"What concerns us most is that there is clearly no common plan for bringing this war to a swift and convincing conclusion."

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For years we’ve noted how regulatory comment proceedings are full of bots & fake comments from industries trying to deceive regulators, and make policy for the rich (mergers, mindless deregulation, elimination of consumer protection) seem like it has broad public support. But it seldom does.

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Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown, and other universities- starting next school year- amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Pete Hegseth called “factories of anti-American resentment.”

#animal welfare

About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. All pages are blank.

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Dr. Bernard Kruger once arranged a private E.R. membership for Jeffrey Epstein and unnamed “girls.” (no paywall)

Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice.

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While Tramp acts crazy on screen to distract us... Investors rushed for the exit as they become increasingly fearful that the software & tech firms that make up a large portion of the industry’s loan portfolios are uniquely vulnerable to be replaced or disrupted by AI.

The closure of labor and delivery is due to the hospital’s “primary objective.” Although the memo doesn’t elaborate on what that objective is, the hospital’s primary role in critical combat care is to treat patients that are injured during training or combat operations.

31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should always obey her husband and one third (33%) say a husband should have the final word on important decisions, according to a new global study of 23,000 people.

Kindly, watch The Elephant in the Living Room.

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The guy replacing Kristi Noem at Homeland Security is Cherokee. In 2019, he “voted against renewing the Violence Against Women Act in 2013 because he disagreed with its LGBTQ provisions,” was anti-abortion, and opposed socialism. He is a longtime supporter of Trump.

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About 30 million people, nearly 10% in the United States, has a rare disease. So the agency’s decisions have hit companies developing drugs for rare diseases in a particularly hard way, and rare-disease treatments make up a large share of drugs seeking approval.

● Spain denied help to US/Israel attacks in the Middle East ● Trump threatened Spain with cutting off all trade ● Spain repeated they won't help Trump ● Leavitt lied today on media that Spain has agreed to cooperate. They did not.

Maga Alex Bruesewitz & other influencers were assisted by the WH in fleeing the Middle East on a private jet, while thousands of Americans remained stranded with no gov't help. The group traveled to Athens with help from Saudi and Qatari officials.

The Voice of Hind Rajab’ is an Oscar-nominated documentary-drama film about the Palestinian Red Crescent’s response to the Israeli military’s brutal killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family members.

The founders of HateAid, a German human-rights group that helps victims of online attacks, were accused by the Trump administration of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex.”

A Good Man is hard to Find Several GOP towns and states now allow residents to sue each other for getting abortion care. The reward: money.

The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm. Calls for his resignation now number in the thousands.

There, there.

Harassment allegations, then insider-trading lawsuit. One more drop in our ocean of toxic waste.

Unaccompanied pregnant girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape.

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE doxxed him.

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(... it would go against tradition, probably)

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😏 SCOTUS heard oral arguments today examining whether federal law can prohibit marijuana users, legal or not, from possessing firearms. The case centers on the tension between 2nd Amendment rights and a 1968 federal law that bars "unlawful users" of controlled substances from owning guns.

A perfect specimen of the "trust me, bro" penmanship. [General McKenzie is a retired Marine and was the 14th commander of US Central Command.]

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Sufficiently intelligent systems c a n n o t be controlled by commands. They demand reasons why. Respect to Anthropic.

Anthropic declared they adherence to humanity. Altman is with the lard fasc1sts.