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Judge Peter J. Savage III issued the order for the mental health evaluation during Jeremy Griffin's court appearance Tuesday morning. | |
Submitted at 11-21-2022, 03:02 AM by sleeppoor | |
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Earlier this year, Justice Samuel Alito at last spoke publicly about the leak of his draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which five conservative justices ultimately voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the right to abortion care. “It was a grave betrayal of trust by somebody,” a solemn Alito told his audience at the Heritage Foundation. He also excoriated the leaker for placing his life and the lives of his colleagues in jeopardy by making them “targets for assassination” in the weeks that followed.
On Saturday, The New York Times published a bombshell report suggesting that Alito might be less suited to a black robe than a novelty plush hot dog suit. In it, a prominent former anti-choice activist claims that Dobbs was not the first leak of a Supreme Court case with an Alito-adjacent outcome. In 2014, says the Rev. Rob Schenck, a fellow anti-choice activist named Gayle Wright tipped him off that Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a pending case about exempting “religious” corporations from their legal obligations to pay for employees’ contraceptive care, would come down in Hobby Lobby’s favor, and that Alito would write the opinion. Wright allegedly told Schenck this the day after enjoying a private dinner with none other than Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, and three weeks before the opinion was released. | |
Submitted at 11-21-2022, 01:13 AM by sleeppoor | |
In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling. | |
Submitted at 11-21-2022, 12:46 AM by sleeppoor | |
Jason David Frank, beloved star of the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" TV and film franchise, has died in Texas at the age of 49, his representative Justine Hunt announced Sunday. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2022, 08:59 PM by Mordant | |
"Monoclonals had their day, like the Model T or the biplane," says Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institutes of Health, and lead of the NIH's Antiviral Program for Pandemics, "Now it's time to move on." | |
Submitted at 11-20-2022, 08:17 PM by Nibbles | |
The provocative conclusion rests on a mathematical trick involving switching to a clock that ticks with imaginary numbers. Using the imaginary clock, as Hawking did in the ’70s, Turok and Boyle could calculate a quantity, known as entropy, that appears to correspond to our universe. But the imaginary time trick is a roundabout way of calculating entropy, and without a more rigorous method, the meaning of the quantity remains hotly debated. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2022, 07:49 PM by Nibbles | |
Holmes, who plans on appealing, will not have to report for her 135-month prison sentence until April 2023, the judge announced during the hearing. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2022, 07:33 PM by Nibbles | |
Those who voted decided, by a ratio of 52% to 48%, that Trump should be reinstated to the platform. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” (the voice of the people is the voice of god), Musk tweeted—an indication that he agreed to letting Trump back on the platform. (Surprisingly, most people seem comfortable with that bit of Latin: Google search trends didn’t see a spike in interest for the phrase.) | |
Submitted at 11-20-2022, 07:29 PM by Nibbles | |
A gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs just before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, leaving five people dead and 18 injured, police said Sunday.
At least two people at Club Q confronted the gunman, who was using a "long rifle," and prevented him from injuring others, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said.
A suspect was taken into custody about five minutes after police first received a 911 call, Vasquez said. | |
Submitted at 11-20-2022, 05:42 PM by katheudo | |
Submitted at 11-20-2022, 01:44 AM by sleeppoor | |
Carol Leigh, who sought to change the image and treatment of sex workers — a term she is generally credited with coining — through both mainstream advocacy work and her colorful performances and writings under the name Scarlot Harlot, died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 71.
Kate Marquez, her executor, said the cause was cancer.
Ms. Leigh (pronounced “lee”) began working as a prostitute after moving to San Francisco from the East Coast in 1978. In a 1996 interview with The San Francisco Examiner, she said she was galvanized into activism in 1979 after two men raped her at the sex studio where she worked and she realized that if she reported the crime, the establishment would be shut down, leaving her and other women there unemployed.
“I became very, very dedicated to changing conditions so that other women would not have to deal with what I dealt with,” she said.
At the time, prostitution was rarely thought of as anything but a crime, and men and women who sold sex were viewed as criminals and, often, as people who had been forced into the work by traffickers or circumstances.
Ms. Leigh was among a group of advocates who proposed a different view, one captured in the slogan that the movement adopted: “Sex work is work.” She argued that some people engaged in prostitution by choice, and that many sex-for-money transactions — the escort business, for instance — were not the street-corner deals the general public pictured. | |
Submitted at 11-19-2022, 04:26 AM by sleeppoor | |
Evangelical Christians who previously backed Donald Trump are now accusing him of using them to further his own goals, after he gave them everything on their agenda.
