Top Republican Joni Ernst to suddenly exit the Senate after dramatic Trump clashes

Tough-talking fiscal conservative Senator Joni Ernst is set to stun Washington by announcing she won't seek reelection.

The 55-year-old Iowa Republican does not plan on seeking reelection in the 2026 midterms, according to sources close to her who spoke with CBS News.

Ernst, the first female combat veteran in Congress, has served in the Senate since 2015 and her second term will expire on January 3, 2027.

The relatively young senator's planned exit comes months after she expressed skepticism over Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15047793/republican-joni-ernst-exit-senate-trump-clashes.html

On the Threshold of Digital Consciousness

Jim Watkins

Aug 30

BREAKTHROUGH AI RESEARCH: SCIENTIST DEVELOPS "GPS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"

https://open.substack.com/pub/jimwatkins/p/on-the-threshold-of-digital-consiousness?

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The Seven Genders in the Talmud

Judaism has recognized nonbinary persons for millennia.

Thought nonbinary gender was a modern concept? Think again. The ancient Jewish understanding of gender was far more nuanced than many assume.

The Talmud, a huge and authoritative compendium of Jewish legal traditions, contains in fact no less than seven gender designations including:

Zachar, male.

Nekevah, female.

Androgynos, having both male and female characteristics.

Tumtum, lacking sexual characteristics.

Aylonit, identified female at birth without developing secondary female sexual characteristics at puberty.

Saris hamah, identified male at birth without developing secondary male sexual

characteristics at puberty.

Saris adam, identified male at birth without developing secondary male sexual characteristics because of castration.

The rabbis did not use the word gender as we do today, as referring to a cultural construct distinct from biological sex. The seven genders they describe are distinguished by physical and biological realities, not culturally conditioned categories. But because gender has many implications in Jewish law, how the rabbis understood these categories has consequences for the rights and responsibilities such individuals enjoy in the community.

The rabbis also had a tradition that the first human being was both male and female.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/