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View More NewsAn American heavy metal band says it was contacted by the Secret Service for holding a mock execution of President Trump onstage.The group is Gwar, a theatrical science-fiction musical project formed in 1984. They describe themselves as former members of an elite extraterrestrial fighting force called the Scumdogs of the Universe, who were banished to Earth for bad behavior, accidentally created humans through fornication with apes, and now tour the globe playing concerts. Their current lineup consists of THE BERSERKER BLÓTHAR on lead vocals, BÄLSÄC THE JAWS ‘O DEATH and GRODIUS MAXIMUS on guitar, BEEFCAKE THE MIGHTY on bass, and JIZMAK…
NFPRHA, FHCCP, and ACLU Sue Trump Administration to Protect Integrity of Title X Family Planning Program Harrisburg, Penn.— The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) and its member, the Family Health Council of Central Pennsylvania (FHCCP), today sued the Trump administration to protect the integrity of the Title X family planning program. Title X is the country’s only dedicated federal program for family planning services. For more than 55 years, the program has provided access to effective contraceptive methods, cancer screenings, testing and treatment for STIs, and other preventive services, with priority given to patients with low incomes.…
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The latest and most fearsome round of fighting in the long shadow war with the Islamic Republic of Iran is not ending well for the United States and Israel. The ceasefire agreement signed by President Trump in Versailles on 17 June is not a full peace treaty, but Iran’s leaders have nonetheless greeted it as an unalloyed triumph. They had, they boasted, “through the imposition of their divine and iron will upon the humiliated American and Zionist enemies, demonstrated with strength that the enemy has no path other than accepting defeat and surrender.”Though salient details of the “memorandum of understanding”…
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In brief The U.S. Justice Department seized a cloud computing account that hosted backend infrastructure for subsidiaries of Cambodia’s Huione Group, which it called…
from the authoritarians-are-very-sensitive dept Earlier this year America’s idiot king offered a no-bid contract to one of his ex-con Mara Lago donors to “fix”…
Kendrick compared Aave to an automated, blockchain-based bank that operates without employees or discretionary decision-making. At its peak in October 2025, the protocol held…
A vulnerability in Cardano-based wallet SecondFi allowed attackers to drain user funds, resulting in major losses.SecondFi on Wednesday confirmed it had identified the root…
The win rate of a cycle-aware approach is lower than buy-and-hold, winning not by being right more often, but by avoiding the months when…
Bitcoin lending platform Ledn has expanded its services to include Tether Gold (XAUt), allowing investors to hold the tokenized asset and borrow against it…
In brief Everyday investors that have allocated savings to Strategy’s STRC have been drawn to double-digit yields, but the preferred stock’s volatility has created…
This evening, I will be speaking to students with The Fund for American Studies. As is my usual custom with June trips to DC,…
The Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang shared that she has stepped down from her role leading the organization effective immediately, in a…
The next crypto user may start outside exchangesFor most of crypto’s history, new users followed a fairly standard path. They signed up on an…
In brief The Federal Reserve proposed new rules requiring U.S. crypto firms to verify stablecoin users. Former Fed Chair Jerome Powell backed the proposal.…
Today the Supreme Court decided T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp., a case concerning the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, under which federal…