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[ad_1] “Let’s try this again,” outgoing White House Correspondents’ Association president Weijia Jiang told a ballroom filled with reporters on Friday night. “Because one thing about this press corps is that we always have a follow-up.” That kicked off the second correspondents’ dinner of the year – and for me. In April, I had just accepted a job offer from RealClearPolitics and went to the dinner with my soon-to-be colleagues. Hours later, I and nearly everyone else in the room were covering yet another apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump while our salads sat on our plates. That same night,…

[ad_1] An excerpt from the long opinion in Computer & Comm. Industry Ass’n v. Paxton, decided Friday by Fifth Circuit Judges Dana Douglas and Patrick Higginbotham: [1.] [Texas] H.B. 18 … imposes requirements on DSPs [Digital Service Providers]…. With the exception of its age-verification requirement, H.B. 18 applies only to DSPs whose digital service “connects users in a manner that allows users to socially interact with other users on the digital service,” “allows a user to create a public or semi-public profile for purposes of signing into and using the digital service,” and “allows a user to create or post…

[ad_1] Glen Canyon Dam, near Page, Arizona. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. It’s late July in Montana, which should be the perfect time to be casting a fly to rising trout on Montana’s once-famous blue ribbon streams. Only every day more and more of those streams join the restricted or closed list because there’s so little water left and it’s too hot for trout. In the meantime, the Iran War drags on, despite Trump’s claim it has already been won 38 times — surely enough to garner the Nobel Peace Prize the “no new wars” president covets. But not only hasn’t the war…

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[ad_1] Michigan Dems Have Chance to Save Their Party. Will They? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] US-Saudi Nuke Agreement Further Erodes International Safeguards [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Voter ID Would Solve New Jersey's Fraud Dilemma [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photo by İsmail Enes Ayhan “This is just like a free-for-all. There’s really no oversight. There’s really no regulation.” (Erin Brockovich, Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting) Erin Brockovich is a well-known American consumer advocate who made her name by exposing evidence that Pacific Gas & Electric poisoned groundwater in Hinkley, California (1996) with toxic hexavalent. Now, she’s investigating AI datacenters. AI date centers are everywhere, in every state throughout the land. They are starting to quasi-own American citizens via appropriation of resources, both human and natural. This is an invasion of the land, the water, the power, the intellectual…

[ad_1] Much of the political establishment continues to treat Trump’s rise as though it emerged from nowhere, when in reality it was built upon decades of accumulated economic betrayal, writes political scientist Marie Gottschalk.By Joshua ScheerScheerPost For decades, Americans have been told that rising crime, political polarization, and Donald Trump’s ascent are separate crises requiring separate solutions. Political scientist Marie Gottschalk argues they are all symptoms of the same deeper disease: an economic and political system that has steadily expanded punishment for ordinary people while shielding corporations and the wealthy from meaningful accountability. In a wide-ranging conversation with Chris Hedges about her new…

[ad_1] Also available on Substack. * * *In the United States (US) a gaggle of Silicon Valley oligarchs has formed a partnership that has seized operational control of the US defence sector. This group of oligarchs can be distinguished by their liking for the ideas presented in Nick Land’s Dark Enlightenment and their enthusiasm for Technocracy. They want to build what their guru Curtis Yarvin called a “patchwork of realms” in the form of a transnational network of privately owned city-states, or neostates. Inspired by both the Dark Enlightenment and Technocracy, a wider Neoreactionary movement (NRx) has formed, and the Silicon Valley oligarchs are its inspirational leaders. The…