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The U.S. government is waging an illegal, congressionally unauthorized war on Iran. Thirteen American soldiers are formally confirmed dead at the time of writing. Over $11 billion of your money has been spent in three weeks. And the primary concern of senior administration officials is that television stations are using the wrong headlines. On March 13, Pete Hegseth—the former Fox News host who renamed the Defense Department and whose theology holds that God is personally invested in U.S. airpower over Tehran—stood in front of the Pentagon press corps and delivered a media workshop. A headline reading “Mideast War Intensifies” was…
On the 250th year since U.S. independence was declared, many are thinking of new forms of independence. This piece proposes a Declaration of Moral Independence from Empire, naming empire as the enemy and the fundamental struggle as moral. It leave open the possibilities for different political outcomes, including a post-imperial U.S. and autonomy of bioregions and states, either in confederation or fully independent. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Position the imperial death star, commands the demented emperor. Fortunately, Trump almost immediately did a TACO from his April 7 message, pulling back with announcement…
Artificial intelligence has taken the wired world by storm, but the backlash came almost as fast. Progressives complain of job losses, environmentalists question the ecological impacts of huge data centers, and local activists are clamoring for assurances that household utility bills won’t skyrocket because of the centers’ voracious electricity requirements. Others simply worry that the technology will overwhelm humans’ ability to control it. At least in part, these reactions stem from the overselling of AI. AI is super cool, but it’s not superhuman nor is it super intelligent. AI is simply very fast processing of vast amounts of data. Intelligence,…
Eric Swalwell’s downfall has raised the possibility of a broader reckoning on Capitol Hill as congressional staffers, reporters and opposition researchers race to verify long-standing rumors of a sordid underground culture among the city’s most powerful. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
DC KNEW. MEDIA KNEW. THE MACHINE STAYED SILENT… until it was time to STRIKE Source link
He once had the power to break politicians, but now he’s completely out of step with black voters. Source link
Picture this: you’re an illiterate French sailor pulled from your wedding banquet by royal gendarmes into the office of a deputy crown prosecutor. It’s not a public hearing. You have no written complaint formalizing the charges against you. You have no lawyer. You have no right to confront your accusers. You have no right to present evidence on your own behalf. You have no right to remain silent. Worst of all, you have no judge and no jury! Instead, the deputy crown prosecutor views the evidence, realizes the case implicates his own father, and sentences you to life imprisonment in…
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain A lot of people argue that we Brits should stop obsessing over the United States. After all, we have enough on our plate, not least energy bills set to jump another 20% in July, and a right-wing press determined to see the back of Keir Starmer. But for all our domestic troubles, we are not—yet—the ones most likely to start a third world war. There may be talk here of a war footing—Russia playing silly buggers in the Channel, China accused of sending missiles to Iran. But the eye, inevitably, remains locked…
Anthropic’s new product isn’t a cyber threat but a solution to cyber threats. Source link
From yesterday’s longish decision by Judge Robert Pitman (W.D. Tex.) in Qaddumi v. Davis:Qaddumi challenges his suspension (and the ongoing disciplinary record resulting from it) from UT as a violation of his First Amendment rights. The parties cite record evidence of the following facts. Qaddumi was involved in planning a protest, to include a “walk out of class,” “guest speaker,” and two “teach-in[s],” against ongoing violence in Gaza in April 2024 as a member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (“PSC”). The planned protest activities were peaceful in nature. UT, however, preemptively ordered the protest cancelled the night before it was…