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Negativity surrounding the government has seeped into public perception of the core components of America’s story,
such as its history, notions of American foreign influence and impact, or the way the country’s democracy works.
Pride in American democracy has declined 14 percentage points since 2017, when it was measured at 42 percent, to 28 percent.
The survey also found that a majority of Americans are disillusioned with the American dream:
They are not confident in …

Americans’ Pride Drops to New Low as 250th Anniversary Approaches
The American public aren’t feeling particularly proud of their country, according to a new poll.

De FIFA is een compleet corrupte bende zoals elke weer wordt bevestigd....
https://www.nu.nl/voetbal/6397357/amerikaanse-staten-onderzoeken-fifa-om-peperdure-wk-tickets-en-misleiding.html

Amerikaanse staten onderzoeken FIFA om peperdure WK-tickets en misleiding
De Amerikaanse staten New York en New Jersey zijn een officieel onderzoek begonnen naar de ticketverkoop voor het WK voetbal van 2026. Dat meldt de BBC op basis van verklaringen van lokale autoriteiten.

After doing away with programmatic ads, the time people spend on The American Prospect is up ~2X and a recent membership drive added ~500 new recurring donors (Lucy Schiller/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/deprogrammin…

The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending twice as much time on the site.
The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site.

Poll: 31% of US adults expect driverless cars to be common within five years, up from 19% in 2018, and 19% say they would own or lease one, the same as in 2018 (Mary Page James/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/708683/americans-driverless-car-fut…

More Americans See Driverless Car Future; Few Show Interest
Expectations of widespread driverless car use are up sharply since 2018, yet personal interest is flat, safety confidence has declined, and relatively few Americans have tried one.

Oh, wie schön ist Panama
https://www.electrive.com/2026/05/28/latin-america-reaches-10000-electric-buses-in-operation/

Latin America reaches 10,000 electric buses in operation - electrive.com
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean now have over 10,000 electric buses—a significant milestone. A major share of these buses originates from

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
American Music Club:
🎵 Fearless
#AmericanMusicClub
https://americanmusicclub1.bandcamp.com/track/fearless
https://open.spotify.com/track/0LUpyOpq8CsdL7B7yMtiso

Entertainers unveiled for 250th US birthday bash on National Mall (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5896900-national-mall-america-250-dc-great-american-state-fair/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p109#a260527p109

More than half the performers slated for Trump's "Great American State Fair" concert series to be held this summer on the National Mall have pulled out,
citing the event’s political associations.

The latest act to drop out is Bret Michaels, the vocalist for hair-metal band Poison, citing threats and the event’s “divisive” response.

Michaels follows country singer-songwriter Martina McBride, who wrote Thursday on social media that she was
“presented with an op…

Over half of Great American State Fair performers drop out over politics, threats
Bret Michaels and Martina McBride are the latest artists to pull out of the Great American State Fair concert series organized by Freedom 250 on the National Mall this summer.

We’re having a pizza party with 100 guests!
Let’s divvy up the slices the way wealth is divided among American households:
• 1 person gets 30 slices
• 9 people get 3.7 slices each
• 40 people get 0.75 slices each
• 50 people get 0.05 slices each
Dig in! But watch out for “those people” trying to steal your 0.05.
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American Wealth, Sliced Up
Using the Federal Reserve’s Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices

It does not disrespect or diminish American skill and courage to note that the Iranian military was more effective
— and American strikes perhaps less effective
— than we were led to believe.
As more information filters out, the picture gets cloudier and cloudier.
Not only was Iran able to immediately and decisively close the Strait of Hormuz,
it’s now clear that the Iranian regime inflicted significant damage on American bases in the region and significant dam…

Opinion | Three Ways Trump Is Losing the War in Iran
Three reasons Trump is losing the war in Iran.