Major figures in the community have said they don’t support Trump’s third bid for president and accused him of acting purely for personal gain in his previous runs. “He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us,” Christian Zionist Mike Evans told The Washington Post.
Trump both campaigned and governed on a largely evangelical Christian platform. He moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; he cracked down on immigration from majority-Muslim countries; and he appointed multiple conservative judges, including to the Supreme Court, which has swung sharply right. | |
Submitted at 11-19-2022, 04:02 AM by Forensic | |
A large official fan village, which is expected to house dozens of England and Wales fans in the coming weeks, still resembles a building site less than 48 hours before the World Cup kicks off.
The Rawdat Al Jahhaniya accommodation base, in the shadow of the Ahmad bin Ali stadium where Wales play the US on Monday, had abandoned forklift trucks and a digger next to the hundreds of sea containers that will host supporters when the Guardian visited on Thursday and Friday. | |
Submitted at 11-19-2022, 03:57 AM by Wreckard | |
Fans who have travelled to Qatar as part of a controversial paid-for supporters programme have been told by Qatari authorities that their cash has been cut.
The Fan Leader Network is a scheme run by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the Qatari agency responsible for the World Cup. It has recruited supporters from around the globe, offering travel and accommodation and a place at the World Cup opening ceremony in return for enthusiasm and positive social media content. But the Guardian can reveal that a per diem payment for food and drink, upon which some supporters were depending, was cancelled just as fans were packing to travel to the Gulf.
Members of the Fan Leader Network from two European countries said their payments had been cancelled three days ago and that authorities had blamed the decision on the bad press which followed the revelation that fans were being paid. | |
Submitted at 11-19-2022, 03:55 AM by Wreckard | |
Submitted at 11-18-2022, 11:54 PM by Dreaded Candiru | |
A new draft bill unveiled Friday aims to help spouses or children of religious group followers who have made excessive donations, leading families to financial ruin.
Under the bill, such family members would be able to get some money back if the follower made the donation due to the entity's coercion or its creation of anxiety or circumstances that "confused" them. The outline of the bill was revealed in a meeting between the secretaries-general of ruling and opposition parties.
The move comes after the Unification Church’s aggressive donation-seeking practices were put in the spotlight following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July. Tetsuya Yamagami, who was arrested on suspicion of shooting Abe, has reportedly told police that he held a grudge against the politician over his ties to the church. Yamagami’s mother was a church follower who gave away ¥100 million to the group, leaving her bankrupt, according to news reports. | |
Submitted at 11-18-2022, 10:27 PM by sleeppoor | |
Elon Musk sent a flurry of emails to Twitter employees on Friday morning with a plea.
“Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 p.m. today,” he wrote in a two-paragraph message, which was viewed by The New York Times. “Thanks, Elon.”
About 30 minutes later, Mr. Musk sent another email saying he wanted to learn about Twitter’s “tech stack,” a term used to describe a company’s software and related systems. Then in another email, he asked some people to fly to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco to meet in person. | |
Submitted at 11-18-2022, 08:10 PM by Forensic | |
Police in Van Wert County said someone broke into a mink farm overnight and released more than 25,000 of the small animals from their cages.
The incident happened early Tuesday at Lion Farms USA Mink Farm on Hoaglin Road in Hoaglin Township, six miles north of Van Wert, according to a post from the Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said the suspect or suspects destroyed fencing at the farm and released 25,000-40,000 mink from their cages. Many remained on property and were corralled by farm workers, the sheriff’s office said. Others escaped, though.
Eddie Meyer, manager of the mink farm, told WANE 15 the break-in must have happened between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.
On the wall near where the fence was cut, the letters “ALF” were spray painted alongside the phrase “we’ll be back.”
Meyer said 95% of the minks will die within a few days due to being domesticated and not used to hunting in the wild.
WANE 15 spoke with Joseph Buddenberg, a member of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, who claims to have released animals from farms before, and Buddenberg provided insight into the mindset of those who break out animals from farms.
“The only humane thing to do when you visit a fur farm is to open every cage and liberate all the animals,” Buddenberg said.
Buddenberg, who spent two years in federal prison for breaking out animals, said he once traveled across the country with another person in an attempt to “liberate” fur farms and release animals.
Buddenberg claimed people who commit these acts are attempting to free animals from poor conditions and “filthy, tiny wire cages.”
