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In 1590, in Scotland, an elderly woman named Agnes Sampson was arrested. She was from East Lothian. Earlier in her life she had been a midwife and a healer, but lately she had been living in poverty. She was tried, found guilty and taken to Edinburgh Castle where, on 28 January 1591, she was strangled to death by rope and then burnt at the stake. Her offence? Climate change. RTWT - Long read but worth it

CHICAGO - Chicago police are investigating the shooting of a transgender woman in Fuller Park on the South Side as a possible hate crime. The woman, 28, was grazed in the arm after the gunman yelled a homophobic slur about 5:15 p.m. last Thursday in the 200 block of West Root Street, police said. "You’re a disgrace," the attacker yelled, ridiculing her for wearing a dress, according to a police report. The gunman then shot her in the right forearm.

Climate justice is taking center stage — geopolitically, socially and morally. In a contagiously courageous conversation, Member of Parliament in the UK David Lammy and Tennessee state representative Justin J. Pearson discuss how brave leadership can shepherd global movements and uplift historically marginalized communities in the face of humanity's greatest challenge: climate change. "We must have outrage, but we must have optimism as well," says Lammy.

According to a new Bloomberg report, Apple is currently testing a ChatGPT-like large language model to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. While Apple halted the chatbot rollout due to growing security concerns regarding generative AI, the tech giant is making it available to an increasing number of employees. Initially dubbed as “Apple GPT” by some engineers, the chatbot works on Apple’s own large language model framework Ajax. While Apple is yet to devise a strategy to release its new AI technology to its users, reports suggest that the tech giant aims to make a significant announcement next year....

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The New York Times is being roasted online for “fear-mongering” over an article questioning whether it is “safe to go outside” this summer. The article, headlined “Is It Safe to Go Outside? How to Navigate This Cruel Summer,” was published on Thursday and presents a “guide to determine when it’s safe to head out,” in light of the recent heat wave, flash flooding and smoke from wildfires experienced across the country. “So you want to go outside — despite the heat, heavy rainfall and poor air quality affecting millions this summer. Here’s how to determine whether it’s safe to leave...

...In this little video the confident and smooth Ramaswamy is almost mesmerizing in creating his own upside down world regarding fiduciary duty and ESG. Although he admits to his sympathetic interviewer that he doesn’t know what ESG is, he boldly asserts his commitment “to put excellence over politics.” (Keep this in the back of your mind as you read further.) He earnestly attacks “The Big Three” of BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard as being driven by ideology rather than returns. “It’s the money of everyday American citizens that’s being used to advance this ideology that most of them disapprove of.”...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, End to Sex Trafficking; Agribusiness; and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been found guilty by a Swedish court of disobeying a police order at a protest in Malmo last month. The 20-year-old avoided a potential prison sentence and has been fined 2,500 Swedish krona (€216), AFP reports. Greta had pleaded not guilty and told the court: "My actions are justifiable," according to the Sydsvenskan newspaper. "We are definitely not going to back down because of this,” she told reporters after the verdict. “We don't have any laws that long term protect us against the self-destructing greed that we have let [have] full control over the world....

In a moment straight out of the Twilight Zone, democrats used a censorship hearing to censor the hell out of RFK Jr. He wasn't allowed to get very far into his presentation when he was savaged. Now I'm not here to argue the merits of RFK's assertions, but rather lament his treatment at the hands of the New Fascist Party. For background, RFK Jr. suggested that COVID 19 might have been genetically designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews and ethnically Chinese people. Democrats pounced on him before he could say 20 words and repeatedly shut him down. The star chamber treatment...

If only the Biden administration fought illegal migration half as hard as it’s fighting Texas. Thus far, the open borders regime is investigating efforts by Texas to prevent illegal border crossings after the state stepped in once the Biden administration had turned CBP into coyotes enabling illegal migration. It’s also suing Texas for putting up floating barriers on the Rio Grande to prevent illegal invaders from swimming across. "The Justice Department warned officials in Texas on Thursday that the federal government will sue the state unless it removes border barriers it recently set up in the middle of the Rio...

Elon Musk has taken a wrecking ball to Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, first gutting the foundation and now demolishing the façade. But according to Dorsey, the co-founder and longtime chief executive of Twitter, Musk's latest idea to scrap the site’s blue bird logo and rename the platform to X as an “accelerant” for creating an everything app — an earthquake in the corporate branding world — is nothing to get excited about. “Keep calm and just x through it,” Dorsey posted late on Sunday on his former platform. Dorsey has been accused of letting the fox into the henhouse when he...

Dystopian surveillance is here and providing a growing market for tech entrepreneurs. Police agencies are daily using artificial intelligence to identify "suspicious" patterns of behavior in millions of random cars caught on surveillance cameras connecting with databases of ownership, and enabling searches and arrests. In an era with politicized law enforcement, what could go wrong?

College towns are not only getting bluer, but getting bluer by higher margins and driving higher turnout for Democrats in elections — in some cases, providing the party with enough force to soundly trounce Republicans in statewide elections.

Cars were seen lining up outside Carlee Russell's Alabama home on Sunday, just a day after her 26th birthday. A dozen cars lined the driveway and around the home, and drew the attention of police in Hoover, Alabama, who drove past the home as people entered and left. Police said Russell delayed additional requests to interview her again about her supposed July 13 disappearance. Russell vanished after calling 911 to report a toddler wandering along an Alabama highway.

Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) announced Monday that she’s running for governor in New Hampshire, capping off speculation about her plans on the open gubernatorial seat. “The battle to protect our Live Free or Die way of life must continue. I’m running for Governor because New Hampshire is one election away from becoming Massachusetts – from becoming something we are not,” Ayotte said in a statement that touched on issues including crime, energy costs and the economy. “I was born here and raised here. I raised my kids here, and you know what? I am going to die here because...

Constitutional attorney Jonathan Turley, a George Washington law professor known for his liberal views, expressed his shock that the FBI hid an FD-1023 informant document corroborating investigators’ findings that Joe and Hunter Biden appear to have benefited from an international bribery scheme. Turley appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream and brilliantly laid out why the FBI’s reluctance to release the lightly redacted document to the public is so problematic. Transcript follows below: BREAM: The FD-1023 form that Senator Grassley released, the FBI was not happy about that. They said that it actually could create danger and safety issues...

The going rate for a child – either to be sold into sexual slavery or killed and harvested for organs – is around $150,000.To those who value greed over the most fundamental of basic decencies, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the refugee crisis it has sparked is not a humanitarian catastrophe but the business opportunity of a lifetime.“This is just a sweet shop for them at the moment,” says Dean, a former British soldier who now works for MitMark, a private risk advisory company that ‘fell into’ trying to combat human trafficking after arriving near the Medyka crossing in...

Palestinian news site Amad as well as other sites have an opinion piece by Jordanian Ibrahim Abu Atila that asks Arabs to stop being coy and admit that their enemy is Jews, not "Zionists." Those of us who speak simply and who do not know theorizing and embellishment of speech and those who are not affected by what the media promotes say that those who are hostile to us are the Jews.. while those who assume in themselves culture and openness to the world say that those who are hostile to us are the Zionists... Both of these statements are...

(The Center Square) – Members of the Navajo Nation in southeastern U.S. say the federal government is leaving their people behind with its energy policies, crippling their economy and leaving more people in poverty. Republicans on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are attempting to overturn such Biden administration policies, including the Department of Interior’s land withdrawal and ban on oil and gas leasing outside of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, where members of the Navajo tribe reside. The DOI issued a Public Land Order in June imposing a 10-mile buffer zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park for...