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Mary Trump’s tweet was about as short and to the point as it could be:

Donald Trump has been impeached twice, lost the popular vote twice, was the first ever criminally indicted president, faces numerous investigations into his efforts to overthrow democracy, and has now been found liable of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.

Former President Donald Trump has to pay $5 million for sexual abuse, battery, and defamation against E. Jean Carroll—and he’s livid.

Former President Donald Trump was found liable on Tuesday of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and of defaming her when she accused him of assault decades later.

Last year, Ithaca, New York, became the first town in the country where every Starbucks worker was unionized. Now, by the end of the month, Starbucks will have forcibly shut down all three of its unionized Ithaca locations.

Donald Trump is patiently waiting with bated breath like the rest of us to see if a jury will find him guilty of raping a woman in the mid-1990s and of defaming her when she accused him of assault decades later.

On Sunday, a Louisiana man shot a 14-year-old girl in the back of the head as she played hide and seek with a few friends outside his home.

A Florida school district has banned a book about segregation after one parent complained, part of a disturbing trend of state schools blocking discussions of racial justice.

On Monday night, residents of New York City gathered in downtown Manhattan for a vigil and protest in honor of Jordan Neely, a homeless man choked to death by 24-year-old Daniel Penny on the city’s subway.

An FBI public safety video highlights just how bad gun violence in America is: The government is telling people it’s their responsibility to survive a mass shooting instead of implementing gun control laws.

“SCOTUS, can you hear us?” the woman at the lectern shouted, repeating herself for emphasis. “Debt relief is legal! Debt relief is just! And debt relief is necessary!” The nine berobed men and women in the building behind her could not, of course, hear her, nor were they there to listen to what she or anyone else out in the cold had to say. When a man with a bullhorn led a chant of “Whose court? Our court!” a short while later, he was engaging the crowd in what might most accurately be termed an exercise in magical thinking. Читать дальше...

The banners stretched across the steps of the Montana state Capitol on April 24 read “Democracy Dies Here.”  Inside, Representative Zooey Zephyr, a Democrat representing Missoula, tried to speak against an anti-trans bill up for debate. The Republican speaker refused to recognize her, continuing a pattern of silencing the only trans woman elected to the state’s legislature. Democrats objected, as they had in prior weeks, demanding a vote on the speaker’s decision. This time, one protester broke... Читать дальше...

Early Sunday morning, 34-year-old George Alvarez crashed his Range Rover into a crowd gathered around a bus stop outside a shelter for migrants and unhoused people in the Texas border city of Brownsville. Eight people were killed and 10 were critically injured. Most of the victims are believed to be Venezuelan migrants who were heading downtown. Alvarez is being charged with eight counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

In a recent Time article, artificial intelligence theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote, “Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die.” Sounds bad! Yudkowsky advocates, in his op-ed, a total shutdown of AI development and implies that it cannot restart until all parties involved formulate a firm “alignment” plan... Читать дальше...

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed last year at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Another eight people were viciously shot at a mall last weekend. That does not include any of the other 200-some mass shootings across the country just this year—many of them in Texas. And in the context of all this, Texas Republicans are barely allowing even moderate gun reforms explicitly supported by the families of the victims in Uvalde to pass—and now they are trying to actively weaken gun laws even more. Читать дальше...