Wow. No separate but equal, I guess. What about scholarships for the indigent children of Irish firepersons?
[ZERO] The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state-funded scholarship program that awarded financial aid based on the race of college students. The Democrat-controlled court followed the precedent laid out by the United States Supreme Court in finding that Gov. Tony Evers and the state were violating the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. PRIVATE funds can discriminate on who they support. You just can't do it with public funds
Two of the most liberal justices, however, wrote a concurrence denouncing the bar on the use of race for such scholarships.
If Democrats are able to pack the Supreme Court as demanded by many party leaders, this concurrence is an example of the likely changes that a packed court will bring in reversing anti-discrimination and other rulings.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty represented the taxpayers in this successful challenge of the Wisconsin Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant Program.
That program administered taxpayer-funded grants of up to $2,500 per academic year to eligible students of Black American, American Indian, Hispanic, or certain Southeast Asian backgrounds.
It is time to expect ALL US Citizens to put in a realistic effort to achieve the things they want, just like the majority of the other USA Citizens do everyday.
Seriously, we are 55+ years, and 3+ generations since nationwide enforced equality came into affect. There is no longer a realistic excuse for racial privilege. Just look at at the employment numbers in the DOD, Federal, State, Metro positions and commercial sectors.
Time to Earn It!
Instead of demanding, or being granted special endowments.
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@1 Going to have destroy the teacher unions and force teachers to pass tests, say every two years, for what they are teaching as well as English and maybe a few other things that they don't teach but need to know to be an effective teacher.
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[Regnum] A solar flare of magnitude M2.6 occurred overnight, the strongest in the past 2.5 weeks. This was reported on June 21 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to scientists, the flare was recorded at 5:46 AM Moscow time. Immediately before it, two more strong flares occurred, classified as M1.0 and M1.3.
On June 3, an M9.3-class solar flare occurred, the strongest in 1.5 months. The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAS) clarified that the flare occurred almost exactly at the center of the Sun, where plasma clouds ejected from the epicenter had nowhere else to go but toward planet Earth. On June 5, the plasma clouds from the solar flares reached Earth. They triggered a moderate-intensity magnetic storm that lasted until June 6.
At the end of April, a solar flare of magnitude X2.5 occurred. It was the most powerful in two and a half months. However, the event was neutral for Earth, as the center of the explosion was significantly shifted toward the edge of the Sun, causing the plasma to move sideways.
[Red State] South Africa spent more than a year betting that President Donald Trump was bluffing.
He wasn't.
The Trump administration is moving to phase out South Africa's remaining HIV/AIDS funding through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR, after months of warnings over race-based policies, land expropriation, and the treatment of white Afrikaners.
South Africa has long been one of PEPFAR's largest beneficiaries and has roughly 7.8 million people living with HIV, the highest number in the world.
Trump laid the groundwork last year, signing an executive order accusing South Africa of discriminating against Afrikaners and directing agencies to halt aid where legally possible.
According to a Daily Caller exclusive, U.S. officials wanted stronger condemnation of race-based incitement, including the "Kill the Boer" chant; prevention of land expropriation without fair compensation; designation of rural crime as a priority; more law-enforcement resources in high-crime farming areas; alternatives to race-based economic mandates affecting American companies; and no interference with the administration's Afrikaner refugee program.
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Trump Abelardo de la Espriella leads progressive Iván Cepeda in election focused on rising crime; right-wing candidate has pledged to renew Israel ties broken by outgoing president.
Israel is not universally hated — VP JD Vance got that wrong. The best run countries have been seeking out relations with Israel.
#2
I don’t think he hates Israel. Indifference, though… I suspect he sees the set of Jews as Other and determinedly Progressive, and sees creating a Republican big tent, avoiding purity tests, as the important thing.
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BTW, Paper ballots and voter ID required in the election. Mail ballots to those who request it and are living outside the country using an ID to request and using same ID on outside of envelop that encloses the ballot.
Mail in went heavily to de la Espriella.
Votes counted in 24 hours.
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[DM] Issues began at 8.35am ET on Monday, affecting a range of services including X, Zoom, Google and Microsoft.
At that time, the company announced it was investigating increased error rates and latency in multiple services.
Cloudflare acknowledged the disruption, describing it as an internal service degradation that may intermittently impact some services, and confirmed that a fix was underway.
The company said it is investigating a fiber cut in Eastern North America, suggesting the widespread outage may have been triggered by damage to a major internet cable rather than a cyberattack.
'Customers connecting through North America or accessing services in Europe may see increased latencies and timeouts as Cloudflare engineers look to mitigate,' Cloudflare added.
Cloudflare runs a huge network of servers spread across more than 330 cities in over 120 countries.
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...suggesting the widespread outage may have been triggered by damage to a major internet cable rather than a cyberattack.
So much for internet architecture. By design you are suppose to have multiple cable connections in the network, so if one node goes down the data is rerouted.
[FOX] Experts say like-minded extremists feed off one another in social media spaces until someone decides to act
Federal authorities say a foiled plot targeting a planned UFC event at the White House is the latest case to raise concerns about the role the internet can play in radicalizing people and connecting would-be attackers.
According to court documents, the men accused in the UFC plot allegedly communicated through encrypted messaging platforms and discussed plans involving drones, firearms and attacks on government officials. Here, we do it in plain text!
Rather than involving a single suspect acting alone, authorities allege the case involved multiple individuals who connected online and shared extremist beliefs. Investigators have increasingly warned that digital communities can help spread radical ideologies and, in some cases, encourage real-world violence.
From alleged ISIS supporters to anti-government extremists, authorities have repeatedly linked high-profile terror and violent crime investigations to online networks where radical beliefs can spread rapidly.
