CSotD: Getting It Straight Chappatte notes the futility of attempting to enforce the International Criminal Court’s findings on a well-armed, recalcitrant government, while Varvel takes the prevailing rightwing position that ... 05/25/2024 - 11:55 pm | View Link
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After the news that President Joe Biden will sign an Executive Order today to toughen up border security, Felon 45 took to Truth Social to blast the move even though he has admitted to killing the bipartisan border bill earlier this year. The bill, penned in a bipartisan fashion, would have dramatically changed immigration law for the first time in decades, including a new emergency authority to restrict border crossings if daily average migrant encounters reach a certain level.
The Supreme Court is expected to return a ruling this week that could grant Donald Trump absolute immunity for any actions he took while in office. But even if the court comes down at the most extreme end of Trump’s SEAL Team Six fantasies, it still won’t match some of the magical solutions Republicans are inventing to avoid dealing with the fact that their candidate for president is a convicted felon.
In the Senate, a group of Republicans has vowed to block all judicial appointments in protest of Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Damaran Baru, Indonesia — In a lush jungle at the foothills of a volcano in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the song of gibbons in the trees mixes with the laughter of the seven forest rangers trekking below them. An hour into their patrol, the rangers spot another mammal in the forest with them.
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“Where are you going?
President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that would allow his Administration to halt asylum claims at the U. S.-Mexico border once apprehensions at the border reach 2,500 per day.
A group of current and former employees at leading AI companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind published a letter on Tuesday warning against the dangers of advanced AI as they allege companies are prioritizing financial gains while avoiding oversight.
Thirteen employees, eleven of which are current or former employees of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, signed the letter entitled: “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence.” The two other signatories are current and former employees of Google DeepMind.
NEW YORK — San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was banned from baseball for life for betting on the sport and four others were suspended for one year by Major League Baseball on Tuesday in the game’s biggest gambling scandal in decades.
MLB said Marcano placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 in October 2022 and from last July through November with a legal sportsbook.