Re Tom Cotton encouraging car drivers to run over Gaza protesters:

«The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees free speech, and the degree to which incitement is protected speech is determined by the imminent lawless action test introduced by the 1969 Supreme Court decision in the case Brandenburg v. Ohio. The court ruled that incitement of events in the indefinite future was protected, but encouragement of “imminent” illegal acts was not protected. This “view reflects longstanding law and is shared by the Federalist Society, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.”»

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement#United_States

Looks like he’s off the hook, and he knows it.

«“You don’t hear about these types of breaches coming out of other cloud service providers,” Meyers says.»

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-has-a-microsoft-problem/

This is interesting. Among all the hoopla about RTO:

«5. Work-from-Home (WFH) Trends

Working from home appears to be a preferred benefit¹⁴ for former full-time office workers, and many firms now recognize WFH’s competitive advantages or are beginning to do so.¹⁵ This workplace trend suggests that U.S. firms are no more likely to go back to requiring full-time in-office work than to requiring full-time business attire for office workers. This means that many firms may be leasing more office space than they need—and if the WFH trend becomes permanent, firms will need to downsize their office space as their leases expire. This downsizing could result in a contraction of the office sector as significant as that of regional malls in the 2000s.¹⁶»

https://www.financialresearch.gov/the-ofr-blog/2023/06/01/five-office-sector-metrics-to-watch/

None of this matters. 50% of the US electorate will vote for him NO MATTER WHAT, because he represents what they want. That 50% is the problem, not Trump.

My neighbors. My co-workers. My relatives. The people I’m “friends” with on Facebook.

Because they want him to preserve their tax deductions.

«However, Germany is still heavily dependent on other countries for its energy supply, creating pricing issues for the embattled economy. The effects on German industry have been pronounced and, according to the RWE chief, are likely to be long-lasting.»

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/germany-set-permanently-pay-reliance-101957758.html

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/germany.aspx#:~:text=Germany%20until%20March%202011%20obtained,a%20feature%20of%20its%20policy.

«Elect a Republican chief executive and a Republican legislature, throw in a Republican court—and you get an 1864 law limiting your freedom and endangering your health and well-being back on the books.»

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-self-immolation-of-the-az-gop

For all the males out there that think all this abortion fooferaw is just a problem for women (are there any, actually?), two words: paternity lawsuit.

This ain’t your dad’s genetic testing. You or your kid get somebody pregnant? Congrats, you’re (grand)parent(s) and/or on the hook for child support! Whether you’re ready for it or not!

Skip your child-support payments? Hel-LO, credit rating agencies!

More nukes, less geo-engineering:

«As the effects of climate change continue to grow, so has interest in some sort of backup plan. In 2020, Congress directed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to study solar radiation modification.

…

Interest is growing overseas, as well. In February, an Australian team of researchers at Southern Cross University, which was advised by Dr. Neukermans, conducted a monthlong experiment off the country’s northeast coast, spraying aerosols from a ship and measuring the response of clouds.

…

Private funding is also growing. Kelly Wanser is a former technology executive who helped establish the marine cloud brightening project at the University of Washington. In 2018 she created SilverLining, a nonprofit organization to advance research into what she calls “near-term climate interventions” like cloud brightening.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/climate/global-warming-clouds-solar-geoengineering.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.i00.jsSG.YVzGmY5KULqo&smid=url-share (gift)

Republicans love charter schools. Except when…

«A charter school network that lists “actively dismantle white supremacy culture” among its key principles has been approved to train teachers for North Carolina public schools.

But some Republican members of the State Board of Education disagree with the approval, questioning whether the network will be teaching Critical Race Theory.

The Board of Education voted 6-4 on Thursday to approve the application from KIPP North Carolina to offer an educator preparation program. Members were split over how KIPP’s application listed as one its “key principles” that “all teachers, leaders, and coaches consistently interrupt their implicit bias, actively dismantle white supremacy culture, disrupt anti-Blackness in their pedagogy and coaching.”»

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article287384530.html

https://www.ft.com/content/5cb075e5-974b-4048-ab4c-12b38abeb764

«Yoav Har-Even, a retired military officer who led the Israeli investigation, confirmed that WCK had provided the Israeli military with advance information about its convoy, and that the vehicles’ roofs were emblazoned with WCK’s logo.

However, he said information about the convoy had not been passed all the way down the chain of command, while the cameras on the Israeli military’s drones could not see the WCK logos at night.

Israeli forces killed the aid workers in three strikes on the WCK vehicles. The attacks targeted the survivors of each preceding strike until all members of the convoy were dead.

….

According to Har-Even, the WCK convoy left the pier in central Gaza where maritime aid had been docking at about 10pm local time on Monday before driving south along Gaza’s coast.

At 10.20pm the convoy was “joined” by three additional vehicles, including a truck on which Israeli forces subsequently identified a gunman. The military contacted WCK for information about what was happening but was unable to reach the convoy.»

(For some reason, I was able to read this article off of Google News, but it’s probably paywalled.)

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-airstrike-gaza-kills-foreign-aid-workers-hamas-run-media-office-says-2024-04-01/

Ya know… (this just occurred to me)… if Israel can mis-identify WCK workers, how do we know they’ve correctly identified everybody else they’ve killed? Is this their only mistake, or have they perhaps killed other innocents who don’t have Western governments backing them up?