@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-24 14:43:33
Americans are neither as hostile to socialism as they once were
nor as positive toward capitalism as they have been in the past.
More important than polling, however, is the fact that for many Americans the “communist threat” is a total abstraction.
There are tens of millions of voters (
who were young children when the Soviet Union fell.
There are millions more who weren’t yet born.
For these Americans, communism is as much a concern as the missile gap …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-24 16:46:03
Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/exclusive-seltz-a-startup-r…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-25 00:52:14
Trump berated Senate Republicans face to face on Wednesday
for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran,
further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues
and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt.
Invited by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to speak at a GOP luncheon in the Capitol,
Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship v…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-24 15:15:46
Trump heads to Capitol to speak with GOP senators who have grown increasingly frustrated with him (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-republican-senators-968c1454ede461d2db413790670c07df
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p56#a260624p56
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-24 21:03:18
I personally hate the handwringing around free software licenses. Folks, adding (often non-enforceable!) restrictions your software license, despite the good intentions, is not going to move the needle on fascism and capitalism. Withholding or redirecting your labor will. Remember, software licenses are a tool of intellectual property, which is wholly an invention of those same courts that are captured by capitalists.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-05-25 11:02:45
The capitalist world allows you to celebrate all working class heroes that died before achieving their goals, whilst demonizing those that actually achieved them.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-23 18:37:39
The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack, -- calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda”.
The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically 💥rewrite the history of the assault on the US Capitol,
when hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed t…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-25 04:20:45
Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquakes in over a century, as USGS fears up to 100K deaths (Zoe Hussain/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/world-news/venezuela-rocked-by-7-1-magnitude-earthquake-causing-buildings-to-collapse-in-capital-caracas/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p3#a260625p3
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-24 11:05:36
Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking its stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/te…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 15:49:23
Trump ratcheted up tensions with Senate Republicans on Wednesday,
abruptly canceling plans to sign a bipartisan measure that could help spur more home construction.
Republicans had been hoping to use the housing bill as a selling point to voters ahead of critical November midterm elections.
But the president declared on social media that he now wants Congress to first pass a bill that would mandate stricter rules for voter identification in federal elections.
“Today’s H…
