Her death brought on the first anti-stalking laws.

The opposition to President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has intensified considerably. Today alone, 10 Democrats — including New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich — joined the pile-on. A growing development threatens to make the whole situation all the more complicated: Biden’s allies and Kamala Harris’ allies are increasingly at odds. Harris’ allies are incensed that Biden’s allies have denigrated her in order to argue for Biden’s continuance in the race.  The anger from Harris’ camp began just two days following the debate, the New York Times reported. That’s when the Biden campaign used polling data to argue in a fundraising email that the president would perform better in the election than other Democratic candidates. One of the candidates whose data was included was Harris.  In this case, Harris’ staffers pushed back on her allies’ anger, arguing that Harris “had a responsibility to stand by the president and allow him to say that he is uniquely positioned to win,” according to the Times.  But, at other times, Harris and her staffers have believed that Biden’s camp has gone too far in the direction of disparaging her in order to push the idea that Biden is the best Democratic candidate. For instance, a staffer in the White House’s legislative affairs office argued that Harris would not be as strong a candidate as Biden. In response, Harris sent her staffers to communicate a warning shot to the White House’s chief of staff, Jeff Zients. The message was simple: stop speaking negatively about the vice president.  Publicly, Harris has remained dutifully loyal to the president even as these tensions have simmered. But the growing discontent from Harris’ camp could soon become a problem for Biden, especially given the numerous Democrats who are calling for Harris to be the Democratic nominee. Harris’ backing of Biden could become less forceful, causing a further spiraling of the Biden campaign. Or her staffers and allies could begin hatching a plot to make it infeasible for Biden to remain in the race so that Harris can replace him. Alternatively, the president could leave the race and choose to not endorse his vice president out of anger that her allies moved against him.  Already, there are reports that Harris’ allies are working to make sure that Harris would be the nominee in the event that Biden bows out of the race. “Allies of Kamala Harris are engaged in a delicate, behind-the-scenes effort to make sure the vice president moves to the top of the ticket if President Joe Biden steps aside, according to five people involved in the project or with knowledge of the discussions,” reported Politico yesterday. To make matters worse for Biden, the anger from the Harris camp toward the Biden campaign is nothing new. Throughout their terms in office, the president and vice president have been engaged in numerous disagreements, and tensions have at times been hot. Much of it has stemmed from the fact that Harris’ camp has felt she has been excluded from having a significant role in the administration and that, when she was given roles, she was set up to fail.  For now, Harris has to do everything she can to support Biden. But the moment he’s out of the race, she’ll cackle with joy.  The post Biden and Harris Camps Feud Amid Total Disarray appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream: What in the world has been happening in Rancho Palos Verdes?  When I heard that the land was “moving” there, it immediately got my attention, because I have been warning about geological instability along the California coast for more than a decade.  What is taking place has been described […]

by Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone: The brain rot of their worldview has a guy with an actual rotting brain as its official representative. At the NATO summit in Washington on Thursday the US president referred to Ukraine’s President Zelensky as “President Putin”, referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”, and said he is “following the advice […]

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A restored portion of the ancient marble floor. Source: Edoardo Ruspantini & Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei.   Archaeologists in Italy painstakingly restored an ancient marble floor they discovered underwater. It was built in the town of Baia towards the end of the Roman Empire, which fell in 476 C.E. Today, it is part of the Archaeological Marine Park of Baia, the largest of its kind in the world.   Ancient Roman Floor Used Secondhand Marble Detail of the opus sectile floor design. Source: Edoardo Ruspantini & Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei.   Last year, archaeologists announced the discovery of an ancient marble floor in a submerged Roman villa. Located in the ancient spa town of Baia (or Baiae), the floor dates back to the final years of the Roman Empire. It spans about 2,700 feet and was built with fragments of used marble, likely due to financial strain befalling even the wealthiest citizens of the declining empire. The archaeologists described the floor as “a very costly and demanding endeavor for the owner of the villa, who had to settle for recycled materials, that is, secondhand marbles, to create the chosen module, made up of adjoining squares, each with inscribed circles.”   The colorful and complex marble design is an opus sectile floor—a decorative style comprising carefully cut pieces of stone or marble laid in intricate geometric patterns or even pictorial designs. While mosaics are made with small, uniformly-sized pieces, opus sectile uses larger pieces in different shapes that fit together. The opus sectile technique incorporates an eye-catching variety of colors and materials and facilitates elaborate detail. In the Roman Empire, it was often used to indicate the wealth and good taste of a building’s inhabitants.   The Challenges of Underwater Archaeology An archaeologist working on the ancient marble floor. Source: Edoardo Ruspantini & Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei.   The restoration of the ancient marble floor is part of ongoing excavations of the Roman Empire’s underwater relics. It is an ambitious collaboration between CSR Restauro Beni Culturali and Naumacos Underwater Archaeology & Technology. Archaeologists at the site emphasized the unique difficulty of underwater excavations. They explained, “Thousands of marble slabs, hundreds of different shapes, assembled to create an intricate geometry. We are in the Submerged Park of Baiae and this marble floor has been the subject of the latest underwater restoration works: a very complicated new challenge due to the extreme fragmentation of the remains and their large extent.”   From Bathers to Snorkelers: Centuries of Tourism at Baia Scuba diver at the Archaeological Marine Park of Baia. Source: Edoardo Ruspantini & Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei.   The partly submerged ruins of Baia are on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples in the modern-day commune of Bacoli, Italy. Once a seaside spa town frequented by Caligula and Nero, Baia was beloved for its mild climate, thermal springs, opulent villas, and hedonistic environment. Its location near Portus Julius, an important commercial port, also helped make it a renowned, if notorious, tourist hotspot.   After the fall of the Roman Empire, Baia slowly sank below sea level due to bradyseism—a type of ground surface deformation caused by volcanic activity. As a result, the ruins of Baia are now partially submerged. Mosaics, marble floors, imperial baths, and statues from Baia have been found underwater in recent years. To protect these findings, the Archaeological Marine Park of Baia opened in 2002. Today, the park operates eight archaeological sites that are accessible to snorkelers and scuba divers.