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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Is Trump Just an Ordinary Republican Now?</strong> - The former President’s rhetoric during his recent trip to Iowa wasn’t any tamer, but he no longer sounds distinct from his G.O.P. rivals. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/is-trump-just-an-ordinary-republican-now">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Astra Taylor’s Age of Insecurity</strong> - The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/astra-taylors-age-of-insecurity">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Soccer Players Re-Started Spain’s #MeToo Movement</strong> - A journalist describes the history of feminist activism in Spain and why the World Cup controversy marks a new phase. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-soccer-players-restarted-spains-metoo-movement">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Joe Biden’s Visit to a U.A.W. Picket Line Was a Powerful Political Gesture</strong> - By joining striking workers in Michigan, the President sent a message that can’t be delivered from a White House lectern. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joe-bidens-visit-to-a-uaw-picket-line-was-a-powerful-political-gesture">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Biden Administration’s Next Big Climate Decision</strong> - The liquefied-natural-gas buildout—and fossil-fuel exports—challenge progress on global warming. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-biden-administrations-next-big-climate-decision">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef</strong> -
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Jason Spadaro, a marine ecologist at the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, holds a large Caribbean king crab. | Jennifer Adler
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Not all heroes wear capes. Some are crabs.
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With giant pincers and rough, spider-like legs, Caribbean king crabs don’t look like your typical heroes. Yet these crustaceans may be key to solving one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: the decline of coral reefs.
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In recent decades, warming seas, diseases, and other threats have wiped out <a href="https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(21)00474-7">half</a> of the world’s corals and <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/mission-iconic-reefs-noaa-aims-restore-florida-keys-climate-resilient-corals">90 percent</a> of those in Florida. And this past summer, the problem accelerated. A <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23868423/florida-coral-reef-bleaching-heat-wave-climate-change">devastating heat wave struck the Caribbean</a>, pushing the reef in the Florida Keys — the largest in the continental US — closer to the brink of collapse.
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The decline of coral reefs is an enormous problem for wildlife and human communities. Reefs not only provide habitat for as much as a quarter of all marine life, including commercial fish, but they also help <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23046997/hurricane-ian-coral-reefs-climate-change-hurricanes">safeguard coastal communities during severe storms</a>. Simply put, we need coral reefs.
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Coral reefs, meanwhile, need crabs.
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Lucky for them, help is on the way. Scientists are in the process of building a crab army — hundreds of thousands of crustaceans strong — that they’ll unleash on Florida’s reefs, giving this ailing ecosystem a tool to fight back.
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Crabs to the rescue
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If you find crustaceans icky, Jason Spadaro’s lab is not a place you want to visit. Housed in a large, hurricane-proof building on Summerland Key in the Florida Keys, it’s full of tanks that are full of crabs — dozens of them. Some are the size of fingernails; others are as large as dinner plates. They all look a bit like rocks.
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Spadaro, a crab enthusiast and marine ecologist at the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, is heading up an ambitious plan: to breed a quarter of a million Caribbean king crabs each year. It’s not about cultivating seafood, though these crabs are indeed delicious, Spadaro said. It’s about helping coral reefs survive.
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A juvenile Caribbean king crab.
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The key is in the crabs’ diets: These critters consume enormous quantities of seaweed, also known as macro algae. Algae has been choking reefs throughout the world and especially in Florida, making it hard for them to grow and recover from damaging events like marine heat waves.
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Algae harms coral. Crabs eat algae.
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Algae is one of the few winners in a world dominated by humans. It thrives on our waste, such as sewage and runoff from farmland, which is full of nitrogen and phosphorous — nutrients that algae need to grow.
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As pollution runs into the ocean, algae booms.
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Meanwhile, animals that eat algae have declined precipitously in recent decades. In the 1980s, an unknown pathogen wiped out longspined sea urchins in the Caribbean. These marine invertebrates — which take the shape of an overfilled pin cushion — eat loads of algae. Similarly, overfishing and the loss of various ecosystems has caused declines in algae-eating fish, such as parrotfish.
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Like a fertilized pasture with no cows, a field of algae on a reef with no herbivores grows unencumbered. In the last decade, the extent of algae on reefs globally increased by roughly <a href="https://gcrmn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GCRMN_Souter_et_al_2021_Status_of_Coral_Reefs_of_the_World_2020_V1.pdf">20 percent</a>, turning them from brilliant fields of color to monochrome patches of green.
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This is a serious problem for coral.
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When a thick layer of seaweed covers the reef, it’s hard for baby corals — which spend their early days as larvae swimming in the ocean — to find a spot on the seafloor and start a colony. This seaweed not only takes up floor space but it can also <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0124162#:~:text=These%20data%20indicate%20that%20macroalgae,settlement%20and%20increasing%20recruit%20mortality.">limit the amount of sunlight</a> that reaches the bottom (coral needs light to grow) and produce chemicals that dissuade corals from settling. Abundant algae also competes with adult colonies for space, crowding them out.
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Algae takes over a dead colony of elkhorn coral on a reef in the Florida Keys.
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Across the Caribbean and in Florida, scientists are pouring their time and resources into restoring reefs by planting (or “outplanting”) bits of coral on the seafloor. Yet without also ridding these ecosystems of algae, Spadaro said, restoration may struggle to succeed.
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Enter: crabs.
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Hungry crabs to the rescue
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Caribbean king crabs are voracious algae eaters, eating seaweed at rates “that exceed nearly all other fish or invertebrate grazers in the Caribbean,” researchers wrote in a <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)31674-2.pdf">2021 study</a> led by Spadaro.
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Spadaro lifts a male crab out of a tank at the Mote Marine Lab.
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For the study, Spadaro compared typical reefs in the Florida Keys to those he had stocked with Caribbean king crabs at a density of about one animal per square meter. After a year, the crab-filled reefs had about 85 percent less algae compared to reefs he left alone. A follow-up experiment found similar results.
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“The effect of crab stocking on seaweed cover was rapid and dramatic,” Spadaro and his co-author wrote. In turn, the decrease in algae appeared to help the coral. The reefs with crabs had a higher density of young corals, the study found, and more fish that are typically associated with coral reefs.
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Results like this indicate that Caribbean king crabs are important allies for coral reefs.
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Making crabs even more appealing is that they’re native to Florida, just in relatively low numbers. (“Everything eats them,” Spadaro said.) Adding them to the reef is unlikely to have any grave unintended consequences for the ecosystem, Spadaro said, especially considering that there are few other herbivores.
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How to train a crustacean
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Spadaro has roughly a hundred crabs in the Florida Keys, and just shy of 200 at a new breeding facility in Sarasota. He’ll start dropping them into the ocean as soon as the end of the year or in early 2024, he said.
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But there’s one step before then, and it may involve … hand puppets?
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A male Caribbean king crab.
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Because the crabs are raised in a lab, they don’t have any experience with predators. So before putting them onto the reef, Spadaro and his team may have to condition them to fear things like octopuses, snappers, and groupers.
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One way to do this is by using puppets modeled after predators. By putting these puppets in the tanks while poking at the crabs, the crabs learn to move away from the threat. Several months ago, Mote partnered with a local elementary school and had students craft hand puppets, modeled after crab predators, to use in fear conditioning. (Fortunately, the crabs don’t have great vision.)
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Summer Huber, education specialist at Mote, uses a hand puppet to condition a crab to avoid predators.
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Corals face a large number of threats, including ocean warming, that even the hungriest of crabs can’t fix, yet crabs are an important part of efforts to revive ailing reefs. Scientists have, over decades, figured out how to grow and plant corals to replenish reefs, Spadaro said, but “now we need to help them survive.”
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<img alt="Donald Trump is surrounded by life-size “minions” — yellow humanoid helpers from the Despicable Me movie franchise — in an a symbolic approximation of his primary opposition." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/JObpMOeLfI6bKKumtTHiwqbkJzI=/0x0:2667x2000/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72692544/trump-and-minions.0.jpg"/>
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Donald Trump with what might as well be his primary opposition. | Douglas Gorenstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images
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Tonight’s Republican primary debate is not a real event. It is a performance, a show, a pantomime: a shiny object with virtually no relevance to the outcome of the 2024 presidential primary.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> is solidly over 50 percent in the national polling averages, and no one else in the primary field has anything that looks like momentum. No opponent has been able to find a line of attack that could hurt him; many of them aren’t even trying. The great GOP establishment hope, that Trump’s legal problems might torpedo his campaign, was a mirage. If anything, the four indictments helped him in the primary.
