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[ad_1] Truthful Fictions There are three lines drawn in the sand. The wind blows, the lines scatter in the wind. Nature observes the fragile agreement. What will time remember? Maybe the transience of time and space. “Will the wind remember The names it has blown in the past?” — Jimi Hendrix I merely urged my camera to explore the celluloid possibilities. I needed the adventure. I needed to cross boundaries in time and space. I needed to know what might be seen if I ventured across the dare. There is a purpose I imagine every day. If I cross over the…

[ad_1] From F.F. v. Valley View Comm. Unit School Dist. 365U, decided Monday by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman (N.D. Ill.): Plaintiff is an 18-year-old female who was previously enrolled at Bolingbrook High School. On November 4, 2024, at around 10:00 a.m., Plaintiff entered a girls’ multi-use restroom labeled “girls’ bathroom.” After using and exiting a stall, Plaintiff observed a transgender student, who she was familiar with, dressed in “male-typical clothing … with no visible indication of female identity,” standing in close proximity to her stall. Plaintiff feared that the student could have seen her undergarments or her exposed body through…

[ad_1] From yesterday’s decision in N.Y. Times Co. v. U.S. Dep’t of Defense, by Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson and Patricia Millett, which stayed a lower court order that had blocked the policy: [O]n the record before us, [the government defendants-Appellants] are likely to succeed on their argument that [the] generally applicable escort requirement does not constitute a “sufficiently adverse action to give rise to an actionable First Amendment claim” of retaliation. [Plaintiffs-Appellees] have not argued that the escort requirement is not, in fact, generally applicable and applied across the board to all reporters. Nor have they argued that the policy…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – Public Domain All the signals are flashing red. On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump’s unpopularity. So he’s setting up Plan B–do whatever you need to do to win. Anything. Anyone who says ‘Well, he wouldn’t do THAT’ hasn’t paid attention.” – David Axelrod, July 11, 2026 I’m no fan of the former top Obama strategist David Axelrod, his party (the dismal capitalist-imperialist Democrats), or US bourgeois electoral politics more broadly, God knows, but Axelrod ain’t wrong here. Anything indeed. We should be long past “Trump wouldn’t…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivered a rare primetime address about an issue that has consumed him for years — the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. In his nearly 30-minute speech, Trump argued that foreign countries — notably China — interfered in the 2020 election. In some cases, he said, the “deep state” had concealed damning information from him and “from you.”  Trump quoted years-old intelligence community documents, including some that had been declassified or partially redacted, without noting a distinction between what China may have planned versus what analysts say it did. “Our elections…

[ad_1] From Judge Hala Jarbou (W.D. Mich.) yesterday in Daghra v. Hinkley: Petitioner, a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee, initiated this action by filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. An immigration judge had granted Petitioner a bond of $35,000, but the bond order was stayed pending appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.19(i) (2025). Petitioner argued that the 90-day automatic stay provision in § 1003.19(i) violates the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, and sought an order requiring the Government to allow him to…

[ad_1] Global weather patterns have begun to resemble a Hollywood disaster movie, and the mainstream media is starting to admit what many of us have known all along. Thanks to the “Super El Niño” that is now upon us, the second half of this year is going to be really crazy. Europe was just hit by the worst heatwave that it has ever experienced. Throughout all of last week, I was writing about the “mega heat dome” that brought unprecedented temperatures to many areas of the east coast. As I write this article, an absolutely colossal storm is causing apocalyptic damage in…

[ad_1] An American biotech company that specializes in human tissue therapy* has been waiting for nearly three years for the Food and Drug Administration to process an application to sell products overseas. Now, it is asking a federal court to get involved—and giving the Trump administration a chance to fix a mess made by its predecessor. Regenative Labs sued the FDA in federal district court on Thursday, alleging that the agency has “unlawfully withheld” a license the FDA awards to signal to foreign governments that products meet U.S. regulatory standards—a crucial step in being able to sell American-made medical tech…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Beyond My Ken – CC BY-SA 4.0 In this crucial mid-term election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a 50-year old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other vets to run for office, is playing the vet (and youth) card in his September 1 primary challenge to nearly 80-year -old Senator Ed Markey.  “We can’t just have people who seem like tired old Democrats,” says U.S. Representative Seth Moulton, who is giving up…

[ad_1] In a July 16 prime-time speech that warned of “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure,” President Donald Trump cast doubt on the country’s ability to hold “free and fair elections” but offered no evidence that widespread fraud had occurred. He made one reference to never watching “a stolen election again,” but otherwise suggested, rather than outright claimed, that the 2020 election, which he lost, had been “rigged,” as he has often said and has never backed up. Trump’s own Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency concluded in 2020 that the election that year “was the most secure in American history,” a line…