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Project Blue Beam here we come We’ve all heard about Project Blue Beam, which revolves around a fake alien invasion of Earth. Many have speculated that we were on the verge of such a fake invasion before. So I’m certainly not going to predict one now. However, if you wanted to distract the public in such a massive way, this seems like the perfect time. Donald Trump recently rekindled such suspicions, with a speech at a Turning Point USA event. How appropriate, given that TPUSA’s outlandish CEO, Erika Kirk, is as close to fake as it gets. Trumpenstein ordered federal…
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Just when you think smartphone panic can’t get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones are why people worldwide are having fewer kids. There’s one very simple, very obvious flaw with this theory: Fertility rates have been falling for hundreds of years. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. History Time! In the U.S., the total fertility rate—that is, the average number of kids a woman in a given time period will have in her lifetime—has been…
U.S. bomber prepares to launch a strike mission from Al Udeid AIr Base, Qatar, April 2018, in support of the multinational response to reports of Syria’s recent use of chemical weapons. (U.S. Air Force/Phil Speck) But the German military toxicologists, who were consulted by the OPCW in June 2018, were more definite. The Germans told the OPCW that the circumstances of the fatalities — apparent immediate death and collapse in piles at the center of two rooms, a failure to escape and rapid profuse foaming at the mouth and nose — were inconsistent with chlorine poisoning. According to the then-head…
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Iran officially unveiled the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on Monday, formalizing its mechanism to regulate access and collect transit fees from vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as a ceasefire to the Iran War entered its 41st day. President Donald Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday about the possibility of renewing the war, the Times of Israel reported. The same day, Trump posted on Truth Social, “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them.” Two unnamed Middle East officials cited by the New…
From today’s Second Circuit decision in Christian v. Keane, in an opinion by Judge Joseph Bianco, joined by Judge Eunice Lee and, as to the Private Proverty Provision, Judge Steven Menashi: These two appeals involve Plaintiffs’ Second Amendment challenge to New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act (“CCIA”) provisions prohibiting firearm possession in two types of locations: (1) private property “where [a] person knows or reasonably should know that the owner or lessee of such property has not permitted such possession by clear and conspicuous signage indicating that the carrying of [guns] on their property is permitted or by otherwise giving express…
Stacey Abrams seizes an opportunity to make her state more like Wisconsin. Source link
Rep. Pat Fallon says China, Russia and Iran actively target Congress, calls for mandatory counterintelligence training through the STOP Resolution. Source link
Trump comes back from Beijing claiming he got a major concession from Xi on Iran, but what happens when the key details are private, unverifiable, and packaged for headlines? We walk through the public messaging, the contradictions, and the incentives on both sides, then ask the blunt question: was this diplomacy, or was it theater designed to look like leverage? We also dig into Xi’s unusually direct framing about a world “at a crossroads” and the Thucydides Trap, and why that language matters for U.S.-China relations, great power competition, and the risk of conflict over Taiwan. From there, we zoom…