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[ad_1] “I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.”- George Fox, Journal (1647) While war chaos and carnage in the Middle East distract the American public from Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes and those of his unindicted co-conspirators—exposed by the government’s release of millions of pages of documents, photos, and emails under the Epstein Files Transparency Act—many remain steadfast in their focus on truth and justice for survivors and accountability for perpetrators. “We are not a ‘hoax,’” asserted survivors in a…

[ad_1] Communards at an assembly in Merida approve the projects that will appear on the ballot for the communal consult (2025). Photograph by Víctor Hugo Rivera. “This is a system of ants,” Dulce Esperanza, a member of the Candelaria Heroica Commune in Caracas, Venezuela, explained to me as we sat outside of a voting center in her commune. Bit by bit, Dulce told me, she and her neighbors have built a part of the labor, and love, that has sustained her commune of 5,000 families, carrying out the vision outlined by leader and former president Hugo Chávez two decades ago.…

[ad_1] Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot When Donald Trump ran for president in 2024, he promised, among other things, no more U.S. regime change wars, no more of America sending its citizens’ dollars to fund foreign nations, and that he and Elon Musk would drastically cut federal departments and overall spending, finally taking a hatchet to the country’s mounting debt. In other words, the opposite of the last Republican president, George W. Bush. It is 2026, the United States is stuck in a seemingly endless regime change war in Iran, America continues to funnel money to nations around the world (particularly…

[ad_1] Image by Ernie Journeys. “Gerrymandering” is the historic term for politicians picking their voters by manipulating Congressional and state electoral districts. Redistricting usually happens every ten years. It is fair to say that most voters don’t want politicians rigging the system to help one party win elections. Both the Republican and Democratic parties have played this partisan gerrymandering game for years. Recently, the Republicans have become more ruthlessly partisan and have outpaced the Democrats. That is why, for example, in Pennsylvania, Democrats substantially outvote the Republicans but have fewer seats in the House of Representatives. In the past year,…

[ad_1] There are holiday discoveries that slip your mind, and then there’s the kind that follows you home and won’t leave you. This one started on a balmy evening in Maputo, the capital of the southeastern African nation of Mozambique, on the grand terrace of the Polana Serena Hotel—that dazzling colonial belle of the early 1920s, with her peach walls, elegant arches, and sweeping Indian Ocean views. The city hummed below, a charming mash-up of Portuguese heritage—tiled facades of old villas in disrepair, the railway station, a fortress, the currency museum—and raw, vibrant African rhythm. That night, the rhythm came…

[ad_1] Matthew Spalding joined the RCP Podcast on Friday to explain why the Declaration of Independence was not merely an Enlightenment document or Thomas Jefferson’s personal philosophy, but an expression of a distinct “American mind” that still shapes our civic life today. Spalding is the dean of the Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College and the author of The Making of the American Mind.“The phrase ‘the American mind’ actually comes from a letter that Jefferson wrote in the 1820s when he was asked about the Declaration,” Spalding said. “Jefferson, in 1776, thought there was an American mind, and that…

[ad_1] Therapy promised Americans greater agency and insight. Instead, it delivered a more satisfying story about why someone else is to blame, writes Jonathan Alpert. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin expressed both alarm and optimism about how quickly artificial intelligence has advanced, warning Stanford business students that AI agents are already completing “extraordinarily high-skilled jobs,” not just boosting productivity for routine work. But he also said the technology will open new opportunities for entrepreneurs like never before.”There has been a step-change function in the productivity of the AI toolkit,” he said during remarks at the Stanford business school last week. “To be blunt, work that we would usually do with people with master’s and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or…

[ad_1] If the Donald does not wish to bring down upon himself the ignominy of being the first US president to be impeached, convicted and removed from the White House by the US Marshals, he damn well better start reading the Iranian settlement proposals. Even if he doesn’t like the first sentence, as he boasted. I looked at it, and I don’t like the first sentence. I just throw it away. That’s because he doesn’t have “all the time in the world” to find an off-ramp from his Iranian War disaster, as he claims. In fact, the dual blockade he…

[ad_1] The New York Times claims “a private conservative group’s involvement at the State Department has alarmed veteran diplomats and congressional Democrats who say it has established a worrisome degree of influence.” Eric Rubin, a retired diplomat of more than 40 years who recently led the mainstream State Department American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), wrote it “functions as the equivalent of a Communist Party cell in Soviet government ministries.” Some are even trying to out and doxx members who wish to remain anonymous. It’s the controversial Ben Franklin Fellowship (BFF). The fellowship is a DC-based nonprofit founded by former American…