time during the current war with Iran, the House passed a resolution June 3 that could eventually force President Donald Trump to step back from military attacks. The House vote came about two weeks after the Senate voted to advance its own resolution, which has similar but not identical terms. The legislative jockeying over the War Powers Resolution comes amid public opposition to the war and its effects, including higher gasoline prices from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. and Israeli attacks. The House vote passed 215-208, with four Republicans — Reps. Thomas…

The Debug Project at Google (parent company Alphabet) aims to drastically reduce the populations of mosquitoes in California and Florida. Hooray! Debug is seeking an experimental use permit from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release 64 million lab-grown male mosquitoes (they don’t bite) that are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria over two years. The infected males breed with wild (biting and disease-carrying) females who later lay eggs that do not hatch. The result: a mosquito population crash resulting in far less risk of people acquiring mosquito-borne illnesses. Spreading lab-grown, Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes as a way to drastically reduce the…

No incumbent mayor of the country’s second-largest city has faced a runoff in more than two decades. Source link

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei said that the US and Israel had suffered a humiliating defeat. In a statement published on Thursday, Khamenei said the US and Israel’s “system of domination” has suffered a historic defeat. He explained that Washington and Tehran had shifted to targeting Iranian society through psychological warfare. 🔺 Iran’s Supreme Leader: “The Enemy Has Been Defeated — Now It Wages Hybrid War” Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei addressing citizens Thursday on the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir and the 37th anniversary of Khomeini’s death, declared that the U.S.-Israeli “system of domination”… pic.twitter.com/sKpcqB2mVL — Drop Site (@DropSiteNews)…

An Autopsy of the DNC Campaign Autopsy Source link

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow criticized an economic development program during a May debate, saying the state has shelled out billions for corporate subsidies but has little to show for it.  “Michigan has spent more than $2.5 billion on incentives to companies since 2019, and so far, that fund, the (Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve) fund, has created zero jobs,” McMorrow said during the May 28 Democratic primary debate. McMorrow supported the fund in 2021 but has since backed away from it, citing a lack of resulting jobs. McMorrow, chair of the Michigan Senate’s Economic and Community Development Committee, is…

What Just Happened in California? Source link

Among critics of “wokeness,” an increasingly heated debate has emerged about what should be done about university disciplines shaped by postmodern-derived Critical Social Justice theories—most notably Gender Studies. Some argue that these fields should be dismantled entirely. Others believe they should be reformed to operate under the normal standards of academic inquiry. The Reform vs. Abolition Debate The term “woke” originated in Black American history to describe awareness of real and widely recognized systemic injustice, as in being alert to the very real oppression going on in society. In its contemporary usage, however, it has expanded to refer to a theoretical…

A former Mossad operative writing under the pseudonym “Adam Feyn” has published a new Hebrew-language book, “Hoda’ah Goralit” (Fateful Message), that provides an insider account of the September 2024 operation in which thousands of booby-trapped pagers belonging to Hezbollah were detonated across Lebanon. [1] In his first English-language interview, given to The Jerusalem Post, Feyn revealed new details about the plot, including a targeted killing of a Hezbollah operative to protect the operation, Iran’s near discovery of the scheme, and internal Israeli debates over timing. [1] The operation on September 17-18, 2024, killed at least 42 people and injured more than…

Identifying-and avoiding-the lines of thinking that doom us. Source link