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The president is obsessed with the spectacle of power – and has little concern for anything else. Source link

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Sometime in the next two or three weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case about the president’s authority to fire independent federal agency heads “at will,” rather than “for cause,” as federal law currently requires. If President Donald Trump wins the case, as many legal observers think he probably will, a 1988 dissenting opinion by a famous conservative justice is likely to play a key supporting role. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. The pending case is Trump v. Slaughter. It centers on Trump’s…

French TV’s coverage of the ties between FIFA’s Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump. (Screengrab from France 24 video posted to X.) The FIFA Men’s World Cup of 2026 was always going to offer visitors and spectators something different.  Shared between three countries – Mexico, Canada and the United States – the latter of the three was set to be the designated font of mischief and disruptive mayhem.  Add to this the rapacity of the world footballing body on ticket pricing, and we have a tournament foundering even before the first ball is kicked. Of nagging concern are the various travel…

The assault on the Democrats’ main fundraising platform is a partisan hatchet job, but ActBlue itself is far from blameless. Source link

Whirlwind That Led WH To Slap Export Controls on Anthropic Source link

Story at-a-glance Ozempic, originally developed for Type 2 diabetes, is now widely used for weight loss, but new research shows serious effects on muscle and organ health A study in Cell Metabolism found Ozempic reduces lean mass by around 10% in mice, with the liver shrinking nearly 50%, raising concerns about long-term organ function Researchers observed a mismatch between muscle size and strength, with some muscles staying the same size but losing power, suggesting potential frailty risk and reduced physical performance in animal models — effects requiring confirmation in human clinical trials Older adults may face a higher risk, as…

The inflation data released yesterday and today were bad and worse. The CPI increased 0.5 percent in May, while the core rose 0.2 percent. That brought their year-over-year inflation rates to 4.2 percent and 2.9 percent, respectively, well above the Fed’s 2.0 percent target. The Producer Price Index (PPI) showed that much more inflation is in the pipeline. The overall index rose 1.1 percent, bringing its increase over the last twelve months to 6.5 percent. The core PPI rose 0.8 percent. It is now up 5.1 percent over the last year. I’ll have more to say on inflation on the…

Strangest of good evenings to you, wherever you are – here’s the Tuesday Grail news briefs! As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion. 2,700-year-old figurine found in Guatemala bears the oldest numbers in Mesoamerica. DMT users have described encounters with non-human intelligences for decades – a new mathematical framework could test such claims. Related: Reports from DMT-land – participants in extended DMT trip study tell what they experienced. How Japanese scientists sent a real-life Transformer to the Moon. AI facial recognition software leads to false arrests and ruined…