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With SpaceX completing the biggest public offering in history, Elon Musk’s reusable chemical rockets seem to be the only game in town for getting to space. But halfway around the globe, a little-known Chinese town tucked against the Tibetan Plateau could change all that. In late March, the government of the city of Ziyang said a research facility successfully tested a high-temperature superconducting navigation system, which they said was a breakthrough in electromagnetic rocket launch… From China - South China Morning Post via This RSS Feed.
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…Laws were clearly broken; but the sentences turned on what the defendants said and believed, which the prosecution cast as proof of Antifa membership — a case that rested largely on one man: Shideler. His job on the stand was to convince the jury of two things: that Antifa is a real, organized terrorist enterprise, and that these eight belonged to it. That task was complicated by the fact that the defendants had never actually called themselves Antifa… Shideler was baptized into this worldview on the job. By his own account on the stand, he “lived over my parents’ garage for a little while” after college, took a job as a news director at a radio station “for a short period,” and did “some blogging and writing” before being recruited by Stand With Us, the Los Angeles pro-Israel group, where he was responsible for “managing their database of extremist groups and individuals.” From there he went to the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a foreign-policy nonprofit that bills itself as operating “from an unabashedly pro-America and pro-Israel stance,” where he studied Islamic movements “with a particular emphasis on the Muslim Brotherhood.” In 2014 he was hired at the Center for Security Policy, the Frank Gaffney–founded think tank best known for promoting the Iraq War and claiming “Sharia law” is the leading domestic threat to the United States. He left for a stint at the Middle East Forum — a Philadelphia outfit whose stated mission is to “protect Western civilization from the threat of Islamism” — then returned to the Center in 2020, where he now directs Homeland Security and Counterterrorism research, which as far as I can tell means tracking left-wing Americans. Under cross-examination, Shideler acknowledged he had authored an article on combating far-left extremism whose subtitle, a defense lawyer pointed out, was “A Roadmap for the Trump Administration.” It ran in The American Mind, a publication of the conservative Claremont Institute. He conceded his work isn’t peer-reviewed and rests on “open source research” — material one can “find on the internet” — which, he agreed, carries “both false information and true information.” Somehow, some way, Shideler ended up being the Justice Department’s expert witness to explain “Antifa” and the grave threat it poses…
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Link To Transgender Law Center Statement ::: spoiler Text Transgender Law Center Condemns SCOTUS Opinion in Hecox and BPJ NATIONAL – Transgender Law Center decries today’s ruling by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v BPJ and Little v Hecox, which greenlights discrimination against transgender youth who want to participate on sports teams that match their gender identity. The majority opinion, fully supported by all six conservative justices, allows the sports bans in Idaho and West Virginia to stand. “Today’s sweeping ruling is a huge overstep of this court’s power to push ideology over honoring basic civil rights,” said Shelby Chestnut (they/he), Executive Director. “We know a future is possible where every person, no matter who they are, has the freedom to live and thrive as their authentic selves. Our people are organizing in every community to make our voices heard, hold our leaders accountable, and build a world that works for all of us.” All nine Justices upheld the sports bans on the basis of Title IX. The majority opinion also ruled that these bans are not a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. In the dissenting opinion, Justice Sotomayor noted, “In the end, to the Court, the facts do not matter, even though the consequences are serious.” “It is egregious that the Supreme Court authored this opinion, upholding these clearly discriminatory bans,” said Shawn Thomas Meerkamper (they/them), Managing Attorney. “Every young person deserves to move through life free from discrimination or exclusion. We are steadfast in pursuing every legal avenue possible to ensure all youth, including transgender youth, can belong.” While the long-term impact of the Court’s ruling is not yet known, this will likely affect civil rights protections for transgender people in many other areas. “We have always known that the courts have never been a validator to our worth or our existence,” said Mariah Moore (she/her), Director of Policy & Programs. “Time and again, our civil rights have been fought for and won when we show up together and make our demands crystal clear. No matter who is in power, we