And this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.
Elon Musk’s company sues Minnesota over new law to bar manipulated images to fake nudity
Minnesota’s anti-nudification law is supposed to take effect on Saturday. It is being challenged in federal court by a company led by Elon Musk.
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WATCH: Whether you love cars or hate cars, you should watch this new video and better understand the truth about the real costs & consequences of too many cars in our cities, and the car dependency many of us live in. You might find it hard to watch, but watch it to the end anyway. Via #NotJustBikes
Every Reason to Hate Cars
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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oh, and adequately fund publicly-owned media, which is a firewall against authoritarianism in every country where funding and support is healthy
America’s Three Media Crises and How to Fix Them
University of Pennsylvania media scholar Victor Pickard explains why a robust system of public media is essential to strengthening American democracy.
newrepublic.com
I really don’t think anyone has priced in how much appetite there is on our side for a politics of pure revenge, justice dispensed in wholesale rather than at retail
"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." nyti.ms/4hch5F3
Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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The establishment obsession over conventional tactics (of appeasing/accommodating Republicans) instead of leading with strategic imperatives (to beat Republican anihilists) - a key reason why Democrats find themselves in this clusterf*ck. Painful but necessary read. @brianbeutler.bsky.social
The Insurgency Will Continue Until Morale Improves
How Democratic voters began to question, and ultimately lost faith in, their party's establishment: a comprehensive history.
open.substack.com
How to seed corruption: • dismiss investigations & lawsuits against crypto firms that donate to Trump • assert that most crypto assets don't implicate federal securities laws • create an "innovation exemption" for all other coins • let traditional banks flow into the unregulated space
The Project Crypto Scheme - The American Prospect
Forget deregulatory legislation; the SEC and CFTC are already working diligently to eliminate regulatory oversight of crypto at the behest of their president.
prospect.org
With Trump railing against an imaginary threat, we have reached the “unhumans” phase of the project. A 2024 book laid out a genocidal propaganda strategy to label Democrats as demonic “communists” unworthy of life. JD Vance endorsed it. www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-...
'Unhumans': J.D. Vance and the language of genocide
Trump's VP pick endorses the tactic of dehumanization
thenerdreich.com
The divide in the Democratic party is not moderates versus progressives. It's between the people who want to protect the status quo versus those who want transformative change. If you have done great under the current system, you want to protect the status quo. The rest of us want real change!
This year, before stepping into the voting booth—educate yourself on your representative's stance on Crypto. In an election with so much at stake—the last thing we need is more politicians bought & paid for by the cryptocurrency industry [in the 2024 election cycle, it legally spent $245 m]. 2/13🧵
A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
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Mexicans dancing and singing GANGNAM STYLE with the South Koreans in Mexico after South Korea's victory in the World Cup
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
404media.co
There *has* to be consequences, serious fucking consequences, for everyone involved here. No more looking forward, not back. Not this time. People need to go to prison for this shit
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2mo agoTotally fucking outrageous conditions at Delaney Hall, whose owner is trying to claim qualified immunity in court. prospect.org/2026/06/08/i...
“This is not a moral purity test. It is a leadership competence test. We ask this of leaders in every other domain. We want them to look around corners, identify foreseeable risk, come prepared with a plan rather than a cleanup crew. (cont) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Progressive Men Keep Failing the Same Strategic Leadership Test
NOT ALL MEN who sext women on Kik while married are ALSO bad people!!! HE WENT TO THERAPY!!! BUT HE’S PROGRESSIVE!!! WE CAN’T LET COLLINS WIN!!! HE MET WITH BLACK PEOPLE!!! Sending thanks to the many…
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You find candidates that match your values and cultivate them and fund them, and you do it over time, not just in the year or two before the next election. This is why the Federalist Society has so much influence. It’s not rocket science!
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
Ben Gvir calls for the suburbs of Beirut to be “flattened”
So now it's going to be very hard to see what the cops are going to do to those protestors, unless the protestors film it themselves. We'll see if those protestors' phones will survive this. www.youtube.com/live/dhCEpox...
🚨BREAKING: COPS BLOCK Protesters From Delaney Hall ICE Prison Before PROTEST CURFEW
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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Outside Delaney Hall, police kettle. This man was just talking when New Jersey state police (not ICE) under the direction of Gov. Mikie Sherrill forcibly arrested him for his speech. Notice how the troopers are deliberately blinding the cameras with lights. A fascist technique learned from ICE.
Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoMisogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
disconnect.blog
GREG IP: “.. Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50%. That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
NASDAQ just rewrote its rules, and NYSE doing the same. Your 401k, Pension, IRA, Insurance bout to buy SpaceX, OpenAI, & others... and you have NO say: youtu.be/-X6YzlY_8tM
The SpaceX IPO... It's Worse Than You Think
YouTube video by Casual Finance
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[whispering] the liberal currents essay about cuck porn explains the atlantic essay about miller lite www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...
The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything
Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex.
liberalcurrents.com
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2mo agogood morning, West Coasters! the essay about cuck porn is good and the essay about Miller Lite is bad, if you’re just joining us
Ohio data center tax break cost $1.4 billion more than expected in 2025 #NortheastOhio #News
Ohio data center tax break cost $1.4 billion more than expected in 2025
Ohio’s biggest tax break for data centers is more expensive than once thought. A lot more expensive.
cleveland19.com
This is Enron-like. SpaceX has committed $1.6 billion to lease a data center in Mississippi. But instead of simply saying that, they structure it as an unconsolidated 49.9% interest in a joint venture. The only source of revenue for the "joint venture" is... the SpaceX lease. /6