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At this point, the only things that could stop Trump are his death or incapacitation. Everyone in the political world — including the debate’s organizers and non-delusional rival candidates — is aware of this fact. Trump isn’t participating in the debates because he doesn’t need to: He would be lowering himself to share a stage with people who pretend to be rivals, but are really just the warm-up act for his coronation.
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That doesn’t mean the debate is entirely pointless. The other candidates get something out of being on that stage, like improving their future political prospects or satisfying a need for attention. And if you squint, you might get an actually interesting window into the policy debates that will define a post-Trump Republican party.
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But, of course, we are not yet even close to “post-Trump.” In presenting it as an actual presidential debate, rather than a discussion between somewhat prominent Republicans, the debate’s organizers are <em>lying to you</em>. With Trump absent, and facing no serious challengers, this is all make-believe politics — a ritual the party goes through to cover up the dark reality of what the party has become.
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The debate is fake. Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP is not.
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What the “debate” really is
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The case for taking the debate seriously amounts to seeing it as a kind of play-in competition: The candidates are duking it out for the right to become the One True Challenger to Donald Trump.
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To understand why this isn’t true, it’s worth charting the trajectory of the candidate who previously held that mantle: <a href="https://www.vox.com/ron-desantis">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis</a>.
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In mid-February, DeSantis was within striking difference, coming in<a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/"> roughly 2 percentage points below Trump</a> in the FiveThirtyEight national poll average. But since then, his numbers have been on a striking downward trajectory. A <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1197578367/desantis-gop-presidential-campaign-has-struggled-and-it-hasn-t-gotten-any-smooth">disastrously run campaign</a>, hampered by the candidate’s robotic and unlikeable personality, has tanked the primary electorate’s interest in the Florida governor.
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Today, he is a whopping 41 percentage points behind Trump in FiveThirtyEight’s average. That’s only slightly better than <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/2024/national/">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 49-point deficit</a> in his fake bid to unseat <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">President Biden</a>. A recent poll in the critical early state of New Hampshire<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/ron-desantis-fifth-new-hampshire-trump-ramaswamy-haley-christie"> put DeSantis in fifth place</a>. His presidential campaign has been so humiliating that it’s actually hurting him back home: The once-captive Florida Republican party is<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/desantis-florida-republicans-governor-elections-00117514"> rebelling against a governor</a> who now looks like a weakling.
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And despite all of this, DeSantis is <em>still in second place. </em>His closest rival, businessman <a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/23720391/vivek-ramaswamy-affirmative-action-woke-capitalism-ideas">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>, sits at around 6 points in the national polling average. DeSantis didn’t lead to the rise of another Trump challenger, as the play-in theory would predict. Instead, it revealed that Trump’s hold on the party is as strong as ever — and it would take a miracle for anyone to break it.
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Debates are, in theory, venues for candidates to present themselves to the public in the hope of winning their party’s nomination. But since the campaign is all but decided, to the point where Trump could completely skip the last debate with no consequence, that isn’t what’s happening.
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Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley at the first Republican debate.
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Establishment candidates who perform well might be set up for a future run, either for the presidency or some lower federal office (see<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nikki-haley-debate-moment-carry-forward-2024-presidential-rcna103074"> Nikki Haley</a>). Trump-friendly candidates might do the same, or jump in line for a spot in his second administration (<a href="https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/donald-trump-endorses-vivek-ramaswamy-as-a-possible-vice-president-candidate-11693447257582.html">see Vivek Ramaswamy</a>). Others might have weirder goals: Chris Christie seems desperate to get a measure of revenge on Trump,<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/140728/least-donald-trump-still-humiliating-chris-christie"> his longtime tormentor</a>.
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These are all potentially interesting storylines for political junkies. But in a true primary debate, the stakes are much higher: There are often a large percentage of undecided voters looking for a reason to pick one member of their party over another. This time, it’s very clear that Trump is going to walk to the nomination. The idea that any of these candidates can say “in my administration” or “when I’m president” with a straight face is absurd.
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New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/trump-milley-death-fbi-threats.html?utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1">recently argued</a> that Trump’s undeniable authoritarian tendencies have put the mainstream press in a difficult position: Either it describes him accurately, and sounds like a “partisan rag,” or else it deceptively treats Trump and the Republican party he controls as essentially normal. Too often, he writes, they make the latter choice — acting like “an amnesiac, or an abusive household committed to keeping up appearances, losing itself in the old routines, in an effortful approximation of normality until it almost forgets what it doesn’t want to know.”