In response to reports saying the mink will not survive in the wild due to domestication, Buddenberg said “they talk out of both sides of their mouth.”
“They say these animals can’t survive, but then they also say they’re hunting and killing every animal within a 20-mile radius,” Buddenberg said. “So which one is it?”
Meyer estimated the farm has been able to get back approximately 7,000 mink, and the rest are being hunted by the farm and locals. | |
Submitted at 11-18-2022, 07:05 PM by katheudo | |
Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measured the daily toll it is already taking. | |
Submitted at 11-18-2022, 05:46 PM by Wreckard | |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's high office should shield him from a lawsuit over his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist , making a turnaround from Joe Biden's passionate campaign trail denunciations of the prince over the brutal slaying. | |
Submitted at 11-18-2022, 04:33 PM by sleeppoor | |

Judge Peter J. Savage III issued the order for the mental health evaluation during Jeremy Griffin's court appearance Tuesday morning.
Earlier this year, Justice Samuel Alito at last spoke publicly about the leak of his draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which five conservative justices ultimately voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the right to abortion care. “It was a grave betrayal of trust by somebody,” a solemn Alito told his audience at the Heritage Foundation. He also excoriated the leaker for placing his life and the lives of his colleagues in jeopardy by making them “targets for assassination” in the weeks that followed.
On Saturday, The New York Times published a bombshell report suggesting that Alito might be less suited to a black robe than a novelty plush hot dog suit. In it, a prominent former anti-choice activist claims that Dobbs was not the first leak of a Supreme Court case with an Alito-adjacent outcome. In 2014, says the Rev. Rob Schenck, a fellow anti-choice activist named Gayle Wright tipped him off that Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a pending case about exempting “religious” corporations from their legal obligations to pay for employees’ contraceptive care, would come down in Hobby Lobby’s favor, and that Alito would write the opinion. Wright allegedly told Schenck this the day after enjoying a private dinner with none other than Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, and three weeks before the opinion was released.
In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling.
Jason David Frank, beloved star of the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" TV and film franchise, has died in Texas at the age of 49, his representative Justine Hunt announced Sunday.
"Monoclonals had their day, like the Model T or the biplane," says Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institutes of Health, and lead of the NIH's Antiviral Program for Pandemics, "Now it's time to move on."
The provocative conclusion rests on a mathematical trick involving switching to a clock that ticks with imaginary numbers. Using the imaginary clock, as Hawking did in the ’70s, Turok and Boyle could calculate a quantity, known as entropy, that appears to correspond to our universe. But the imaginary time trick is a roundabout way of calculating entropy, and without a more rigorous method, the meaning of the quantity remains hotly debated.
Holmes, who plans on appealing, will not have to report for her 135-month prison sentence until April 2023, the judge announced during the hearing.
Those who voted decided, by a ratio of 52% to 48%, that Trump should be reinstated to the platform. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” (the voice of the people is the voice of god), Musk tweeted—an indication that he agreed to letting Trump back on the platform. (Surprisingly, most people seem comfortable with that bit of Latin: Google search trends didn’t see a spike in interest for the phrase.)
A gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs just before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, leaving five people dead and 18 injured, police said Sunday.
At least two people at Club Q confronted the gunman, who was using a "long rifle," and prevented him from injuring others, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said.
A suspect was taken into custody about five minutes after police first received a 911 call, Vasquez said.
Carol Leigh, who sought to change the image and treatment of sex workers — a term she is generally credited with coining — through both mainstream advocacy work and her colorful performances and writings under the name Scarlot Harlot, died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 71.
Kate Marquez, her executor, said the cause was cancer.
Ms. Leigh (pronounced “lee”) began working as a prostitute after moving to San Francisco from the East Coast in 1978. In a 1996 interview with The San Francisco Examiner, she said she was galvanized into activism in 1979 after two men raped her at the sex studio where she worked and she realized that if she reported the crime, the establishment would be shut down, leaving her and other women there unemployed.
“I became very, very dedicated to changing conditions so that other women would not have to deal with what I dealt with,” she said.
At the time, prostitution was rarely thought of as anything but a crime, and men and women who sold sex were viewed as criminals and, often, as people who had been forced into the work by traffickers or circumstances.
Ms. Leigh was among a group of advocates who proposed a different view, one captured in the slogan that the movement adopted: “Sex work is work.” She argued that some people engaged in prostitution by choice, and that many sex-for-money transactions — the escort business, for instance — were not the street-corner deals the general public pictured.
Evangelical Christians who previously backed Donald Trump are now accusing him of using them to further his own goals, after he gave them everything on their agenda.
