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[ad_1] HUNTINGTON BEACH — In a state that hasn’t elected a Republican governor in nearly two decades and where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly two to one in registered voters, Tuesday night belonged to two conservative political outsiders who based their campaigns on a simple message: Californians deserve better. Former Fox News host Steve Hilton and reality television veteran Spencer Pratt arrived at their respective races with thinner war chests than their establishment rivals, no prior experience in elected office, and campaigns built less on policy infrastructure than on raw charisma, populist messaging, and an uncomplicated argument: that California leaders had…

[ad_1] Despite being desperate to put Biden behind them, Democrats can’t do it. Both Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are routinely topping Democratic primary polling, and both are defined by Biden. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] As big as Callais was, I think Allen v. Milligan may prove to be more significant. The Court smacked down the notion that the government “defies” court order when it takes actions designed to be tested before the Supreme Court. The Court also signaled that the presumption of good faith for purposes of Section 2 should apply to other Fourteenth Amendment contexts. (Indeed, I wonder why prosecutors should not get the same presumption of good faith under Batson; this is a topic I am developing.) But the very first sentence of Allen dropped a bomb that most people may have missed: In…

[ad_1] Image by Quilla. Promoters of US empire decline make the claim that the world is de-dollarizing, the dollar is losing its role as the standard currency of international trade. If this were to happen, other countries would dump their trillions in foreign reserves, foreign loans would no longer be primarily made and repaid in dollars, nor would international trade take place primarily in dollars. Other countries would lose interest in investing in US bonds, such as Treasury bonds; the world banking system would slip out of US control; US economic sanctions and blockades on countries would lose their coercive…

[ad_1] Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry has sprung up on the left dedicated to answering a single question: How can Democrats win back the working class? Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] After her violent detention by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Chicago gained widespread attention last October, Debbie Brockman, a United States citizen, filed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claim on Tuesday against the federal government. Brockman is requesting $10 million in damages for the unjustified arrest.  Brockman was on her way to work on the morning of October 10, 2025, when she was forced to the ground and arrested by federal agents, her attorney told ABC7 News, a local affiliate, last fall. Video of her arrest picks up after Brockman was already on the ground, lying…

[ad_1] My career has been built at the edge of what is physically possible – predicting exotic quantum states, developing sensors that exploit the laws of nature, and teaching machines to reason about the physical world. For a long time, that work lived in journals and laboratories. Now, those technologies are being rapidly adopted for military applications – and not just by the United States and its allies. What just months ago seemed like a five-year problem of global technological competition has now compressed to an urgent 18-month national security sprint. The U.S. is facing a daunting race to develop…

[ad_1] Trump has put the boy who cried mortgage fraud as the (acting) overseer of America’s intelligence agencies. That can’t end well for anyone. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Against the violent landscape of World War II, author Ray Nayler poses fundamental questions about human existence. Is our natural state war against all, or is it grounded in mutual aid? By Chris HedgesScheerPost “We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview with Ray Nayler about his new book, Palaces of the Crow, which centers around four teenagers from varying backgrounds who struggle to survive during World War II. The war, Nayler says, fundamentally reshaped the world geopolitically, technologically and socially in ways that…

[ad_1] Image by EV. This should not be a news flash to anyone, but the Trump Administration is out of control when it comes to war (and many other things, like ruining the economy, our judicial and electoral systems, as well as the landscape of the nation’s capital). Congress needs to do its job and rein in the executive branch. In the next few days, the House of Representatives needs to, ahem, represent the interests of the American people and vote in favor of two War Powers Resolutions, on Iran and Lebanon. The first should be a no-brainer. Congress has…