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The breathless coverage of the presidential debate fits this description to a T. We are all pretending that this is something like what we’ve seen in the past, a normal event held by a normal party, when it’s actually a pageant masking the true nature of the Trump-enthralled GOP: <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22274429/republicans-anti-democracy-13-charts">a political vehicle of a strongman</a> whose second term would represent <a href="https://www.vox.com/2023/5/13/23708595/trump-second-term-cnn-town-hall">an existential threat to American democracy</a>.
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Former <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a>, two of his sons, and several of his companies have been <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23991872/ny-ruling-on-trump-business-fraud.pdf">found liable for fraud</a> in state court for inflating the value of his businesses in New York.
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As a result of the <a href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24955654/new_york_judge_decision_9_26_23.pdf">Tuesday decision</a>, Trump could be on the hook for up to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/trump-fraud-lawsuit-new-york-attorney-general">$250 million</a>. The exact amount for which he will be held liable will be determined at trial expected to begin next week. The judge in the case, Justice Arthur F. Engoron, also nullified the business certificates of Trump and many of his allies, stripping the former president of control of his New York properties.
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Trump’s lawyers have indicated that they intend to appeal Tuesday’s ruling, and Trump has also sued Engoron in a separate case that could be decided this week. But if those efforts are unsuccessful, Trump will have to proceed to trial.
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If that trial happens, it will likely be brief. Tuesday’s ruling came as part of a summary judgment — a ruling on the facts of the case. Engoron’s decision means the court won’t need to consider further arguments at trial, because a review of Trump’s financial statements was enough to determine that he had repeatedly committed fraud. Trump asked the court to throw out the case and argued that the alleged fraud occurred too long ago for him to be held liable.
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Justice Arthur F. Engoron didn’t buy it, summarizing Trump’s defense as a false claim that “the documents do not say what they say; that there is no such thing as ‘objective’ value; and that essentially the Court should not believe its own eyes.
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It’s a major early loss for Trump in the climax of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ multi-year investigation into his New York business dealings. James’s civil case is separate from the four sets of <a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations">criminal charges Trump faces</a> that span from New York to Georgia. Together, Trump’s civil and criminal cases will dominate much of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/2/23/23611828/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-trump-hurd">2024 Republican primary</a> calendar, and his legal troubles have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/donald-trump-legal-bills-campaign.html">consumed millions of dollars of his campaign funds</a>.
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There have been no indications thus far that a judgment against Trump in the New York attorney general’s case will hurt him politically, however. Though a majority of Americans wanted <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/two-in-three-americans-want-to-see-trumps-tax-returns-reuters-ipsos-poll-shows-idUSKCN24G14N">more transparency</a> into his business dealings while he was running for president and in office, he’s never offered much — and he hasn’t suffered for it.
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For years, he refused to release his tax returns, as had become the norm for presidents and presidential candidates, apparently shielding <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html">years of tax avoidance</a> from public scrutiny before the records were leaked. He still won the <a href="https://www.vox.com/presidential-election">2016 election</a> and now enjoys a <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html">historically large lead</a>, one that has <a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/2023/8/25/23845591/donald-trump-charges-january-6-trial-hitler-putsch-trial">seemed to increase with each of his criminal indictments</a>, in the Republican primary.
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In a statement <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111134129680540625">posted to his social network</a> following the decision, Trump was dismissive of the ruling, writing he’d “done business perfectly,” and arguing that the case was a distraction from discussions of law and order. That message <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111134203338820494">was followed</a> by <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111134204068967035">reminders of his massive primary lead</a>.
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James argued that the court had to consider only two “simple and straightforward” questions before ruling Tuesday night: whether Trump’s annual statements of his financial condition between 2011 and 2021 were false or misleading, and whether he and his associates invoked those statements repeatedly or persistently when conducting business transactions.
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Engoron found Tuesday that the answer to both of those questions is “yes” based on the evidence that James’s office presented. (The judge also fined Trump’s lawyers $7,500 each for rehashing arguments that he had previously rejected.)
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For example, she accused Trump of lying about the square footage of his Manhattan Trump Tower apartment — where his wife Melania and son Barron spent time during the early part of his presidency — to inflate its value by about $100 million to $200 million annually from 2012 to 2016.
