“It means that a president cannot govern unless you can basically run the course with 677 district court judges, any one of which can issue a national injunction.
So you’ve gotta win every case 677-0 if you want to implement policy.
Well, the justices have said, including liberal justices like Justice Kagan, that this is truly insane, and this is just the latest such lawsuit to try to limit what this president can do.”
The two old geezers would like their death certificates to reflect reality, not politics.- Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson A recent scientific report in Nature reported that, among 530 in-hospital deaths registered as COVID-19 deaths in seven hospitals in Athens during the Omicron wave of the pandemic, a COVID-19-associated death was defined as ‘any death occurring in a person with positive testing for SARS-Cov-2 at the time of death.’ The researchers categorised deaths into two groups: (a) deaths “due to” COVID-19, where the infection was a direct cause or led to death, and (b) deaths “with” COVID-19, where the infection was unrelated to the cause of death.
They used three sources for classification: the death certificate, the patient’s medical chart, and interviews with the attending physician using a structured questionnaire. The reanalysis reported that 290 (55%) of deaths were classified as “due to” COVID-19....
Plaintiffs who sued the state of Alabama over its new law, a few years ago, that protects children from harmful drugs and surgeries, have given up.
Jonathan Scruggs, of the ADF, explained the American Civil Liberties Union and others sought the dismissal of Boe v. Marshall, where "politicized interest groups worked alongside the Biden administration" challenged the state's protections for children.
"Alabama rightly enacted a law that protects children's welfare—supporting their natural development and ensuring that children experiencing gender dysphoria have a chance for healing and compassionate mental-health support," he said in a prepared statement.
It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed... In recent years, however, that has changed.
Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population...
By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal.
We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals. An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America...
Paterson, N.J., City Council President Alex Mendez faces new charges in a superseding indictment related to the May 2020 municipal election.
Alongside his wife, Yohanny Mendez, and campaign workers Omar Ledesma and Iris Rigo, Mendez is accused of orchestrating a scheme involving the theft and forgery of ballots and voter registrations to secure his council seat.
The indictment alleges that the group unlawfully collected and tampered with vote-by-mail ballots, including destroying ballots not cast for Mendez and submitting fraudulent ones in their place.
Stephen Heins - Apparently the problem is not that some Pakistani men are cowardly wife beaters, the problem is climate change.
"While the economic and physical health impacts of climate change are clear, Pakistan’s population is also experiencing the often overlooked mental health ramifications...
How can a growing sense of climate anxiety or “eco-anxiety” in locals be addressed?
Pakistan is facing an onslaught of climate disasters.
One explanation for the rapid change is that Trump's decisive victory in the 2024 presidential election gave permission to various elites to discern a new consensus in the broader society.
I believe there is something more significant than some kind of radar telling executives that the woke movement somehow overreached. Certainly, it is the case that social movements go too far and have to consolidate their gains before further advance. But there is something different here that everyone should consider.
He went on to reoffend – violently and in a big way, in the worst mass shooting in the state capital's history. - Ana Kasparian
Smiley Martin should have been behind bars.
A career criminal with a long rap sheet involving firearms, he was given a 10-year sentence in 2018 for punching, dragging and severely beating his girlfriend with a belt.
In prison, Martin was found guilty of beating another inmate and engaging in other criminal activity.
Nevertheless, he was freed just four years later, thanks to a plea deal that categorized him as a “nonviolent offender” and a California ballot measure that sharply reduced sentences for “good behavior.”
Just two months after his release, Martin and several accomplices, including his brother, were arrested for carrying out the worst mass shooting in Sacramento’s history – leaving six dead and 12 others injured on April 3, 2022...
(George) Orson Welles 1915 - Actor ("War of the Worlds", "A Man for All Seasons", "Catch-22")
1851 - The mechanical refrigerator was patented by Dr. John Gorrie.
1889 - The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, France, marking the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. Also at the exposition was the first automobile in Paris, the Mercedes-Benz.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned in Lakehurst, NJ. Thirty-six people were killed.
1941 - Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.
1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
2010 - A computerized sell order triggered a "flash crash" on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrials lost nearly 1,000 points in less than a half hour.
During an appearance on Saturday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blasted the mainstream media and congressional Democrats for embracing suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
According to Noem, their defense of Abrego Garcia “revealed who they are.”
Stephen Heins - Apparently the problem is not that some Pakistani men are cowardly wife beaters, the problem is climate change.