will continue banding together to create a future where every person can live freely as themselves.” Transgender Law Center filed an amicus brief in the case to uplift the lived experience of transgender athletes and the importance of sports in their lives. Read their stories here. Today, the Supreme Court also issued its decision in Trump v Barbara. In a 6-3 decision, the Court struck down the administration’s Executive Order targeting birthright citizenship, holding that the order violates the 14th Amendment. “All of us, no matter where we come from, deserve safety and belonging in the place we call home,” said Isa Noyola (she/her), Director of the Border Butterflies Project. “The ruling today reaffirms that everyone born in this country deserves recognition, rights, and the freedom to participate in our society. We all belong here, and we will never stop showing up to create a world where current and future generations can thrive.” ::: Link To Erin Reed Article ::: spoiler Text On June 30—the last day of the term and the final day of Pride Month—the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling that states may ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports, holding that Title IX permits schools to determine eligibility based on “biological sex.” The ruling, authored by Justice Kavanaugh, was narrower than some of the worst-case scenarios: it preserved Bostock, did not overtly strip transgender people of equal protection, and explicitly declined to decide whether states must exclude trans athletes. But its most consequential holding still has vast consequences. The Court declared that “sex” in Title IX “cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex”—a definitional ruling about the statute itself, not merely about sports. And though the majority deliberately avoided saying that blue states must discriminate against transgender people under Title IX, its holding leaves wide lanes for the Trump administration to pressure schools and colleges through funding threats and investigations, and for far-right organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom to file lawsuits targeting trans-inclusive policies in every state in the country. The decision split along ideological lines, with all six conservative justices in the majority and the three liberal justices dissenting on equal protection. The majority declared directly, “The term ‘sex’ in Title IX, the Javits Amendment, and the Title IX regulations cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.” This ruling overturns years of lower court precedent. The Fourth Circuit, in Grimm v. Gloucester County, had held that Title IX’s prohibition on sex discrimination protects transgender students’ right to use bathrooms and play sports matching their gender identity. The Seventh Circuit, in Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District, reached the same conclusion. Those rulings—and the logic underlying them—were foundational to school policies across the country protecting transgender students in both red and blue states. The ruling was not as sweeping as it could have been. The Court specified two important limiting principles. First, the majority explicitly stated that it was not deciding whether states that choose to allow transgender athletes to participate are in violation of Title IX—noting that “that question is currently the subject of litigation in some lower courts” and that “nothing in this opinion is intended to decide that question.” This preserves, at least for now, the legal space for inclusive states to maintain their own policies. Second, the Court declined to resolve whether transgender people as a class are entitled to heightened constitutional protection under the Equal Protection Clause. This was one of the potential worst-case scenarios—a ruling on those grounds could have greenlit virtually any law targeting transgender people by declaring them undeserving of equal protection. Instead, the Court analyzed the sports bans as sex-based classifications subject to intermediate scrutiny, and found they satisfied that standard. Ultimately, though, the impact of this ruling will likely be severe. The most immediate consequence is that states across the country now have clear Supreme Court authorization to enact education-based bathroom and sports bans targeting transgender students, with Title IX posing no barrier. But the damage will not be confined to red states. The Court gave a wide lane for lawsuits against schools and colleges in blue states that allow transgender athletes to participate. Though the majority deliberately avoided ruling on whether inclusive states are violating Title IX, it heavily endorsed the theory that even a single transgender athlete on a girls’ team “displaces” cisgender athletes—devoting an entire passage to the zero-sum nature of sports, writing that “every athlete who makes a team takes a roster spot from another athlete” and “every competitor who wins a race or competition deprives another athlete of that victory, or medal, or prize.” That displacement framework is the foundational legal theory behind ADF’s lawsuits in Minnesota and