Tootfinder

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said today he supports President Biden’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing the “ongoing and horrific loss of innocent civilian life.”
“I support President Biden’s call for an #immediate #ceasefire as part of a deal to secure desperately needed relief for

Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for a ceasefire in Gaza
After months of pressure and rising civilian casualties, California’s governor joins the calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.

#Glide #Church & #civilrights movement leader, longtime advocate for disadvantaged who sheltered & fed the hungry daily for decades in San Francisco's

A real #transport transition has little to do with electric cars and a lot to do with walking, cycling and public transport. #CitiesForPeople 💚
📷 seen at @BrentToderian
@…

Jörg Spengler (@joerg_spengler@muenchen.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Eine echte #Verkehrswende hat wenig mit Elektroautos und viel mit Fuß-, Rad- und öffentlichem Verkehr zu tun. #StädteFürMenschen 💚 📷 gesehen bei @BrentToderian@mastodon.online

Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments
Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that 🔸their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, 🔸the Guardian has learned.
The students from #Columbia University, #Tulane…

Incredible piece by Alex Horley for the cover of an issue from the new run of Conan books being done by Titan Comics ⚔️
#Conan #ConanTheBarbarian #comics #art

Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments
Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that 🔸their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, 🔸the Guardian has learned.
The students from #Columbia University, #Tulane…

the remote #PacificIslanders still under French #colonial control whose island holds 25% of the world's nickel deposits are rioting for the second straight week... the indigenous miners are unhappy with their exploitive #EU yo…

New Caledonia Riots Threaten Nickel Supply Chains
Violent riots in New Caledonia are having an outsized global impact on critical mineral supply chains.

In this episode of "C things I knew by feeling but not for sure":
A #cpp lambda is a class w overloaded function-call operator (), confirmed 3 different ways with the example in Pic 1:
1. Assembly has operator() function members for A, C, D
2. Can explicitly call function call operators on A, C, D
3. A passes the trait std::is_class but fails std::is_function
Pic…

Compiler Explorer - C++ (x86-64 gcc 13.2)
auto A = []() { std

Incredible piece by Alex Horley for the cover of an issue from the new run of Conan books being done by Titan Comics ⚔️
#Conan #ConanTheBarbarian #comics #art

Y’all, need some #advice. Need to kick my #coffee habit which I’ve acquired due to long hours and little sleep at college. Really enjoy the stuff and the occasional productivity boosts it gives me, but frankly can’t handle the intense anxiety/panic/jitters from the

Donald Trump’s new joint #fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his #campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s #legal

Trump's invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC
Donald Trump and his Republican allies are well behind President Joe Biden and Democrats on fundraising. But an upcoming major fundraiser the former president is hosting in Florida will prioritize his own campaign and the committee paying his legal bills before the Republican National Committee. Experts say that's an unorthodox move because campaigns usually want to first raise money that can be spent on campaign activity. Trump faces four criminal indictments and several civil cases. A copy of…

#FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg , who'd been with #bankster regulatory agency since 2005, pressured to step down after disastrous #CapitolHill hearings on widespread

February 6, 2023: Penitencia Creek Trail. just after 4:20...
#SanJose #PenitenciaCreek #California

Aujourd'hui, pour une fois, c'était café et Yovo dokó (beignet blanc), très apprécié des béninois, grands et petits, parfois en accompagnement d'une bouillie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNb-GgJH9Mg

New: Stonker of a myth-busting paper on masks, from Trisha Greenhalgh & team.
#masks #CovidIsAirborne

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Céu:
🎵 Raiou
#Céu

Two former #Mississippi #deputies wept in court Wednesday as a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison and condemned their #cruelty for breaking into a home with four other white officers and

Mississippi 'goon squad' officer gets 40 years for racist torture
A fourth former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced for his part in torturing two Black men. Christian Dedmon was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in federal prison. Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17.5 years hours earlier. Former deputies Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton were sentenced Tuesday. Two more former officers will learn their fates Thursday. All six white men pleaded guilty to federal charges in August. They admitted subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell P…

