Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’ A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
Gun bill’s failure may help immigration legislation Here’s an odd political reality: The collapse of the gun bill in the Senate last week may well make the passage of immigration reform legislation slightly easier. “I think the continued intensity of the dysfunction of Congress on this [gun] vote will help immigration,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone said. More
Boston bombing suspect: City shut down amid manhunt With the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing still at large early Friday morning, Gov. Deval Patrick ordered everyone in the city to stay home. "There is a massive manhunt underway," he said at a morning press conference, calling it a "rapidly developing situation." Police Col. More
“Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre,” CNN reports.
“The seismic move paves the way for a future in which Jones no longer owns Infowars, the influential conspiracy empire he founded in the late 1990s.
On June 6th, 1944, the Normandy invasion began.
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.
A bill framed as cleaning up state election law that became a new front in the fight over ranked-choice voting won Gov. Jared Polis’ signature Thursday afternoon — but not without Polis criticizing a controversial, last-minute amendment.
The new law, passed as Senate Bill 210, makes largely technical and procedural changes to state election regulations, such as requiring officials to update financial disclosures, lowering the age for when Coloradans can preregister to vote to 15, and changing deadlines and procedures for replacement ballots.
But on the last Sunday before the legislature needed to adjourn, Rep.
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May 30, 2024
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Elementary school curriculum proposed this week would infuse new state reading and language arts lessons with teachings on the Bible, marking the latest push by Texas Republicans to put more Christianity in public schools.read more
You might think Russia would be leery of going after wives and daughters of their mobilized troops and calling them, in effect, enemies of the state would be a bad idea and they wouldn't do something so stupid. If you thought that you'd be wrong.
Source: Russian Life
On Friday, Russia's Justice Ministry added "The Path Home" (Путь Домой), a grassroots organization of family and community members who defend the rights of those who have been mobilized to fight in Russia's War on Ukraine, to its Orwellian "Foreign Agents" list.
The Path Home was a subject of a feature article in the Spring 2024 issue of Russian Life, which was translated and reprinted from Cherta (also a "foreign agent").
The Justice Ministry said that Путь Домой had worked to create a "negative image" of Russia and the Russian army and that it had called for illegal protests.
Washington — The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities.
The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over running their health care programs under a law meant to give Native Americans more local control.
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Covering those costs is “necessary to prevent a funding gap,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, joined by the three liberal justices and fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch.