The day after Christmas last year, 24-year-old Nick Shirley posted a video about suspected fraud in Minnesota. In it, he and a man named Dave Hoch knocked the doors of tax-funded daycare centers, then attended a meeting about fraud at Minnesota’s State Capitol. At the conclusion of its 42 minutes, Shirley reported they’d uncovered more than $110 million in fraud.
The video lit a fire on social…
Opec+ agreed on Sunday on a fourth increase in its oil output targets in as many months, even though the US war with Iran is still preventing several of the group’s members from pumping more.
The war has cut oil flows via the Strait of Hormuz, creating the world’s biggest-ever supply crisis as key Opec+ members, including Saudi Arabia, have been unable to supply customers in full since the end…
Four years ago, Colombia tried a new tack, electing a left-wing president for the first time. Since taking office, Gustavo Petro has raised income taxes for top earners, halted new oil exploration in a bid to phase out fossil fuels, expanded access to government services like education in rural areas, and hiked the country’s minimum wage by 23%. He has also tried to deal with the…
Plus, have the latest safety features reduced vehicular deaths?
From Israel’s genocide to Trump’s mass deportation regime, the impunity of the powerful has broken our hearts. But as fascism consolidates, we must keep it from also breaking our brains by refusing the easy seduction of conspiracy thinking suddenly at the heart of Galindo's campaign for Congress..
Political violence is increasingly the property of the moderate left, not the fringes.
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Justice Department attorneys are decamping from the Trump administration, leaving behind an enormous staffing void within the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
Thousands of experienced attorneys and staff have left the DOJ since Donald Trump returned to office, choosing a hasty exit over the possibility of being forced to prosecute unconstitutional cases at the president’s behest.
“What’s…
Allan Hertzke’s Why Religious Freedom Matters: Human Rights and Human Flourishing is a welcome overview of the vital importance of religious freedom by a veteran writer of informed studies on the subject over the last 30 years.
The book comes at a critical time since both religious freedom and knowledge of its salience are both sadly being eroded. He reviews a wide range of arguments on its…
• US president praises Pakistan for facilitating dialogue, says it will remain part of process
• After Oman, Araghchi stops in Islamabad en route to Moscow; discusses peace framework with Pakistani officials
• Tehran’s top envoy reaches out to Saudi, Turkish, Egyptian counterparts; Turkiye FM speaks to US team
• IRGC says no plan to lift Hormuz blockade as US intercepts another Iranian vessel
•…
On bratwurst and ice cream in the sun, stick shifts, and the pill.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump decided to attend the Supreme Court’s arguments over the birthright citizenship case, which will decide whether Trump can wipe away by royal decree the plain meaning of the Constitution and many decades of precedent to end the guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States.
Trump is very angry at the high court. Earlier this week, he erupted on Truth…
A guest of Democratic Representative Seth Moulton at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address left midway through the speech after the Department of Homeland Security directly threatened him on social media.
Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 19, was enjoying his time in the visitors gallery in the House of Representatives, watching Donald Trump’s speech. But When Trump honored the gold medal-winning…
On pan-fried turnip cake, sleeping with a Gweilo, fertility, and the impossible work of being Lai Yin.
Musical Accompaniment
With a majority of the lawyers for the US Attorney resigning because they believe that the actions of ICE and CBP, the remaining lawyers are overworked and starting to crack.
I give you the case of Julie Le, who completely lost it in the court room.
She was fired, of course.
At least 3,000 federal agents have spent the last several months roving through…
On hospitality, family, fundraising, and sex before breakfast.