King Squatters
Elections have consequences. What do I mean? Well, there is a bill being proposed here in New York that would make squatting a crime, and make it more difficult for squatters to gain so many rights against the property owners.
Elections have consequences. What do I mean? Well, there is a bill being proposed here in New York that would make squatting a crime, and make it more difficult for squatters to gain so many rights against the property owners.
What seems like victory is exceedingly fragile. Let’s not make this moment a brief pause between one totalitarianism and another. Let’s dream together of a new freedom, one that applies the lessons we’ve all learned.
The world as a whole is doing fine, in sum. To widen our smile, let us name and acknowledge five Great Accomplishments of the West that we are proud of, and feel honoured to cherish and defend in these times.
Smell the Roses: Positive Trends and Western Accomplishments Read Journal Article
If we allow the powers that be to make enemies out of each other…we’ve lost. We will splinter off into smaller and smaller factions, become weaker and more diluted, confirm and engrain our tribalism. It makes narcissists of us all.
In short, the main impact of the TCJA was to bury the US electorate even deeper in debt—a condition that the GOP shows no interest in ameliorating. And now in its Trumpified fiscal stupor, not even in the slightest.
Today, liber-net is launching a searchable database of almost 900 U.S. federal government awards to counter mis-, dis-, and malinformation (MDM) and other content moderation initiatives, covering the period from 2010 to 2025.
How the US Government Built the Anti-Disinformation Field Read Journal Article
I reserve the right to go rock fishing, and for my children to do so. It is on me to ensure we are careful – but it will not be entirely risk-free. Medical freedom means granting others the same right.
Their lies and hubris caused an awakening, reminiscent of The Matrix. I just hope the people I trust who are now running the major institutions will allocate all resources to programs that will actually improve human health.
How Lies and Hubris Caused an Awakening Read Journal Article
The paper shows evidence of vaccine-related deaths—from Covid—within two weeks of an injection in people who were previously infected. The evidence is at least as good as the paper’s evidence for vaccine effectiveness against Covid death in fall 2021.
The premise of the accords is an inflated account of pandemic risk that is simply not supported by historical evidence. Its effect will be to distort health priorities away from the real health needs and other goals of many countries.
Japan has been evolving into a place where it is difficult to express ideas. In addition to government and media collusion to keep Covid medical realities from the Japanese public, the government passed a law to squelch nonconforming messaging online.
I understand the need to protect national security, but safeguarding it must never become an excuse to silence legitimate scrutiny — or intimidate journalists whose role is to hold the powerful to account — or to punish whistleblowers exposing real wrongdoing.
Trump’s War on Leaks: Is Journalism the Next Casualty? Read Journal Article