other states, and it is central to the Trump administration’s Title IX enforcement campaign against schools that include trans athletes. The Court did not adopt ADF’s argument that Title IX requires exclusion. But it endorsed the factual premise on which that argument rests—and in litigation, the premise is often all you need. A more likely and immediate impact of this ruling, though, is the ratcheting up of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against colleges, universities, and public school districts to capitulate to its anti-trans demands. Prior to the ruling, the administration conducted rushed Title IX investigations, finding school districts and universities across the country in violation of Title IX unless they voluntarily enacted bathroom bans, sports bans, dormitory restrictions, and more. Most of these institutions pointed to circuit court Title IX precedent requiring them not to discriminate as their shield against capitulation—telling the administration, in effect, that federal law compelled them to include trans students, not exclude them. That shield is now gone. And while institutions could still point to the Equal Protection Clause, the Court limited that avenue as well: the majority held that sex-based classifications satisfying even a general relationship to the state’s interests are constitutional, eliminated the ability of individual plaintiffs to bring as-applied challenges showing a classification doesn’t fit them, and declared that even if the factual premise underlying a ban is wrong—even if trans athletes on puberty blockers have no physical advantage—the ban survives anyway. “This ruling is deeply harmful for transgender women and girls who only asked for the ability to participate in sports with their peers,” said Sasha Buchert, Senior Attorney and Director of the Non-Binary and Transgender Rights Project, Lambda Legal. “Countless studies have demonstrated the myriad benefits that come with participation in team sports. Now, one population, transgender youth and collegians, are targeted for specific and baseless discrimination. We will not be deterred and will continue to fight back to secure the equal participation that all youth, including transgender youth, deserve.” ::: Both of the above links are worth the read but the tl;dr is: Discrimination against trans student athletes is ok, school bathroom bans may be as well. Ruling is narrow and does not remove other protections for trans people, but may open up other avenues for attacks. If I’m understanding this correctly, this is basically saying that sex-segregation policies in schools do not violate the rights of trans students.
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Most legal experts thought that this Trump order to take birthright citizenship away from undocumented immigrants was too radical for even this Court. But the margin was ultimately very thin. Kavanaugh concurred with the judgment only insofar as he thinks the executive order violates a law (that Congress could change). He wrote that the order did not violate the 14th Amendment. So the split in terms of the finding that curtailing birthright citizenship violates the Constitution is a bare 5-4.
Russians are now acknowledging that they do not have enough air defense systems to cover the gaps created by Ukraine. In other words, we should expect more successful Ukrainian strikes on more high value targets more often. For a military and a nation at war, that’s the type of thing that can quickly spiral out of control. And we might be seeing the early signs of that as fuel restrictions have now impacted 89 different regions across Russia. It is difficult to comprehend because it is already so rapid but the collapse of the russian war machine only accelerates from here. This war has been decisively lost by russia, it is undeniable now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVjnH1yc_I
Thank god the global South has so many white saviours. Borlaug quite litterally paved the way for industrialized agriculture in countries like India with all the devastating social and environmental effects that come with it. But sure there were severe famines before Borlaug came, all their own fault.
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I treated myself to a Mubi subscription this week and have watched three movies so far. (Like stories of old has an affiliate link that gets you 30 free days if anyone wants it) Die my love. Great cast and acting in this. I’m not a huge fan of the “lady loses her mind” type movie but Jennifer Lawrence pulls it off very well. Sentimental Value. More great casting and a great look at a disfunctional family really well implemented. Orphan. Set after the failed uprising in Hungary. Beautiful cinematography. Beautiful. I’ve just started My Father’s Shadow. This one’s looking amazing so far.
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Hey, I wouldn’t wanna be cancer! Look at him! He’s got big muscular arms! You be cancer! Not me man! You do it!
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Finally a new way to heat water.
I am trying new things, don’t mind some questions.
