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New York Passes State Budget With No Funds to Support Access to Transgender Care
Advocates say the state has fallen short as hospitals have shut down care for transgender people nationwide.
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Washington Examiner
Jared Moskowitz launches bid in competitive Florida district redrawn under new DeSantis map
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) announced Thursday he will run in the newly drawn 25th District in Florida, one day after a state court upheld the new congressional map backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). The new district saw one of the more extreme shifts under the updated electoral map and contains parts of the former […]
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Socialist Zohran Mamdani launches Elon Musk-style ‘COGE’ chaired by Soros-aligned Dem
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes a page from Elon Musk's DOGE playbook by launching his own city Commission on Government Efficiency.
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Washington Examiner
Bovino slams DHS response to New Jersey ICE facility protest: ‘Should’ve been over in 15 minutes’
Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino criticized the Department of Homeland Security‘s response to the outbreak of protests at New Jersey‘s Delaney Hall immigration detention center on Thursday. People have gathered outside Delaney Hall since last week, protesting the conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Newark as detainees raise alarm bells […]
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Alternet.org
US losing 'military dominance' in shocking new era of 'high-tech warfare': expert
War has existed throughout human history, but the weapons have changed dramatically over the years. Medieval warfare was fought with cavalry, swords and armor; in 1945, during World War 2, U.S. President Harry Truman used nuclear bombs against Japan. The United States still has the world's largest military, but according to conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, U.S. military technology is behind the times and remains overly reliant on 20th Century methods.In a late May Times podcast, Douthat examined the "future of high-tech warfare" with Christian Brose, president and chief strategy officer of the defense technology company Anduril.When Douthat noted that "drones and robots and autonomous weapons are remaking battlefields," guest Brose responded that "in order to talk about the future, we probably also have to talk about the past and present." "When you look at the future," Brose told Douthat, "I would argue that the assumptions that are now very evident to us in the present are almost the opposite of what we've built our military around. I don't think that we have the kind of military dominance that many of us in the 1990s and early 2000s just took for granted. We have peer competitors and rivals in the world who are adapting to and really disrupting the American way of war. I think that we are going to find a much more contested battlefield, where we're going to lose a lot of planes, ships, satellites and other things."The defense expert continued, "We're going to shoot a lot of weapons, and we're going to have to replace that as an act of production over a long period of time. I think that is not a future that we're really ready for. All of this points in the direction of autonomous systems, lower-cost systems — things that are much more like consumer technology or commercial capabilities than they are legacy military capabilities."According to Douthat and Brose, two current conflicts — the war in Iran and the Ukraine/Russia war — show how much war methods have changed since the 20th Century.Douthat asked Brose if he envisions a "near future where infantry itself starts to be obsolete and you literally just have drones and robots maneuvering against each other."Brose responded, "I think that's further out, if it's ever something that becomes feasible, simply because, so long as human beings continue to live on and inhabit the Earth — which I'm pretty sure we're going to do for the indefinite future — I think it becomes very difficult for these types of robotic systems to entirely go in, take and then hold ground. We've seen plenty in the war in Ukraine that militaries can be, at various different times in the battle, adept at taking ground. It's the holding of it that becomes very difficult."Brose added, "The question then becomes: Can those gains be solidified? Can those gains be held entirely through nonhuman means? That's not a bet that I would make at the moment."
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BBC News
New York mayor wears Arsenal kurta during Eid prayers
The mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani takes his Arsenal super-fandom up a notch by attending Eid al-Adha prayers in the Bronx wearing an Arsenal-themed tunic.
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NBC News Politics
Justice Department launches criminal probe into E. Jean Carroll
According to two sources, the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll committed perjury during her lawsuits tied to her sexual abuse allegations against President Donald Trump. NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell reports on the investigations against the president's rivals.
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‘May Allah Condemn You to Hell': Erotic Poet on New York City Council Damns Fellow Muslim Woman Who Dared Criticize Mamdani’s Treatment of Jews
A Muslim New York City councilwoman became so enraged that a fellow Muslim woman had broken ranks and criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s treatment of Jews that she told the woman she hoped Allah would damn her to Hell. The post ‘May Allah Condemn You to Hell': Erotic Poet on New York City Council Damns Fellow Muslim Woman Who Dared Criticize Mamdani’s Treatment of Jews appeared first on .
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The New Republic
Trump Finds New Way to Terrorize Woman He Sexually Abused
Donald Trump’s retribution campaign is turning the Justice Department against E. Jean Carroll.The DOJ has opened a criminal investigation into the writer, probing whether Carroll committed perjury in her previous cases against Trump, reported CNN Wednesday.Carroll has a long and unfortunate history with the president. Trump was found liable by a jury in May 2023 for having sexually assaulted Carroll in the mid-1990s. He subsequently lost his defamation case against her the following January, when a judge ruled that Trump had continued to slander the advice columnist by denying the rape on the basis that she wasn’t his “type,” and by accusing her of making up the sexual assault allegations against him for the benefit of her book.The American public also did not agree with Trump’s interpretation of events. Ultimately, two juries awarded Carroll $88.3 million in damages, though she hasn’t yet seen a dime. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court allowed Trump to continue staving off his payments until the Supreme Court decided whether it will pick up the case.Yet despite the court rulings, Trump is apparently still keen to use the power of his office to punish her: The DOJ investigation will examine whether Carroll committed perjury during depositions for her civil suits, reported CNN.The theory hinges on a 2022 deposition statement provided by the magazine columnist, in which Carroll claimed she received no outside funding for her lawsuit. That would later prove untrue, as it was revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman—the co-founder of LinkedIn—had paid some of Carroll’s legal fees.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has been recused from the investigation into Carroll, since he was previously involved in the cases while serving as Trump’s personal attorney. Blanche, nonetheless, has played a major role in advancing Trump’s retribution campaign, placing immense pressure on the DOJ to ramp up its process against the president’s personal foes since he took the reins of the department in April.
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