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Industries paying for an authoritarian regime: AI and crypto. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/ai-crypto-trump-super-pacs-stash-millions-spend-midterms-rcna256622

AI, crypto and Trump super PACs stash millions to spend on the midterms
Political groups tied to the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries have raked in tens of millions of dollars, according to new campaign finance reports.

This is how it's supposed to be done. Not by spreading hate and slandering immigrants.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/30/judge-clears-path-to-seize-millions-in-assets-from-aimee-bock

Mailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…

Malanka: Ukraine's winter ritual of masks, mischief, and good fortune: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/malanka-ukraines-winter-ritual-of.html

Trump’s SNAP Rules Are About to Imperil Food Access for Millions – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trumps-snap-rules-are-about-to-imperil-food-access-for-millions/

The New Year health-insurance shock facing millions of Americans (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/12/30/the-new-year-health-insurance-shock-facing-millions-of-americans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p64#a251231p64

Ionization Sources of the Local #Interstellar Clouds - Two B Stars, Three White Dwarfs, and the Local Hot Bubble: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae10a6 -> Close brush with 2 hot stars millions of years ago left a mark just beyond our solar system: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/12/01/close-brush-2-hot-stars-millions-years-ago-left-mark-just-beyond-our-solar-system

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli

California Crypto Billionaires Plan to Spend Tens of Millions on Moderate Candidates
Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.

All the president's millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches (Tom Burgis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/30/all-the-presidents-millions-how-the-trumps-are-turning-the-presidency-into-riches
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p18#a251130p18