Albert #Camus, journaliste, chez #Gallica
https://gallica.bnf.fr/blog/04042024/camus-journaliste…

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
CATT:
🎵 Change (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #CATT
https://open.spotify.com/track/5VR7fuS81foZIQZ7OyRIoA
https://cattmusic.bandcamp.com/album/change

#PvtEquity Firm Offers $11 Billion for just #Paramount’s Studio Production Arm, excluding the actual #CableNetworks & brands , which is an offer more than the entire

An 87 year old duck #cartoons

An 87 year old duck
On this date (April 17) in 1937, a duck later known as Daffy made his debut in a cartoon called Porky’s Duck Hunt. It was animated by Bob Clampett and directed by Tex Avery. What a team! Daff…

Rust for C#/.NET Developers
#rustlang

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Céu:
🎵 Raiou
#Céu

#Mexican Nationals file #RICO case, and #classaction #lawsuit alleging violation of

Mexican Nationals Allege \
Our clients do have considerable experience with their engineering background, and they were targeted and recruited from these universities in Mexico, but the American workers that are working alongside them obviously don't have an engineering degree and oftentimes don't have a college degree, Rachel Berlin Benjamin of Beal Sutherland Berlin & Brown in Atlanta, told the Daily Report.

Since Wednesday, “OnStar Smart Driver #customer #data is no longer being shared with #LexisNexis or #Verisk,” a G.M. spokeswoman, Malorie Lucich, sa…

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers.

Toxic asbestos is now fully banned, a move that EPA calls ‘historic’

The Environmental Protection Agency bans #chrysotile #asbestos, the only form of the #cancer-

U.S. fully bans asbestos, which kills 40,000 a year
Environmental Protection Agency bans chrysotile asbestos, the only form of the cancer-causing mineral that the U.S. still imports and uses in new products.

#FTC bans #employee #NonCompete clauses across all industries, which will help enable capitalist #competition and bidding wars for

FTC Bans Non-Compete Clauses for All Companies Nationwide
The commission says the ban will lead to better wages and lower healthcare costs.

New teaser trailer for upcoming Cronenberg flick THE SHROUDS: #horror #Cronenberg

Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction
The #supreme #court has taken a wrong turn, he said, but it is not too late to turn back.
In an interview in his chambers and in a new book, the justice, who retired in 2022, discussed

Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction
In an interview in his chambers and in a new book, the justice, who retired in 2022, discussed Dobbs, originalism and the decline of trust in the court.

Maybe C 11 should have been called "Renaissance C "?
We could then be using "modern C " to generically mean whatever is new.
Sure, "contemporary C " works, but "modern C " is easier to say and is much more accessible.
#cpp #cPlusPlus

Ocean Link,
one of 22 #cable #maintenance ships stationed around the world,
raced to repair a broken cable after the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011.
The engineers on this aging ship are just a handful of the thousand or so people in this highly specialized industr…

#ISIS wants to take credit for deadly attack on #Crocus #Concert Hall , a civilian #massacre that has claimed at least 100 lives in shootings and explo…

Ocean Link,
one of 22 #cable #maintenance ships stationed around the world,
raced to repair a broken cable after the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011.
The engineers on this aging ship are just a handful of the thousand or so people in this highly specialized industr…

The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land
For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country.
That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior Department rule that puts #conservation, #recreation

The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land
The Interior Department finalized a rule that puts conservation on equal footing with mining, grazing and drilling on public lands across the country.

A pair of #UCSantaCruz students say they found and reported earlier this year a security flaw allowing anyone to avoid paying for laundry provided by over a million internet-connected laundry machines in residences and college campuses around the world.
#ucsc

EXCLUSIVE: Two students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free
Laundry services giant CSC ServiceWorks ignored requests to fix a security bug.

