The House GOP government funding bill makes it harder to file your taxes, enables auto dealers to cheat consumers, raises credit card late fees, and facilitates money laundering and tax evasion. Wheeee! https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fy25-fsgg-subcommittee-bill-summary.pdf
https://www.leefang.com/p/four-years-after-covid-cancel-culture
Many thanks to @lhfang for posting this piece I coauthored with @lwoodhouse about how the left and right have used cancel culture techniques during COVID and after 10/7, respectively, to stifle dissenting opinions
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan is currently in prison on charges of an "un-Islamic marriage," because the court ruled his wife hadn't had enough menstrual cycles between her official divorce and her marriage to Khan.
I asked the State Department why it can sanction Georgia over…
Four years ago during the BLM protests, a young man asked if I was a journalist. I recorded his nuanced concerns. But this interview turned my life upside down, with colleagues and thousands of others branding me a racist for simply talking to him. https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1268390704645943297
Is there a good site or plugin to download a video that streams on a website via javascript?
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US Military vets lash out at Biden officials and other American Israel surrogates deploying the ‘we did it too’ justification for Gaza.
my latest for @amconmag https://www.theamericanconservative.com/we-did-it-too-the-ugliest-excuse-for-israel/
Brazil: a melting-pot genetic present and an uncharted deep past https://www.razibkhan.com/p/brazil-a-melting-pot-genetic-present?r=u0rd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web In 1494, the expansionary Iberian powers negotiated the Treaty of Tordesillas to officially divvy up the planet’s freshly discovered regions beyond Europe. Over 370 leagues to Cape Verde’s…
An open and free society cannot operate without law enforcement to protect victims from violent criminals and predatory corporations. But cops attempting to suppress political speech of any type is a threat to liberty for us all.
SCOOP: DOJ’s #antitrust investigation into algorithmic price-fixing into rental housing market deepens with a dawn raid on a property management company @JusticeATR #cartel https://content.mlex.com/#/content/1566941/fbi-raids-cortland-management-in-atlanta-as-part-of-us-doj-antitrust-probe-of-rental-housing-market?referrer=search_linkclick