SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law The Firearm Printing Prevention Act (AB 2047). This groundbreaking legislation will help stop the next generation of ghost guns before they are made by requiring consumer 3D printers sold in California to incorporate technology that identifies and blocks attempts to print firearms and illegal firearm parts. With Governor Newsom's signature, California becomes just the second state in the nation to establish safety standards for 3D printers to prevent the printing of illegal guns and gun parts, and by far the largest economy to do so. As the fourth-largest economy in the world and a global center of technology and innovation, California's action sends a powerful signal to the 3D-printing industry: companies that build and sell rapidly evolving technology have a responsibility to ensure their products are not easily exploited to manufacture illegal firearms. read more
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- The city of Dearborn responded Saturday to a lawsuit accusing it of celebrating Muslim holidays and ignoring religious holidays of other faiths by blaming attacks against it on its diversity and "welcoming nature." A statement from the Detroit suburb issued by a spokesperson came in response to a lawsuit on Thursday that accused the city and its mayor of spending thousands of dollars to celebrate Muslim holidays while ignoring Christian and Jewish holidays. The lawsuit in federal court revived complaints about city government that arose a year ago after the Dearborn mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, told Ted Barham, a local pastor, that he was not welcome in the city and he would stage a parade when he left. The lawsuit by Margot Cleveland, a journalist for The Federalist, accused the city and its mayor, a Democrat, of favoring the Muslim faith over other religious beliefs in a city with a population of over 100,000 people that is majority Arab American. read more
Settler colonialism is not a story of friendly relations throughout. The confrontation with an unfamiliar other creates wariness and suspicion and often leads to violent outbursts in which non-combatants become innocent victims. The story of Manhattan in the seventeenth century was no exception, as the bloody conflict between Dutch settlers and Native Americans in 1643 shows. On the evening of 25 February 1643, soldiers and settlers of the colony of New Netherland massacred a large number of Native American men, women, and children belonging to Munsee nations on and around Manhattan. The victims were surprised in their sleep. They had assumed they were safe because they had recently sought shelter near New Amsterdam from Indigenous enemies. Dutch sources indicate that at least eighty and perhaps up to one hundred and twenty Munsees were murdered. read more
Here is the translated transcript of the defining, concluding portion of General Juan Velasco Alvarado's historic address delivered on June 24, 1969, which announced the Agrarian Reform Law and fundamentally shifted the social structure of Peru: read more
Unnamed sources told The Daily Mail that she has a hand in managing the defense secretary's activities and public image. read more
I've posted this before. So sue me.
"Other Side of This Life" (Fred Neil):
Jefferson Airplane
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Speaking of Fred Neil, the original and superior version of a later well-known cover,
"Everybody's Talkin'":
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Two versions of Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso":
Pablo Picasso was never called an @$$#0|e
Not like you.
John Cale:
www.youtube.com
(fun fact; also released before the original Modern Lovers version [produced by Cale], which was recorded earlier but came out later)
David Bowie:
www.youtube.com
"The biggest artists in the world are female artists at this point, and that's because of video games," Rundgren said.
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Do what now?
Are incels choking the chicken to particular soundtracks?
Or are female artists the soundtracks? I imagined something a little rougher than Taytay.
Does he embellish this point?
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I'm always a little skeptical when people who presumably wouldn't have minded Taylor Swift's fame have a problem with it.
I don't have an issue with Todd Rundgren, but the only reason people still know his name is that the last boomer or their offspring haven't died yet.