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Several U.S. states are pushing to ban young people from social media entirely. This marks the latest wave of censorship bills masquerading as "children's online safety" measures, with states like ...

Back in July of 2024, when two of the biggest big shots in venture capital, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, explained why they had decided to go all in to back Donald Trump's campaign for r ...

It just wasn't enough to pardon hundreds of people who raided the Capitol building to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss -- people who assaulted police officers, smashed windows t ...

The SunFounder GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit is your gateway to hands-on learning on robotics, coding, and Mars-like adventures! Its durable aluminum frame and rocker-bogie suspension easily handle toug ...

A month ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court's six conservative Justices have exactly one consistent rule on whose votes count: Black people's votes shouldn't count. The pattern wa ...

When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison hired trolling blogger Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of "balanced, fact-based news," "independent, principled journalism," and ...

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a reply to another comment about the charges against the guy who just got 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines: Fir ...

This Week in 2016 Supreme Court Knocks A Little More Off The 4th Amendment; Gives Cops Another Way To Salvage Illegal Searches Seeing Opportunity, Congress Tries To Rush Through Its Plan To Legaliz ...

When we talk about the scourge of anti-vaxxer philosophy within the federal government, we naturally spend a great deal of that time talking about RFK Jr. He's the Secretary of Health and Hum ...

Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans' web browsing and private messaging. The package include ...