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The Democratic Senate candidate is subtly swinging at Ken Paxton, while hitting familiar themes on affordability. Source link
There’s a reason the groups most valued by progressives-people of color, the poor, residents of the ‘global South’-want to migrate to America, writes Coleman Hughes. Source link
Gabbard Drops Fauci Covid Receipts on Last Day Source link
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. We are the Joke – by Mr. Fish. By Chris HedgesScheerPost The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin — to pillory the goons, misfits and mediocrities who hold power and spew fascist bile. But this form of satire blinds opponents to its destructive power and murderous core. It ignores the real centers of power. It…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that Washington has issued a 60-Day waiver for sanctions on Iranian oil. “In line with the ongoing productive talks in Switzerland, Iran has committed to free and open transit in the Strait of Hormuz and to permit International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into their country,” he wrote on X. “As part of the framework, Treasury has issued a temporary 60-day general license authorizing the production, delivery, and sale of Iranian oil.” Executive Vice President of Responsible Statecraft Trita Parsi said the sanctions waiver should be viewed as a concrete sign that negotiations are progressing.…
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad Dictatorship’s Civil War in Syria, nor the estimated deaths in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, or Iran. Somehow, media editors do not let their investigative reporters assess the extent of Israel’s mass murder of civilians in Gaza—an exposed, defenseless population of 2.3 million people in an enclave the geographic size of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Associated Press notes that U.S. military historian Robert Pape believes, “Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history” and that, “It now sits comfortably in…
Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan passed away Monday at 100 years old, following a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He served as the 13th chair of the nation’s central bank and an advisor to six presidents. Greenspan earned his baccalaureate and graduate degrees in economics from New York University and was a close friend of the libertarian author Ayn Rand beginning in the 1950s until her death in 1982. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox He began his career in politics as an economic advisor to Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign and was nominated to serve…
As President Donald Trump’s lawyers tell it, there is “no evidence” that the May 18 “settlement” of his lawsuit against the IRS, which included huge favors for him, his family, and his supporters, was a product of collusion. That position is hard to take seriously, since both sides in the lawsuit were represented by attorneys who worked for Trump, and the president himself has described the cozy arrangement as “a settlement with myself.” In a June 12 brief ordered by Kathleen Williams, the federal judge in Florida who oversaw Trump v. IRS, the president’s lawyers improbably maintained that the “settlement”…
The Trump administration plans to significantly reduce the number of U.S. fighter jets, warships, and submarines reserved for NATO’s common defense, according to a classified briefing held last week in Brussels. The announcement was made by Pentagon adviser Alexander Velez-Green in a closed-door meeting of NATO policy directors, blindsiding senior alliance officials, according to two alliance diplomats cited by Politico Europe [2]. The move represents one of the most substantial shifts in U.S. force posture in Europe since the end of the Cold War, according to analysts. The cuts affect the NATO Force Model, the framework established in 2022 after…
A federal appeals court has signed off on Ohio’s ban on people under age 16 using social media without parental consent. That means all Ohioans could soon have to show ID to use such platforms as Facebook or X. A U.S. District Court previously blocked the law, ruling it unconstitutional. But the state appealed, and now a divided 2–1 panel of federal appeals court judges has sided with the state. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. Similar laws have been either temporarily or…