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Corruption is the senator’s main concern. However, they also worry that stablecoin use in Gaza will further aggravate the enclave’s separation from the West Bank, where Israeli shekels are the currency. The lawmakers also ask, “Has the ‘Board of Peace’ consulted with the Palestine Monetary Authority on the introduction of this stablecoin? Have Palestinian officials had the opportunity to provide input on the development of this stablecoin? [I would bet no]…Would the stablecoin be used to surveil the transactions of Palestinians?” And they have other questions, as who in their right mind wouldn’t? Of particular concern to these four lawmakers…
From one assassination attempt to the next. Source link
It was remarkably easy for a shooter to charge toward a ballroom where President Trump-along with his cabinet members and the reporters who cover his administration-were dining Saturday night. Source link
It’s an iconic image – a giant cephalopod with its tentacles wrapped around a sailing ship, tearing it apart as the crew panic. Eventually it drags the splintered remains down into the deep. Meanwhile, the largest living octopus is the Giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini), averaging about 16 feet long, however an exceptionally large specimen about 30 feet long weighing 600 pounds was found. The largest squid is the Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), reaching roughly 1,500 pounds (490–500 kg) and lengths up to 46 feet (14 m). That’s huge – but it’s no Kraken. What about in the past? Everything…
The Southern Poverty Law Center helped stoke hate by funneling millions of dollars to the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other extremists and engaged in criminal activity to cover it up. Source link
From Manhattan trial judge Judy Kim in Rodney’s Comedy Club v. Omari, decided April 17 but just posted on Westlaw a few days ago: [P]laintiff’s motion for an order enjoining defendant from “any further social media posts naming, inferring or addressing Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s employees in any way or posts related to Plaintiff” and ordering her to “delete any and all posts on social media naming, inferring or addressing Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s employees in any way” is denied. “Prior restraints on speech are the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights, and any imposition of prior…
April 27, 2026 Laura Flanders In New York City, some of the most vulnerable incarcerated people will now have dedicated hospital beds and access to medical care like never before. Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of the city’s first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit for incarcerated people at Rikers Island, with two more clinical facilities on the way. It’s part of a larger plan to shut down the infamous Rikers, and another win for the national movement against the prison industrial complex. Mamdani and the activists and advocates involved are asking the important question: What happens after…
In case anyone missed it, higher education in America is in crisis. In 2010, according to Gallup, 75 percent of Americans believed college was "very important." That number tumbled to 35 percent by last September. Source link
Plaintiff Bear and Defendant Bear, from plaintiff’s TRO filings. From Judge Arun Subramanian (S.D.N.Y.) Wednesday in Those Characters from Cleveland, LLC v. Schedule A Defendants: [P]laintiff has failed to sufficiently address the potential fair use and First Amendment claims related to the products in question that use “Don’t Care Bears” (or a variation) along with marijuana imagery. Plaintiff relies heavily on the Supreme Court’s decision in Jack Daniel’s Props., Inc. v. VIP Prods. LLC (2023). There, the Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment defense to a dog toy that had the same shape and design as a bottle of Jack…
In his lecture “On Freedom,” famous Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski said: You can, and even, I think, should, believe in the freedom of choice and the creation of new ones; freedom is our elementary experience, the experience of everyone—it is so elementary that it cannot be broken down into parts that can be analyzed separately, which is why freedom may seem to be an unprovable reality. … We are truly the perpetrators of actions, not just the tools of various forces that clash in the world, although, of course, we are subject to the laws of nature. … This freedom…