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Fighting game community reacts negatively to the acquisition of RTS, the owner of Evo, by Saudi Arabia's Qiddiya project, raising concerns over community values and human rights issues, with some fans considering alternative events like CEO.
President Biden's re-election campaign is expected to raise over $15 million this week through a series of star-studded fundraising events, including concerts by James Taylor and Lenny Kravitz. The fundraising blitz will also include small-dollar donations, with 97% of all donations in the third quarter being under $200. The campaign has already raised over $71 million in the third quarter and has nearly $91 million in cash on hand, making it the highest total amassed by any Democratic candidate at this point in the cycle.
A new group called Declassify UAP, led by Nick Gold, a media and tech consultant, aims to harness grassroots pressure to advocate for continued UFO research and disclosures from the federal government. The group plans to serve as a repository for resources on the UFO issue, including congressional testimony and pending legislation, while creating a nonpartisan grassroots army of informed citizens to support lawmakers pursuing the issue in Congress. Their advocacy will focus on reasonable declassifications of classified information about UFOs to pave the way for scientific progress and avoid alienating policymakers.
An analysis by the Associated Press found that many bills restricting or banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors in at least 17 US states were not the result of grassroots or constituent demand, but rather from a handful of conservative interest groups. The bills often use identical or very similar language to model legislation peddled by groups such as Do No Harm and the Family Research Council, which spread a false narrative based on distorted science, critics say. The bills distort valid science that supports gender-affirming care for youths and are designed to inflame, according to experts.