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[ad_1] Zelenskyy comes to Washington: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seems to believe Russia is preparing to bring 30,000 North Korean troops into the war. “This is a threat not only to Ukraine. Russia is helping North Korea learn how to wage war, improve its weapons and gain real combat experience in using them,” said Zelenskyy this past week. Now he’s come to Washington, D.C., to meet with President Donald Trump—who seems to be surprisingly amenable to meeting with him, despite past tensions—and to honor Ukraine defender Lindsey Graham, who died earlier this month and whose funeral will be held this week.…
[ad_1] Austin Sarat ScheerPost When the Congress of the United States appropriates funds for a particular purpose, it is the president’s job to expend those funds as directed by Congress. Seems simple enough. While disputes have arisen from time to time when presidents have either refused to spend such funds or redirected them to other purposes, they have been few and far between. All that changed when Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office. Since then, his administration has canceled funding on a regular basis, undeterred by court decisions that their actions are illegal. It has tried to fend…
[ad_1] “It’s money,” the Murdoch-controlled California Post’s boyishly handsome photographer smiled sheepishly in explanation for his presence, while the more aloof San Francisco Chronicle photographer offered no such excuses. On a bench across from them, excluded from the men’s club, sat Gina Castro, KQED’s young photographer. “It’s always like this,” she whispered with quiet resignation, of the men’s club on the other bench that offered her no seat. One of the local news cameramen had dragged in a comically large video camera and a tripod. The tripod, which was taller than himself, looked more like weaponry than video equipment. “Is that a tripod…
[ad_1] As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my… [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] ‘Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!How oft would vice and virtue places change!The new world would be nothing to the old,If some Columbus of the moral seasWould show mankind their souls’ antipodes. — Byron, Don Juan From Stewart v. Pemiscot County, decided yesterday by Judge Stephen Clark (E.D. Mo.): This case proves the wisdom of Lord Byron, who is credited with the maxim truth is stranger than fiction. Stewart pleaded guilty to statutory rape. Several years later, his…
[ad_1] Story at-a-glance Bipolar disorder and depression affect tens of millions globally, long treated as strictly brain-based illnesses, yet both consistently show high rates of insulin resistance and metabolic disturbances A 2025 Nature Neuroscience study found that pancreatic insulin release and hippocampal activity are linked through a circadian feedback loop. This suggests bipolar mood shifts arise from disrupted metabolism, not brain chemistry alone Earlier research in 2022 showed lithium stabilizes mood partly by restoring insulin signaling, while a clinical trial found metformin improved both insulin sensitivity and psychiatric symptoms in treatment-resistant bipolar depression patients Insulin resistance is extremely widespread, with…
[ad_1] Democrats need Michigan to regain control of the Senate in the midterms. Abdul El-Sayed, not Rep. Haley Stevens, is the one for the job. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Why Isn't Trump Finishing the Job in Iran? [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain I. Seymour Hersh reported yesterday that the White House has an operational plan for November, and that the plan does not depend on persuading anyone. The man running it, according to Hersh, is Stephen Miller, whose assignment is to keep Democrats from taking Senate seats in a short list of contested states: Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas. The method has nothing to do with rooting out fraud. Hersh’s sources describe a plan to station uniformed troops at polling places in the closest races, with Marine…
[ad_1] Ending the war can strengthen the prospects for democracy. [ad_2] Source link