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You can’t keep a bad idea down. You fight it with all weapons at hand—science, reason, research, history, and, when they fail, yelling—until you are sure it is dead as a doornail. Then, one day while you are quietly reading the latest terrifying news, you see a revenant: the corpse reawakens. For us, that was last year’s blockbuster, Amy Griffin’s The Tell, which told readers that although she had no evidence supporting her MDMA-triggered “recovered” memory of being sexually abused in middle school, she knows it happened. No corroboration from teachers or classmates about it, no supporting evidence from the…

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Instead, thanks to a cascade of institutional dysfunction that will go down in history as uniquely bizarre and condescending—even by the considerable standards of higher ed misadministration—Jason Arday found himself in an environment where no one would say no to him, where no one would ask follow-up questions (at least out loud), and where people covered for him rather than holding him accountable. As a result, he did significant harm—to the scholars he plagiarized, the peers he wrongly beat out for a prestigious position, and (everyone keeps forgetting this) to the parents of nonverbal kids with autism, who are frequently…

The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has long called for the U.S. to prepare to fight a “limited nuclear war,” reports Dave DeCamp.  Nuclear weapon test Dakota, June 26, 1956. (U.S. Dept. of Energy /Wikimedia Commons) By Dave DeCampAntiwar.com The Pentagon is reportedly drafting a new nuclear strategy that’s expected to emphasize the use of tactical nuclear weapons to give the president more “options” in a potential nuclear conflict. The strategy, first reported by NBC News, is being drafted by the Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, who has for more than a decade called…

Most discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florida Senate). Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of whether an officer searches by hand or with forensic software that plugs into a device and downloads its entire contents for search, the same Fourth Amendment standard…

As the summer of the Democratic Socialists of America gives way to the fall’s midterm campaigns, some patterns have emerged with implications for the 2028 presidential contest. Source link

By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark. Source link

Following last year’s revelations of the secret shipping of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel through Thailand from Sydney, new documents show parts being routed onto passenger jets through the U.S., Peter Cronau reports.  A United Airlines B777-200 passenger airliner captured taking off from Sydney International Airport on the long-haul flight across the Pacific to San Francisco and Los Angeles. (James Kirkland/ JetPhotos/Via Declassified Australia) By Peter CronauDeclassified Australia New shipping records leaked to Declassified Australia show the secret cargo of Australian parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets has been diverted onto passenger planes of U.S. airline, United Airlines.  After…

The narrative being spun about his tragic death is an affront to reason and a free media. Source link