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On September 5, 1975, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a member of the Manson Family cult, stood a few feet away from President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California, pointed a pistol at him, and unsuccessfully tried to shoot him. Less than three weeks later in San Francisco, a different woman, an accountant named Sara Jane Moore, managed to actually fire her weapon but missed Ford before being tackled by a bystander. Was there any deep meaning to such violent and potentially world-changing actions? According to her biographer, Fromme “had no personal feelings about [Ford] one way or another….She felt he was destroying…
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A review of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn; 352 pages; Chatto & Windus (June 2026)In his memoir detailing his experiences growing up with revolutionary parents on the run from the federal government in the 1970s, Zayd Ayers Dohrn captures a bizarro life organised around the need to stay one step ahead of the FBI:I was used to this routine. It wasn’t the first time we’d had to pack up all our things in the middle of the night and take off on another long cross-country drive. We ditched cars…
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from the just-garden-variety-racism dept I will continue to make the case for a 100 Justice Supreme Court because we need to get to the…
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This is the fifth and final installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. You can read the…
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North Korean government-backed hackers are becoming more sophisticated, more precise and now account for more than 76% or nearly $600 million in crypto losses…
Stablecoin payments company Kast Kast has hired former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) communications official Stephanie Allen as head of corporate and policy…
In brief The U.S. Senate unanimously passed S. Res. 708, banning senators from trading on prediction markets. Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio introduced…
For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky…
Earlier this week, the People’s Republic of China blocked Meta from acquiring Manus, an AI startup that developed an advanced AI agent capable of…
Latest developments: Banking groups want regulators to pump the brakes on the Genius Act rollout.Major U.S. banks have asked for extended public comment periods…