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As one of Mike Johnson's first acts as speaker, he's chosen to protect serial liar and indicted fraudster George Santos. That speaks volumes about his willingness to stand up to corruption.
Everyone should know who Avner Less was. Everyone should know who Adolf Eichmann and Reinhard Heydrich were. When their crimes were discovered the world promised it would never forget, but it has.
It turns out that Netanyahu was like George Bush at his Texas ranch on August 6, 2001 when he blew off a CIA report that was headlined, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
Florida's Scott, Trump, Rubio, and DeSantis all claim to love Jesus. Non-wingnut Christians frown on collective punishment, guilt by association, and indiscriminate slaughter of non-combatants, but End Times folks are OK with all of that.
Oligarchy is always a transitional system, typically a mere way station in the shift from democracy to fascism or some other form of authoritarianism.
In a tortured shredding of logic, attorneys for Ron DeSantis are trying to defend his gerrymandered destruction of a black majority district by comparing the restoration of it to apartheid.
The calculus of invasion is grim in the extreme. If Israel launches an all-out invasion of Gaza on the ground, complete with infantry, tanks, artillery, and air support, thousands will die, both Hamas fighters and Palestinian civilians.
In addition pay increases, the agreement will convert many temporary workers to full-time status, higher pay for temps, the right to go on strike over plant closures, and increases in retirement plans.
Election officials brace for surge in AI-generated misinformation, and lawmakers face complex challenges in containing it.
Might Oppenheimer's idea of a world republic have provided humanity with the tools to get a grip on perils like the climate emergency, runaway artificial intelligence, and new weapons of mass extermination?
Ron DeSantis spoke at the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation to clearly delineate how far out of his depth he is on foreign policy issues.
Although major social media platforms have community guidelines prohibiting incitement to violence and sharing of graphic content, those prohibitions are difficult to enforce.
In MAGA Mike Johnson (what Trump calls him), Republicans have found the perfect embodiment of their deplorable basket of hatreds. The only “loves” they have are rightwing billionaires and the fossil fuel industry. And, of course, Trump’s good buddy Vladimir Putin.
Florida isn't convincing the best and brightest to come teach or study here and too many of the best and brightest already here are getting out.
Not only a staunch Trump supporter and election denier, new Speaker Mike Johnson is in lock step with the rest of the Republican Party in targeting Medicare and Social Security for major cuts.
Leonard Leo was instrumental in packing the US Supreme Court with the conservative supermajority. But he has also been busily at work packing state supreme courts as well.
