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[ad_1] Imagine a tight House race in a swing state. In the final weeks of the campaign, a new super PAC begins spending heavily against the incumbent. It runs ads on local television and reaches individual voters with highly tailored texts. The messaging is hard-hitting and seems to be swaying the electorate. None of it traces back to the opposing campaign. It also doesn’t trace back to any human operative. The super PAC is funded by a single LLC whose donor cannot be identified, and its spending decisions are being made by an AI agent that has been given a…

[ad_1] Image by Cassie Matias. It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid is not frozen. What’s up? Antarctica is the coldest spot on the planet where the average winter temperature is -34.4°C (-30°F), but it does vary by region. For example, inland locations like the South Pole average around -60°C (-76°F), while coastal areas such as the Antarctic Peninsula range between -12°C and -20°C (10°F to -4°F). The area recently experienced a winter heatwave, but that has passed. Winter heatwaves happen on occasion, but the ice always, always, always refreezes for as long…

[ad_1] “Support for Israel around the world is declining,” former Chicago mayor and potential Democratic presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel declared in Israel last week. “The only diplomatic achievement Israel has secured in the past three years is Somaliland.” Is that true? Is Israel more isolated than ever? In left-wing circles, both in the United States and Western Europe, most certainly – a trend many years in the making. But among conservatives globally, support for Israel is rising – and that’s translating into a reversal of left-wing isolation across the Western Hemisphere and beyond. Argentina’s Javier Milei visited Israel in April…

[ad_1] Fox News anchor on late senator’s final trip to Kyiv, his bipartisan deal-making legacy, and the emotional tributes from rivals like Bernie Sanders and John Thune. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Police in Payette, Idaho, arrested Andrea Shaw on Tuesday afternoon, more than a year after her two children — fraternal twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw — were found dead at their home on May 1, 2025, eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines. Police charged Shaw with two counts of first-degree murder. Shaw said doctors ignored her when she warned that the twins’ father had previously experienced a bad reaction to a flu vaccine. A 23-year-old mother charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her twin toddlers was set to be arraigned later…

[ad_1] Rubio Targets the ICC, as He Should [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Journalist Michael Tracey and Pace University’s Marcella Szablewicz debate the resolution, “The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has become a case of moral panic.” Taking the affirmative is Tracey, an independent journalist, political commentator, and media critic known for his skepticism of the Epstein narrative and what he calls the surrounding “mythology” and hysteria. Taking the negative is Szablewicz, an associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on digital media and media moral panics. The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photo by semen zhuravlev “I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping,” wrote P. G. Wodehouse in Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest. There seems to be a great deal of pessimism about these days. You can almost picture banks of dark cloud trailing people as they walk to the bus stop or stand motionless…

[ad_1] Abolishing the Education Department Only Works in Theory [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] For two and a half decades, Christopher Nolan has been Hollywood’s great liberal humanist, a defender of the secular, human ideal, and a mournful viewer of man’s tragic nature—and society’s. His Batman trilogy began with his hero defeating the threat of martial authoritarianism, moved on to a story about the destruction wrought by nihilistic chaos-mongers, and closed with a warning about the appeal of strongman populism. His Interstellar warned of decline through stagnation, as humanity forgot how to be bold in progress. His Tenet and Oppenheimer foretold man’s capacity for self-annihilation. We’ve been living in Nolan’s world.  His latest,…