Just $1 from you will help me make history as the first member of Gen Z to ever be *reelected* to Congress.
It's Rep. #Maxwell #Frost, reaching out with exciting news: I'm officially launching my reelection campaign to keep representing the people of FL-10!
In 2022,

Chip in to support Maxwell Frost!
Join our fight for a better future >>

Suppose They Gave A #WarOnWoke And No One Came?
What If Prevalence Of #CriticalRaceTheory Was Just A Theory?
New #Syllabus Study Of 5.6m US

This intense sermon would be disturbing enough coming from a random pastor.
It's even worse when you realize it's Oklahoma State Sen. #Dusty #Deevers calling on #Christian men to go to

Trump calls for critic to be jailed for investigating him over Capitol attack
Trump has renewed calls for #Liz #Cheney
– his most prominent Republican critic
– to be ♦️jailed ♦️for her role in investigating his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack launched by his supporters in 2021,
a move that…

As if #climatechange wasn't bad enough,
conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise include stroke, migraines, meningitis, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's

Scientists Warn Brain Diseases Are Getting Worse as Climate Change Intensifies
Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review has found.

#California's #Salmon #Fail Again Due to Gov #Newsom Policy Decisions That Turn Cold Rushing

California In-River Salmon Sport Fisheries Closed for Second Year Due to Dramatic Declines
AMERICAN CANYON, Calif. – On May 14, the California Fish and Game Commission unanimously adopted emergency regulations for Chinook salmon fishing closures in the Central Valley and Klamath River Basins due to dramatic population declines. According to...

Whether #TikTok is a harmless time waster or a sneaky surveillance mechanism depends on who you ask
– and it’s a question that members of Congress are currently wrestling over.
Last week, TikTok CEO #Shou #Chew answered pointed qu…

How Is TikTok Planning To Avoid a U.S. Ban? Enter "Project Texas."
The U.S. government has an eye on TikTok. With its $1.5 billion "Project Texas", TikTok has an eye on ... the Lone Star State?

#California #Educators cry foul and call #Democrat Darling Gov's sneaky $12 Billion end run cut around #Prop98

Educators call Gov. Gavin Newsom’s slash to school funding ‘unconstitutional’
Educational leaders are calling Newsom’s cuts to Prop 98 funding unconstitutional and say it could cost schools billions for years to come.

Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu
Senate Majority Leader #Charles E. #Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for the Israeli government to hold a #new

Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu
“Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a speech.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Talen Energy’s data center campus at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania.
#Talen #Energy #Corporation this week announced it has sold its 960MW

AWS acquires Talen’s nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania
Cloud company pays $650 million – plans 960MW campus

EPA curbs cancer-causing chemical used to sterilize medical devices
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced tougher #limits on a #cancer-#causing #gas

EPA curbs cancer-causing chemical used to sterilize medical devices
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized a rule restricting ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical used to sterilize medical equipment.

#CryptoCreeps at #Binance manipulated market$ , secretly sold hundreds of millions in "tokens" and when expert internal investigative team uncovered suspicious #VIP trader

Most Mexicans began to seriously entertain the idea that #Claudia #Sheinbaum could be Mexico’s first female president in December 2022, when her trademark slicked-back ponytail began to appear on billboards across the country.
Paid for by legislators in Sheinbaum’s party, Morena, the signage was intended to make …

Mexico Election: Who Is Claudia Sheinbaum, Likely Next President?
If she wins Mexico’s presidency, Claudia Sheinbaum’s most daunting political challenge will be persona, not policy.

Most Mexicans began to seriously entertain the idea that #Claudia #Sheinbaum could be Mexico’s first female president in December 2022, when her trademark slicked-back ponytail began to appear on billboards across the country.
Paid for by legislators in Sheinbaum’s party, Morena, the signage was intended to make …

Mexico Election: Who Is Claudia Sheinbaum, Likely Next President?
If she wins Mexico’s presidency, Claudia Sheinbaum’s most daunting political challenge will be persona, not policy.

