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The Racist Roots, and Racist Present, of Today’s Republican Party
Harold Meyerson,  Commentator  -  American Prospect

_Stephan: I am a Virginian whose maternal family came to a land grant on the water that they were given by Queen Elizabeth I, in the early 1600s, and that my father bought back when I was a child. I suspect, but don’t know, some of my early family may have owned slaves, and as a boy, I knew a man who had been born a slave. In spite of that ancien … ⌘ Read more

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This clear scale shows how American democracy is in terminal decline
Martina Moneke,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story | Common Dreams

_Stephan: Day by day, as I watch the dismantlement of our democracy, and see aspiring dictator Trump’s revenge arrests and court cases against former colleagues, I realize that nothing is going to stop this except tens of millions of Americans nonviolently out in the street on Saturday, and every Saturday thereafter, and … ⌘ Read more

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The Brutality Is the Message: Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: I think Thom Hartmann has it exactly right. This whole immigrant business is about creating an “other” just as the Nazis made the Jews the “other” and using the “other” to create fear and intimidation. Project 2025 is just a restating of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and the Republican … ⌘ Read more

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon
Deni Ellis Bechard,  Senior Tech Reporter  -  Scientific American

_Stephan: Because AI has been allowed to develop to serve a tiny group of individuals whose motivation is their lust for greed and power, and it is subject to almost no government oversight, It is becoming almost impossible to know that anything you read, hear, or see is authentic and factually accurate. This is producing all manner o … ⌘ Read more

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Exploring the power of plants to make drugs out of sunlight
Plants are consummate chemists, using the sun’s energy and carbon dioxide from the air, to conjure a dazzling array of complex natural products in ways that cannot be replicated synthetically in the lab. ⌘ Read more

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10 Days of Humiliation When the Person Should Have Stayed in Bed
Humiliation is one of the most powerful human emotions. We never forget it when it happens to us, and when channeled effectively, it can help us to become the best versions of ourselves. However, humiliation is an extremely uncomfortable experience; we don’t like it when it happens to us, and we certainly don’t like to […]

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Radxa Orion O6N Brings Cix P1 Performance to a Smaller Nano ITX Form Factor
Radxa has introduced the Orion O6N, a Nano ITX single board computer designed as a smaller and more power-efficient alternative to the earlier Orion O6. Both models share the same Cix P1 SoC and overall platform architecture, but the O6N adopts a more compact 120 x 120 mm form factor compared to the 170 x […] ⌘ Read more

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‘Less and less sea ice’: Brazil woman sails solo through Arctic
Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered “very little” sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage—a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago. ⌘ Read more

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Nearly 900 mn poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns
Nearly 80% of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned Friday. ⌘ Read more

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