This is how deranged the Congressional Republicans have become. There have been 63 court cases testing whether there was something awry in the 2020 election, thousands of hours of research tested the idea., nothing confirmed the claim that there was anything amiss in the election. It is all criminal Trump’s fabrication. And yet the MAGAt mafia believes it without question.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) departs from the Senate Chambers during a series of the votes at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty
Four years ago, during the United States’ 2020 presidential race, supporters of then-President Donald Trump accused “Real Time” host Bill Maher of “Trump derangement syndrome” when he predicted that Trump would not accept the election results if he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
But Trump, just as Maher predicted, refused to acknowledge that he lost the election. Now, in 2024, Trump is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, and Congress — according to the Associated — is full of Republican lawmakers who have either falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen or won’t commit to accepting the election results if Trump loses to Biden a second time in November.
In a report Tuesday, States United Action — a group that goes after election deniers — found that almost one-third of Congress members supported, […]
AI is becoming an issue in education, yet another example of how it is growing in influence in all aspects our society with almost not coherent thought as to how to integrate it so it is a positive influence instead of a destructive one. There needs to be a major societal-wide discussion about AI, and it is not happening.
A quarter of public K-12 teachers say using AI tools in K-12 education does more harm than good. About a third (32%) say there is about an equal mix of benefit and harm, while only 6% say it does more good than harm. Another 35% say they aren’t sure.
How teachers’ views differ by school level
High school teachers are more likely than elementary and middle school teachers to hold negative views about AI tools in education.
About a third of high school teachers (35%) say these tools do more harm than good. Roughly a quarter of middle school teachers (24%) and 19% of elementary school teachers say the same.
Fewer than one-in-ten teachers at all levels say these tools do more good than harm.
Some 47% of elementary school teachers say they aren’t sure about the impact […]
I don’t understand what Netanyahu and his cronies are doing to Israel, or why they are doing it. But it has made Netanyahu a war criminal, and Israel increasingly a pariah state. As this report describes they don’t want the truth of what is happening in Gaza to get covered close up by journalists. What I do understand is that the implications of all this is going to affect the Middle East for generations.
Smoke billows following Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip as seen from Israel’s southern border, on May 16. Credit: Gil Cohen Magen / Xinhua / Getty
Israeli officials seized broadcasting equipment belonging to the Associated Press on Tuesday, arguing it was used to provide images to Al Jazeera, whose Jerusalem bureau was shuttered earlier this month following the passage of a new foreign broadcast law.
Why it matters: Press advocates have warned that the law creates a dangerous precedent for censoring independent news outlets in the region amid the ongoing war with Hamas.
Israeli lawmakers passed the measure last month, empowering the country’s communications minister to take action against any foreign media network that it can prove poses a national security risk.
Tuesday’s seizure has already garnered sharp criticism, with Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid calling it “an act of madness.”
Driving the news: Officials seized AP’s equipment in the southern town of Sderot on Tuesday afternoon, arguing the global news agency […]
“Unified Reich.” Criminal Trump is so far gone mentally that he has begun to openly employ Hitler’s language when he speaks to his followers. This is the latest example but not the only one. And the MAGAt Congress members and voters continue to kneel at his feet rendering their obeisance to their master. This is straight out of what happened in Germany in the 1930s
Former President Donald Trump‘s account shared a video on social media Monday that referred to a “unified Reich” among possible developments if he were to win re-election in November, drawing criticism from President Joe Biden and his campaign.
Trump’s account posted a 30-second video to his Truth Social platform Monday afternoon that asked, “what happens after Donald Trump wins?” and “what’s next for America?” The video was also posted to his Instagram account.
The background is made up of hypothetical newspaper front pages with headlines including: “BORDER IS CLOSED — 15 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS DEPORTED” and “ECONOMY BOOMS.” Twice in the clip, slightly blurred text appears beneath the headlines that reads: “Industrial strength significantly increased … driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”
The post of the video was deleted from Truth Social on Tuesday morning. It was also removed from Trump’s Instagram account.
“Reich,” meaning realm, kingdom or empire, is often considered to be a reference to Hitler’s Third Reich regime that emerged in 1930s Nazi Germany — and its inclusion in the video was condemned by Biden.
“Is this on his official account? Wow!” Biden said Tuesday in a video of […]
Fran Silverman, Associate Director of Communications - Yale School of the Environment
Stephan:
Further proof that we live in an interconnected, interdependent matrix of life, and if we are to survive we must protect the matrix. As a country, as a society, fostering wellbeing must become our most important priority.
Credit: Yale School of the Environment
Solving the climate crisis and biodiversity crisis are not separate issues. Animals remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. Restoring species will help limit global warming, new science reveals.
Protecting wildlife across the world could significantly enhance natural carbon capture and storage by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks, a new study led by Yale School of the Environment Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology Oswald Schmitz has found.
The study, published in Nature Climate Change and co-authored by 15 scientists from eight countries, examined nine wildlife species — marine fish, whales, sharks, grey wolves, wildebeest, sea otters, musk oxen, African forest elephants, and American bison. The data shows that protecting or restoring their populations could collectively facilitate the additional capture of 6.41 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. This is 95% of the amount needed every year to meet the Paris Agreement target of removing enough carbon from the atmosphere to keep global warming below the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold.
“Wildlife species, throughout their interaction with […]
