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… Campus carry weapons law debuts in West Virginia …

Campus carry weapons law debuts in West Virginia, ... joins 11 other states  Woodburn Hall on the West Virginia University campus, is shown April, 24, 2015, in Morgantown, W.Va. Under a state law that debuted Monday, July 1, 2024, people with concealed carry permits can possess firearms on West Virginia public college and university campuses … Continue reading … Campus carry weapons law debuts in West Virginia … →

… THE REAL STORY OF THE CRISIS AT THE WASHINGTON POST …

How the world’s greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch If you want to understand the current crisis at The Washington Post—the still-unfolding ethical scandal threatening the reign of its publisher and CEO, the growing newsroom revolt, the tumult and uncertainty about the paper’s future —you have to start with the previous crisis, just … Continue reading … THE REAL STORY OF THE CRISIS AT THE WASHINGTON POST … →

… Alito rails against White House in social media case dissent …

  Justice Samuel Alito railed against the White House in a dissenting Supreme Court opinion Wednesday, accusing the Biden administration of leading a “campaign to coerce Facebook” when it attempted to moderate misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Alito dissented from his six … Continue reading … Alito rails against White House in social media case dissent … →

…This Revolutionary New Observatory Will Locate Threatening Asteroids and Millions of Galaxies …

Beginning next year, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will use the world’s largest digital camera to give us a whole new view of the universe The Milky Way spreads across the night sky above the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Credit: Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / H. Stockebrand The casual observer may … Continue reading …This Revolutionary New Observatory Will Locate Threatening Asteroids and Millions of Galaxies … →

… The Aftermath People …

The killers of democracy don’t get to declare that it’s dead. by Sarah Kendzior I was at the pool when Donald Trump became a convicted felon. I was excited: it was nice to be back at the pool after a series of Biblical plagues shut it down. In 2020, the plague was covid. In 2021, … Continue reading … The Aftermath People … →

… Trump Rants About Sharks, and Everyone Just Pretends It’s Normal …

Par for the course. Trump is Trump. But imagine the response if Joe Biden had said it. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty. JUNE 12, 2024 Hours before meeting with his probation officer about his recent felony convictions, a leading candidate for U.S. president went on a bizarre rant about sharks. Sharks, … Continue reading … Trump Rants About Sharks, and Everyone Just Pretends It’s Normal … →

… Slava Ukraine …

Several weeks ago, Russian forces began intensifying artillery bombardment and ground advances in border villages across Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, and launching deadly missile attacks into the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Thousands of civilians have already fled the area in an ongoing evacuation. While firefighters in residential areas battle the blazes caused by Russian … Continue reading … Slava Ukraine … →

… How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases …

By Jamie Raskin May 29, 2024 Credit...Will Matsuda for The New York Times Many people have gloomily accepted the conventional wisdom that because there is no binding Supreme Court ethics code, there is no way to force Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Jan. 6 cases that are before … Continue reading … How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases … →

… hot water under a glacier …

What could go wrong? For the first time, there's visual evidence warm sea water is pushing under doomsday glacier: Study Researcher says more work needs to be done to 'address these observation issues sooner rather than later' The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA image. A new study published in Proceedings … Continue reading … hot water under a glacier … →

… The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey …

The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending censorship forever, new background on the elon saga, and the death of social media as we know it Bluesky was launched to become the open source protocol layer for … Continue reading … The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey … →

… I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted for a Week. …

Send Help. If your media diet looked like his, you’d be red-pilled too. Last January, not long after agreeing with an actual Nazi that western Jews have brought antisemitism upon themselves by welcoming “hordes of minorities” to their countries, Elon Musk took a quick trip to Poland. The billionaire chief of SpaceX, Tesla, and X … Continue reading … I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted for a Week. … →

… Democracy On Trial – FRONTLINE …

.. ...   ...w From 1879-1918 over 10,000 Indigenous children from 140 tribes attended Carlisle. Only 158 graduated. warm? ... is anyone warm? ... ????  Oh well ....

…. What It Is …

ag·gre·ga·tor /ˈaɡrəˌɡādər/ noun 1. : Computing : a website or program that collects related items of content and displays them or links to them. 2. : a company that negotiates with producers of a utility service such as electricity on behalf of groups of consumers.   ... sometimes the editor uses this space to throw … Continue reading …. What It Is … →

… MIRANDA’S LAST GIFT …

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories—and Ringo. By David Frum Photo Courtesy of Natali Golden MARCH 21, 2024 I was at the kitchen counter making coffee when my daughter Miranda’s dog approached. Ringo stands about 10 inches high at the shoulder, but he carries himself with supreme confidence. He fixed his … Continue reading … MIRANDA’S LAST GIFT … →

…Jack Smith runs Stephen Miller’s amateur amicus curiae brief through a legal wood-chipper …

Stephen Miller, Jack Smith, Aileen Cannon Stephen Miller, Trump’s dime-store Goebbels, submitted an amicus brief to Judge Aileen Cannon in Trump’s Florida theft of documents case. In the brief, Miller does not argue that Trump is innocent. Instead, he claims that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had no authority to report a crime … Continue reading …Jack Smith runs Stephen Miller’s amateur amicus curiae brief through a legal wood-chipper … →

…The Real Reason Trump Loves Putin …

A new book explores the American right’s tendency to admire and want to emulate foreign dictators. For nearly the entirety of the past decade, a question has stalked, and sometimes consumed, American politics: Why do Donald Trump and his acolytes heap such reverent praise on Vladimir Putin? The question is born of disbelief. Adoration of … Continue reading …The Real Reason Trump Loves Putin … →

… Aileen Cannon Might Actually Get Herself Kicked Off the Trump Classified Docs Case …

The recent news about possible Russian space nukes reminds us that we live in a very insecure world. That is why perhaps none of Donald Trump’s four criminal cases is more troubling than the federal prosecution brought by special counsel Jack Smith for mishandling classified documents. Unfortunately, the judge handling the case, Aileen Cannon—a last-minute … Continue reading … Aileen Cannon Might Actually Get Herself Kicked Off the Trump Classified Docs Case … →

… Amazon joins Trader Joe’s and Elon Musk’s SpaceX …

.... in calling the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional Amazon has argued in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, echoing similar arguments made this year by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the grocery store … Continue reading … Amazon joins Trader Joe’s and Elon Musk’s SpaceX … →