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Democrat New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned Friday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and ethics violations against him, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced.
"The investigation found that the lieutenant governor failed to uphold the responsibilities of his office, and he demonstrated a pattern of behavior that does not meet the standards of this administration," Sherrill said during a news conference in Trenton. "The report documents serious, repeated violations of state policy, including ethical lapses and a substantiated finding of sexual harassment.
"I gave the lieutenant governor until today to resign. He submitted his resignation to me this afternoon, which I accepted."
I can only assume because of the timing of the comment, it involves the just-issued ruling that allows states to access federal records including - including the SSA - to verify citizenship for voter registrations.
The reason why SCOTUS allowed it is because the law specifically allows it.
That would be the input from Congress.
The reason student loaf [sic] debt relief was struck down is because Congress did not allow it and the Executive cannot encumber funding.
You see, SCOTUS interprets within the confines of the law, not creates it just because you feel you have a good argument as to why a certain policy should be enacted. Congress is where those policy arguments are made.
Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School developed an experimental treatment for pancreatic cancer that uses a cocktail of messenger RNAs (mRNA) to activate immune defenses, break through the protective tissue surrounding tumors, and help immune cells recognize cancer cells as threats. Inspired by work at the school’s RNA Therapeutics Institute and advances in COVID vaccines, the approach combines several immune signals and tumor-associated antigens in a single formulation.
The study, published in Nature Communications, combined mRNAs encoding five immune cytokines with three tumor-associated antigens in one injectable treatment. Approximately 50 percent of mice with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma experienced complete tumor regression and remained disease-free for a year, including after therapy was discontinued.
“It’s unheard of to get a response like this in these models of pancreatic cancer,” said Dr. Parikh, a recent PhD graduate from the Ruscetti Lab. “There have been a lot of drugs tried in the lab that have had good initial responses in mice, but ultimately the cancer always comes back. This is the only study I’ve seen that has achieved durable tumor protection.”
FrankieZ4 (556 posts)
1. Ok...I'll ask...what is this about?
Reply to boston bean (Original post)
Fri Sep 25, 2026, 12:06 PM
Context is helpful.
Qutzupalotl (15,956 posts)
6. The Court lifted the stay on Trump's voter purge.
Reply to FrankieZ4 (Reply #1)
Fri Sep 25, 2026, 12:23 PM
Story in LBN and GD.
A big win for the Trump administration happened at the Supreme Court today. The court ruled that states could in fact use a large federal government database to screen voters for eligibility and keep non-citizens from voting.QuoteThe Trump administration can use a wide-ranging government database that includes Social Security information to help state officials identify noncitizens on their voter lists, the Supreme Court said on Friday.
The emergency ruling means the database will be in use for November’s midterm elections. But the fight over the procedure’s legality will continue in the lower courts.
In an unsigned opinion, the majority said the claims made by the voters who challenged the database’s use “likely lack merit.” The court added that, under laws covering the data, “the Federal Government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters.”
Since 2024, to judge from news reports, there have been at least 10 Black people found hanged in public in the United States. Eight of these cases have been officially ruled suicides or are being treated as such given no signs of foul play. In neither of the other two has a white suspect been named.
But many people harbor suspicions. Civil rights lawyers, pastors and family members (as well as myriad commentators on social media) have speculated that these deaths were lynchings — homicides perpetrated by whites to sow terror in Black communities.
And now Congress is getting involved. Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, cited those 10 recent deaths in a letter this month that called for a federal investigation into all hanging deaths of Black people in the country. (She also cited a report of 70 “modern-day lynchings” between 2000 and 2025, though the report uses “lynching” broadly to encompass a wide range of deaths, most of which do not involve hanging.)
Pressley’s letter, which was signed by 58 other Democrats in Congress ...
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But what Pressley and others are suggesting is different: that today, white people are hanging Black people for the purpose of terrorizing Black communities, and that local authorities are consistently overlooking it or covering it up.
In the cases Pressley’s letter cites, there is often good reason to think otherwise. Consider a few examples:
In 2024, Javion Magee, a 21-year-old Black truck driver, was found dead in North Carolina with a rope around his neck, dangling from a tree. There is surveillance video of Magee buying the rope.
In 2025, Demartravion Reed, a 21-year-old Black student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was discovered hanged from a tree on campus. Reed had sent his girlfriend suicidal text messages the night before.
In the case of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old woman who was found hanged from a tree in Mississippi last month, two people have now been arrested in connection with her death — but they are both Black men, which runs counter to the idea that these cases are reanimations of old-school racism.
... But in the face of the evidence we have so far, and given the incendiary nature of the claim, why would anyone say that the United States is experiencing a “national crisis” of lynchings?
One reason is a stylized wariness that Black Americans are often taught as a kind of wisdom — to be ever on guard that the bad old days could return at any moment.
Another reason is a belief that Black people don’t hang themselves because of the fraught historical associations with the act. “It is very uncommon for young Black men to commit suicide, let alone by hanging,” Raymond Winbush, a psychologist who has treated hundreds of Black men and boys, told The Washington Post.
“That’s not the way we do” is how Black Americans often put it in conversation. But we must ask, with all due compassion: Suppose it is? The cases in question are few in number. To say something is uncommon is to grant that it does happen sometimes.
Many were skeptical that Sandra Bland, a Black activist incarcerated in Texas after a contentious traffic stop, hanged herself in her jail cell in 2015. However, after the F.B.I. investigated the case, few now dispute that, tragically, she did. Surveillance video recorded a Black man, Malcolm Harsch, 38, hanging himself in Victorville, Calif., in 2020.
At this point, getting angry at Carlson or Owens for trafficking in (more) Jew-phobic tropes is like getting mad at strip clubs for the gratuitous nudity: It is what it is.
But they’re still useful as cautionary tales. They reflect antisemitism’s stubbornly seductive siren’s song — and they prove, alas, that no movement is immune to its charms.
Including ours.
So far, most of the Carlson-Owens news coverage has centered on their sensationalist claims — which, of course, feeds their financial model. (Ca-ching!) ...
But there’s virtually no news coverage on how to stop antisemitism.
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Trouble is, conservatives are REALLY bad at addressing it. Simply horrible. We’re unpersuasive, unconvincing, and off-key.
Why?
Because we’re disconnected from the subject matter. It’s diametrically opposed to how our brains are wired.
We don’t get it. Antisemitism and ethnic hatreds are alien concepts.
Because conservatives believe in the glorious, God-given sanctity of the individual. It’s our foundational tenet: Each life is precious, unique, and irreplaceable. ...
Reducing a person to the sum-total of his ethnicity is the exact opposite of that.
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It begins with perception: Conservatives see people as individuals, but other ideologies, alas, do not. They deliberately divide us into groups. These groups are sometimes tied to class, but more often to gender, religion, sexuality, and — most of all — race.
In left-wing America, racial identity is king. Our skin color is our group.
But not all races were created equal: White people carry the stigma of being bigots, exploiters, parasites, and rich, evil colonists. Our pale flesh is proof of our “privilege” — and thus our guilt.
But remember student loan relief was a bridge too ****ing far for these fascists assholes.
How the hell are they allowing this with no inputs from Congress.
But remember student loan relief was a bridge too ****ing far for these fascists assholes.
boston bean (37,102) Posts
SCOTUS is making him a dictator.
How the hell are they allowing this with no inputs from Congress.
But remember student loan relief was a bridge too ****ing far for these fascists assholes.
They are helping to tear down our democracy. They are part and parcel of the billionaire take over of our democracy.
https://democraticunderground.com/100221525918
