Over 110 million people have been forced to flee their homes, driven by three interconnected realities. about them here.
We've been covering Joe Biden's polling problems for months now. Aside from matchup polling, there have been multiple polls that have shown him losing support from key Democratic constituencies: young voters, Hispanic voters, and, of course, black voters. In fact, things have gotten so bad for Joe Biden with black voters that CNN is having a hard time wrapping their leftist brains around it.
Fires are raging across the Middle East. Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza while trying to deter a full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Another Iranian proxy, the Houthis, is disrupting shipping in the Red Sea. But another problem looms: Syria. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama predicted that the Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war would be a “quagmire” […]
On-chain data suggests the Bitcoin “Miner Price” metric has fallen under the BTC Electrical Cost. Here’s what happened next the last few times. Bitcoin Miner Price Has Declined Below Electrical Cost For Fifth Time Ever In a new post on X, Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards has pointed out a development that has recently occurred […]
Can '24 DNC Thwart Chicago Protests By Going Virtual? (First column, 12th story, link)
In deciding to debate ex-President Donald Trump on June 27 and Sept. 10, President Biden tacitly admitted he’s losing right now; this is a Hail Mary gambit to turn the race around.
“Ducati are going to have a very difficult decision to make over Pecco’s team-mate aren’t they?”
Fruitful exchanges require input from two people. Listen carefully to what others are saying and use feelings, rather than facts, to connectHow do you do conversation? I don’t understand how it works. I can only ever communicate factual information such as “A coffee and a croissant, please.”Other people seem to rattle on about anything and everything, constantly jumping from one topic to another, but I can never follow. If I ever feel that I have something to contribute and try to join in they...
“Saturday Night Live” had a second chance to address the raging antisemitism on today’s college campuses. Swing, and a miss! The new skit, inspired by the violent protests at Columbia University, proved as toothless as the last one. The former, targeting the Ivy League presidents who couldn’t condemn antisemitism on their campuses, trained its firepower on the GOP politician grilling them. The just-released sketch shows parents of college students grappling with the latest round of...
“Saturday Night Live” had a second chance to address the raging antisemitism on today’s college campuses. Swing, and a miss! The new skit, inspired by the violent protests at Columbia University, proved as toothless as the last one. The former, targeting the Ivy League presidents who couldn’t condemn antisemitism on their campuses, trained its firepower on the GOP politician grilling them. The just-released sketch shows parents of college students grappling with the latest round of...
What is the one thing you could do to help your loved one recover and get out of hospital faster? Make friends with the nurses? Make a fuss, complain about everything?
Meet Les Rodgers, the St Luke’s Hospice volunteer who might best be described as the charity’s Mr Fix It. Les, who is 79 and lives in Eckington, first volunteered at the St Luke’s shop in Crystal Peaks, where he gave his time and enthusiasm for six years. More recently he has been volunteering at the St Luke’s Distribution Centre, the hub for the thousands of donations that are sorted and then sent out for sale at the chain of 14 St Luke’s shops across the city. He now carries out PAT Testing on...