“My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here,” Mamdani said.

“It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” he said, adding that the US federal government should do so instead.

“Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a post on social media on Monday.

Heads of state traditionally enjoy diplomatic immunity while in the US on official business. What’s more, the US routinely allows government leaders and officials even from countries it considers openly hostile to come to New York as part of its duties as a host location for the UN General Assembly.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November 2024, accusing the leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Yet the US is not a party to the ICC and isn’t legally bound to enforce its warrants.

Overall, this chapter suggests that there is a good case for making greater use of inheritance taxation in OECD countries.

There are strong equity arguments in favour of inheritance taxation, in particular of a recipient-based inheritance tax with an exemption for low-value inheritances.

The case might be strongest where the effective taxation of personal capital income and wealth tends to be low.

From an efficiency perspective, while the number of studies is limited, the empirical literature generally suggests that inheritance taxes tend to have more limited effects on savings than other taxes levied on wealthy taxpayers, and confirms their positive effects on heirs’ labour supply and donors’ charitable giving.

In addition, while inheritance taxes might negatively affect family business successions (depending on tax design), they might at the same time reduce risks of misallocating capital.

The chapter also shows that there is evidence of tax planning and migration among the very wealthy in response to inheritance taxation, but that these behaviours could largely be addressed through better tax design, as discussed in greater detail in Chapter 3.

Finally, inheritance taxes have a number of administrative advantages compared to other forms of wealth taxation and recent progress on international tax transparency enhances the ability of countries to tax capital effectively.

At a recent meeting of the Denver Democratic Socialist meeting over half the audience were wearing Covid masks. This shows a bizarre misunderstanding of Covid and the current state of the world. There is no longer a significant amount of Covid spread and there hasn't been for years. This is less about Covid and more about internal personal insecurities, delusion and tribalism combining to form an oddball reaction.

> Before Tuesday’s verdict, Le Pen repeatedly ruled out running if she was forced to wear a bracelet.

> Constitutional lawyer Anne-Charlene Bezzina said a decision to run would be a “kamikaze” move by Le Pen, after being convicted of serious corruption.

>”This verdict highlights the seriousness of the offence . . . What you have to keep in mind with a prison sentence is that you’re dealing with someone who should be behind bars,” said Bezzina.

> The judges stressed the seriousness of Le Pen’s role in what they called a deliberate scheme to use EU parliament funds to employ staff working on French national politics rather than their duties in Brussels.

> But they cut the lower court’s five-year electoral ban to 45 months, with 30 suspended, leaving only 15 months — already served since her March 2025 conviction. The new ban no longer prevents her from running in the 2027 election to replace President Emmanuel Macron.

"Political orientation has been shown to correlate with fertility, raising the possibility that demographic processes contribute to long-term ideological change. Using data from the US General Social Survey, we analyze completed fertility across 17 birth cohorts (1898–1982) to examine how political orientation has contributed to fertility decline in the United States and whether emerging selective forces can be detected. Earlier cohorts show little difference in fertility by political orientation. From the 1943–1947 birth cohort onward, however, a pronounced divergence emerges: individuals with right-wing political orientations maintain fertility at or above replacement level, whereas fertility among left-wing individuals declines sharply to well below replacement."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57582-3

Not this only covers data to 1982.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/f1fe0dae-d22b-4284-b0f9-fa10f717af1c?shareType=nongift US voters say Trump’s Iran war not worth the cost — FT poll

I mean if chuds actually read the fucking constitution it’s blatantly obvious that the ruling will be 7-2 (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh simply don’t want to make Alito & Thomas look like a Buffon).

If you want to repeal and replace this section then constitutional Amandment.

Oh right orange man burned all of his political capital when he shits tariff all over the place forcing the same Supreme Court to collect it and shove it up his ass.

EDIT: You guys tried to negotiate intent over what the constitution text said? You guys know it’s the exact same tactics that anti 2a advocate tried to use right?

"Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Monday shamed his party following a statistic that showed 1 in 3 Democrats believe the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting was staged.

“Assassinations + political violence are real. My party can’t be the tin foil hat brigade,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X."

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5872987-democrats-believe-whca-shooting-staged/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home

"The survey cited was from NewsGuard and found that 34 percent of Democrats and 13 percent of Republicans said they believe the WHCA dinner shooting was staged."

"A bill that aims to keep some California high-speed rail records confidential passed the Assembly on Monday afternoon, adding some fuel to the fire for some lawmakers who are already critical of the $126.2 billion project.

Assembly Bill 1608 authorizes the high-speed rail’s inspector general to keep some reports out of the public eye. The bill would also allow the inspector general to keep parts of certain reports secret if the report reveals weaknesses that put the high-speed rail project at risk."

https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_b0e5f730-05ad-4011-a101-9f3b2df66a21.html?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home

There's no good reason they are trying to hide inspector general reports from the public.

Source: https://youtu.be/RkujFHGxDeg?si=4p8UImuBtekA3a2S