[BBC] Australian police have seized 2.7 tonnes of cocaine - the country's largest ever such bust - from an underground bunker system in western Sydney.
Moslem colonist ethnic gangs, particularly the longer-established Lebanese, have been very active in smuggling drugs into Australia. Not a hint if that’s the case here, but something to look for, especially given Hezbollah entwinement with the narco gangs involved in cocaine throughout Latin America.
The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$816m (£433m, €500m), were found on Friday in compartments concealed beneath false floors in three shipping containers at a property in Londonderry.
Two men aged 21 and 25, who allegedly attempted to flee from police, were arrested at the scene and charged with possessing a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug.
Police say the cocaine was smuggled into Australia via the small town of Midge Point in North Queensland on the orders of an organised crime group.
The two men, who were remanded in custody after appearing in court on Saturday, face life in prison if convicted.
Police said the raid on the Londonderry property was part of "Operation Minjiang" which was launched in May after 40kg of cocaine was found floating in the water off a boat ramp at Midge Point.
Another six people in Queensland and New South Wales were arrested and charged as part of investigations sparked by the find, police said last week.
An alleged "mother vessel" suspected of being part of the smuggling operation has also been detained in Solomon Islands.
Despite its remoteness, Australia is a lucrative market for the drugs trade, with cocaine typically fetching around A$300 per gram, according to an illegal drugs monitoring system run by the University of New South Wales.
Australians and New Zealanders also have the highest cocaine use rates in the world, according to last year's UN World Drug Report.
Australian Federal Police Commander Stephen Jay said the alleged plot showed "how highly organised and determined these criminal networks are, and the extreme lengths they are willing to go to in pursuit of profit.
"Investigations into the origin of the drugs remain ongoing, and we will work with our international and domestic law enforcement partners to identify the criminal syndicates and anyone else involved in facilitating this alleged attempted drug import."
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I suspect Australian police are going to have a few murders turn up related to this bust. Losing that much cocaine/money is going make some people very angry.
[FoxNews] General Motors has gutted its electric-vehicle ambitions and killed more than 1,000 jobs at its flagship Detroit assembly plant — replacing those workers with 50 robots and sparking outrage from labor unions.
The replacement “collaborative robots,” or “cobots,” have been installed on the assembly line at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Michigan amid a sharply reduced demand for its EV models and the ensuing push to cut costs, reports said.
The machines are now working alongside the remaining humans there who attach the body panels to vehicles as they move down the track, according to AutoBlog.
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That and they actually show up for work on time.
Plus, the breaks are a lot shorter.
And the graft/coercion/violence is smaller.
And they don't contribute to political parties or causes.
And they actually do their task consistently.
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And the unions start finding out that constant demands for raises and better benefits is making it easier for the automakers to decide to replace human workers with robots who work as hard or harder than their human counterparts with better quality.
#6
I would have to see where the “50” cobots were installed and see what the “1000” people were doing. This sounds unrealistic.
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Seeing as how the Big Three are now health care providers that make cars on the side, the writing may finally be on the wall. There is no task that a human can do on an auto assembly line that a machine cannot do better or ultimately cheaper.
I have no doubt the UAW will try and fight a last stand, but realistically the smartest thing they can do is try and manage the human phaseout.
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Raise minimum wages, raise unemployment. It's as simple as 2+2, but the politicians/panderers don't want to understand it, except to blame unemployment (and other "ills") on capitalism.
#11
I would have to see ... This sounds unrealistic.
1000 people/50 robots=20 people each.
20 people/3 shifts~6 people per shift replaced by a robot
Consider 3 assembly lines and two people each, left and right, placing wiper arms.
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The Silverado replaced its classic V8 with a crappy 4 cylinder turbo. Must have been those robot execs.
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I recently ordered food at a fast food restaurant from an AI drive thru order taker here in CA. Best experience ever. For the last 20 years it's always been crappy...usually they have accents so thick you can't understand them or they can't understand you. Plus mistakes were a given. With a $20/hr minimum wage for fast food workers here in CA why would you employ a person when you can have AI or robot?
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I supervised in FWA for 7.5 very long years. Many of the jobs were already automated. That was 20 years ago. There was no way to add 50 cobots and eliminate 1000 people at that plant. If a plant existed that was so backwards where that could be done, it would have been closed by 2015.
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#12 Joe - I replaced my 2004 F-150 5.4L V-8 4-speed with a 2020 2.7L (?) with twin turbos and 10-speed trans. Same power and torque and better mileage w/trailer pkg and 4WD
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This story would be news 25-30 years ago. Replacing people with robots has been ongoing for years. This is not just in automotive plants.
[NYP] On her final day as director of national intelligence Friday, Tulsi Gabbard released damning declassified evidence accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of causing the COVID-19 pandemic, engaging in a cover-up about the virus origins in China and lying to Congress about it.
Perhaps most disturbingly, he was assisted by the US intelligence community.
"It’s time you know the truth," said Gabbard when she released "never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024 . . . The tactics used to hide the truth are straight from the deep state playbook."
Right on cue, two days after the bombshell release, on Sunday, The Washington Post ran a 9,000-word hit piece accusing Gabbard of taking instructions from a Hindu "cult leader" described in the headline as her "guru."
It was a gratuitous exercise in guilt-by-association masquerading as an investigation, another tactic straight from the deep state playbook.
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If Fauci supported gain-of-funtion research in China and this resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic in which millions of people died across the world and the intelligence community covered this up, wouldn't this mean that the people who caused and covered this up are enemies of the American people? Am I missing something?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOX] Experts say like-minded extremists feed off one another in social media spaces until someone decides to act
[BBC] Australian police have seized 2.7 tonnes of 
