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[ad_1] It was a lot of sound and fury signifying next to nothing, as most of the bills the Senate passed and the ones it punted to September are doomed. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] A short excerpt from the long opinion Friday by Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff (E.D. Va.) in Apelbaum v. Bloom: Plaintiffs Yaacov Apelbaum and XRVision Ltd., a cybersecurity and facial recognition technology expert and his company, filed suit against Defendant Jordan Arthur Bloom, a blogger and journalist, on January 28, 2025. In the original complaint, Plaintiffs alleged that Defendant had made certain defamatory statements about them in a January 29, 2024, Substack blog post (the “First Article”) regarding Plaintiff Apelbaum being an “Israeli spy.” The First Article was purportedly republished in a November 23, 2024, Substack post (the “Second Article”)…

[ad_1] The Peace President – by Mr. Fish Chris Hedges ScheerPost There is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is no roadmap to ending the genocide or mechanism to creation of a Palestinian state. Israel has refused to implement or abide by any of the conditions of Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” since its inception. It won’t begin to honor them now. There is only genocide. It changes shape and intensity. But it does not change its essence. Trump’s plan is a mirage, a conjuring trick, a fleeting vanity project.…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A major dereliction by the feeble Democratic Party leadership is their unwillingness to address the political amnesia they have allowed corrupt, lying, cruel, outlaw tyrant Trump to enjoy with political impunity. Trump has been more than willing to fill the vacuum created by this abdication.  That is his business and political modus operandi (MO).  His daily lies, boasts, and fantasies have polluted the political landscape.  Moreover, his false claims are rarely rebutted by the haughty Dems who view his diatribes as beneath them to counter. The Democratic Party leadership needs a compelling “REMINDERS” platform…

[ad_1] High-Trust U.S. Undermined by Imported Corruption [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] I am intrigued by the story of Jason Arday, who recently resigned his professorship at Cambridge. Most of the press accounts focus on his serious fabulism. He boasted about feats of physical strength—like running six hundred miles in six days—that are nearly-physically impossible. Worse, these are stories that can easily be refuted. Apparently, no one in the ultra-marathon circles knew who he was. It is almost comical that a major publisher gave him a seven-figure book advance. The lies Arday told about his personal story are problematic, but the far more pressing issue is his academic record. For years,…

[ad_1] Danny Goldberg ScheerPost There’s a store that I walk by every day on my way to work in midtown Manhattan that caters to tourists. They sell keychains, toys and hoodies with images of the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State building and New York sports teams. A tee shirt in the window features the phrase, “I survived my trip to NYC.” Others display logos of the local police and fire departments, but only two of the shirts in the window have human faces. One is of Donald Trump with his fist raised, accompanied by the phrase “Legends Never…

[ad_1] I saw the movie, Disclosure Day. I was not impressed. It was (mild spoiler alert) a completely unimaginative wet dream of what the UFO community fantasizes the government is hiding from all of us. There were no new interesting angles or plot twists or deeper story elements added to this now standard modern mythology. I kept waiting for the story to get actually interesting. It never did. What would have been a far more brilliant movie, in my opinion (but not one that Spielberg, a believer, would ever do) is if, at the end of the movie, when the…

[ad_1] Paul Krugman remains one of the left’s most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump’s ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends that Trump’s policies have made crime worse than it otherwise would have been. But if Trump’s policies truly reflect “cruelty,” how should we account for the lives they may have saved – particularly the lives of black Americans, who suffer a disproportionate share of murder victimization? His column illustrates how people on the political left are trying to explain away…

[ad_1] Most people believe China just makes cheap, copycat drugs. But many biotech insiders know better. China’s rapid rise as an industry force has the earmarks of its takeovers of other U.S. industries, writes Bethany McLean. [ad_2] Source link