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[ad_1] No To 'Reparations' in California, a 'Free State' Since 1850 [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The manuscript pages of James Joyce’s Ulysses with the original text in ink and Joyce’s edits in crayon. When was the last time you wrote something by hand? Was it a stylus signature at a checkout stand, a kitchen calendar reminder, or a note jotted down on a scrap of paper? These days, writing largely lives in the digital realm. Despite its advantages, handwriting has been pushed to the fringes of everyday life. Historian Christine Rosen, author of The Extinction of Experience, explains that handwriting is a vital embodied experience that allows us to make sense of our world.…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Mohamed al-Wahidi, 57 years old, a husband, father and grandfather, spent his days doing what aid workers do in a place with almost nothing left: clearing rubble, reopening roads, repairing a leaking pipe, filling a community water tank, or building tents for families with nowhere else to go. In his spare time, he carried out a “perilous project” setting up screens and generators across Gaza so people could watch the World Cup. On the eve of Egypt’s match against Argentina, Israel killed him along with the 33-year-old taxi driver as well as two young…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Gogerr – CC BY-SA 4.0 The morning of June 27, 2021: Lytton, British Columbia, woke up and, without realizing it, set a record it never knew it was in the running for. This is, in the popular imagination, the country of igloos and toques and six unbroken months of snow, a place where the postcard weather report is permanently set to “bundle up”, the last country on earth anyone would picture reaching for sunscreen instead of a parka. By midday it had reached 46.6°C (115.9°F), a new Canadian all-time high. Not to be outdone by itself, it…

[ad_1] Officials in Culver City, California, are considering a permanent ban on new fast-food restaurants with drive-thru lanes. The proposal grew out of opposition to a planned In-N-Out location, with city leaders and some residents saying drive-thrus create more traffic, air pollution from idling cars, and safety problems for pedestrians and cyclists. Supporters say the ban would make the city more walkable and better fit its long-term environmental goals. The restaurant industry argues the plan would hurt businesses, because most fast-food sales come through drive-thrus, and it would be harder for large families, older adults, and people with disabilities to use…

[ad_1] Marco Rubio, image by Wikipedia. Fox News host Martha MacCallum recently interviewed New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Gustavo Gordillo, clashing over whether the DSA’s platform is “anti-American” and challenging Gordillo’s immigrant roots. MacCallum reminded Gordillo that his family left Peru, suggesting their reasons might be related to the communist uprising led by the Shining Path and not, as Gordillo claims, related to U.S. imperialism. MacCallum contrasted this by discussing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Cuban immigrant family’s embrace of American capitalism, weaponizing it against Gordillo’s embrace of socialist policies. She then played a clip of…

[ad_1] 7/20/1990: Justice William Brennan resigns. Justice William BrennanThe post Today in Supreme Court History: July 20, 1990 appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] From Liu v. Augustine Fellowship SLAA Felowship-Wide Services Inc., decided July 11 by N.Y. trial court judge Judy Kim: The gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint is that in March 2024 her former romantic partner began attending “sex and/or love addiction” meetings organized by defendant Greater NY Intergroup, Inc. … and reading publications by defendant The Augustine Fellowship SLAA Fellowship-Wide Services Inc … promoting “no contact” recovery from sex addiction. Three months later, plaintiff’s former partner told her that he had “sex and/or love addiction,” for which she was a trigger, and that other Intergroup members and the Augustine Fellowship’s literature…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: צילום: איציק אדרי – CC BY 2.5 “Supporting the U.S.-Israeli relationship is quickly becoming a minority view among congressional Democrats, a shockingly seismic shift in a brief period of time.  You have Socialists running on an anti-American platform: ‘yes’ to Hamas and ‘no’ to supporting one of our closest democratic allies.” – Representative Josh Gottheimer, Dem/NJ, The New York Times, July 16, 2026 There are numerous myths espoused by Jewish and non-Jewish supporters of Israel that deny the violent displacement of Palestinians from Israel in 1948 as well as support for the belief that the June 1967…

[ad_1] It is almost impossible to imagine, but very, very soon, soldiers engaged in battle will be as outmoded as high button shoes, or gentlemen standing up when shaking hands with a lady. In fact there will be no more ground, air, or sea fighting by humans, no more intimate observations by war correspondents enlarging their own roles, no more pics of masculine swagger after a bloody victory.  And no, it is not that male tough guys have turned sensitive and no longer shoot first and ask questions later. It is very simple really: The male animal has been replaced…