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Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said that West Jerusalem needs to be prepared to resume attacks on Iran. This announcement comes as media reports claiming that the head of US Central Command, Brad Cooper, has briefed US President Donald Trump on a plan for the potential renewal of military action against Iran in a bid to pressure it to consent to a more favorable peace deal. According to The Jerusalem Post, what Cooper described as the “final blow” against Tehran could include a “short and powerful wave of strikes” targeting Iran’s “remaining military assets, leadership and infrastructure.” Pentagon Prepares “Final Blow” In Case…

Things are getting bad out there, but the Wednesday Grail news briefs are here to soothe your frazzled nerves… Was Bigfoot just spotted in Ohio? Reported sightings stoke a long-running hunt for answers. Just show us the spaceships already: Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is just a story. (Archived page link) Buried in Sudan’s desert, 280 vast ancient stone circles reveal a vanished cattle-herding culture. Free energy from the vacuum? Warp drive pioneer unveils battery-free ‘Microsparc’ that allegedly draws power from the quantum vacuum. Interstellar…

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Image by Ioannis Xenidis. After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on November 4, 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.” The same might now be said about humanity’s struggle to defeat the dire threat of global climate change caused by our never-ending burning of fossil fuels. The illegal war of aggression on Iran, abruptly launched on February 28, 2026, by the governments of…

Amsterdam has banned advertisements for both meat and fossil fuels as part of its plan to fight climate change. Since May 1, ads for things such as burgers, gasoline-powered cars, airlines, and cruise vacations have been removed from billboards, tram stops, and metro stations across the city. City leaders say the goal is to help Amsterdam become carbon neutral by 2050. Source link

Last week, Clarence Thomas became the second-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. If he remains on the bench through 2028, he will surpass the Franklin D. Roosevelt-appointed William O. Douglas as the longest-serving justice of them all. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. Like it or not, Thomas will also go down in the books as one of the most influential justices in SCOTUS history. “In one big case after another, from the expansion of gun rights to the elimination of…

Downtown Minneapolis protest, January 2026. Image Wikipedia. Earlier this year, when ICE invaded Minneapolis in a horrific siege that is no longer discussed but is absolutely ongoing, my home in the heart of “flyover country” was again thrust into the national and international spotlight, as it was after George Floyd’s murder. And again—as if the Twin Cities’ vibrant literary community is somehow unequipped to write about the happenings of their home with the nuance necessary for reporting that’s not only accurate, but actually sophisticated—the parachute reporting laced with intellectually lazy observations and pedestrian analyses from publications that are somehow still…

A Colorado statute that was supposed to take effect next month would take a regulatory mechanism familiar from civil rights law—the requirement that private actors examine outcomes by race and adjust their conduct when the numbers come out wrong—and push it into territory the Supreme Court so far has avoided presiding over: artificial intelligence. Colorado Senate Bill 24-205, currently under challenge in federal court by Elon Musk’s xAI and the Department of Justice, was sold to Coloradans as a shield against “algorithmic discrimination.” This is a term that, in the law’s own usage, does not mean what an ordinary citizen…

Xi and DeepSeek: Chinese artificial intelligence giant DeepSeek has now been optimized to run on Huawei-produced chips, reducing any possible dependence on U.S. products. Announcements last month indicate that DeepSeek is spending way less on chips than American counterparts OpenAI and Anthropic. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. But it’s “the timing of DeepSeek’s announcement—before this week’s scheduled summit between President [Donald] Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader—[that] gives Beijing fresh confidence entering trade talks that U.S. export controls on Nvidia chips have not derailed China’s…

With three weeks until Election Day, the sudden ascendancy of Pratt’s candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles has Democrats in panic mode in the Golden State. Source link