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[ad_1] When asked at a U.S. Senate hearing whether she thinks mRNA vaccines are safe and effective, CDC director nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz replied, “I do believe that mRNA technology is safe and effective.” Both the question and the answer show a serious lack of scientific understanding. When asked at a U.S. Senate hearing whether she thinks mRNA vaccines are safe and effective, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz replied, “I do believe that mRNA technology is safe and effective.” Your new CDC Director just said “I do believe that mRNA technology is safe and effective.”Erica…

[ad_1] Rhode Island property targeted for condemnation to prevent construction of affordable housing on the site. (PLF).   Last year, I wrote about SCLS Realty v. Town of Johnston, a case where property owners challenged a Rhode Island town’s plan to use eminent domain as a tool for blocking a housing project opposed by local NIMBYs. A few days, ago a federal district court invalidated the use of eminent domain there. But not on the “public use” grounds discussed in my 2025 post. Rather, the Court ruled that the Town was never delegated the authority to use eminent domain for…

[ad_1] The Supreme Court Justices (2023). (Pool/ABACA/Newscom)   Debate over the Supreme Court’s performance in recent years has become highly polarized. So it’s worth noting that prominent left-liberal Georgetown law professor  David Cole recently published a qualified defense of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings in the New York Review. He emphasizes their crucial role in constraining abuses of power by Trump. Cole is also the former National Director of the ACLU, and thus – to understate the point – not a natural ally of the Court’s conservative majority. As we shall see, he’s far from an unqualified fan of their recent…

[ad_1] Russia’s parliament passed its first comprehensive crypto law, creating a state-regulated framework for exchanges and investors. Russia’s State Duma passed a law on Tuesday that regulates the circulation of crypto and digital rights for the first time, a framework that sets rules for crypto exchanges, digital depositories, and investors while it opens a state-supervised channel for cross-border trade. Lawmakers cleared bill No. 1194918-8, “On Digital Currency and Digital Rights,” in its second and third readings, the final stage in the chamber, according to semi-official Russian news agency Tass.  The measure heads to the Federation Council and to President Vladimir Putin for a…

[ad_1] We are still drifting along in this “short-term pain for long-term gain” narrative arc.  Remember when they told us it would just be a few days, maybe a few weeks? Well, we’re cruising past month five now, and the script is getting so loud it’s a miracle anyone is still falling for it. Just look at the timing. Donald Trump goes on television declaring that the US is officially taking over the Strait of Hormuz – crowning himself the “guardian of the strait.” Literally minutes later, breaking footage drops of the bulk carrier Lonnie splitting in two and sinking…

[ad_1] Spain has condemned the "selfish, polarising and unlawful" reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco to Ceuta. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Elon Musk’s recent interview with The Economist underscored a simple but increasingly uncomfortable truth: In today’s political climate, stating the obvious can sound like provocation. The Overton Window, the range of ideas considered acceptable in public debate, has not merely drifted, it has been pulled away from the constraints of reality. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In the summer of 2004, as the Democratic Party hurtled toward its second defeat at the hands of George W. Bush, the Kansas City-born historian and writer Thomas Frank published What’s the Matter With Kansas? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] While politicians and central bankers scramble to deploy total financial control grid mechanisms, a parallel network of uncompromised, privacy-first infrastructure is quietly rendering their coercion obsolete. The global surveillance state is expanding at a terrifying pace, but beneath the surface of their algorithmic control grid, a quiet mutiny is brewing. For years, the narrative has been intentionally bleak—central bank digital currencies looming on the horizon, cash being systematically criminalized, and every transaction scrutinized by unease-inducing government bureaucracies. Yet, the counter-surveillance movement is experiencing an unprecedented surge of momentum, arming peaceful individuals with the technological weaponry needed to make state…