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Mamdani’s win signifies hope and a political voice for many Muslim Americans

Mamdani’s win signifies hope and a political voice for many Muslim Americans

The Guardian reports: Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor has a group of Pakistani American aunties and uncles so excited that they are wondering if they should have given their own children more freedom in choosing their careers. “What if we let our kids become politicians, and not just doctors and engineers?” a member of the grassroots political organizing group, Drum Beats, asked at a small celebration held at an Islamic school last month in…

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Under siege from Trump and Musk, Media Matters falls into crisis

Under siege from Trump and Musk, Media Matters falls into crisis

The New York Times reports: Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is struggling to withstand months of legal assaults by President Trump’s allies, offering a glimpse of what might be in store for even well-funded targets of his retribution campaigns. The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits…

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White male-supremacist, eugenicist, and ‘Proud Jew,’ to lead U.S. Institute of Peace

White male-supremacist, eugenicist, and ‘Proud Jew,’ to lead U.S. Institute of Peace

Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men. — Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) October 4, 2024 Its not politically correct to say, but low-iq, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties—they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society Instead of anarcho-tyranny, we need Singapore for…

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Building blocks of life may be far more common in space than we thought, study suggests

Building blocks of life may be far more common in space than we thought, study suggests

Live Science reports: Astronomers have discovered key components to life’s building blocks swirling around a remote baby star, hinting that the stuff of life is far more prevalent throughout the universe than once thought. The material, discovered circling the protostar V883 Orionis 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, consists of 17 complex organic molecules that include ethylene glycol and glycolonitrile — precursors to components found in DNA and RNA. The finding, published July 23 in the The Astrophysical…

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Trump is building concentration camps faster than Hitler did

Trump is building concentration camps faster than Hitler did

Will Bunch writes: When it comes to the topic of concentration camps, Andrea Pitzer wrote the book — literally. The Washington, D.C.-area writer’s own personal curiosity about the origins and history of this inhumane practice — and her sense that many people view the subject too narrowly through the lens of Nazi Germany or Joseph Stalin’s USSR — sparked her 2017 book, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps. Although her book traces the long arc of cruel…

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Trumpism’s succession problem

Trumpism’s succession problem

Matt K. Lewis writes: [I]t’s no longer absurdly premature to start talking about succession. And, for my money, there are three leading contenders. Vice President JD Vance — seemingly the obvious successor — is clearly positioning himself as heir apparent to Trumpism 2.0: similar themes, better vocabulary, a little more polish and (crucially) a future. Tucker Carlson now also seems to be testing out what it would look like to actually run for office. And Donald Trump Jr. is lurking…

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Columbia shakedown sets precedent for Trump regime to extract massive payments from other universities

Columbia shakedown sets precedent for Trump regime to extract massive payments from other universities

The Wall Street Journal reports: The White House is seeking fines from several universities it says failed to stop antisemitism on campus, including hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard University, in exchange for allowing the schools to access federal funding, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal that the Trump administration struck with Columbia University on Wednesday is now a blueprint for negotiations with other universities, a White House official said. Columbia agreed to pay $200…

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DOJ whistleblower, Erez Reuveni, speaks out

DOJ whistleblower, Erez Reuveni, speaks out

  An explosive whistle-blower report claims that the Justice Department is asking government lawyers to lie to the courts, and that this has forced career officials to chose between upholding the Constitution and pledging loyalty to the president. Rachel Abrams speaks to the whistle-blower about his career in the Justice Department and his complaint saying he was fired for telling the truth.

Emperor Trump gets disrobed by ‘South Park’

Emperor Trump gets disrobed by ‘South Park’

  Calder McHugh writes: They said last year they were done with Donald Trump. They didn’t know what more they could say about him. But in the return to the airwaves of Comedy Central stalwart South Park — the first episode since March 2023 — the creators of the irreverent, long-running cartoon series just couldn’t resist. Trump is skewered for his connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and he is depicted as a man who has lined the walls of the White…

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Hurricane Helene and subsequent cleanup efforts have decimated North America’s most biodiverse waters

Hurricane Helene and subsequent cleanup efforts have decimated North America’s most biodiverse waters

Inside Climate Change reports: In Knoxville, Tennessee, there’s a minuscule warehouse tucked off the side of the road. Its tiny gravel parking lot is full. In the back of the cramped, wood-paneled building are dozens of aquarium tanks filled with endangered, threatened, imperiled, and at-risk fish species. This is Conservation Fisheries Incorporated (CFI), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Appalachian freshwater diversity. It began as a graduate school project in the 1980s and has grown into a conservation powerhouse. One of…

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How to see the cosmic web here on Earth

How to see the cosmic web here on Earth

Mark Neyrinck writes: The most familiar celestial objects, like Earth, the Moon and the Sun, are spheres. The solar system’s planets have orbits that are roughly circular, and zooming out a hundred-millionfold, the Milky Way is a flattened disk. But zooming out by a further factor of 1,000 from the Milky Way, to encompass our nearest non-satellite galaxy Andromeda, and dozens of others, the shapes look different. The arrangement may look haphazard, but it’s ordered in its own way, in…

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Israeli minister says his government is ‘rushing toward Gaza being wiped out’

Israeli minister says his government is ‘rushing toward Gaza being wiped out’

The New York Times reports: Amid rising starvation in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government minister said on Thursday that Israel had no duty to alleviate hunger in the territory and was seeking to expel its population. Amichay Eliyahu, a far-right lawmaker who leads Israel’s Heritage Ministry, said in a radio interview that “there is no nation that feeds its enemies,” adding that “the British didn’t feed the Nazis, nor did the Americans feed the Japanese, nor do the Russians…

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Laura Loomer and Jewish MAGA’s dance with antisemitism

Laura Loomer and Jewish MAGA’s dance with antisemitism

Shane Burley writes: Joshua Shanes, the director of the Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, says that while the rightward shift among American Jews (Orthodox Jews in particular) began in the 1980s, it has been supercharged under Trump. Yet he notes that there is a voluntary blindness within the community to the obvious antisemitism of the conspiratorial right. “American Jews don’t understand what actually threatens their lives,” Shanes told New Lines, adding that many…

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Columbia ‘deal’ with Trump regime amounts to a legally formulated extortion scheme

Columbia ‘deal’ with Trump regime amounts to a legally formulated extortion scheme

David Pozen writes: Earlier this evening, Columbia University announced an agreement with the Trump administration in which Columbia makes a host of concessions in order to restore its eligibility for federal funding. The agreement is already being described as “unprecedented,” “the first of its kind.” These descriptions are true but ambiguous, because the agreement breaks new ground on any number of levels. For instance, the agreement marks the first time that antisemitism and DEI have been invoked as the basis…

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