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[ad_1] For over a century, U.S. officials have regarded Cuba as a plantation to exploit, rival to defeat, or dissenting voice to silence, never shedding their colonial outlook, writes Jonathan Ng. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth aboard a ship on Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, 2025. (U.S. Secretary of Defense/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) By Jonathan NgTruthout In recent months, President Donald Trump’s blockade against Cuba has generated blackouts and hunger, stretching society to its breaking point. Exploiting the crisis, Cuban American reactionaries across Florida are pressing for regime change. Decked in MAGA swag, they frequently gather along the palm tree-lined streets of…

[ad_1] TBI’s ‘dual-track’ approach to govt spending is more like a ‘dual-track-and-trace’ approach to social credit that requires every person to have a digital ID pegged to their finances: perspective The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) for Global Change calls on  governments to add an AI layer to digital ID to “rank taxpayers” and to target “discrenancies between taxpayer activity and declarations,” among many other Public  Financial Management (PFM) use cases.  Politics For the better half of a decade, The  Sociable and other outlets have been documenting how a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-style system of social credit starts with digital ID. “The long-term track strengthens the digital and fiscal…

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[ad_1] An unpublished chapter in the U.S. Democrats’ “autopsy” report on the party’s loss to Trump in the last presidential election made its way to The New York Times, as Brad Reed reports. Inside the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 19, 2024. (Chsdrummajor07 /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0)  By Brad ReedCommon Dreams The New York Times has published what it described as a “missing chapter” of the Democratic National Committee’s widely criticized “autopsy” of the 2024 presidential election. The chapter, titled “What Happened in 2024” and provided to the Times by Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, offers criticisms of party…

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[ad_1] Q: Is President Donald Trump really cutting Medicare subsidies? A: The Trump administration recently announced that it is ending a temporary subsidy that has reduced premiums for Medicare Part D standalone prescription drug plans. The subsidy, originally slated to run through at least 2027, was put into place by the Biden administration to offset expected premium increases after major changes to the Part D benefit. Analysts say some Medicare beneficiaries could see higher Part D premiums as a result.  FULL ANSWER We’ve received several questions from readers about whether the Trump administration is cutting or changing the Medicare Part…

[ad_1] I have some thoughts on Slaughter and Cook. In this new essay for Law & Liberty, titled A Tale of Two Chiefs, I was feeling Dickensian. Here is the introduction: Chief Justice John Roberts’s twentieth year on the Supreme Court demonstrates the contradictions of his career. There is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by not deciding more than is necessary to decide. Then there is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by deciding more than is necessary to decide. Which Roberts do we get in each case? This tale of two chiefs…

[ad_1] The Columbia Police Department (CPD) wants South Carolinians to know that it has zero tolerance for “hate speech,” and that’s a problem. Last week, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment organization, sent Columbia’s police chief a letter after the CPD posted an image on Facebook with text that says, “WE HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE FOR HATE SPEECH.” The image, posted on June 25, also features a police officer holding a phone that says “BLOCK LIST LOADING.” In the post’s caption, the CPD wrote, “We have seen an increase in vulgar, racist, threatening, bullying, and disrespectful…

[ad_1] “Unlock my fucking anime,” a Texas man told authorities in an expletive-laden rant last month. He now faces criminal charges. The man called the office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on July 25, apparently upset that he was being blocked from viewing anime of some sort. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. “I don’t know which one of you sons of bitches passed this motherfucking bill to get this damn shit blocking my motherfucking anime, but you whole ass motherfuckers need to…