Yesterday we lost one of the icons of 80's #AmericanHardcore punk, #GaryFloyd (1952-2024) of self described "#commie fag band" The Dicks from Texas who participated in the 1984

As #insurers try to clear their books of potentially #risky homes, they are using automated AI scanning of #GeospatialInsuranceConsortium aerial photos, from drones etc to flag

Trump in court for hearing on classified documents charges
Presumptive GOP presidential candidate D. J. Trump attended a court hearing Thursday where his lawyers tried to convince a federal judge to throw out the charges against him for #mishandling highly #classified

What to know ahead of Trump’s classified documents hearing Thursday
A hearing in Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida on Thursday will focus on his claims that he is protected by the Presidential Records Act.

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office ( #NRO ) is reportedly acquiring a #constellation of hundreds of #intelligence-#gathering

If SpaceX's Secret Constellation Is What We Think It Is, It's Game Changing (Updated)
A constellation of hundreds of sensor-equipped satellites would offer unprecedented strategic and tactical surveillance around the globe.

Top #DiversityEquityInclusion officer for #Nike sentenced to 5 years in #federalprison for nearly $5 million in alleged #ConArtist

Federal agents have located a person of interest in over 100 #swatting #calls, which included calls targeting  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro #Mayorkas, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Security Agency Director Jen

Approximately 100 right-wing organizations have signed onto #Project2025, an expansive plan for controlling (and in some cases dismantling) federal agencies in the event that Trump or another Republican wins the presidential election this year.
Many of these organizations are led by #Christian

Shocking Online Manifesto Reveals Project 2025’s Link to a Coordinated ‘Christian Nationalism Project’
“The Statement on Christian Nationalism” seeks to implement a Scripture-based system of government whereby Christ-ordained “civil magistrates” exercise authority over the American public.

After recent trend downward over past decades, surge of speedy #eBike deliveries in NYC led to recent 23 yr high spike in #cyclist deaths on city streets. 23 out of 30 deaths occured on #electric powered

How Do You Put a Tesla Model X in Gear?
OVER THE WEEKEND, the Wall Street Journal published a long report on the accidental death of the shipping magnate #Angela #Chao, sister to former transportation secretary Elaine Chao and sister-in-law to soon-to-be former Senate Republican leader

Swipe down to die
INDIGNITY VOL. 4, NO. 45

Supreme court justice Clarence Thomas absent from court with no explanation – live
Supreme court justice #Clarence #Thomas was absent from the court in Washington DC on Monday
– with no explanation, the Associated Press reports.
Thomas, 75, also was not participating remotely in arguments, as justices …

Supreme court justice Clarence Thomas absent from court with no explanation – live
Supreme court justice #Clarence #Thomas was absent from the court in Washington DC on Monday
– with no explanation, the Associated Press reports.
Thomas, 75, also was not participating remotely in arguments, as justices …

#silvopasture protects farms against the two words often not spoken on farms:
"If you mention '#climate #change,'" Payne said, "it stops the conversation."
On Payne's 300 acres are the se…

Old farming methods draw interest as climate, environment demand them
The University of Missouri is part of a national incentive program for farmers to make better use of their land.

The U.S. #small #drone #industry is experiencing a renaissance after having been all but given up for lost, due to the impossibility of competing with China on production #costs

A drone factory in Utah is at the epicenter of anti-China fervor
U.S. drone makers are hoping to break China’s hold on the U.S. market.

The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money #criminal #case on Friday 🔸turned down the former president’s request to postpone his trial 🔸because of publicity about the case.
It’s the latest in a string of delay #denials that Trump has g…

New York hush money case: Judge declines to delay trial after Trump complains of pretrial publicity
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case. It’s the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial’s start Monday with jury selection. Among other things, Trump’s lawyers argue that the jury pool has been deluged with what the defense sees as “exceptionally prejudicial” news coverage of the ca…

Bombshell interview sees Trump witness reveal he loaded boxes of documents onto plane
#Brian #Butler, an employee at Mar-a-Lago serving as a witness in the #classified

Bombshell interview sees Trump witness reveal he loaded boxes of documents onto plane
Brian Butler, an employee at Mar-a-Lago serving as a witness in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, told his side of the story to CNN's Kaitlan Collins in an interview released on Monday.Butler, identified in court records only as "Trump Employee 5," said he was aske...

