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Holy Shit! There's a Democratic Socialist running for Governor of Wisconsin.
(I've traded emails with Hong and like what she's been doing and what she stands for. She's got my vote.)
https://www.wpr.org/news/madison-francesca-hong-democra…

Madison Rep. Francesca Hong joins Democratic primary for governor
Madison state Rep. Francesca Hong has launched a bid for governor, joining a growing primary field for the Democratic nomination.

🧼 From 'MMS' to 'aerobic oxygen,' why drinking bleach has become a dangerous wellness trend
https://theconversation.com/from-mms-to-aerobic-oxygen-why-drinking-bleach-has-become-a-dangerous-wellness-trend…

From ‘MMS’ to ‘aerobic oxygen’, why drinking bleach has become a dangerous wellness trend
Chlorine dioxide, sold as a “miracle” cure under names like MMS, is not medicine. It’s toxic, unregulated and can be fatal. Here’s what you need to know.

As Democrats walk out, Republicans advance judicial nomination of Emil Bove
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday morning to advance Donald Trump’s controversial judicial nominee
Emil Bove -- amid objections from Democratic senators,
who walked out of the hearing in protest before the vote.

Bove, a top Justice Department official nominated to serve on U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, must now be approved by the full Senate.

Bove faced whistleb…

As Democrats walk out, Republicans advance judicial nomination of Emil Bove
Bove, a top Justice Department official and Trump’s former personal defense attorney, was nominated to serve on U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Caught on tape... again:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/sep/16/who-trump-first-says-hes-not-familiar-with-minnesota-democrats-assassination-video

Les voitures deviennent de plus en plus dangereuses pour les piétons et les cyclistes. En cause: l'augmentation, ces 25 dernières années, des zones que le conducteur ne voit pas en raison de l'architecture de son véhicule, révèle une étude du département américain des Transports.

Letter from the House Democrats to the new interim #NASA administrator observing "a fringe, extremist ideology emanating from the White House Office of Management and Budget" and expressing "nothing but contempt for its goal of dismantling our nation’s space agency": https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/SST RM Lofgren and Foushee - Letter to Interim Administrator Duffy - FY 25 Impoundments - 7.16.25.pdf

Assessing the Reliability of LLMs Annotations in the Context of Demographic Bias and Model Explanation
Hadi Mohammadi, Tina Shahedi, Pablo Mosteiro, Massimo Poesio, Ayoub Bagheri, Anastasia Giachanou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13138

Assessing the Reliability of LLMs Annotations in the Context of Demographic Bias and Model Explanation
Understanding the sources of variability in annotations is crucial for developing fair NLP systems, especially for tasks like sexism detection where demographic bias is a concern. This study investigates the extent to which annotator demographic features influence labeling decisions compared to text content. Using a Generalized Linear Mixed Model, we quantify this inf luence, finding that while statistically present, demographic factors account for a minor fraction ( 8%) of the observed varianc…

In Trump’s redistricting push, Democrats find identity with progressives – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/trump-redistricting-democrats-aggressive-identity-progressives/3765353/

Democrats must organize urgently for the 2026 midterm elections
and avoid a “it can’t happen here” mentality
to stop Donald Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover,
a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said.
Katalin Cseh,
a critic of Hungary’s strongman prime minister, Viktor Orbšn,
told a forum on authoritarianism that
the central European country’s experience held vital lessons for Trump’s opponents
in their attempts to resi…