Major figures in the community have said they don’t support Trump’s third bid for president and accused him of acting purely for personal gain in his previous runs. “He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us,” Christian Zionist Mike Evans told The Washington Post.
Trump both campaigned and governed on a largely evangelical Christian platform. He moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; he cracked down on immigration from majority-Muslim countries; and he appointed multiple conservative judges, including to the Supreme Court, which has swung sharply right.
A large official fan village, which is expected to house dozens of England and Wales fans in the coming weeks, still resembles a building site less than 48 hours before the World Cup kicks off.
The Rawdat Al Jahhaniya accommodation base, in the shadow of the Ahmad bin Ali stadium where Wales play the US on Monday, had abandoned forklift trucks and a digger next to the hundreds of sea containers that will host supporters when the Guardian visited on Thursday and Friday.
Fans who have travelled to Qatar as part of a controversial paid-for supporters programme have been told by Qatari authorities that their cash has been cut.
The Fan Leader Network is a scheme run by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the Qatari agency responsible for the World Cup. It has recruited supporters from around the globe, offering travel and accommodation and a place at the World Cup opening ceremony in return for enthusiasm and positive social media content. But the Guardian can reveal that a per diem payment for food and drink, upon which some supporters were depending, was cancelled just as fans were packing to travel to the Gulf.
Members of the Fan Leader Network from two European countries said their payments had been cancelled three days ago and that authorities had blamed the decision on the bad press which followed the revelation that fans were being paid.
A new draft bill unveiled Friday aims to help spouses or children of religious group followers who have made excessive donations, leading families to financial ruin.
Under the bill, such family members would be able to get some money back if the follower made the donation due to the entity's coercion or its creation of anxiety or circumstances that "confused" them. The outline of the bill was revealed in a meeting between the secretaries-general of ruling and opposition parties.
The move comes after the Unification Church’s aggressive donation-seeking practices were put in the spotlight following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July. Tetsuya Yamagami, who was arrested on suspicion of shooting Abe, has reportedly told police that he held a grudge against the politician over his ties to the church. Yamagami’s mother was a church follower who gave away ¥100 million to the group, leaving her bankrupt, according to news reports.
Elon Musk sent a flurry of emails to Twitter employees on Friday morning with a plea.
“Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 p.m. today,” he wrote in a two-paragraph message, which was viewed by The New York Times. “Thanks, Elon.”
About 30 minutes later, Mr. Musk sent another email saying he wanted to learn about Twitter’s “tech stack,” a term used to describe a company’s software and related systems. Then in another email, he asked some people to fly to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco to meet in person.
Police in Van Wert County said someone broke into a mink farm overnight and released more than 25,000 of the small animals from their cages.
The incident happened early Tuesday at Lion Farms USA Mink Farm on Hoaglin Road in Hoaglin Township, six miles north of Van Wert, according to a post from the Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said the suspect or suspects destroyed fencing at the farm and released 25,000-40,000 mink from their cages. Many remained on property and were corralled by farm workers, the sheriff’s office said. Others escaped, though.
Eddie Meyer, manager of the mink farm, told WANE 15 the break-in must have happened between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.
On the wall near where the fence was cut, the letters “ALF” were spray painted alongside the phrase “we’ll be back.”
Meyer said 95% of the minks will die within a few days due to being domesticated and not used to hunting in the wild.
WANE 15 spoke with Joseph Buddenberg, a member of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, who claims to have released animals from farms before, and Buddenberg provided insight into the mindset of those who break out animals from farms.
“The only humane thing to do when you visit a fur farm is to open every cage and liberate all the animals,” Buddenberg said.
Buddenberg, who spent two years in federal prison for breaking out animals, said he once traveled across the country with another person in an attempt to “liberate” fur farms and release animals.
Buddenberg claimed people who commit these acts are attempting to free animals from poor conditions and “filthy, tiny wire cages.”
In response to reports saying the mink will not survive in the wild due to domestication, Buddenberg said “they talk out of both sides of their mouth.”
“They say these animals can’t survive, but then they also say they’re hunting and killing every animal within a 20-mile radius,” Buddenberg said. “So which one is it?”
Meyer estimated the farm has been able to get back approximately 7,000 mink, and the rest are being hunted by the farm and locals.
Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measured the daily toll it is already taking.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's high office should shield him from a lawsuit over his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist , making a turnaround from Joe Biden's passionate campaign trail denunciations of the prince over the brutal slaying.