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“In the US, we have a set of electoral and legislative institutions that drive us toward only having two parties,”
Mark Copelovitch told us.
“That allowed the 20 to 25 percent of people that support the far right to basically take over one of the two parties,
and everything in our system is weighted towards the Republican constituency
— the Supreme Court, the gerrymandered House, the way the Senate is apportioned.
All of these things basically bias the electo…

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

When I find it discouraging that young twenty-somethings often don’t seem to care about these things, it’s good for me to remember that I care a lot now, but I really don’t even remember these giant protests from when I was a young twenty-something.
I do remember talking with people and saying things like “going to war without actual evidence—just GWB saying stuff—is stupid” and being shot down by older folks.
But I really don’t remember most of the political action.

Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image Gen Z is about to experience the futility of protests that Gen X experienced 22 years ago. The way to create change is voting. Protesting is just slightly above writing mean tweets in influencing U.S. government policy. Slightly.

After graduating with an engineering degree from #MIT, current US Senator, and son of #Mexican immigrants, #AlexPadilla recalls being lured into politics in 1990s in wake of

Californians once supported denying immigrants social services and education
Now, most Californians see immigrants as a benefit to the state. What changed in the 31 years since they approved Proposition 187?

I’m pretty sure seeing my country bombed by an habitually violent country, causing me direct hardship, or maybe taking the lives of my friends and family, would not make me particularly “happy”.
#ukpolitics #iran

Iranian People Are 'Happy' About US Strikes On Nuclear Facilities, Former UK Security Minister Claims
Tom Tugendhat also pointed to the "silence" from Iran's neighbouring countries. The general public in Iran will be “happy” about the US strikes on …

It is going to be the end of the human race that we elect leaders whose overriding motive in life is to cause others pain.
That’s what set him apart from most of his electoral opponents in both parties. He doesn’t really have any affirmative ideas for helping anyone (other than his fellow billionaires.) He is entirely focused on punishing those whom he deems enemies.

Trump rants that Washington Commanders should change name back to ‘Redskins’
President Donald Trump apparently isn't done renaming things this year. After rebranding the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this year, …

Some lawmakers in both parties question the legality of Trump's Iran strikes (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-both-parties-question-legality-trumps-iran-strikes-rcna214316
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p74#a250621p74

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: [In the background behind Varon's lines] They set me up beautifully.
VARON: There is a possible approach if we could cite your record: your breakdown after your involvement with those illegal political groups, the remorse that you felt, the guilt you carried has placed you under an enormous strain. And we can submit that these assaults, these aberrations were carried out whilst you were mentally... [1/2] B7B4

Polydisperse collision kernels in droplet-laden turbulence with implications for rain formation
L. A. Codispoti, Daniel W. Meyer, Patrick Jenny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15326 …

Polydisperse collision kernels in droplet-laden turbulence with implications for rain formation
We study the role of turbulence in enhancing the collisions of droplets within the cloud droplet bottleneck range. To this end, we perform direct numerical simulations of polydisperse inertial particles suspended in three-dimensional turbulence at high Reynolds number. Our analysis reveals that polydispersity enhances collisions of light droplets, but attenuates collisions at larger Stokes numbers by reducing the degree of inertial clustering and weakening the sling effect. We present a novel p…

In the latest act of retributIion targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community
— the Trump administration moved Tuesday to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials
A memo posted online by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals,
as well as failure to …

Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials
The Trump administration says it's revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials. It's the latest act of retribution targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community. A memo posted Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals. It also accuses them of failing to safeguard classif…

As Trump contemplates direct US participation in Israel’s war with Iran,
including the possible use of “bunker buster” bombs on the heavily fortified Fordo uranium enrichment site,
William Kristol has made it known that he still has that hawk in him.
“You’ve got to go to war with the president you have,” he told The New York Times on Wednesday.
“If you really think that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, we have a chance to try to finish the job.”
In a series o…

Those Sometimes-Trump Neocons Are Returning to the Fold Over Iran
As the president backs Israel’s long-awaited war with Iran, his neoconservative critics find themselves in an awkward position.