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View More News“This was an Obama judge,” President Donald Trump remarked in November 2018, referring to a decision temporarily blocking his restrictions on asylum applications. “And I’ll tell you what, it’s not going to happen like this anymore.” The ruling that irked Trump involved a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that says “any alien” may “apply for asylum” if he is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States…whether or not at a designated port of arrival.” Contrary to the plain language of that statute, Trump had issued a proclamation barring asylum applications by people who cross…
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Jason Arday—fantasist, fabulist, fraud, and (until recently) Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at Cambridge University—sold a bolus of lies to students, faculty, and administrators, and they gobbled it up like a dish of ice cream on the hottest sunniest driest summer day in English memory. Months earlier, Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the same university, was accused by students of racism. Would nobody rid Cambridge of this turbulent scholar? Rid of him it got—through suitably tortuous means.That you and I know about Jason and his Argo of lies owes to Nathan Cofnas, who broke the story by publishing…
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The Trump administration is expanding the footprint of its war on drugs in Latin America. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Colombia…
The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other international and local organizations, as part of the Brazilian Coalition in Defense of Journalism, in a…
US investment banking giant Morgan Stanley reported larger crypto fund positions in the second quarter, led by an increase of more than 3 million…
In brief Zhipu AI (now Z.ai) released GLM-5.3 on Thursday through its GLM Coding Plan and ZCode. The lab calls it the “most capable…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), the libertarian-adjacent lawmaker who clashed with President Donald Trump over spending, tariffs, wars, and the Epstein files, was defeated in…
In Goethe’s poem Der Zauberlehrling, an apprentice, left alone in his master’s workshop, decides to try his hand at the magic he has only…
NUVA launched this week with nearly $19 billion in tokenized real-world assets from Figure Technologies, aiming to bring regulated U.S. yield products into DeFi.…
A coalition of privacy and internet freedom advocates led by the Tor Project has announced a new crypto funding campaign to support censorship-resistant digital…
In brief Google introduced Gemini Omni at I/O 2026 as a multimodal AI model designed to generate video and other media from nearly any…
from the more-bullshit-than-the-bullshit-artists-can-handle dept As convenient as it is for cops to play along with hysterical claims made by politicians, sometimes a politician goes…
In every state and in the federal criminal justice system, when a crime victim is killed, the law allows a family member or other…
Donald Trump’s executive order asks the Fed to review how depository institutions may be granted access to payment services, an area the crypto industry…