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[ad_1] If the Nazi tattoo and Reddit posts weren’t the end of it, why should we think the sexting will be the end of embarrassing revelations about Graham Platner? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In a speech delivered in the autumn of 2002, as the United States moved inexorably toward war with Iraq, the late Joan Didion delivered an offhand remark that effectively summed up the flaw at the heart of the logic behind that coming war, and of the logic of a number of wars before it, and of a number of wars to come. Referring to “the ‘war on terror’ that the President had declared” of which the operation against Iraq was the centerpiece, Didion added a parenthetical critique: “…as if terror were a state and not a technique.” Twenty-three and…

[ad_1] Grizzly in Yellowstone. Photo: NPS / Jim Peaco. Grizzly bears were put on the Endangered Species List in 1975 — 51 years ago. They will not be recovered until bears from the Northern Continental Divide and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem can connect to provide crucial genetic exchange to prevent irreversible inbreeding. Yet, despite having a legal mandate to recover the species, the Forest Service continues to log, burn, and build roads in critical connectivity corridors. The Larabee Hat logging and burning project is located in just such a critical wildlife corridor and will destroy the secure habitat grizzlies require for survival.…

[ad_1] Weekend revelations of extramarital sexting and subsequent dissembling make nominating Graham Platner riskier than ever. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Late Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court granted Alabama’s emergency motion to revise its legislative maps following Callais. The per curiam opinion offers a handy summary of Callais and expressly extends that doctrine to the vote dilution context. The merits analysis stretches one paragraph, but here I want to focus on a single critical sentence: As to intentional vote dilution, the District Court did not heed the presumption of legislative good faith, see Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U. S. 1, 10 (2024), because it interpreted the State’s legal disagreement with the court’s earlier remedial order as…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s weak polling numbers mask a deeper political question: who are the Democrats becoming and what do they truly stand for? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] President Donald Trump has a long history of naming things after himself, including Trump Tower, the Trump National Golf Club, the Trump Taj Mahal casino, Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, and Trump: The Game. But as he discovered last week, such self-promotion can be legally problematic when it requires congressional approval. On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s appointees exceeded their statutory authority when they attached his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The decision was the latest reminder of the president’s tendency to trample the rule of law in his rush…

[ad_1] The Donald seems to think he has all the time in the world to end the conflagration he and Bibi started in the Persian Gulf. Today he even told the mullahs to take a hike when they suspended any further negotiations owing to Bibi’s brutal strikes on civilian targets in southern Lebanon and continued violations of the so-called April 13th truce in the Persian Gulf. Thus, regarding the meandering negotiations of the last 45 days, the Donald averred, “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly… I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” Brave words, these. And completely, totally…

[ad_1] The curse of WhatsApp strikes again. The text messaging service habitually used by many UK politicians to chat to their colleagues was always a liability. They often seemed to believe they were talking in a secure space, but of course on social media nothing is really secure. Now a tranche of some 1,500 text messages and emails has been published by the UK government relating to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s appointment of Lord Mandelson as U.S. ambassador in 2024—and his sacking of him only months later following revelations about the former Labour spin doctor’s continuing friendship with Jeffrey Epstein…

[ad_1] Prometheus was the Titan god who gave the fire of knowledge, intelligence, technology and civilization to the Greeks. Painting courtesy of Evi Sarantea. The painting is depicting the head of Prometheus, shining fire and light. Zeus sent an eagle to eat the liver of the deathless god to punish him for helping his Greek grandchildren. Right eye from statue and left representing the eye of a living man, thus showing the intimate connection of Prometheus with the Greeks. The falling drops represent the ceaseless influence of Prometheus, including perhaps the invention of Artificial Intelligence among the ancient Greeks. Prologue…