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Boston Globe
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Senators Markey and Warren decry Trump's Iran strikes as unconstitutional
'Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent another endless war,' Warren said. Fellow Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey agreed, calling the strike 'illegal' for having lacked congressional approval. He said in a statement that Saturday's attack may set back Iran's nuclear ambitions, but added that not only can the country 'rebuild its program,' it 'will now be highly motivated to do so.' 'A diplomatic solution remains the best way to permanently and verifiably prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,' Markey said. Chants of 'No More War' broke out at a Bernie Sanders rally in Tulsa, Okla., after the Vermont Senator read Trump's 'alarming' social media post announcing the strikes. 'The American people do not want more war, more death,' he said. Advertisement Massachusetts Peace Action, a Cambridge-based advocacy group, called for state leaders to speak out. The organization specifically called on Congressional leaders to pass the war power resolutions filed by Senator Tim Kaine and Representative Thomas Massie to prevent further US military action. 'We call on Massachusetts political leaders to speak out strongly against President Trump's lawless military adventure,' the organization wrote on Saturday night, shortly after the US attack on Iran. Brian Garvey, the organization's executive director, said an 'emergency event' was being planned outside Park Street Station at 1 p.m. Sunday, in protest of the strikes. Advertisement 'This direct attack by the United States on Iran a dramatic escalation by President Trump,' Garvey said in a phone call Saturday night. 'It's incredibly dangerous, it's unnecessary, and frankly, it's illegal.' Garvey said the founding fathers were explicit in giving Congress the power to declare war, adding that this is 'not how the government is supposed to work.' 'It is perhaps especially terrible because this is a president who ran saying he was going to seek peace,' he said. 'Back in 2016, he said the Iraq War was a big fat mistake. I fear that what he is leading us into could be even worse than that debacle and quagmire.' Garvey said he was 'fearful' for the US service members stationed in the Middle East, and 'outraged' that the strikes threatened their safety. Camilo Fonseca can be reached at
Time of India
18-06-2025
- Science
- Time of India
Meet Elon Musk's droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You' — which catches falling rockets, not hearts
It sounds like the chorus of a late-night emotional ballad, or maybe the name of a Taylor Swift album. But 'Of Course I Still Love You' isn't about heartbreak. It's about hardware. Flaming, billion-dollar hardware plummeting from space. This isn't a Nicholas Sparks movie—it's SpaceX 's most poetic piece of machinery: a robot barge designed to catch rockets with precision and flair.. No, this isn't a Nicholas Sparks sequel. It's the name of one of SpaceX's autonomous drone ships that literally catches rockets. Imagine a robot butler crossed with a landing pad, floating in the Pacific, whispering 'come home, baby' to tired Falcon 9 boosters. And the kicker? The name isn't Musk being melodramatic. It's a tribute to Iain M. Banks ' sci-fi novels, where sentient starships have names that sound like sarcastic tweets. One is even called "No More Mr. Nice Gaius." In a world where billionaires build rocket ships and quote sci-fi for fun, 'Of Course I Still Love You' is not a love song. It's an interplanetary punchline that lands rockets. What is Elon Musk's 'Of Course I Still Love You'? Despite its romantic name, Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) is a giant floating landing pad, technically known as an Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS). It's a modified barge outfitted with robotic precision and steel arms of destiny that help recover Falcon 9 first-stage boosters after launch. Located off the West Coast at Long Beach, California, it's essentially the oceanic version of a space parking valet. The booster detaches from the rocket, flips itself mid-air like a gymnast, fires retro thrusters, and lands gently—on a ship that's floating. On water. While moving. In waves. It's like trying to land a skyscraper on a surfboard. Why Elon Musk gave this name to the droneship Elon Musk didn't just wake up one day and decide to name his drone ship like a Taylor Swift B-side. The name comes from the Culture series by author Iain M. Banks, where massive sentient spaceships have delightfully eccentric names like 'You Would If You Really Loved Me' and 'So Much for Subtlety.' Musk, a big Banks