The world can no longer afford two things:
🔸the costs of economic inequality;
🔸and the rich.
Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people captured nearly twice as much of the new global wealth created as did the other 99% of individuals put together
And in 2019 they emitted as much #carbon #dioxide

Why the world cannot afford the rich
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.

Donald #Trump's decision to run to his Truth Social account on Thursday to defend Judge Aileen #Cannon from criticism drew the attention of MSNBC political analyst Steve Benen,
who pointed out the former president has done nothing but lead the charge in attacks on the judges who are overseeing his other trials.

'Truly breathtaking levels of hypocrisy': Trump's latest attack shocks analyst
Donald Trump's decision to run to his Truth Social account on Thursday to defend Judge Aileen Cannon from criticism drew the attention of MSNBC political analyst Steve Benen, who pointed out the former president has done nothing but lead the charge in attacks on the judges who are overseeing his oth...

If one is investigating how the #Claremont #Institute, the California-based think tank, came to be such a hotbed of Trumpists and Trumpism
—think about such notorious Claremont fellows as #Michael

Trump’s ‘Virtues’ and Other Fairy Tales
Sad, sorry, sickening sycophantism from the Claremont Institute board chairman.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or #COPA, on Tuesday released ♦️body camera footage showing the fatal shooting of #Dexter #Reed by Chicago police officers ♦️during a March 21 traffic stop in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Stre…

4 Chicago Police Officers Fired at Dexter Reed 96 Times in 41 Seconds After He Shot Officer in Arm: COPA
COPA in a statement said preliminary evidence "appears to confirm" that Reed fired first before officers responded by firing 96 shots in a matter 41 seconds and the agency has recommended to CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling that four of the officers involved be relieved of their police powers during the pendency of this investigation.

With Mexico’s presidential election less than two months away, one thing is clear: The candidate for the governing party appears to be running away with it.
#Claudia #Sheinbaum, a physicist and protégée of the current president, holds a commanding lead of about 30 percentage points in the polls over the oppositio…

Claudia Sheinbaum Is Turning Mexico’s Presidential Election Into a Blowout
Claudia Sheinbaum, a protégée of Mexico’s current president, holds a commanding lead in the polls. But to many in Mexico, she is still an enigma.

Western diplomats have mounted pressure on #China to prevent #Iran from escalating tensions in the Middle East with a direct retaliatory strike against #Israel.
Tensions spiked at the start of this month when seven Iranian military ad…

Who killed #Caravaggio and why?
His final paintings may hold the key
In the months before his fatal journey he was in a desperate, wounded state – and on the run.
He had recently moved nervously across Sicily, fearing he was being followed, painting a handful of #religious

World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
The principle that ⭐️everything looks the same everywhere⭐️ is a fundamental pillar of the standard model of #cosmology,
which aims to explain the big bang and how the universe has evolved in the 13.7bn years since.
But this week a meeting of some of the world’s leading cosmologists will convene at London’s R…

Mitch McConnell's billionaire shipping mogul sister-in-law drowned after making fatal mistake in her Tesla:
#Angela #Chao, a #billionaire shipping industry CEO, drowned in a pond at her Texas ranch after accidentally puttin…

Mitch McConnell's billionaire shipping mogul sister-in-law drowned after making fatal mistake in her Tesla: An
Angela Chao, 50, a billionaire shipping industry CEO, tragically drowned in a pond at her Texas ranch after accidentally putting her Tesla in...

DOJ opens criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines 737 plane blowout
The Department of Justice has launched a #criminal #investigation into the Boeing jetliner #blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines …

Justice Department opens probe into Alaska Airlines 737 blowout, report says
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout on an Alaska Airlines plane, Wall Street Journal reports.

