Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A proposal that would amend Indiana’s constitution to expand the reasons why a person could be jailed without bond has cleared its first hurdle. The state Senate voted 34-15 mostly on party lines Thursday to endorse the Republican-backed proposal. The state constitution currently only allows judges to order someone jailed without bond when facing murder […]

I’m old enough to remember when the NBA was Fan-tastic. Notice the clever emphasis on the fans. Unfortunately, load management has made the NBA regular season crap-tastic. Video this week emerged of a kid at a Miami Heat game holding a sign saying he traveled to watch Jimmy Butler play. Problem is, Butler didn’t play. […]

A judge in California has ordered the release of video of the attack on Paul Pelosi – the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – inside their San Francisco home.  San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen Murphy denied a request by prosecutors Wednesday and declared that there is no reason to keep the […]

Britney Spears said Thursday some of her fans went a “little too far” and invaded her privacy this week when the sheriff’s department was called to her home for a wellness check.  “As everyone knows the police were called to my home based on some prank phone calls,” the “Womanizer” singer wrote in a message […]

President Biden boasted to union workers in Virginia on Thursday that during his first two years in office, 750,000 manufacturing jobs were created in the U.S., slamming anyone who says America cannot lead the world in manufacturing again. The president traveled to Springfield, Virginia, to speak at the Steamfitters Union Hall, taking shots at Republicans […]

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was excoriated by some of the colleagues he hopes to join in the Senate after announcing he would be entering the California Senate race scheduled for next year. Speaking with Fox News Digital, multiple Republican senators made it clear that Schiff, the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee who announced […]

The Biden administration announced Thursday that it would complete a 20-year withdrawal of 225,504 acres in a northern Minnesota forest area that is home to some of the largest domestic critical mineral reserves. The action announced by the Department of the Interior (DOI) effectively prohibits mining activity from taking place in the Boundary Waters Canoe […]

The Biden administration is proposing a change to the way it collects data on federal workers that would allow employees to identify themselves as of Middle Eastern or North African descent, instead of identifying themselves as “White.” The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Thursday announced a series of proposed changes to the race/ethnicity […]

The former president of a Virginia teachers union was arrested and charged with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization, according to police.  Ingrid Gant, the former president of the Arlington Education Association (AEA), was arrested after police conducted a six-month audit that showed that she embezzled $410,782.10 from the union, according to […]

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is hitting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after his administration decided to block the College Board’s African American Studies AP course from being taught in the state. Pritzker aired his objections in a letter to the College Board on Wednesday, urging them to leave the African American Studies AP course untouched after […]