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Muddling Through on the MOU

Media Bias

[ad_1] Foreign policy Muddling Through on the MOU It’s too early to see through the fog of warring and negotiating, but J.D. Vance’s stock is rising—with Trump’s backing. Over 250 years of U.S. history, Wikipedia tallies some 500 American military interventions. Some we remember, and most—such as the First and Second Sumatran Expeditions—we don’t. So now today, amidst all those hundreds, where will the Iran War fit in? Wise minds say of the impact of great events, “It’s too soon to tell.” In the meantime, the stock market is up (the Dow Jones is up some 3,000 points from where…

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Utah’s AI prescription experiment faces medical establishment resistance

Political Spin

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming Utah’s healthcare industry, bringing accessible and affordable medical care to patients around the state. Rather than welcoming the change, doctors and public health officials are resisting it. Over the past few years, Utah has passed several laws and initiatives to spur the adoption of AI in healthcare, including a novel pilot program launched earlier this year to allow AI chatbots to fill prescriptions. Administered by the state’s Commerce Department but powered by AI startup Doctronic, the project authorizes AI to fill birth control prescriptions and medication for asthma, diabetes, and other common health conditions.…

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Trump Administration Sweeps All of the (Other) Immigration Cases at SCOTUS

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] Today the Trump Administration completed its clean sweep of the non-birthright-citizenship immigration cases at the Supreme Court. Some of these decisions are quite significant. This highlights that the current Court is quite sympathetic to aggressive executive branch action in the immigration sphere–aggressive action often expressly authorized by Congress–even if it is likely to reject the Administration’s unlawful attempt to unilaterally rewrite the law of citizenship. The first immigration decision today was Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, in which the Court held, 6-3 in an opinion by Justice Alito, that an alien seeking to enter the United States from Mexico does…

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War and Constitutional Indifference – Antiwar.com

Geopolitics & War

[ad_1] Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to address interstate commerce, but during the FDR years, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can regulate events that affect interstate commerce. This has resulted in federal regulation of matters too infinitesimal to measure, that are not commercial and devoid of movement across interstate lines. The most extreme of these is…

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Iran Declares Memorandum of Understanding A “Record of US Failure”

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] Iran has declared victory over the United States. The newly signed memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran is a diplomatic victory for Tehran and a “record of US failure.” Iran has also pointed out that the US ruling class has failed to accomplish any of its goals and military objectives, while regular Americans watched the price of fuel skyrocket as their bills became harder to pay. The 14-point document was signed remotely by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, late on Wednesday and immediately entered force, according to Pakistani mediators, according to a report by RT.…

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