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From NDMAscendant, LLC v. Matze, decided Thursday by the Nevada Supreme Court (Justices Kristina Pickering, Elissa Cadish, and Patricia Lee): This case arises from the firing of respondent John Matze, CEO of the former social media company, Parler LLC. Parler was a social media platform that touted its commitment to free speech. However, Parler was eventually deplatformed from Apple and Amazon app stores following allegations that the app was used by participants in the January 6, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol. In the aftermath of the deplatforming, Matze was fired, and he subsequently wrote a memorandum commenting on the…

Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.” “Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved from bureaucracy to business,” he said last Thursday. In a way he was right, though. The huge increase is much more about “business” than what is needed to protect the United States from potential invasion. But it isn’t the kind of “business” that most supporters…

President Donald Trump will meet with his team on Monday to discuss restarting the war against Iran.  Axios reported on Monday that three US officials said the President will gather with his top national security advisers to determine how Washington will move forward in the war against Iran. On Sunday, Trump rejected Iran’s peace proposal, calling it “totally unacceptable.” In remarks at the White House, the President declared the month-old ceasefire with Iran was on life support. When asked about the truce by a reporter in the Oval Office, Trump said, “It’s weak, it’s unbelievably weak.” He added, “I would…

Behind the Boom in Psychiatric Medication Source link

From Judge Gerald Lebovits (Manhattan trial court) in Tuesday’s Garlington v. Austin: In this action, plaintiff, Erik Garlington, brings claims for defamation … against defendants Nicole Austin (his former spouse) and Mark Burstiner. Plaintiff, a musician [see this Rolling Stone story -EV], alleges that defendants made defamatory statements that accuse plaintiff of criminal conduct, including rape, sexual assault, grooming minors, sex trafficking, serial killing, and felonies. Plaintiff asserts that defendants created a website titled “Known Rapist Erik Garlington” and posted allegedly defamatory statements on social media platforms like YouTube (a six-hour video). Plaintiff further alleges that defendants repeated the statements…

The serious-adverse-event signal found in the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccine trials has been in the peer-reviewed literature for nearly four years. Mainstream media outlets, on the rare occasions they address it, have treated it not as evidence to be weighed but as misinformation to be managed — dismissed on the authority of experts without relevant expertise, or simply ignored. A recent BBC Radio 4 broadcast is a near-textbook example. The broadcast aired on Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares, a BBC Radio 4 series hosted by Jamie Bartlett, whose stated purpose is to ask why, in so much of…

A Mother’s Day Challenge Source link

Ivy League Students Are Religiously Illiterate Source link

A journalist can be jailed, raided, and investigated for more than a year without ever being charged and that’s not a glitch, it’s the point. I sit down with investigative journalist Richard Medhurst to talk about his legal situation spanning the UK and Austria, where authorities have attempted to frame journalism as terrorism. We dig into what that kind of pressure does to reporting, academic work, and basic free speech, especially when the topic is Gaza and Western foreign policy. Then we zoom out to the story Richard says most people are missing: the energy war underneath the news. He…

Local elections show Reform surging and the establishment parties receding. Source link