Three shades of jazz swirled together in 1959 to make ‘Kind of Blue’
Frank Sinatra biographer James Kaplan has set his sights on three jazz giants
— Miles #Davis, John #Coltrane and Bill #Evans
— as their lives and thei…

How 3 shades of jazz swirled together in 1959 to make 'Kind of Blue'
James Kaplan's triple biography weaves together '3 Shades of Blue' in the backstories of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans at the height of jazz's cultural sway.

If #Judge #Cannon continues as she has, the outcome seems to be all but a foregone conclusion.
It’s difficult to believe that, at this point, any panel of #Eleventh

Judge Cannon Rules
Judge Cannon rules are not the rules lawyers are used to seeing applied in a courtroom. Hers is a court increasingly reminiscent of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” where important matters are upside down. The Queen of Hearts told Alice during the trial of the Knave of Hearts, “sentence first, verdict afterwards.” Judge Cannon ordered Jack Smith to provide her with jury instructions on the application of the Presidential Records Act (PRA) long before the case could even conceivably…

O.J. Simpson, former football star accused of murder, has died
O.J. Simpson, whose rise and fall from American football hero to accused murderer to prison inmate fueled a rancorous public drama that obsessed the nation and spawned debates over race, wealth, justice and retribution, has died from #cancer, according to a family member’s statement on X.
Simpson was once the country’s most admired …

OJ Simpson, former football star accused of murder, dies
XX

US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order
The president of the rightwing #Claremont #Institute and another senior Claremont official are both closely involved with the shadowy 🔹Society for American Civic Renewal🔹 ( #SACR

Will brie and Camembert cheeses go extinct?
Until recently, #Camembert and #brie came covered in shades of blue, orange and green — a product of the different strains of molds used to make the cheeses, said Jeanne Ropars, an evolutionary biologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research and Université…

Will brie and Camembert cheeses go extinct? Here’s what scientists say.
Worries over French cheeses have spread since a study warned they’re “on the verge of extinction.” But a future without brie is not yet in the cards.

Move to Amend's Proposed Amendment to the Constitution
#MoneyIsNotSpeech
#CorporationsAreNotPeople
https://www.move…

Move to Amend's Proposed Amendment to the Constitution

Move to Amend's Proposed Amendment to the Constitution
#MoneyIsNotSpeech
#CorporationsAreNotPeople
https://www.move…

Move to Amend's Proposed Amendment to the Constitution

The $91.63 million #Trump posted in the E Jean #Carroll settlement includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the State of New York tacks onto surety bonds.
That money has been set aside in a court-managed account to be paid to Carroll in the event Trump loses his appeal.
The…

'Matter of national security': Mysterious entity that guaranteed Trump’s $91M bond questioned
After US District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan denied his petition for a stay, former President Donald Trump finally posted a $91.6 million bond for his appeal of writer E. Jean Carroll's judgment on Friday.That $91.63 million includes the full $83.3 million judgment, along with a 9% statutory interest the...

#Dark #energy was assumed to be a #constant force in the universe, both currently and throughout cosmic history.
But new data suggest that it may be more changeable, growing stronger or weaker over time, reversing or even fading aw…

A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong
Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.

During the April 8 total #solar #eclipse, when the sky darkens, you’ll see the brightest planet Venus pop into view on one side of the sun. On the other side of the sun, you’ll find the second-brightest planet, Jupiter. And if #Comet

Comet Pons-Brooks: Will you see it during the eclipse?

We need more #calm #companies
A calm company's purpose is to provide exceptional service to customers while simultaneously improving the lives of the people who work there.
By default, a calm company is profitable. Those profits give a calm company its resilience:
there's no last-minute scramble…

We need more calm companies
Calm companies are profitable, value freedom, have a purpose, and improve the team's lives. Frenzied companies are crisis-driven.

