Tootfinder

Peggy Flanagan,
the progressive lieutenant governor of Minnesota,
clinched the victory in the state’s Democratic primary for US Senate,
beating out moderate US representative Angie Craig.
The AP called the race, with Flanagan leading with nearly 59% of the vote.

Minnesota progressive wins Senate primary over anti-ICE sentiments, as Wisconsin governor’s race remains close – live
Peggy Flanagan sweeps Minnesota Senate primary; in Wisconsin, moderate David Crowley and Democratic socialist Francesca Hong face tight race to be Democratic nominee for governor

A US judge dismisses a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop the dissemination of CSAM through iCloud, saying Section 230 shields the company (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-win

POL-HK: Bad Fallingbostel - Einbruch in Wohnhaus Walsrode - Verkehrsunfall mit zwei E-Scootern PI Heidekreis (ots) - Bad Fallingbostel - Einbruch in Wohnhaus In der Zeit von Samstagvormittag bis frühen Samstagnachmittag gelangte die bislang unbekannte Täterschaft in ein Einfamilienhaus in der Adolphsheider Straße in Bad Fallingbostel. Es ... https://…

"Das Ziel ist, die Codes der französischen Banlieues zu kopieren, um sich im behüteten Schweizer Alltag ein wenig Bad-Boy-Feeling zu sichern – so gut das eben geht mit einem blauen Lernfahrer-L am Heck."
Es gibt sie noch, die Pointen in den NZZ-Artikeln (💰🧱).

Pretty good showing from the Count. Entirely unsuprised that Farage makes up some bullshit to avoid being on the stage of his own media circus.
Nigel Farage wins Clacton by-election that major parties boycotted: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y40d11zewt
> The Reform UK le…

Suno adds music rights company BMG as its latest licensing partner as it prepares new models powered by licensed work, following a similar deal with WMG (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/suno-ai-licensing-deal-bmg-1236832703/

Suno Strikes AI Licensing Deal With BMG as It Preps Label-Backed Models
The deal will see Suno pay for BMG's repertoire of recordings by its artists and cover the use of any BMG songs to train Suno's past models.

One of my favorite scenes: Josh Lyman flying out to Los Angeles to recruit Sam Seaborn to be Deputy Chief of Staff in the Santos administration.
▶️ We Want You Back! | The West Wing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ruRmyzBtlMA&si=Ve37sC08Ri63a4EN

Sonnet 056 - LVI
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpened in his former might:
So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where t…

BallotBox Scotland: "It’s time everyone got serious about the Scottish Greens"
Some reflections from BBS, and a little pointer into what we should expect for the next parliament.
"The belief that right wing voters have to be courted and coddled, and left wing voters uncomfortable with that will just have to suck it up because they don’t have other options. It turns out they do, in fact, have other options"

Summer Special: It’s time everyone got serious about the Scottish Greens
A long read on a bugbear: few folk seem to care about understanding the Greens, and that failure has cost them over and over again. Following a record result, will that change, or will people just…

Lisa Demuth, the Republican speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives,
secured the Republican nomination for governor,
-- edging out pillow salesman Mike Lindell, who had received Trump’s endorsement in the race.
Demuth became speaker last year in an evenly divided House, becoming the first Black person in the role.

Minnesota progressive wins Senate primary over anti-ICE sentiments, as Wisconsin governor’s race remains close – live
Peggy Flanagan sweeps Minnesota Senate primary; in Wisconsin, moderate David Crowley and Democratic socialist Francesca Hong face tight race to be Democratic nominee for governor