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[ad_1] I often describe Chief Justice Roberts’s decisions as “blue plate specials.” If you read the bottom line, it seems like the liberal side win, but the mechanics of the decision helps the conservatives in the long run. In other words, the right might lose the battle, but they win the war. After more than two decades, the Chief Justice has made this balanced approach to jurisprudence into an art form. Today’s decision in FCC v. AT&T is the latest example. The FCC alleged that AT&T and Verizon violated federal law, and assessed a forfeiture order of $57 million and $47 million,…

[ad_1] Some tweets live in infamy. Six years ago this week, NPR shared a link on X (Twitter at the time) to an article by correspondent Bill Chappell: “Protesting Racism Versus Risking COVID-19.” This was June 2, 2020, in the grips of the pandemic. By that time, Americans had been forced to confront the reality that “two weeks to slow the spread” was a lie. The two weeks had come and gone at the end of March, yet government health advisors had continued to pressure authorities at the federal, state, and local levels to maintain lockdowns, mask mandates, and prohibitions…

[ad_1] Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked: “Health care companies only care about one thing: profits. Single-payer now.” This is the same Tom Steyer who opposed single-payer when he ran for president in 2020. “Bernie Sanders was right,” he says. “Boy, was I wrong.” He still cannot explain how to pay for it. Can anyone? Single-payer health care has been the progressive left’s signature domestic demand for four decades. It has generated presidential campaigns, mass rallies, congressional cosponsors, and an inexhaustible supply of Twitter righteousness. What it has never generated once is a workable legislative…

[ad_1] For the first time during the current war with Iran, the House passed a resolution June 3 that could eventually force President Donald Trump to step back from military attacks. The House vote came about two weeks after the Senate voted to advance its own resolution, which has similar but not identical terms. The legislative jockeying over the War Powers Resolution comes amid public opposition to the war and its effects, including higher gasoline prices from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. and Israeli attacks. The House vote passed 215-208, with four Republicans — Reps.…

[ad_1] The Debug Project at Google (parent company Alphabet) aims to drastically reduce the populations of mosquitoes in California and Florida. Hooray! Debug is seeking an experimental use permit from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release 64 million lab-grown male mosquitoes (they don’t bite) that are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria over two years. The infected males breed with wild (biting and disease-carrying) females who later lay eggs that do not hatch. The result: a mosquito population crash resulting in far less risk of people acquiring mosquito-borne illnesses. Spreading lab-grown, Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes as a way to drastically reduce…

[ad_1] No incumbent mayor of the country’s second-largest city has faced a runoff in more than two decades. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei said that the US and Israel had suffered a humiliating defeat. In a statement published on Thursday, Khamenei said the US and Israel’s “system of domination” has suffered a historic defeat. He explained that Washington and Tehran had shifted to targeting Iranian society through psychological warfare. 🔺 Iran’s Supreme Leader: “The Enemy Has Been Defeated — Now It Wages Hybrid War” Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei addressing citizens Thursday on the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir and the 37th anniversary of Khomeini’s death, declared that the U.S.-Israeli “system of domination”… pic.twitter.com/sKpcqB2mVL — Drop Site…

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[ad_1] Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow criticized an economic development program during a May debate, saying the state has shelled out billions for corporate subsidies but has little to show for it.  “Michigan has spent more than $2.5 billion on incentives to companies since 2019, and so far, that fund, the (Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve) fund, has created zero jobs,” McMorrow said during the May 28 Democratic primary debate. McMorrow supported the fund in 2021 but has since backed away from it, citing a lack of resulting jobs. McMorrow, chair of the Michigan Senate’s Economic and Community Development Committee,…

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