@davej@dice.camp2026-06-30 22:53:26
RE: https://zirk.us/@impermanen_/116839087894914100
It’s not being introduced in Canberra, AFAIK—we have our own, separate, 100% renewable power grid—but we do get somewhere between 75% and 80% cheaper electricity during the middle of the day.
@mlncn@social.coop2026-07-31 21:45:15
Israel is really running the playbook of the 1700s and 1800s US genocide of Native Americans, step by step, against Palestinians today— letting paramilitary settlers attack and occupy and then intervening militarily on the side of the settlers.
https://electronicintifada.net/bl…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-29 17:33:48
In 2023, presidential candidate Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, promised to hold a contest that would lead to the creation of 10 “freedom cities” on federal lands.
The trial balloon barely registered at the time, lost in the daily deluge of outrageous claims.
Since the new administration took office, however, would-be country starters have been on a lobbying blitz, determined to turn Trump’s pledge into reality.
“The energy in DC is absolutely electric,”
Tre…
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@draxil@social.linux.pizza2026-07-31 14:44:53
@USA, I feel as well as the election part, you should introduce a simple written test to your presidential appointment process.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-29 03:00:03
Cryptocurrency has stopped being a finance story.
In 2026 it's a political-money machine
- woven into our elections, our regulators, the President's family balance sheet, and the everyday plumbing of how Americans get paid, borrow, and save.
You can decide never to buy a single token and still be exposed to the fallout.
A plain-English tour of where crypto stands heading into the 2026 and 2028 elections:
the collapse of regulatory enforcement;
t…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-07-19 18:50:43
Shell Recharge UK is introducing cheaper charging rates for electric cars around midday during the summer months and at night all year round.
Available only via their app – not for roaming users or adhoc users – unfortunately!
https://www.shell.co.uk/electric-vehicle-c
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-27 19:26:50
Trump’s endorsement has appeared to be a golden ticket in some Republican primaries
-- but it has come up short in others.
This month, Republican primary voters rejected his choices in governor’s races in Iowa and Georgia.
And Trump shifted to what many saw as a face-saving dual endorsement in South Carolina.
In an interview, challenger Fleming contended that the dynamic in the Louisiana Republican primary race had “completely changed” in the runoff,
adding th…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-27 05:14:16
Republicans in a handful of states have already scrambled, at Trump’s urging,
to redraw their congressional maps
in the wake of a landmark decision by the US supreme court – controlled by a conservative supermajority – that effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.
Louisiana led the way, tearing up its old map of four Republican and two Democratic districts in favor of a new one, which will probably give Republicans five of the state’s six congressional s…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-25 03:20:57
Politicians must be held accountable if their lies damage democracy,
according to a former US federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel who was pursued by Donald Trump.
The US must be “as creative as possible” and introduce sweeping structural reforms
if it escapes its current “mess”,
said Andrew Weissmann, laying out a proposal for a legislative crackdown on election deceit.
“Lying can be held to account,” argued Weissmann,
a senior figure in former FBI …