I'd proffer that Mr Musk had been planning the move for a while now, and just chose this current time and political reason to make a more formal announcement about the move.

... To analyze the case in terms of the nuances of the special counsel law or Cannon's disregard of United States vs. Nixon is to miss what's in front of one's face. ...

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... Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed the law, AB 1955, following a contentious and emotional debate in the Democratic-controlled state legislature. The measure forbids school staff from informing parents or any other person if their child's gender identification changes without permission from the child. It also bars districts from punishing employees who support a student's rights.

The legislation was introduced after some conservative California school districts implemented rules that require teachers to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender or goes by a different name or pronoun at school. It comes amid a nationwide debate over the rights of parents and LGBTQ students.

Advocates argue that the school board policies adopted by those California districts forcibly "out" LGBTQ students and adversely affect their mental health. The California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus called the legislation "life-saving."

Nationwide, fewer than half of transgender and non-binary students find their homes LGBTQ-affirming, according to a survey by Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ non-profit focused on suicide prevention and mental health. The report also found that schools that are more gender-affirming correlate with lower rates of attempted suicide. ...

... Angela Rayner told ITV that Mr Vance had said "quite a lot of fruity things in the past" but said does not "recognise" his characterisation of the UK. ...

Candidate Vance has been living in the Trump Cult alternate reality for a couple of years now. No one should expect Candidate Vance to have a grasp of what is really occurring.

@#8 ... You're exceedingly boring and predictable. ...

As I have noted a few times previously, the humtake alias reminds me of the episode of M*A*S*H where a bumbling pilot they called "5 O'Clock Charlie" showed up each day.

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... Specifically, the decision calls into question whether textural and video content created by genAI can be considered free speech because human beings were involved in crafting the algorithms that produced that content. ...

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... In the fall of 2021, after determining that LoVe had lost a segment of cable, Zhang confronted the next question: Where was it? At that point he still thought that whatever happened had likely been inadvertent. A fishing trawler's net is often framed by weighty metal "doors" that keep it open as it drags through the water. If one of those had snagged the cable by accident and pulled it out of place, the crew might not even have noticed. Nonetheless, if Zhang could identify the ship and trace its path, he might have an idea of where to look for the missing equipment. ...

The maps showed about a dozen ships. Most of them had spent that April 3 tracing long arcs through a fishing ground a little to the southwest of the two relay units bracketing the missing segment. But one ship, a 197-foot-long, Russian-flagged trawler called the Saami, had behaved differently.

Traveling at about 10 knots, it had passed back and forth over the LoVe cable at least four times. "I saw this boat, only this one boat, cross the cable at this time," Zhang says. "I locked my suspicion on this one boat." Once he'd narrowed his parameters to the span of time when the cable disappeared, the paths of the other ships dropped away on his computer screen, leaving just the tight scribble traced by the Saami.

At the precise moment the cable went dead, the ship was right above it.

In late November, Zhang got a chance to trace the Saami's route in person. With the Arctic winter beginning and oil and gas work slowing, he was able to book a drone operator and time on one of the institute's own vessels, the G.O. Sars. He and his colleagues took the ship out from Troms, a city of 78,000 inside the Arctic Circle, and headed for the map coordinates marked by the Saami's AIS track from months before. ...

@#58 ... ut the most significant action of loyalty is given.. ...

But, why is it given? Because it has been earned.

You can buy a man's time; you can buy his presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm ... You cannot buy loyalty... You cannot by the devotion of hearts, minds or souls. You must earn these. -- Clarence Francis

@#38 ... and people don't understand loyalty....it has to be bought. ...

Apparently you don't understand loyalty either.

Loyalty has to be earned, it is not bought.

@#11 ... Only if 538 includes the margin of fraud, illegal alien votes and magic mail in ballot boxes. ...

How do you know it doesn't?

What evidence do you have of the things you mention occurring on a large-enough scale?

@#9 ... Trump is leading today but he has to avoid acting like himself for almost four months. ...

Yeah.

Without acting like himself, will he be able to animate his rally attendees to the point where they cheer their cult leader as he craves?

@#6 ... After William T. Riker? ...

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... The jurors sent the note after resuming discussions Monday morning in Manhattan federal court, following their first three hours of deliberations on Friday. The corruption trial for the New Jersey Democrat is in its 10th week.

Their written note asked: "Does a not guilty verdict on a single count require unanimity?"

After consulting with lawyers in the case, Judge Sidney H. Stein responded: "Jury, your vote -- whether guilty or not guilty -- must be unanimous as to each count and to each defendant." ...

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... "In light of this weekend's events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr.," Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security, announced during Monday's White House press briefing. ...

@#5 ... For example, the RCP electoral site for 2016 ...

@#2 ... JD Vance brings nothing to the ticket. ...

Well, there's the beard. ;)

If elected, he'll be the second VP with a full beard.

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... The announcement came Monday as members of the party gathered in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention. Trump's campaign revealed little about the presumptive GOP nominee's top considerations until then, saying anyone who claimed to know specifics was "lying unless that person is named Donald J. Trump." ...

@#3 ... I don't trust polls. ...

It is not necessarily the polls, it is mostly the opinions and projections derived from the polling data.

For example, the RCP electoral site for 2016 showed that there were too many toss-up states, and that the election was too close to call.

That is one reason why I prefer the RCP poll charts and maps, they just present the polling data, no projections.

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... Scientists have made a crucial DNA discovery that could help cure one of the deadliest cancers.

A team of researchers from the UK and US have found that pancreatic cancer is able to shut down molecules in one of the body's most important genes, helping the disease to grow and spread rapidly.

Pancreatic cancer is the 12th most common cancer worldwide, with more than half a million people diagnosed every year. It has the worst survival rates of all the most common forms of the disease.

The deadly nature of pancreatic cancer has stumped experts for years but the breakthrough offers hope in the hunt for a treatment that could wipe out the disease. ...

@#3 ... Just another suicide by cop by a lost and really messed up young man. ...

Has a motive been determined yet?