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Democrats say Republicans have ignored voters’ concerns about affordability, including health insurance as they supported President Donald Trump’s 2025 tax and spending bill. “As a result of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ 15 million Americans have been thrown off the healthcare that they need,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said during a committee hearing that included testimony by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The senator, who frequently talks about the high cost of health insurance or lack of access to it, has cited the 15 million number several times in recent months. Millions of people are on track…

Deaf children can now hear thanks to a new treatment that repairs a defective gene. Researchers associated with the biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals unveiled the successful gene therapy last week. One patient, who was treated at 18 months old, Travis Smith, can now hear. Overall, 80 percent of participants (aged 10 months to 16), saw significant improvement in hearing, and 42 percent achieved normal hearing, including the ability to hear whispers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already approved the treatment. Medical research on ameliorating physical and intellectual maladies continues apace. For example, researchers at Harvard Medical School reported earlier…

Too Many Assaults Occur at Tewks­bury State Hos­pital Source link

A 9-0 Ruling for Pregnancy Center Donors Source link

Federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment Wednesday against Governor Rubén Rocha Moya of Mexico’s Sinaloa state and nine other current and former Mexican officials.  They have been charged with conspiring to protect the Sinaloa cartel in exchange for bribes and electoral assistance. The governor denied the allegations, saying on X that they “lack any truth whatsoever.” Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Prosecutors allege that the cartel “has partnered with corrupt politicians and law enforcement officials, including the current Governor of Sinaloa,” who “abused their authority in support of the…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a serious blow to a legal strategy long used by Democrats and allied civil-rights groups to accumulate power. That strategy deployed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to compel states to create majority-minority electoral districts favoring the Left. In Louisiana v. Callais, a 6-3 high-court majority ruled that section 2 of the VRA doesn’t obligate states to draw majority-minority congressional districts. Source link

I thought everyone needed one more thing to worry about, so here you go: evolving AI. When I hear this phrase I think of two things. The first are AI systems designed to simulate organic evolution. The second are artificially intelligent systems that are capable of evolving themselves. That latter one is the type you need to worry about. Systems that simulate evolution already exist – Avida, Biogenesis,  Grovolve, Tierra, Framsticks: and others. They basically have some code that competes for some resource or to complete some task and the code randomly mutates and reproduces. That’s it, all you need…

While many are undergoing a mass awakening of class politics, opposition to the coercive control of statism must remain the central focus of any successful revolution. In recent days conversations about working class struggles and the state of the economy, particularly in regard to the affordability crisis, have been occurring with increasing regularity. This has largely been spurred by the viral reporting of a warehouse fire in Ontario, California in which an employee, identified as 29 year old Chamel Abdulkarim, filmed himself lighting pallets of toilet paper on fire, stating “if you’re not going to pay us enough to live at least pay us…

Governments, banks and other institutions have based policies on models unconnected to reality. Source link

High prices. Oil prices briefly hit a wartime high of over $120 a barrel, before falling slightly, reports The New York Times. The paper attributes the spike to President Donald Trump’s comments yesterday that the U.S. would continue its blockade of Iranian ports until the country completely abandoned its nuclear program. Higher global oil prices are being felt by everyday gas buyers. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for the gas price tracker GasBuddy, said on X that prices in some…