Under the "a picture is worth a thousand words" category, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative posted a chart on X Saturday showing the steep decline in the percentage of apparel sold in America that is also manufactured in America.
Part of President Trump's tariff strategy is to make it more economically feasible for clothing manufacturers to make their products in the United States.
“It means that a president cannot govern unless you can basically run the course with 677 district court judges, any one of which can issue a national injunction.
So you’ve gotta win every case 677-0 if you want to implement policy.
Well, the justices have said, including liberal justices like Justice Kagan, that this is truly insane, and this is just the latest such lawsuit to try to limit what this president can do.”
The two old geezers would like their death certificates to reflect reality, not politics.- Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson A recent scientific report in Nature reported that, among 530 in-hospital deaths registered as COVID-19 deaths in seven hospitals in Athens during the Omicron wave of the pandemic, a COVID-19-associated death was defined as ‘any death occurring in a person with positive testing for SARS-Cov-2 at the time of death.’ The researchers categorised deaths into two groups: (a) deaths “due to” COVID-19, where the infection was a direct cause or led to death, and (b) deaths “with” COVID-19, where the infection was unrelated to the cause of death.
They used three sources for classification: the death certificate, the patient’s medical chart, and interviews with the attending physician using a structured questionnaire. The reanalysis reported that 290 (55%) of deaths were classified as “due to” COVID-19....
Plaintiffs who sued the state of Alabama over its new law, a few years ago, that protects children from harmful drugs and surgeries, have given up.
Jonathan Scruggs, of the ADF, explained the American Civil Liberties Union and others sought the dismissal of Boe v. Marshall, where "politicized interest groups worked alongside the Biden administration" challenged the state's protections for children.
"Alabama rightly enacted a law that protects children's welfare—supporting their natural development and ensuring that children experiencing gender dysphoria have a chance for healing and compassionate mental-health support," he said in a prepared statement.
It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed... In recent years, however, that has changed.
Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population...
By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal.
We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals. An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America...
Paterson, N.J., City Council President Alex Mendez faces new charges in a superseding indictment related to the May 2020 municipal election.
Alongside his wife, Yohanny Mendez, and campaign workers Omar Ledesma and Iris Rigo, Mendez is accused of orchestrating a scheme involving the theft and forgery of ballots and voter registrations to secure his council seat.
The indictment alleges that the group unlawfully collected and tampered with vote-by-mail ballots, including destroying ballots not cast for Mendez and submitting fraudulent ones in their place.
Stephen Heins - Apparently the problem is not that some Pakistani men are cowardly wife beaters, the problem is climate change.
"While the economic and physical health impacts of climate change are clear, Pakistan’s population is also experiencing the often overlooked mental health ramifications...
How can a growing sense of climate anxiety or “eco-anxiety” in locals be addressed?
Pakistan is facing an onslaught of climate disasters.
One explanation for the rapid change is that Trump's decisive victory in the 2024 presidential election gave permission to various elites to discern a new consensus in the broader society.
I believe there is something more significant than some kind of radar telling executives that the woke movement somehow overreached. Certainly, it is the case that social movements go too far and have to consolidate their gains before further advance. But there is something different here that everyone should consider.
He went on to reoffend – violently and in a big way, in the worst mass shooting in the state capital's history. - Ana Kasparian
Smiley Martin should have been behind bars.
A career criminal with a long rap sheet involving firearms, he was given a 10-year sentence in 2018 for punching, dragging and severely beating his girlfriend with a belt.
In prison, Martin was found guilty of beating another inmate and engaging in other criminal activity.
Nevertheless, he was freed just four years later, thanks to a plea deal that categorized him as a “nonviolent offender” and a California ballot measure that sharply reduced sentences for “good behavior.”
Just two months after his release, Martin and several accomplices, including his brother, were arrested for carrying out the worst mass shooting in Sacramento’s history – leaving six dead and 12 others injured on April 3, 2022...
(George) Orson Welles 1915 - Actor ("War of the Worlds", "A Man for All Seasons", "Catch-22")
1851 - The mechanical refrigerator was patented by Dr. John Gorrie.
1889 - The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, France, marking the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. Also at the exposition was the first automobile in Paris, the Mercedes-Benz.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned in Lakehurst, NJ. Thirty-six people were killed.
1941 - Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.
1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
2010 - A computerized sell order triggered a "flash crash" on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrials lost nearly 1,000 points in less than a half hour.
During an appearance on Saturday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blasted the mainstream media and congressional Democrats for embracing suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
According to Noem, their defense of Abrego Garcia “revealed who they are.”
The National Institutes of Health will look into an $89 billion, 25-year grantawarded to the Alliance for Advancing Biomedical Research in the last days of President Joe Biden’s administration.
The nonprofit “operate[s] exclusively for the benefit of” the University of California system, according to its tax filings.
However, the nonprofit, formed in 2022, has never raised a dime nor spent a dime.
“Even worse, the money would have flowed to an organization that can’t clearly protect itself from adversaries like China,” Sen. Grassley said...
The Free Beacon reported further: Grassley also said he was concerned about the University of California’s well-documented failure to protect its labs from security breaches by China’s government.
“It has been reported that between 1987 and 2021, at least 162 scientists who had worked at Los Alamos [National Laboratory] returned to China to support a variety of domestic research and development programs, including at least 59 who were involved with China’s talent programs,” Grassley wrote [in a letter to the NIH]...
Colorado’s “Kelly Loving Act” (HB 1312) is truly one of the most radical, extreme, and anti-family bills ever proposed in our nation’s 249-year history...
Indeed, HB 1312’s Section 2 prohibits parents from “misgendering” or “deadnaming” their child from the moment they choose to adopt a new identity.
The bill likens such horrible practices — such as parents calling their child by the name they lovingly chose for them — to “abuse” equivalent to “threatening, humiliating, or [other] intimidating actions, including assaults or other abuse.”
If parents refuse, Colorado’s courts could step in and remove the child from their parent’s custody...
The notice from Chris Senn, the assistant administrator for government and industry affairs at the FAA, said the Army Black Hawk “took a scenic route around the Pentagon versus proceeding directly from the west to the heliport,” leading to two jets being told to fly around again before coming in for a landing.
Senn said the incident created “loss of separation” events, which means minimum separation standards for aircraft had been violated.
Stephen Heins - Apparently the problem is not that some Pakistani men are cowardly wife beaters, the problem is climate change.
Colorado’s “Kelly Loving Act” (HB 1312) is truly one of the most radical, extreme, and anti-family bills ever proposed in our nation’s 249-year history...