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The Red Wave: The 2025 Federal Election
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Republicans Are Trying to Stop -- And Even Sabotage -- Bill Huizenga's Potential Senate Bid (Reese Gorman/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2026-election/republicans-stop-sabotage-bill-huizengas-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p108#a250604p108

I find it culturally fascinating that Barnaby Joyce, despite his drunken philandering, would actually increase his vote in New England during an election that demolished the coalition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/guide/neng

New England Federal Election 2025 Results
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.

Polish presidential election too close to call as campaigning enters final hours
Polls show difference between
pro-European Rafał Trzaskowski
and nationalist Karol Nawrocki within the margin of error
https://www.t…

Avengers: Infinity War, Losing an Election, and What Comes After
https://ift.tt/UJj5qBY
By Matthew Brake “I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Avengers: Infinity War, Losing an Election, and What Comes After
By Matthew Brake “I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless.” Many of us recognize this quote from the peak of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. …

I supported Bernie Sanders against Clinton.
Just posting because I believe it's good to admit one's mistakes.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-kamala-harris…

Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class
Sanders said while Joe Biden has been blamed election loss, it was ultimately Harris’s fault for cosying up to billionaires

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

Musk says Trump would have lost the 2024 election without his help (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/trump-presidency-news/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p111#a250605p111

i just signed up to be a poll worker for the special election on tuesday, august 5

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

SEC filing: Paramount nominates three directors to its board and schedules its annual meeting for July 2; board member Judith McHale won't stand for re-election (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/para

Paramount Nominates Three New Board Members
With the Skydance deal pending, Paramount Global set a date for its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and nominated three new board members.

Won't it be a surprise when it turns out that the party of bad losers, who've been trying to convince everyone that they could only have been beaten with election fraud for years, turns out to be the primary source of election fraud?
https…

🚨 🚨 🚨 "An Initial Assessment of Proportional Ranked-Choice Voting in Portland, Oregon" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150163

Conservative Karol Nawrocki wins Poland's presidential election (Vanessa Gera/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/poland-presidential-election-karol-nawrocki-80a99eeb7a2f3ae64260a9263e7028ee
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p5#a250602p5

That pre-WWI borderline still goes hard. https://mastodon.social/@onlmaps/114613138833886937

OnlMaps (@onlmaps@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won the Polish presidential election today getting 50.89% of the vote

Complementary Time-Space Tradeoff for Self-Stabilizing Leader Election: Polynomial States Meet Sublinear Time
Yuichi Sudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23649 …

Complementary Time-Space Tradeoff for Self-Stabilizing Leader Election: Polynomial States Meet Sublinear Time
We study the self-stabilizing leader election (SS-LE) problem in the population protocol model, assuming exact knowledge of the population size $n$. Burman, Chen, Chen, Doty, Nowak, Severson, and Xu (PODC 2021) showed that this problem can be solved in $O(n)$ expected time with $O(n)$ states. Recently, Gąsieniec, Grodzicki, and Stachowiak (PODC 2025) proved that $n+O(\log n)$ states suffice to achieve $O(n \log n)$ time both in expectation and with high probability (w.h.p.). If substantially m…

There's still time. Get out and vote, Canada.
It's a big one.
#Election #Canada #Vote

Nationalism Ticks Higher With Polish Election (Mark Milian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-02/poland-election-results-show-rising-nationalism-with-nawrocki-s-win?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0ODg4Mjc1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ5NDg3NTUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWDhMWE1EV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQjhERDAxRjBGMEU0MkE1QkUyREM4NEU5MUUyRDAwRSJ9.Xoutzyxf_gFkQc0Rrq8skPyypSEWuX-Cd1Jw_-_DlL0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p112#a250602p112

The UK local election results so far are fairly grim. People are understandably cross with #Labour, they have put themselves in an awkward position where they have effectively promised not to raise any of the maIn sources of tax when demands on the treasury are rising.
The Reform party cannot be the answer. They are a collection of easy answers to problems where there are no easy answers. …

Be sure to vote our Election Night Edition this upcoming Monday, as the polls close at 9:30 PM. Then, come for the pizza and stay for the tech discussions. We don’t know if the venue (Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W.) will turn on the TVs for election results. We usually adjourn before that time, anyway. The festivities start at 6 PM!
Got a hardware demo? Cool! Those are the best! The more you believe in free and open software and hardware in service of a free and open society, the more …

I know I made some spelling and other mistakes in my latest Norwegian post.
I live in #Bergen, #Norway, so expect me to get very anarchist this year with the upcoming election!

Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact;
State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/…

It's been 7 months since the D-party lost the easiest-to-win election the US has ever had. And it's been 4 months since FFOTUS took office and became a modern Caligula.
And what has the D-party done?
Nada. Nada. Nada. The old faction is spinning in useless circles defending Biden's inexcusable decision to continue to run until too late. The younger element still shows no sign of engaging in the voting part of politics. Our middle-age element still looks first at t…

Donald Trump recently said Canada could freely participate in his Golden Dome in exchange for annexation. The US president’s post came on the heels of Mark Carney expressing interest in the missile ‘defense’ initiative, betraying his election promise to distance Canada from the US.
Take a minute to email Carney and defence minister David McGuinty to reject Canadian participation in Trump’s Golden Dome.

