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[ad_1] Voter turnout under California’s vote-at-home system was off-the-charts. That’s a far more important story than waiting a week for results. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The last few months have opened the eyes of the American public to global nefarious activity. Dark fleets have long traveled the high seas, carrying cargo outside of international laws, norms, and standards. This fleet has increased to a thousand-ship armada, allowing rogue regimes and criminal actors to avoid oversight and skirt the power of American financial systems as they pursue their illicit activities. Never has that activity been as robust as it is today, and the opacity of cryptocurrency has empowered and emboldened criminals and tyrants like never before. The Islamic Republic of Iran provides a prime case study. As…

[ad_1] WIRED Magazine has reviewed leaked documents showing how, as the Trump administration prepares for AI to cause a wave of social unrest, it is already using the technology to suppress anti-AI “extremism,” Alan MacLeod reports. Google Data Center in The Dalles, Oregon, in 2011. (Visitor7 /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) By Alan MacLeodMintPress News New documents from U.S. government agencies such as the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security show that Washington is preparing for widespread anti-A.I. riots, as the technology destroys communities and industries across the country. Ironically, the Trump administration is already using invasive A.I. technology to identify and suppress…

[ad_1] The lonely landscape of Robben Island with Table Mountain in the background. Photo credit: Malorie Mackey. Imagine an eerie abandoned island complete with dilapidated prison buildings and half-open graves. Empty war-carved pillboxes that were dug deep into the soil but never saw any use are now occupied by the bones of dead steenboks and mole snakes. The lone human inhabitants are a group of eager scientists intently following the nesting habits of penguins. I found myself in this exact scenario at the historical goldmine that is Robben Island when I worked with the South African Penguin Project, a scientific…

[ad_1] College football is a tradition unlike any other. Every year, millions of fans cram into stadiums to watch their alma mater on the gridiron. But while there is a lot to love about college football, the sport has problems, as well. If college sports are to survive, something needs to be done about the ongoing chaos. There is indeed a great deal of change going on in college football. One of the biggest is “Name, Image, and Likeness” (NIL), which essentially allows college athletes to be paid, something that was once unthinkable. A 2021 court ruling created a world…

[ad_1] Until today, the federal law that prohibits “unlawful users” of controlled substances from possessing a gun was generally understood to cover all unlawful users of marijuana. But in a landmark decision issued this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court found the federal prosecution of a gun-possessing marijuana user to be in violation of that man’s Second Amendment rights. The decision came in the case of United States v. Hemani. “We do not question that sometimes an individual’s unlawful use of marijuana (or any other controlled substance) may render him a danger to others,” observed the majority opinion of Justice Neil…

[ad_1] John and I finish reading the chapter on tactics from Rules for Radicals [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Barn at small dairy on the French Prairie in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Sometimes the truth stares you right in the face. Case in point – in the middle of his agricultural roundtable event with farmers and Republican representatives held this past June 5th in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, President Trump took a moment to reflect about a different meeting he once had with another group of producers.   As the President remembered, he told the farmers, “I’m going to get you a subsidy.”  To his surprise they responded that they didn’t want subsidies, but rather, “a level…

[ad_1] The Federal Reserve on Wednesday maintained the current level of interest rates between 3.5 and 3.75 percent amidst “elevated uncertainty” from the “conflict in the Middle East.”  The meeting and subsequent press conference marked the first of Kevin Warsh’s tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Warsh resisted issuing “forward guidance”––the direction of future actions by the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox “We recognize that inflation has been running well ahead of the Fed’s long-stated inflation goal of 2 percent that’s been going on for more than 5…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump has touted more than $500 billion in prescription drug savings over 10 years from his policies. But the savings are largely aspirational, and not based on the more limited actions the administration has taken so far. The administration’s most favored nation policy seeks to bring down drug prices to levels paid in other countries. The bulk of the savings, estimated in a May 5 report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, comes from assuming that all new drugs will be sold in the U.S. at MFN prices going forward, saving $529 billion. A smaller…