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... FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has already treated the rule as more of a suggestion. In March, the Carr FCC granted a waiver allowing Nexstar Media Group to buy Tegna in a deal that let it reach over half of TV households. The Carr FCC argued that Congress gave it authority to modify or waive the rule.

Carr now plans to repeal the 39 percent limit and replace it with a "case-by-case review" of each proposed merger, the chairman announced today in an op-ed published on Breitbart.

The change would make it easier for the FCC to pick and choose which station groups get to surpass the limit.

Under Carr, this would likely benefit news companies that provide favorable coverage for President Trump. ...

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... Trump may disclose the intelligence, which was collected and analyzed during his first term, in a speech that he is due to deliver on Thursday night, when he is expected to outline information about alleged vulnerabilities in the voting infrastructure that could allow for foreign interference in U.S. elections, the sources said.

Reuters could not determine the details of the intelligence, but sources said it is classified and related to whether China had the intention or ability to disrupt U.S. elections in 2020. The sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss classified material, said the intelligence did not show Beijing had manipulated or changed votes.

Trump has continued to repeat the debunked claim that the 2020 election was rigged, suggesting a foreign actor was involved in flipping votes despite legal rulings that Democrat Joe Biden won. ...

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... An Associated Press reporter and photographer viewed the fenced-off Reflecting Pool on Wednesday from the top of the Washington Monument. The new liner appears grayer than when the pool was repainted and refilled with water in early June. Debris that had been visible earlier this week after the pool was drained is now largely gone, after work crews removed it.

Trump's problem-plagued effort to revamp the landmark has stretched well past his initial goal of having the Reflecting Pool ready by July 4 for the nation's 250th birthday.

The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.

Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project's initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.

Ohio-based Green Water Solutions, also known as Greenwater Services, was given a $1.7 million contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool, while Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings was awarded $14.7 million to repaint and waterproof the pool's concrete floor. ...

@#4 ... struggled during her Wednesday confirmation hearing to convince senators she'd stand up to her boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., like her predecessor did. ...

While she seems to have said that she supports the science behind vaccines, she apparently became most coy regarding whether or not she would eschew political views in her decisions.

So, apparently, yet another kisser of Trump's most ample butt in charge of our health.

@#11 ... There is not. ...

Yeah, I can see why those apparent trolling aliases may be so adverse to supplying more information.

But, that's just me ...

@#2

Case in point ...

I run a web server. Mostly for family stuff.

I have preventive measures in place on that server.

One of those preventive measures involves the firewall.

OK, a few years ago, the number of IP addresses that those "preventive measures" had blocked was well below 1000.

Maybe 100 or 200 IP addresses blocked for ~bad behavior.~

This past year, that number has increased to over 5000.

Has AI been a part of the attacks upon my server?

imo, probably. Maybe even, likely.

I have stories to tell about my firewall ...

imo, AI is an awesome power.

Whether it is a good power or an evil power depends upon how AI is used.

So far, I'm leaning towards evil.

Why?

Because the evil people among us seem to be more eager to adopt new technologies for their end goals.

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... The 84-page report issued jointly Wednesday by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union also says men and women held at Camp East Montana, located at the U.S. Army's Fort Bliss in El Paso, recounted being denied necessary medical care, forced to live in filthy conditions and fed inedible meals. Detainees also said they were prevented from contacting their lawyers or family members.

Of the 71 detainees contacted over a five month period, 64 -- about 90% of those interviewed -- said they had either personally been assaulted by the staff or had seen others physically abused, according to the report.

"ICE's Camp East Montana is a human rights disaster," said Anglica Csar, a fellow at Human Rights Watch and the ACLU who was a lead researcher for the report. "The U.S. government should shut it down, conduct independent investigations into all abuses and deaths in custody, and put an end to mass deportations and mandatory immigration detention." ...

@#9

Hey, responding to a post of mine.

Deal with it.

                                      :)

@#8 ... Got a link to one of those threads? ...

There may be a link, or not.

Regardless, one of the reasons why I reply to the comments I post is the simple fact that I have more information to add to my original comment.

More information.

I can see why some current trolling aliases may have an issue with providing more information.

;)

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... But a new study by neurologists at the University of California, Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University suggests that arm dominance is much more to do with practice than something innate within the brain.

"Limb dominance is often taken as evidence that the dominant hemisphere is intrinsically better at motor control," write Ahmet Arac, Nicolas Jeong Lee, and John Krakauer, in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"We tested an alternative: dominance reflects asymmetric practice with tools and objects requiring precise control of complex trajectory shapes."

Since most people have already been using their dominant hand loyally throughout their lives, it's difficult to design an experiment to test this hypothesis.

Arac and colleagues came up with a clever way to control for existing dominance, though: making people write with their elbows, something most people have probably never attempted, let alone practiced, before. ...

@#43 ... This guy is such a pathetic caricature. ...

Caricature?

imo, you are being kind.

A caricature implies that there may be something to substantiate that caricature.

Good.

Justice prevailed.

OK, a most serious song ...

... After Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) invested over a billion dollars to transform the Everglades runway into an immigration detention center, all traces of the concentration camp are gone. ...

Was the expense worth the results?

What has Gov DeSantis said about that?

@#40

@#3 ... what might the July report(s) look like? ...

Well, for starters...

Unlike June, the price of crude oil has been increasing.

Other things, but that one seems to be the most significant.

My comment on this article/thread ...

I wish it had been an Onion satire as #2 proffers.

But it is not a satire.

It is real.

And it affects the Great Military that risks their lives to protect the Country.

What is the factual substantiation of this new policy?

@#4 ... Repubs proving yet again that they're absolute s*&^ at running an economy. ...

Well, yeah.

Your comment is a good observation.

If I may be allowed to rephrase your comment in my view ...

Repubs proving yet again that they're absolutely focused upon transferring the wealth of our Country upwards to the wealthy, to the detriment of the working class.

Was that an appropriate restatement?

@#3 ...

Good thing this is not a music thread.

Otherwise, I'd likely post something like ...