How the humble coconut is starting to fuel parts of Papua New Guinea
Decades ago, the fruit was a lucrative export but over the years it has become less prized on international markets.
Now, a small island off the north coast of the country, is putting coconuts to another use.
The oil from #copra
– the white flesh from the

Justice #Amy #Coney #Barrett’s opinion was just a page long, all of two paragraphs.
But in distancing herself from both blocs in Monday’s nominally unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to former Preside…

Supreme Court Justice Stakes Out Stance in Trump Ballot Case
The justice distanced herself from the majority, saying it had gone too far, and from the three liberals, saying their tone sent the wrong message.

Justice #Amy #Coney #Barrett’s opinion was just a page long, all of two paragraphs.
But in distancing herself from both blocs in Monday’s nominally unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to former Preside…

Supreme Court Justice Stakes Out Stance in Trump Ballot Case
The justice distanced herself from the majority, saying it had gone too far, and from the three liberals, saying their tone sent the wrong message.

Unskippable Intros Hall of Fame
Just a short note of appreciation of the opening credits to
⭐️Halt and Catch Fire⭐️
director : Patrick #Clair
music : #Trentemøller

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( #CISA ) has released a new version of ⭐️"Malware Next-Gen," ⭐️
now allowing the public to submit malware samples for analysis by CISA.
Malware Next-Gen is a malware analysis platform that examines malware samples for suspicious artifacts.
It was originally designed to allow U.S. federal, state, local, tribal, and territori…

If Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. has a campaign theme
--beyond the appeal of his family name
--it’s his claim that Americans are the victims of massive, intertwining #conspiracies that he is uniquely qualified to unravel.
His paranoia politics is most pronounced, perhaps, on the matter of

RFK Jr. Is Doing a Tired Dance Around January 6
Even as his campaign walks back a downright Trumpian fundraising email, Kennedy is trying to legitimize baseless 2020 election doubts.

Russia has been accused of systematically using #illegal #chemical #gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers.
Ukrainian troops told the Daily Telegraph that they have been subjected to regular attacks from small

Status of #Trump's #criminal cases - As of March 1, 2024
#Jan6
Washington, D.C.
Proposed trial date TBD
🔸On hold
🔹Frozen while Supreme Court considers Trump immunity claim

Trump trials timeline: Jan. 6, Georgia and docs cases all in limbo
Multiple cases might slip beyond November's election.

In their new book, 🔹How to Steal a Presidential Election, 🔹Lawrence #Lessig and Matthew #Seligman describe a troubling scenario.
A 2020 Supreme Court decision in a “faithless electors” case (#Chiafolo v.

‘Start the Steal’: Trump Once Again Planning to Overturn an Election
Two shadow campaigns are ramping up—one aiming to create a constitutional crisis, the other aiming to prevent one.

Rise in #Chinese #espionage arrests alarms Europe
‘Countries are now forced to confront it’
The increase in cases reflects a changing mood across continent towards Chinese threats, say experts

Law enforcement agencies and prosecutors from Colorado to New York have turned to a little-known #artificial #intelligence tool in recent years to help investigate, charge and convict suspects accused of murder and other serious crimes.
But as the software, called

An AI tool used in thousands of criminal cases is facing legal challenges
Law enforcement agencies and prosecutors from Colorado to New York have turned to a little-known artificial intelligence tool in recent years to help investigate, charge and convict suspects accused of murder and other serious crimes.

Repeal the #Comstock #Act
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

On Thursday, the January 6 committee released two more transcripts of #Cassidy #Hutchinson’s testimony, which was given September 14, 2022 and September 15, 2022.
Former Trump staffer and important Jan. 6 witness #Cassidy

Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump-Paid Lawyer Talked To Haberman After 3rd Deposition — Told Her ‘Don’t Worry, Maggie’s Friendly To Us’
Cassidy Hutchinson testified her lawyer Stefan Passantino took a call from Maggie Haberman above her objections, reassuring her "Maggie's friendly to us."

In 1932, 75-year-old socialist #Clara #Zetkin stood in Germany’s Reichstag and, despite being so unsteady that she had to be carried into the building on a stretcher, managed to give a rousing speech lasting more than 40 minutes.
“The fight of the labouring masses,” she declared, is “the fight for their full liberati…