Donald Trump heeft in 2025 in totaal 2,2 miljard dollar verdiend. Het grootste deel van zijn inkomsten komt van crypto’s, waarmee hij 1,2 miljard dollar (meer dan 1 miljard euro) verdiende. Ook aan bijbels, schoenen en horloges verdiende de Amerikaanse president miljoenen.
I wish this was more easy and mainstream, people are still uptight about polyamory a lot. I wouldn’t want to have husbands or wives though - just partners. Or so I think sometimes, but time is limited and I cherish my alone time too much.
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I have said repeatedly that that agreement was worthless and probably illegal anyway, because it’s based on US agencies respecting personal data, and USA has demonstrated multiple times that their agencies have very little respect for personal data. Therefore in principle it is illegal for any public institution in EU to store any personal data on any American owned server or cloud service. This agreement between EU and USA was merely a play to the gallery, to avoid a major political trade crisis between EU and USA. USA can still legally break all the rules by just saying the word terrorism. But they have many other ways they circumvent the regulation, for instance simply buying the information they need from scumbag companies that specialize in selling personal information, without needing a permission from a judge.
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I’m always excited when I find another Weird West video game! Yay, another chance to post to this community! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3734220/Guns_of_Eschaton/
Good. I have had Superhero fatigue since 2010 and was not a fan when the MCU became a thing. Like goddammit, we JUST went through the 2000s super hero craze and now you’re telling me we are going to suffer through a decade and a half MORE of cape-shit?? Wth I hope marvel/Disney and DC and every other comic company that tries to milk this genre, keeps losing money on super hero movies. Just let that genre die and move on. The horse is pulverized at this point, but you keep beating it.
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If you watch the wizard of oz and play Pink Floyd’s dark side of the moon at the same time they both sync up.
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Funny the USreal war of aggression allowed China to “cast the US as a destabilizing force.” The USA just keeps getting victimized, apparently. GG, Guardian.
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And all the brilliant students from outside the usa are staying away. Benefits their home countries.
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Hey, I noticed you wrote something and it’s been a few minutes, you should backup the comment before I accidentally shutdown for whatever the fuck reason. I mean, I could do it, but I’m spying on your ass, you know, kinda bussy yeah. Oh you just read the first three words… Ok that’s enough, let’s shut down this beacho. Oh good up! Yeah ok save as! Give me a name to save your comment as… Comment_1.TXT! Genius! Okay! Let’s browse! Yeah I don’t know where the fuck you want this file! Certainly not gonna offer the last place you seved files at! That would be stupid! OK so browser? Good choice! Ok, how about documents, comments! Excellent choice may man! Give me a name to save your comment as… Nah, fuck I forgot about whatever you typed before browsing… If you hit cancel, I may put that back so you can copy it, browse back here and paste. It’s difficult! I’m not a fucking comp… Comment_1.txt! Good job! Would you like to save then? Hey, it’s been 5 minutes! Of fuck this! I’m turning off your monitor and guess what power state the rest of this biacho is at. Nah! Not wiggle the mouse state! Nah! The screen power button, nah that’s not either! Nope, it’s not any key! Yup! Its the power on button kind of power state! Hey! Welcome back asshole! Here is a forest picture! Did you know AI is being used by “scientits” in scientitic ways to bring back the woolly mamal? Yeah! Scientits have found an infitine cure for canzer in mice! And the all mighty orange turd, he’s fixing pools aga… Oh you wanna login? What’s your username? Oh Fred? Don’t know any Fred! Here’s a monkey! Did you know sciebtits are using AI to fix the monkey? With AI anything is possible. Look at all that water that money is swimming in! I could use that wate… Oh! Welcome [email protected]! Nah that’s not the password! Hey! Here’s a dog! If you use Microsoft AI, you can teach this bog mew trinks! Oh high Fred! Getting things ready for you! This update will only take 3 days! No, 30 minutes! No! 5 seconds! We’re almost there! Yeah hey! What file name would you like to save this comment as?
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