fan, borrowed 'Of Course I Still Love You' as a loving geek tribute. Because if you're going to catch space junk mid-air, might as well do it with emotional flair. Why does it catch rockets anyway? Because rocket boosters are expensive. Like, really expensive. Instead of tossing them into the ocean after every launch (as was standard practice for decades), SpaceX's whole business model thrives on reusability. By landing and reusing boosters, the company saves hundreds of millions of dollars and reduces waste—kind of like upcycling, but instead of mason jars, it's billion-dollar rocket stages. Plus, it looks awesome on livestreams. Nothing says 'future' like a 16-story rocket doing a slow, graceful ballet move onto a floating pad with a romantic name. Sibling ships and more sentiments pouring in OCISLY isn't alone. Its East Coast sibling is called 'Just Read the Instructions', also a Banks reference, because apparently even rocket landings need passive-aggressive reminders. These ships are part of the ASDS fleet and are key players in SpaceX's vision of rapid, cost-effective space travel. Just think your rocket takes off from Florida, launches a satellite, does a quick pirouette in the stratosphere, then lands back on a boat named like it just got out of therapy. When sci-fi becomes real science The sheer absurdity of naming high-tech rocket-catching machines after fictional spaceships with emotional baggage is peak Musk. But beneath the quirk lies serious innovation. These drone ships have helped SpaceX pull off over 270 booster landings and counting. They've turned what once looked like a Michael Bay explosion into a controlled, reusable, economically viable maneuver. In short: they make science fiction real. And do it with names that make engineers and English majors equally happy. So, next time you see a Falcon 9 rocket descend from space and land upright on a tiny square in the middle of the ocean, remember—it's not just landing. It's being welcomed by a giant, floating robot that says: Of Course I Still Love You. Because nothing says progress like marrying sci-fi references with real-world rocket science. Elon Musk didn't just build a space empire—he made it poetic, one oddly-named barge at a time.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The story of Mighty Hoopla 2025, in 12 pictures – from Kesha to JADE to Ciara
Mighty Hoopla, one of the globe's most proudly queer and pop music-focused music festivals, lit up 's Brockwell Park once again last weekend (June 1–2). With 30,000 fans in attendance, the thankfully rain-free weekend featured a joyful mix of LGBTQ performers and supportive allies. There was also the usual balance of A-list names (one of last year's headliner was Nelly Furtado) and throwback cult favourites. (Daphne & Celeste were a coup!) Here's Attitude's round-up of the weekend, starting with Saturday's best moments… We're actually beyond bringing up that previous infamous festival appearance of theirs now. Respect to them! By the way, we highly recommend the following underrated gems from her discography: 'Beware of the Dog' and 'No More'. She later pulled off one of the shocks of the festival by bringing Craig David (of all people!) on-stage to sing 'Too Little, Too Late' with her. The 'Put the Needle On It' singer may not have mentored on Little Mix's series of The X Factor, but as fellow alumni of the show, the introduction felt like a full circle moment. The show is so far behind them now! Here's an excerpt from our review, which you can read in full here: 'Adele-level charisma, a JK Rowling call-out, club-ready visuals Charli XCX would approve of, and best of all, a truly powerhouse voice – Jade Thirlwall's set was an unignorable statement of star power, and possibly the most exciting moment Hoopla has ever seen.' The superstar also performed hits like 'Goodies', 'Oh' and 'Like a Boy'. Just as she did in her Attitude cover shoot last year. We approve! The star announced on stage that she's pregnant with her second child! Last week, the 'Foundations' singer : 'I love Hoopla. It's the best. I've played it twice. I think it's the perfect place to do it. I think it is for this audience. It's needed, that voice. There's a gap in talking about this in pop culture. Yes, it's heavy in subject matter, but it will also feel really joyous to perform it, I think, and be this really fun, empowered, fiery moment.' The pop icon is the latest in a string of high-profile names to headline the festival, following in the footsteps of Jessie Ware, Kelly Rowland, Chaka Khan and Cheryl. As well as old hits 'Tik Tok' and 'Your Love Is My Drug', the star performed recent material like 'BOY CRAZY' and 'JOYRIDE.' The post The story of Mighty Hoopla 2025, in 12 pictures – from Kesha to JADE to Ciara appeared first on Attitude.
