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The fact that Trump seems to be equivocating on marijuana legalization should be concerning to parents, medical professionals, law enforcement and educators.

Republicans and Democrats often compete to show how attuned they are to the modern voter. However, if their campaign spending is anything to go by, both parties are equally out of touch. Americans of a certain age might remember one of the first (and catchiest) television ad campaigns in the history of presidential politics. “You […]

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News Secret Level Secret Level Trailer: Animated Anthology Series Visits Worlds of 15 Video Games The series featured include Warhamner 40,000, PAC-MAN, and Dungeons & Dragons. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on August 20, 2024 Credit: Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Prime Video There’s an animated anthology series coming to Prime Video that will give video game fans original stories set in fifteen of their favorite franchises. The show is called Secret Level and comes from Tim Miller, who—through his company Blur Studio—is also the showrunner and creator of Love, Death + Robots. Dave Wilson serves as executive producer and supervising director. “Secret Level weaves a tapestry of iconic games across multiple mediums, to tell a series of unique and captivating stories,” Amazon MGM Studios Head of Television, Vernon Sanders, said in a statement, adding that “each episode will take our global Prime Video customers on a brand new journey with breathtaking animation and imaginative storytelling.” Here are the games featured in the series’ fifteen episodes: Armored Core Concord Crossfire Dungeons & Dragons Exodus Honor of Kings Mega Man New World: Aeternum PAC-MAN PlayStation (Highlighting various PlayStation Studios beloved entities) Spelunky The Outer Worlds Unreal Tournament Warhammer 40,000 Prime Video also released a trailer for the upcoming series, which includes snippets of the upcoming episodes. I confess I know little about, well, any of these franchises. But the visuals displayed here look pretty awesome. Secret Level premieres on Prime Video on December 10, 2024. Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post <i>Secret Level</i> Trailer: Animated Anthology Series Visits Worlds of 15 Video Games appeared first on Reactor.

