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“The recent shootings of two people who accidentally came to the wrong address—a 16-year-old boy in Kansas City and a 20-year-old woman in rural New York—have renewed concerns over the controversial self-defense laws known as ‘stand your ground.’” — NPR

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It could be a doozy From Bloomberg: The New York author who claims Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s said she found out he intends to submit evidence at trial regarding her “sexual predisposition” in violation of court rules, while the former president signaled he won’t be there in person. E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers learned last week that Trump’s legal team plans to show the jury excerpts of her deposition that would “squarely” break rules against introducing evidence that’s intended to “prove that a victim engaged in other sexual behavior” or to show their “sexual predisposition,” Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a filing Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. Kaplan filed details of the disputed evidence separately under seal. The federal rules of evidence are intended to prevent “embarrassment for victims of sexual assault or otherwise publicly reinforce offensive sexual stereotypes about them,” Kaplan wrote. Both Carroll and Trump are making last-minute preparations for a rare trial that’s set to start April 25.

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Israel's success on the battlefield has been largely predicated on the disunity of its Arab enemies, a factor which is changing, argues Ramzy Baroud.

The post The Israel-Palestine Conflict: How the Palestinian Resistance Is Changing the Equation appeared first on MintPress News.

Professor Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and African energy specialist, on how the Ukraine conflict had re-shaped thinking amongst many Africans, and on the transformation in leadership needed to address the problems faced by the majority of Africa’s people.

The Governor accused the Smurfs of spreading a message of “blue supremacy” and vowed to ban the teaching of Smurf studies from Florida schools.

The new military budget would fund research as well as treatment for “anomalous health incidents.”

The post Pentagon Requests $36 Million for Havana Syndrome appeared first on The Intercept.

And that, as of October 2022, 1.4 million adults had long Covid or had had it. There’s about 31 million adults in Canada, so we’re well below that 15%, which was actually described as ten to twenty percent.

My own take on Long Covid is that since it is more likely each time people are effected, that the maximum percentage will increase over time and that since many people have damage without it being symptomatic, far more people are damaged and will be damaged than the headline numbers.

The US has withdrawn from the war in Afghanistan, but the war profiteers are still raking in big bucks through the revolving door that is the military industrial complex.

The post Lee Camp: You Won’t Believe Who Got The Richest From The Afghanistan War appeared first on MintPress News.

Here is a WIP webcomic panel of the future episode 38 of Pepper&Carrot "The Healer". It takes shape! The release will be next week, and the beta is now ready for translation. 🤩

I'll be full-time painting until the release; each panel requires at least 3 to 4h of paint-over and adjustments, and it's a lot of hours until I find the pages ready for 'final'. 💜

The ceremony is set to cost the public around £100m. With a quarter of voters backing abolition of the monarchy, will the opposition get a hearing? Josiah Mortimer reports

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota paints a stark contrast In his State of the State Address Wednesday night, Gov. Tim Waltz (DFL) contrasts Minnesota with red states. “It’s not up to me how folks in those places, folks like Florida, go about their business. But I got to tell you, I’m pretty glad we do it our way here and not that way,” Walz said. “If you need any examples to maybe change your mind on this one. They’re banning books in their schools. We’re banishing hunger from ours.” The 2024 elections will be about choice. That’s just one.

Mothering and other forms of intimate labour reproduce and sustain both capital and life; both workers and comrades; both patriarchal society and the possibility of liberation from it. In this sense, to say that life-preserving work (such as feeding, hoovering or wound-dressing) is ‘essential’ isn’t sufficient. The better question would be: essential for what?

The conceit of the novel is that it is a fictional biography, with fake footnotes, but real endnotes that reveal the sources Catherine Lacey used to create X, her wife and the world she lived in.

Comparisons to Proust and Henry James come up a lot when critics discuss Javier Marías, but we could also see his style, his performance, as something akin to a too-late Balzac, aided perhaps by a disciple of the Ancient Mariner. The prose has the extraordinary effect of making us simultaneously wonder why we’re still reading this garrulous stuff and how we could possibly stop.

In the absence of a plausible explanation, the list of acceptable ID seems to be a clumsy effort to favour the older, Conservative-tending voter at the expense of the younger and more Labour-inclined. What stands out about the voter ID saga as a whole, however, is not its repressive aspect but its shoddiness, its carelessness.

Her son is zigzagging on the lawn behind her house and he holds his new toy in his arms as if it is a babe in his arms.It is the Easy Disk – which is painless to catch, cuts through the...

For all Spotify’s talk of ‘discovery’, the thing it really cares about is what Mike, the chief scientist at Willow, calls ‘the hang-around factor’. If someone skips a song, or stops listening altogether, then something has gone wrong. You mustn’t bore the listener, but you mustn’t startle them either.

Neurologists are accustomed to breaking bad news. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s doctor was brisk and businesslike: ‘I’m going to come right out with it,’ she said. ‘I think you have multiple sclerosis.’

It’s difficult to argue that something is valuable in itself. But I’m not alone in finding the questions of pure philosophy both maddening and mesmerising.

The public and most of the press were suspicious of the reform from the start, simply because it meant revisiting the mystifying labyrinth of the pension system. Trade union actuaries and compute-your-pension calculators published in the French media have done sterling work, but nobody can say for sure what lies in store, except that many are liable to lose out.

It was the inattentive eye that saw them best:breeze-block vases with their tapered waists,their smoky pouts. They were modest,middle-distant; they had the permanenceof grey things: seen but...

Wild Isles doesn’t explicitly advocate for returning the water companies to public ownership (a policy backed by 69 per cent of the population but by neither of the leading political parties). But it does show people what is at stake: what may soon be lost and why it’s worth preserving.