SBS Australia
10-05-2025
- Politics
- SBS Australia
'Stop killing us': Nationwide protests call for action on gendered and sexual violence
No More: National Rally Against Violence events were held in Australian capital cities and regional towns on Saturday. Source: Getty / Lisa Maree Williams Tens of thousands of men, women and children have marched across Australian capital cities and regional towns calling for determined action to end gendered and sexual violence. The No More: National Rally Against Violence saw attendees gather in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and regional centres in between. Organiser Sarah Williams called for more funding, training, and law reform to combat violence. "We need to be able to stop it before it starts," she told a 2,000-strong crowd on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne on Saturday. "We need more funding for primary prevention, more trauma-informed response training for police, increased crisis housing, bail law reform and uniform consent laws," she said. Similar rallies played out almost simultaneously in every state capital as well as several regional cities and towns. Hundreds met in Sydney's Hyde Park, while the regional centres of Newcastle and Wollongong saw a similar turnout, including the family and friends of Mackenzie Anderson, a young mother who was stabbed 78 times and brutally murdered by her former partner in 2022. Hundreds more rallied in Brisbane, carrying signs reading "We weren't asking for it" and "Weak laws cost lives". In the lead-up to the rallies, organisers urged more men to attend and take accountability for violence against women. "Men listen to men ... we need more male role models out there," Williams said. Consent and healthy relationship education should be expanded to more schools with additional funding, and community sporting clubs and major codes could also play a role in reaching different generations, she said. A total of 128 women have been killed since January 2024, according to the Australian Femicide Watch website. Its founder, Sherele Moody, read aloud the names of the women as images of their faces were laid before Melbourne's Parliament steps. "We're here because men keep killing us," she said. "Violence against women is primarily a male problem ... it's not a women's problem to solve but it's women who are the ones who do the work." Advocates say a government-run national domestic violence register is desperately needed to track the issue. Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month, marked each May, is an opportunity to raise community awareness of the impacts of violence and the support available to those affected. The rallies also called for fully funded frontline domestic violence services, expanded crisis accommodation and increased funding for primary prevention programs. Mandatory trauma-informed training for all first responders should also be rolled out, organisers said. The re-elected Labor government previously promised to prevent domestic violence perpetrators from abusing the tax and superannuation systems. It has also pledged to invest more funding to stop high-risk perpetrators through electronic monitoring. But Moody said ministers and leaders needed to sit down with frontline services to figure out what works. "All the safety nets have holes in them, and the funding barely even hits the sides," she said. Williams also said the government should engage with a wider range of organisations and advocates in the sector. If you or someone you know is impacted by family and domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, or visit . In an emergency, call 000.
Herald Sun
10-05-2025
- Herald Sun
No More rally: Hundreds gather in Adelaide to protest violence against women
Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Eleven years ago, Stacey Nelan called the police to save her from a man she had once loved. 'I had broken up with him on so many occasions, asking him to leave my home. He wouldn't leave, and so on that final day when the situation escalated, I knew I needed to call the police to come and save me. There was no other option,' she said. Standing on the steps of Parliament House on Saturday, Ms Nelan joined hundreds of people who rallied for the end of domestic violence. One of seventeen Australia-wide over the weekend, the 'No More' rally – organised by non-for-profit What Were You Wearing – called for change including investments in primary prevention, trauma-informed training for first responders and reformed bail laws to prioritise victim-survivor safety. Ms Nelan, who stood and shared her story in front of the crowd, said she had spent three years with a man she never knew had prior convictions against him. 'I found out he had a different name to the one I had known him by,' she said. 'It turned out he had convictions against him for things he'd done to other women in other states, but because he'd changed his name legally, those convictions never followed him. 'That fear and terror is something that you cannot articulate. In the end he went to court and got a good behaviour bond.' She said that after she started advocating for victim-survivors, other women reached out to her letting her know they'd encountered her abuser on dating apps. 'He was a horrific bully who got his giggles out of what he did,' she said.* 'It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that the man I had loved and given my everything to could do the things that he did. Eleven years down the track, there has been change in many ways, but women are still being killed at greater rates. There's so much more we need to do to change the way we think. To understand that a sexist joke can end up with a dead woman.' On the bottom step below Parliament House, 31 hearts with the names of the 24 women and seven children killed by violence already this year lined the ground, but organisers said that number was already outdated. The 25th woman allegedly murdered in 2025, Talulah Koopman was found with critical stab wounds at a home in Elizabeth on Thursday evening. Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic Violence Katrine Hildyard said the state government was committed to making real change. 'The ongoing prevalence of horrific violence against women, the gender inequality, is absolutely unacceptable,' she said. 'We know we need to do more. Our Royal Commission will be with us in a matter of weeks and this provides us with a once in a generation opportunity to look at our system, and make sure that we get it right.' Originally published as Hundreds gather at No More violence rally in Adelaide, survivor Stacey Nelan shares her story
