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[ad_1] Waiting for the government to shed power and voluntarily reduce its intrusions into people’s lives can be an exercise in frustration, but gun owners are getting some welcome news from the feds. Through administrative action, litigation, and promises of legislation, the Trump administration is reversing some of the anti-gun policies implemented by the Biden administration and otherwise offering a little more breathing room for people who want to own, buy, and sell firearms. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats to everyday liberty. “The Trump administration…
[ad_1] Keep on growing by eating up all these fascinating Grail news briefs… It’s JRR Tolkien’s world, we’re just living in it: Ancient hobbits may have survived on meat left behind by (Komodo) dragons. The Japanese student who showed that butterflies retain their caterpillar memories. Who is Avi Loeb? Trump’s lead UFO researcher talks alien life and what would happen if we find we’re not alone. How animals communicate across species: From honeyguides to cleaner fish, cross-species cooperation abounds. UN Secretary General calls for global ban on AI ‘killer robots’. Surprising evidence of a ‘lost’ ancient city is emerging from…
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[ad_1] House, Seymour, Indiana. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, the global data we collect and analyze shows that the country is failing to “promote the general Welfare,” as the Constitution’s framers promised a little more than a decade later. We are scholars of human rights. Alongside the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a nonprofit that tracks how well more than 200 countries and territories are meeting the human rights commitments their governments have made, we annually update scores measuring whether people can actually get the basics of a decent…
[ad_1] Yesterday, the US House of Representatives quietly passed a bundle of “digital protections” collectively labelled the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (KIDS Act). You might not have heard, because the US news was focused on other things, like the Supreme Court refusing to review the civil verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll, or that they would continue to count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day. As is usually the case, the truly important news found itself buried behind things that never happened and things that don’t matter. So what’s in the USA’s online safety…
[ad_1] Photograph Source: Ranch9613 – CC0 1.0 July 4, 2026, will be the 250th anniversary of the U.S. of America. It will likely be a day of great celebration, a great shopping extravaganza day! Everything from soapsuds to high-end SUVs is marked down to lure in shoppers and move products off the store shelves. However, the biggest sale that takes place on the 4th will be the selling of the president. In the 237 years that the U.S. has had a president, all 47 of them have been men and, like most American men, they have had sex lives. For nearly two-and-a-half centuries,…
[ad_1] Photograph Source: Maayan Toaf – CC BY-SA 3.0 A divide is growing in the Democratic Party between democratic socialist upstarts and establishment Democrats. We saw the divide last Tuesday, June 23, when three members of Democratic Socialists of America won Congressional primaries in New York. The three were endorsed by New York City’s charismatic democratic socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. Democratic socialists and other progressives also came out on top in Maine, New Jersey, California, and Philadelphia. Not everyone is feeling the love, however. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) told the conservative New York Post that “the Democratic Party is becoming an orgy of socialism,”…
[ad_1] A court sentenced former Singapore Traffic Police officer Shivasuria Maniam Kesaval to 16 months in jail after he unlawfully accessed police computer systems and shared a woman’s personal information with his friend, her ex-boyfriend. The woman had reported Shivasuria’s friend, Brayden Ong Ying Shan, for driving without a license. Shivasuria looked up details about her report and passed them to Ong, who then told her he would “murder” whoever reported him and even bragged about having a “high-ranking” police friend. At trial, Shivasuria was convicted of misusing computer systems, Ong was convicted of criminal intimidation, and both were convicted…