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The Minnesota Rapid Response Coalition planned to join Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition in a virtual meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the upcoming trial of Derek Chauvin charged in George Floyd’s death. “I have to be frank: It’s been traumatic, you know. It’s been an experience that no one should have ever had to endure. It’s unfortunate, but it’s a harsh reality,” said Alexander Bourne, MRRC founder and lead strategist for the Floyd case. “I think for us we’re just trying to continue to be proactive.” The Tuesday evening meeting is the first of many these groups said they...

Democracy dies in a low key response?What happens if a president does not do much to aid citizens in the middle of a weather disaster? Well, if the president is a Republican, the media condemnation would be loud and angry. But if the President is a Democrat, the reaction would be...meh. Such was the case with the Washington Post on Saturday running cover for Joe Biden over the fact that his response to the Texas winter storm has been rather underwhelming.

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The ability to store and recover information gives an organism a clear advantage when searching for food or avoiding harmful environments, and has been traditionally linked to organisms that have a nervous system. A new study authored by Mirna Kramar (MPIDS) and Prof. Karen Alim (TUM and MPIDS) challenges this view by uncovering surprising abilities of a highly dynamic, single-celled organism to store and retrieve information about its environment. Physarum polycephalum has been puzzling researchers for many decades. Existing at the crossroads between the kingdoms of animals, plants and fungi, this unique organism provides insight into the early evolutionary history...

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., during a Senate hearing Tuesday read out a report claiming the Capitol riot was "probably planned" by people pretending to be supporters of former President Donald Trump. Johnson read from the article, a first-hand account of the riot titled, "I Saw Provocateurs At The Capitol Riot on Jan. 6," which was written by J. Michael Waller, a senior analyst for the Center of Security Policy, and published by The Federalist. Waller claims people "whom I presumed to be antifa or other leftist agitators" were the ones to attack police officers during the riot last month, which...

An Iranian woman died of a heart attack while waiting to be executed — but her body was still hanged so her victim’s mother could watch, according to her lawyer. Zahra Ismaili was awaiting her turn at the gallows last Wednesday for killing her husband, a senior agent in the Ministry of Intelligence whom she had accused of being abusive, according to The Times of London. She dropped dead after being made to watch 16 men being hanged ahead of her, according to a message by her lawyer, Omid Moradi, shared by the UK paper and Iran Human Rights Monitor...

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. (Psalm 103:7-10)Our God is love. He doesn’t merely have love, He is Love. To resist the LORD is to resist Love, and goodness and truth. Throughout the sacred scriptures God has revealed his heart of love to mankind, and the greatest revelation of Divine Love of all, is the cross of Jesus Christ. In that singular act of...

(...) Rep. Thomas Massie ripped into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “ethical standards” and encouraged people to “question” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's scientific conclusions. “Once you realize the personal ethical standards of policy makers like Dr Fauci and many of those at the CDC lead them to comfortably misrepresent scientific data in order to achieve public policy goals, it is not just your prerogative to question their ‘science,’ it is your duty,” Massie said on Twitter Monday. (...)

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - LGBTQ-rights advocates warned Kansas legislators Tuesday that their discussion of a proposed ban on transgender students in girls’ and women’s school sports would lead to bullying, and one group promised to sue the state if such a law is enacted. The state Senate Education Committee had a hearing on a bill backed by some athletes, Republican lawmakers and conservative groups. It would apply to K-12 school and college sports. Supporters portrayed it as an attempt to ensure competition remains fair and that girls and woman aren’t deprived of scholarships and other opportunities in sports. (Please see...

This is the first of a continiuing series of humorous agitprop for Dissident Americans. Laugh while you still have the strength.

Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday said virtually all residents of skilled nursing homes in Pennsylvania have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, calling it a “milestone.” He further said good progress is being made toward vaccinating residents of assisted living and personal care facilities, where vaccinations began later. Much of the vaccination is being done by pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens under a federal contract. Between the two, they have administered about 300,000 doses of vaccine at about 600 skilled nursing homes. “So we’re fortunate to have excellent partners working with us to achieve this milestone,” Wolf said. Alison Beam,...

Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why the Equality Act is flawed: According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Equality Act is “about ending discrimination”; President Joe Biden agrees. That may be its intent, but its effect is to promote the most comprehensive assault on Christianity ever written into law. This explains why the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been fighting this proposed law for years. Most recently it said the Equality Act “would discriminate against people of faith.” The Catholic League and many other civil rights and religious organizations have also sounded the alarm. The Equality Act...

On this date in 1885, a most inexplicable thing occurred on the gallows of Exeter. It was there that John Lee, nicknamed “Babbacombe”, made his peace with his maker and faced hanging for the murder of an elderly spinster a few months before. Lee still protested his innocence. He was not generally believed. We’ll let Charles Hoy Fort, that renowned chronicler of the impossible, take it from here: It was a scene of the mechanism and solidity of legal procedure, as nearly real as mechanism and solidity can be. Noose on his neck, and up on the scaffold they stood...

Back in 1967, a film was made depicting what life might be like in 1999 (32 years hence). All in all, I believe the short film nailed it in many respects. The makers of the film were very prescient in predicting what life was actually like in 1999. Now let's imagine what life might be like in the year 2053 (just 32 years from now).

A BABY shark with a "human face" has been dubbed the real-life baby shark after it was discovered in Indonesia. The mutant shark was caught by Abdullah Nuren, 48, in the waters near Rote Ndao in the East Nusa Tenggara province. The pup had two round eyes and a shocked expression He had accidentally caught an adult shark in his trawler net, and when he cut open its stomach, he found three pups inside. Nuren was stunned when he saw one of the sharks had a face that looked human. The pup had two round eyes, with almost a cartoon...

A gun-rights organization said that President Joe Biden’s gun control proposal would potentially make about 105 million law-abiding gun owners into criminals. “While we can agree that there are several ‘common sense’ and long overdue changes needed to our nation’s gun laws, we firmly believe that the path forward should be focused on supporting and protecting responsible, law-abiding Americans—not criminalizing and punishing them,” the U.S. Concealed Carry Association said in a letter to Biden this week.

A farmer in northern B.C. who caught a lynx in his chicken coop on Sunday didn't react the way one might expect. He didn't grab a gun or yell at the wild animal. Instead, Chris Paulson grabbed the lynx by the scruff of its neck, lifted it off the ground and scooped it from the coop. Then he gave it a gentle scolding. "He just looked ... a bit like [a kid] with its hand in the chocolate chip bag," Paulson told CBC News from his home near Decker Lake, west of Prince George.

Explanation: What would it look like to land on Mars? To better monitor the instruments involved in the Entry, Decent, and Landing of the Perseverance Rover on Mars last week, cameras with video capability were included that have now returned their images. The featured 3.5-minute composite video begins with the opening of a huge parachute that dramatically slows the speeding spacecraft as it enters the Martian atmosphere. Next the heat shield is seen separating and falls ahead. As Perseverance descends, Mars looms large and its surface becomes increasingly detailed. At just past 2-minutes into the video, the parachute is released...

Well ok it's a tiny bit partisan, but hey: -- Donald Trump came out on top in an Epoch Times poll asking readers for their five favorite presidents. Here are how the poll results, published Tuesday, break down: 95% of the readers included Trump as one of their top five. 83.5% included Ronald Reagan. 77.4% included George Washington. 74.5% included Abraham Lincoln. 36% included Thomas Jefferson. Read Newsmax: Epoch Times: Trump Tops Poll Asking for 5 Favorite Presidents Urgent: Do you approve of Pres. Trump’s job performance? Vote Here Now!

Meanwhile, both IGEA and John Deere believe existing protections under existing consumer law work just fine. "As more products are computerised, and the information and power imbalances between manufacturers and consumers grow, the incentives for premature planned obsolescence that harms consumers is likely to increase. It is important that regulators are equipped with an appropriate legislative framework to investigate new emerging practices that may harm consumers," the ACCC said. In September 2018, the Equipment Dealers Association signed an agreement with John Deere in which the company would begin voluntarily making repair tools, software guides, and diagnostic equipment available for ordinary...