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[ad_1] It’s the “democratic” socialist moment. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) engineered the primary victories of three winning candidates in New York’s recent congressional races. A week later, DSA-backed Melat Kiros toppled a 30-year incumbent in Colorado’s 1st congressional district, sailing to victory. “You are the proof that the power of organized people beats the power of organized money,” Kiros told supporters. When House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D–N.Y.) appeared onscreen at a Zohran Mamdani victory party in New York, the crowd chanted, “You’re next, you’re next, you’re next.” The socialists aim to take over the Democratic Party, and…

[ad_1] Before Evan Barker split with the Democratic Party in 2024, she says she raised $50 million for its candidates, especially those on the progressive fringe. In her new memoir Nothing Left, the 35-year-old political operative who was raised working-class in the Midwest says she got so tired of the classism and identity politics of party elites that she ended up voting for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris. Barker, who suffers from serious congenital medical conditions, talks about being activated into politics by Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act, staging the first event where Bernie Sanders met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,…

[ad_1] FIRST WATCH THIS VIDEO- EXPOSED! Why Trump Carries This Mysterious Salt Everywhere He Goes An empirical analysis of the systemic disintegration of real monetary reserves and the critical moment when the majority will no longer afford financial protection We stand at the precipice of a monetary fracture unprecedented in modern history, and the signs are so glaring that only the ideologically blind refuse to acknowledge them. Central bank gold reserves in the Western bloc have reached critical thresholds while real physical demand has outpaced global extraction capacity by a margin that deepens exponentially with each fiscal quarter. Data published by…

[ad_1] Most of the votes are in, and it looks like former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is going to win the Michigan Democratic Party’s much-watched Senate primary.  Coverage of the race has treated it as the latest battle in Democrats’ civil war; the progressive (but not officially socialist) El-Sayed was going up against the more moderate Rep. Haley Stevens (D–Mich.). El-Sayed’s likely victory would seem to confirm that Democrats’ left flank is ascendent in this intra-party struggle.  The well-covered fissures between El-Sayed and Stevens include their stances on Israel (El-Sayed calls Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide, Stevens wants…

[ad_1] John and I read and discuss chp 1-3 of Ordinary Men [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Todd Blanche should not be the Attorney General of the United States, though it appears he is about to assume that office thanks to 50 Republican Senators* who are, it seems, going to confirm him for that position. *As far as I am aware, Susan Collins is the only Republican Senator who has declared that she will vote against Blanche’s nomination. Senators Cronyn and Tillis withdrew their opposition when Blanche issued an order formally rescinding his earlier order setting up an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as part of the “Settlement Agreement” reached between the IRS and our President, and limiting the…

[ad_1] This morning I posted a new draft article, The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie, on SSRN.  It’s about the Supreme Court’s late June ruling, Chatrie v. United States.  The article abstract:  At the end of the Supreme Court’s recent Term, the Court handed down a Fourth Amendment ruling in Chatrie v. United States about what is a Fourth Amendment “search.” Although the case has received little attention so far, it is a blockbuster. Chatrie presents itself as an application of precedent, but a close read shows that it repeatedly recasts old cases and adopts new principles for the Fourth Amendment.…

[ad_1] Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel Iran said a deal with Oman that would establish a new mechanism for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz is nearly complete.  “The geographic coordinates of the route envisioned by both sides have been agreed upon,” the spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Esmail Baghaei, explained. “If certain third parties do not obstruct the process, a joint statement by the two countries, containing the principal considerations and points of agreement, is currently in the final stages of review and drafting.”  According to officials speaking with The New York Times, the deal would allow ships to enter…

[ad_1] In one month, from May to June, overall inflation in the U.S. dropped at the “fastest rate in more than six years,” as President Donald Trump said in late July remarks. But he has repeatedly cited the statistic while wrongly suggesting that the inflation rate is now “way down” from when he took office. It’s not. Photo by alvaro gonzalez via Getty Images. The big one-month drop came after several months of increases in the inflation rate that were largely due to high oil and gasoline prices caused by the war with Iran. When the U.S. and Iran were…

[ad_1] The civil war in Sudan is one of the most brutal conflicts in the world today. In October 2025, a group of mutineers known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur province. RSF fighters were videoed (or videoed themselves) shooting captives and brutalizing civilians. The corpses and blood in the streets were visible from space, and estimates of the dead range from 10,000 to 150,000. The U.S. State Department and U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan have both accused the RSF of genocide. A contractor tied to U.S. special operations may…