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She also argued that Trump valued his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as if he could sell it as a single-family residence, rather than as the social club that it is required to be under multiple restrictive deeds. And she claimed that he valued undeveloped land at his golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland, based on the assumption that he could construct and sell many more residential homes on that land than permitted by the Scottish government.
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Engoron found these arguments persuasive, writing “In [the] defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air … That is a fantasy world, not the real world.”
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Timeless Romance, Supreme Grandeur, Andorra and Jahzara please</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Moonlight Kiss and Sea The Sun show out</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Asian Games 2022 | Nepal smashes multiple T20I records against Mongolia</strong> - Nepal broke records for highest-ever total in T20I cricket history, the fastest fifty and fastest century by a player in format’s history</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Asian Games 2022 | Indian sailor Vishnu Sarvanan wins bronze</strong> - The seasoned sailor, who competed at the Tokyo Olympics, had a net score of 34 to clinch the bronze in a gruelling 11-race competition.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why should innocent children suffer because of egoistic parents, asks Madras High Court</strong> - Justice P. Velmurugan tells an estranged couple that there is “no mistake that is unpardonable and no agony that is unbearable” and so adults can always bury differences for the sake of their children</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kerala to deploy National Service Scheme units to convert garbage dump sites into beautiful parks</strong> - Spots vulnerable to garbage dumping to be turned into small parks with vertical gardens, installations and other amenities which will be branded as ‘Snehaaramam’ as part of Malinya Muktham Nava Keralam programme.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-day</strong> - Previous CVE submission failed to mention that thousands of apps were affected. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1971345">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister</strong> - “There is some black dust-like material that’s visible. We’re hoping that’s from Bennu.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1971340">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Archaeologists: Roman soldiers used this built-in fridge to keep their wine cool</strong> - Fragments of wine glasses, bowls and animal bones offer evidence for their last meal - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1970546">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Anti-viral drug backfires: COVID drug linked to viral mutations that spread</strong> - Merck’s small-molecule molnupiravir linked to mutated viruses that spread in people. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1971307">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more!</strong> - A thrilling roundup of the things Google has killed this week. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1971148">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bloke goes into a pub on a hot summer’s day and the barmaid asks what he wants. “I want to bury my face in your cleavage and lick the sweat from between your tits” he says….</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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The bloke apologizes and promises not to repeat his gaffe. The barmaid accepts this and asks him again what he wants. “I want to pull your pants down, spread your arse cheeks and lick all that sweat off your anus.”
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“I want to turn you upside-down, tear your knickers off and fill your vagina with vodka and then drink every last drop from your hairy cup.”
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The barmaid is furious at this personal intrusion, and runs upstairs to fetch her husband, who’s sitting quietly watching the telly.
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“What’s up love?” he asks.
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“There’s a bloke in the bar who wants to put his head between my tits and lick the sweat off”, she says.
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“Then he said he wanted to spread my arse cheeks and lick the sweat off my anus” she screams.
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“Right. He’s dead!” says the husband, reaching for his cricket bat.
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“Then he said he wanted to turn me upside-down, fill my vagina with vodka and then drink it all” she cries!
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“Aren’t you going to do something about it?” she cries hysterically.
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“Look love, I’m not messing with any bloke who can flip you upside-down and drink all that alcohol…”
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<strong>Girl</strong>: Excuse me, lady, could I ask you something? Last night, I saw you and your husband in bed, and you were jumping naked on him. Why were you doing this?
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<strong>Woman</strong>: Well, adults do that from time to time. It is fun for us, and also, that’s how I get babies.
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<strong>Girl</strong>: Excuse me, lady, but I have another question. You told me that when you are jumping on your husband, that’s how you get babies. But last night, I saw you bobbing your head between his legs. What do you get from that?
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<strong>Woman</strong>: Jewelry, my girl, jewelry.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he’s doing a show in a small club in a small town in Arkansas. With his dummy on his knee, he’s going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and starts shouting:</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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“I’ve heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person’s hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It’s guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person, because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against, not only blondes, but women in general…and all in the name of humor!” The ventriloquist is embarrassed and begins to apologize, when the blonde yells, “You stay out of this, mister! I’m talking to that little idiot on your knee!”
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