A Michigan jury has found seven pro-life activists guilty of engaging in a conspiracy against rights and violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act for peacefully protesting outside of an abortion clinic. The charges against the pro-life activists were brought by President Joe Biden’s administration, specifically the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division led by Kristen Clarke. The Daily Wire reported Tuesday that the DOJ has used the conspiracy against rights charge, which was originally designed for the Ku Klux Klan, to prosecute the pro-lifers, who face 10 years in prison as well as heavy fines. One of these pro-life activists is 89-year-old Eva Edl, who survived a World War II-era death camp before escaping to the United States. She has devoted her life to protecting unborn babies. “I feel very strongly, because of my background, that human life is sacred,” she told The Daily Signal in April as she discussed her looming trials. “Government does not have the authority to permit what God forbids. And murder is forbidden by God.” Immediately after seven Christian pro-lifers were convicted in Detroit of violating the FACE Act and conspiracy against rights, they went outside the courthouse and started singing and praying. pic.twitter.com/8SzFe3tjcu— Leif Le Mahieu (@leif_lemahieu) August 20, 2024 The jury convicted her Tuesday with fellow pro-life activists Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Joel Curry, Justin Phillips, Cal Zastrow, and Eva Zastrow, The Daily Wire reported. The group of pro-life activists had participated in a “rescue”—an event where they peacefully protested outside of Northland Family Planning Clinic, an abortion clinic, in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Additionally, Edl and Idoni had participated in a pro-life protest at Women’s Health Clinic in Saginaw, Michigan.  The FACE Act prohibits use of force, obstruction, or property damage intended to interfere with “reproductive health care services.” Though it theoretically protects houses of worship and pro-life pregnancy resource centers as well as abortion clinics, the Biden administration’s Justice Department has largely used the FACE Act to prosecute pro-life activists like Edl. Edl maintains that she never committed any violence against those at the abortion clinics. She says that her actions are completely justified, given that she is trying to save the lives of babies about to be aborted. “Let me liken it to something,” Edl said, referring back to her time in the death camp, “When we were rounded up to be killed, we were placed in cattle cars, and our train was headed toward the extermination camp.” “What if citizens of my country would have overcome their fear and a number of them stood on those railroad tracks between the gate of the entrance to the death camp and the train?” she asked. “The train would have to stop. And while the guards on those trains would be busy rounding up the ones that were in front of the train, another group could have come in, pried open our cattle car and possibly set us free. But nobody did.” She has heard stories that people stood by the roadside and wept as the cattle cars went by. “But that didn’t help us any,” she said. “So, when we place our bodies between the woman and the clinic, we buy time to get our sidewalk counselors the opportunity to speak with women and –hopefully open their hearts with love for their babies and let their babies live,” the death camp survivor said. “After all,” she added, “we offer them everything there is, including adoptions. I’ve offered to adopt babies on the spot … we’re standing between the killer and the victim.” Kristen Clarke, the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, heads up enforcement of the FACE Act. Following a report from The Daily Signal in April, Clarke recently admitted that she hid the fact that she had been arrested and her arrest’s subsequent expungement from her record from investigators when she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to her Justice Department post. The president’s critics have accused the Biden-Harris administration and the DOJ of weaponizing the FACE Act against pro-lifers while failing to charge pro-abortion criminals for the hundreds of attacks on pro-life pregnancy resource centers since the May 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned. Some critics, among them Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, have called for the repeal of the FACE Act, arguing that it serves no purpose but to target pro-life activists. “The Biden administration is using the FACE Act to give pro-life activists and senior citizens lengthy prison terms for nonviolent offenses and protests—all while turning a blind eye to the violence, arson, and riots conducted on behalf of ‘approved’ leftist causes,” Lee told The Daily Signal in May, when a number of pro-life activists were sentenced to prison time. “Unequal enforcement of the law is a violation of the law,” Lee added at the time, “and men and women who try to expose the horrors of abortion are being unjustly persecuted for their motivations.” The post Death Camp Survivor, Pro-Life Activists Convicted Over Peaceful Pro-Life Protest appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. California is one of the US states that have introduced digital license plates, amid opposition from a number of rights advocates. Now, there is a legislative effort to have GPS location tracking embedded in these, to all intents and purposes, devices attached to the car. Sponsored by Democrat Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, Bill 3138 is currently making its way through the state’s legislature. It refers to “License plates and registration cards: alternative devices,” and the bill has another sponsor – Reviver. The company was founded by Neville Boston, formerly of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and promotes itself as the first digital license plates platform. It has made its way to both this proposal, and the law the current draft builds on – AB 984 (also sponsored by Wilson) – which was signed into law two years ago. The problem with Reviver is that it has already had a security breach that allowed hackers to track those using the company’s digital plates in real-time. It doesn’t help, either, that the company is effectively a monopoly – the only one, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) notes, “that currently has state authorization to sell digital plates in California.” Meanwhile, the key problem with AB 3138, warns EFF, is that it “directly undoes the deal from 2022 and explicitly calls for location tracking in digital license plates for passenger cars.” The deal in question refers to the way AB 984 eventually managed to become law, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom: a provision that would have allowed for location tracking of private vehicles was removed at the time. But clearly, that was just a temporary move to pacify opponents, and now Wilson – and Reviver – are back to “complete” the original effort. EFF is urging the legislature not to approve AB 2138 and is choosing to highlight those scenarios where such GPS tracking would be detrimental to those who are ostensibly among the voters or sympathizers of Wilson and her party. Thus, the digital rights group speaks about those seeking abortion traveling (and being tracked, unawares) from state to state, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using the tech, etc. However, it’s difficult to see how adding another way for the authorities to track vehicles in real-time is not potentially detrimental to any person, as a form of invasive mass surveillance. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post California’s Digital Plates Plan Raises Privacy Fears appeared first on Reclaim The Net.