CUI BONO?

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Q: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.

Dawg we are talking about 1966, no American white working man was suddenly getting left high and dry by deindustrialization or austerity or recession The only “radical shift in the material conditions” was “you have to let black people into your school/office/shop/apartment block now”

IMPORTANT ROBIN LORD TATER TOT UPDATE

It's not just California: The Trump admin just asked Washington state to set aside ballots received from more than 400 people it claims are suspected to be registered to vote without U.S. citizenship.

They also forbade international forum moderators from localizing important messages in their own language, instead demanding that participants use their own translation software if they wanted to know what they were supposed to know. They also had an issue of minors being groomed by moderators. 

"Guys like Obama don't see it. They don't see dirt, they don't see filth. He doesn't see broken ornaments...The White House, President Obama is a symbol of America. It has to be clean." Feels like the focus on hygiene and cleanliness might be standing in for something here!

When Anthropic was created, its co-founders pledged to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the company to philanthropic causes. As they prepare to take the company public, they appear to be walking back that pledge.

Flávio, these are all really good ideas

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Safe bet that someone in the White House is taking notes www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The allegations against Donald Trump for sexual assault seem to have a common denominator: He is physically violent and intentionally inflicts pain on his victims. He likes to slam women and girls up against doors and walls as he roughly manhandles them. Donald Trump is a sick and twisted person.

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Conservative peer Lord Jackson told a debate on Lords reform on Friday: "An elected House...will result in a House of compliant placemen from party lists, donors, careerists, cranks and the unemployable." Which to most members of the public sums up their view of the Lords as it is *now*

“Hallelujah”

“In the classroom, [educator Ebony Webster] has noticed students asking for more food, or for leftovers of a friend’s meal. Sometimes the free school meals are the only ones students get, she said… With SNAP access decreasing, she has seen an increase in community need for food pantries.”

Nothing says "the media manufactured the Russia hoax" than going on a hunting trip with one Russian oligarch right after another Russian oligarch had paid for your wedding.

interesting Reuters report on how an Israeli spy company named Discover-Tech was using dodgy ads to spy on and geolocate Starlink customers:

Perfect

Yet the National Park Service, the National Weather Service, and the US Postal Service have all seen massive cuts under Republican administrations. My proposal: Disband ICE. Take all the funds that are going to ICE and CPB ($340 billion), and apportion it to NPS, NWS, USPS, NIH, and NSF.

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20/ Serbian students 11-point program has a political philosophy: "Not just changing the people in power, but changing the rules that enable the monopolization of political power and the subjugation of state institutions and citizens' lives to the control of those in power." x.com/IsinElicin/s...

"Donald Trump Is Newly Accused of Rape – and Epstein Allegedly Helped 👀" The president faces horrific new sexual assault claims linked to the old friend he just can’t escape. Plus: a new national poll of Arab Americans shows Democrats slowly winning back their support. First Draft from Zeteo:

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

The BBC make Scotland out to be a run down crime ridden back water. While not perfect, what they do not say is we have less crime, better A&E, more doctors and nurses per head of population, more students in university, less child poverty, less alcohol related admittance to hospital, 👇

Election officials in Alaska are asking a federal judge to "immediately" dismiss the Trump DOJ's lawsuit seeking to block the Senate results, claiming it has "no legal basis." "[T]he United States lacks authority to intervene in state elections at all, much less in support of a favored candidate."

Can’t remember where I first saw this, but it hits hard.

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

Trump's anti-Muslim remarks about Abdul El-Sayed at a recent rally in Michigan are astonishing—even by recent standards, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. In The Atlantic Daily, he explores the damage of the president's bigotry:

Records show that counties billed ICE millions before New York passed a law banning them from holding the agency’s detainees.

Neither the consequences nor the astonishing nature of this victory are being discussed enough.