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Federal funding for major science agencies is at a 25-year low
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Government funding for science is usually immune from political gridlock and polarization in Congress. But, federal funding for science is slated to drop for 2025. Science research dollars are considered to be discretionary, which means the funding has to be approved by...
"Treasonous acts": Liberal justices say SCOTUS Trump immunity ruling a "mockery" of the Constitution
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that Donald Trump cannot be criminally prosecuted for "official acts" he took when in office, stating that presidents enjoy "absolute immunity from criminal prosecution" and sending the case back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to figure out which acts are official and unofficial.
The drop out debate: Biden has already lost a big part of the battle
If there's one bright spot during the very dark last few days, it's that we didn't have to hear much from Donald Trump and his henchmen. Of course, he was very unhappy about that and whined on his Truth Social platform that nobody was giving him the credit he deserved:
Donald Trump wants more political violence — the Supreme Court just handed MAGA one excuse
Donald Trump was the luckiest man alive last Thursday. President Joe Biden's abysmal debate performance overshadowed what should have been the biggest story of the night: Trump, as he did in the 2020 presidential debate, winkingly encouraged his supporters to commit political violence. Biden correctly noted during the debate that Trump has promised to pardon the over 1,200 people charged with federal crimes for the January 6 insurrection. Trump responded by calling the rioters "innocent" and saying Biden "ought to be ashamed" because his Justice Department charged them with crimes. This echoes Trump's increasingly rabid defense of the insurrectionists on the campaign trail, where he often calls them "hostages" and "political prisoners" and holds ceremonies honoring those who are imprisoned.
Joe Biden desperately needs to rebrand
In advertising and marketing, a brand is a way of creating an emotional attachment between the public and a product (a good or a service – or a person such as a celebrity, politician, or other public personality). This is done through repeated messaging that involves slogans, songs, logos, color use, narrative, and other means of storytelling and emotional manipulation. The most effective marketing achieves “semiotic unity” where the brand and what is being sold are universally understood to be inseparable from one another in the minds of the target audience (for example see “Coca Cola” and other legacy brands).
How does diabetes start? A new study suggests it begins in the gut
Diabetes has been a well-known condition since ancient times, described 1500 years before Christ was born, in the Egyptian medical text the Ebers papyrus. Modern doctors thought they knew how it manifested: when the pancreas struggles to process insulin and therefore your blood glucose (or blood sugar) becomes too high.
Gretchen Whitmer eyed as possible replacement for Biden, should he step down
Following Joe Biden's lackluster performance during Thursday's presidential debate against Donald Trump, there has been signaling from both Republicans as well as Democrats that perhaps it's time for him to stand down in the race for re-election. Although some experts are calling a push for Biden to be removed from...
“House of the Dragon” shows the unfair burden placed on grieving women
When dragons go to war, everything burns. But who bears the emotional cost of the conflagration?. The second season of “House of the Dragon” presents us with a clear answer: In Westeros, a kingdom steeped in gender normativity, the female figures in Houses Green and Black are made to shoulder the weight of grief most acutely.
"Breakdancing is an American art form": From its origins in 1980s New York to the Paris Olympics
Ask any b-boy or b-girl in the world that name the moment that changed everything, someone says in the Andscape documentary “Breakin’ on the One,” and they’ll cite the battle at Lincoln Center that took place on August 15, 1981. The face-off between the Rock Steady...
Rep. Clyburn weighs-in on Trump's backhanded "Black jobs" comment
During Thursday night's shambling vs. rambling first televised presidential debate of 2024, which aired on CNN to 20-year record low debate viewership, Donald Trump spoke of undocumented immigrants "taking Black jobs," causing many to wonder . . . what exactly is a "Black job?" Speaking to CNN's Dana Bash —...
Kelly Jaggers on cooking for one, embracing leftovers and making the kitchen a more enjoyable place
Cookbook author Kelly Jaggers knows how tricky it can be to avoid the siren song of DoorDash and whip up fresh, hot meals nightly. She also knows how annoyingly inconvenient it can be to modify recipes built to serve four when you're only looking to cook for yourself. So, she's put together "The Ultimate Meal Planning for One Cookbook," which helps to arrange and strategize your kitchen plans, ensuring that the dish you make on Monday night will supply you with leftovers to repurpose on Tuesday.
What I wish I'd known about bisexuality and the truth about love
“My mom is a lesbian,” my then-third-grader announced one evening at dinner. We were sitting around the dining room table, and I hadn’t even dug into my salad. My father raised his eyebrows. It was an otherwise unremarkable night during a slow-to-warm spring. “Well, not a lesbian per...
A house divided, perhaps fatally: What's the pathway to a reunited America?
They're rioting in Africa. They're starving in Spain. There's hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain. The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans. The Germans hate the Poles. Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch. And I don't like anybody very much!. Unless...
There is one big reason why Joe Biden refuses to step aside
President Joe Biden is running against a man with 34 felony convictions, two impeachments and a historically bungled attempt to manage a pandemic. Even worse, former President Donald Trump is the only president to ever refuse to accept the results of an election if he lost, a petulant and politically perilous practice in which Trump has indulged since before he became president.
The cynicism of the Supreme Court: Helping Trump kill the American experiment
Friday’s most significant Supreme Court decisions, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, fit within a guideline that explains the conservative majority’s recent spate of key decisions.. In a pair of opinions released on the penultimate day of the term, the majority made clear its intent to follow right-wing ideology — unless doing so would hinder their preferred candidate’s election, in which case ideology yields, at least temporarily.
Expert: UK's Tories committing "electoral suicide" — but the far right will be back
By the end of this coming week, the United Kingdom will almost certainly have a new prime minister, Keir Starmer of the Labour Party. That will also bring an early end, in all probability, to the political career of Rishi Sunak, the Conservative Party's current whiz-kid prime minister, who at 44 is just about young enough to be Joe Biden's grandson. But the contest between those two distinctly unimpressive party leaders is only a footnote to the real story.
Mass extinction is a choice. A new study shows how we can dramatically reverse it
Extinction is a natural byproduct of life and evolution, but an alarming number of species have entered the dustbin of history thanks to human activity — which is anything but natural. In a 2023 study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists learned humans...
Alec Baldwin judge refuses to drop charges after evidence damaged
Alec Baldwin faced another setback in court on Friday, with a judge rejecting a motion to toss his case after the FBI destroyed a key piece of evidence: the firearm that mistakenly discharged on set. Baldwin, who was involved in a 2021 accidental shooting on the set of his film...
"The Bear" brings Syd and Carmy to a boiling point, but here's why they can't be endgame
Season 3 of “The Bear” begins by tossing fresh meat to SydCarmy loyalists – an aiguillette of hamachi with a blood orange reduction, if you want to get technical. The dish stars in Carmen Berzatto’s (Jeremy Allen White) memory of a tortured day working for Joel McHale’s cruel NYC chef at his five-star establishment.
Once branded as “cheap eats,” Asian cuisine is finally getting the awards it deserves
Chef Christina Nguyen kickstarted her restaurant career in 2011 when she and her husband Birk Grudem opened Hola Arepa, a food truck serving platters of Venezuelan street food. Three years later, the pair opened its brick-and-mortar location in South Minneapolis and, in 2018, added Southeast Asian restaurant Hai Hai to their résumé.
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