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A Vietnam War veteran throwing his medal at the US Capitol. Source: Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Public Domain. “Reading Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young, what struck me most was what utter pussies we all were.” – Emmett Rensin in the LA Review of Books  Around the start of the millennium, I visited Mark Rudd, who was living in New Mexico with his wife, Marla, and organizing workers into a union. He was also finishing his autobiography, which he was calling “Che and Me,” a cheeky title for sure that would be changed to Underground: My Life with SDS and…

Date of sighting: June 11, 2026Location of sighting: Redondo Beach, California, USASource: NUFORC websiteWow! That UFO flashes super bright like it was yelling with its inner light source at the world. This is a UFO that wants to be seen. Aliens know that US President Trump is releasing files and they want to push the agenda faster. Here we have such an example. UFOs love LAX and I myself have recorded them on the live cam years ago. Aliens love the high tech that flies and they also know that they will show up on radar to give little surprises…

Newly uncovered documents prove that disturbing experiments on kittens continue under the second Trump administration and the watch of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a move that directly conflicts with the values of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Documents revealed via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit prove that the National Institutes of Health is investing more than $2 million into controversial experiments on cats and kittens at a breeding operation based at the University of Florida (UF). These experiments involve breeding more than 100 cats with Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1), a fatal neurodegenerative disease…

Residents in Tehran on the third day of US-Israeli airstrikes, March 3, 2026. Photo: Avash Media. CC BY 4.0. The February 2026 Iran war cannot be understood as an isolated event; but rather the outcome of over four decades of coordinated American and Israeli efforts to contain and topple the Islamic Republic. Similarly, Iran’s ability to withstand the military onslaught and emerge victorious must also be situated within that historical context. After weeks of U.S-Israeli bombardment, Iran has shown not only that it has been able to withstand an assault by the world’s strongest militaries, but that it could successfully…

In his 2012 page-turner, My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History’s Forgotten Battlegrounds, Robert Sullivan embarks on a journey that will be familiar to the 50-something male of the species, noticing with fresh eyes the historical stuff in his immediate surroundings, steadily expanding the scope and intensity of his search, and ending up in a state so obsessive that he’s sending mirrored sun signals to his blasé teenaged daughter in Brooklyn from George Washington’s winter headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey. Sullivan surfaces some of the flame keepers all around us: the historical reenactors, but also the motley crew that pays…

Image: Roaring River Comix. This is a year of strange anniversaries. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a band of revolutionaries declared their independence from a king. America’s founders rejected concentrated power. They denounced standing armies. They distrusted government secrecy. They risked their lives to escape a ruler who could tax without consent, wage war without accountability, and govern without meaningful restraint. Twenty-five years ago, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, America embarked on a very different journey. The federal government claimed extraordinary emergency powers. Surveillance expanded. Wars multiplied. Executive authority grew. Constitutional safeguards were weakened in the name…

6/26/2003: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas. 6/26/2013: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in U.S. v. Windsor. 6/26/2015: Justice Kennedy writes the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. Justice Anthony KennedyThe post Today in Supreme Court History: June 26, 2003, June 26, 2013, and June 26, 2015 appeared first on Reason.com. Source link

You’re three days into a backcountry trip, your filter cartridge just split, and the only water source is a stagnant pond that smells like a wet bag of ass. Or maybe it’s not a trip at all — the tap ran dry after a storm took out the water treatment plant and you’re standing over a 5-gallon bucket of questionable creek water wondering what you actually know how to do about it. Iodine tablets are the answer everybody memorizes and almost nobody actually carries when it counts. They’re slow, they taste like a swimming pool had a baby with a…

From Judge Holly Teeter (D. Kan.) Wednesday in Institutional Shareholder Servs. Inc. v. Kobach: SB 375 is known as the Proxy Advisory Transparency Act. Under SB 375, a “proxy advisor” is “a person who, for compensation, provides a proxy advisory service to shareholders of a company or to other persons with authority to vote on behalf of the shareholders of a company.” “Proxy advisory service” is defined as certain “services that are provided in connection with or in relation to a company, or are provided to any person in this state.” This includes “[a]dvice or a recommendation on how to…

Senator Chuck Grassley, 92, at a recent town hall. Grassley entered Congress in 1975, after serving in the Iowa state house for 16 years. (Screengrab from video posted X.) It comes, it goes, but seldom does a month go by without the notion of “term limits” popping up in the American political discussion. At the moment — and since Sheldon Whitehouse proposed legislation for it in 2023 — that discussion has mostly revolved around the Supreme Court, whose justices remain in office, according to the Constitution, “during good Behaviour,” generally understood as “for life absent impeachment or voluntary retirement.” Whitehouse…