In the past week I have sent emails to and called 3 of my local (city & state) electeds regarding active legislation. I have not heard back from a single one of them.
I don't feel particularly represented right now. You're going to have to EARN my vote in the next election.

The centrist mayor of Warsaw took a slim lead in Poland’s presidential election over a nationalist candidate backed by Donald Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-01/warsaw-ma…

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

Congratulations to Dr. Caleb Oladipo '88 S.T.M. on his election to the American Theological Society! https://news.campbell.edu/articles/oladipo-elected-to-prestigious-american-theological-society/

Oladipo elected to prestigious American Theological Society - News | Campbell University
Dr. Caleb O. Oladipo became just one of 100 active members in the American Theological Society — the nation’s oldest… More on this post

Margaret Sullivan in The Guardian
Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump is far worse
#Journalism #Press

Google's New AI Tool Generates Convincing Deepfakes of Riots, Conflict, and Election Fraud (Time)
https://time.com/7290050/veo-3-google-misinformation-deepfake/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p107#a250603p107

"Journalism screwed itself over by betting
on Meta and its profit-over-society peers.
Now, nobody trusts “the media” and
everyone is going bankrupt. The next bet
is on generative AI, with its inability to
distinguish truth from “hallucinations” –
fabrications that on the page become lies.
The Continent is an attempt to prove
journalism can be done differently.
Expect more of this in what our team
has decided to call our “serious era”.
We’re no longer a start-up. We’re going
to empower more people with quality
journalism. We’re going to help others
launch newspapers. We’re going to
stay sane. And we’re going to prove
that African excellence can set global
standards."
@… reaches 5 years and 200 issues. If you're not already receiving their copy via @… (or email, telegram or WhatsApp if you must) then it's really worth signing up to remind yourself just how big and diverse the world ist.
This weeks highlights are an extraordinary story about how Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe directly interfered with Mozambique's election. Plus a frankly beautiful photo piece on Addis Ababa

I'm a fucking Anarchist, and I’m not shutting the hell up! Stop trying to convince me otherwise. If you don’t like my path and my knowledge, then I have a damn good option for you!
Move the fuck on with your life. Find new friends, meet new people, connect with those who share your interests. Stop wasting your time trying to change me.
Fuck off telling me to vote in some bullshit election. Stop trying to talk me out of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. I’m done with th…

In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity
Across Europe’s newest economic powerhouse,
where living standards have leapfrogged Japan’s and are on course to surpass Spain’s and Israel’s,
incomes are surging, shops are buzzing and borders are secure
— at least for now.

Poland, once a dreary outback in Cold War communism’s slough of despond, is now in Europe’s first rank in economic, diplomatic, military and political terms.
Situated in Cent…

In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity
A nation is torn between its democratic promise and the pull of authoritarian politics.

In the past week I have sent emails to and called 3 of my local (city & state) electeds regarding active legislation. I have not heard back from a single one of them.
I don't feel particularly represented right now. You're going to have to EARN my vote in the next election.

Hey @… - I had a couple of mapping nerds (I include myself in that category) ask about how the hexagon electoral map is created. Is there an explanation anywhere? Loved it in https://www.

Where the election will be won and lost — or maybe left hanging
The electoral maths on Saturday seems simple — win 76 seats and you win government. But that's not all there is to it.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09386 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Distortion of Multi-winner Election Using Single-Candidate Ballots
In this paper, we study the distortion bounds for voting mechanisms in multi-winner elections in general metric spaces. Our study pertains to the case in which each voter only reports her favorite candidate amongst $m$ possible choices. Given that candidates' locations are undisclosed to the mechanism, the mechanism has to form a $w-$winner committee based solely on the number of votes received by candidates. We establish distortion bounds for both truthful and non-truthful mechanisms. Our rese…

The Families that Stay Together: A Network Analysis of Dynastic Power in Philippine Politics
Rafael Acuna, Aldie Alejandro, Robert Leung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21280

The Families that Stay Together: A Network Analysis of Dynastic Power in Philippine Politics
Dynasties have long dominated Philippine politics. Despite the theoretical consensus that dynastic rule erodes democratic accountability, there is limited empirical evidence establishing dynasties' true impact on development. A key challenge has been developing robust metrics for characterizing dynasties that facilitate meaningful comparisons across geographies and election cycles. Using election data from 2004 to 2022, we leverage methods from graph theory to develop four indicators to investi…

Supreme Court to consider reviving case over counting ballots after Election Day (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/02/supreme-court-mail-in-ballots-illinois-00380101
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p74#a250602p74

YDS Dean Greg Sterling on the election of the new Pope.
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The election of Pope Leo XIV is a significant moment. Candidly, I did not think that I would see an American pope in my lifetime. I hope that the surprise of his election bodes well for the ways he will lead. Many of the cardinals (ca. 80%) who voted for the pope were appointed by Pope Francis. I hope that Leo will continue the work of Francis.

Kid is explaining to me advertising for the Australian election, as seen on YouTube. A lot of reprehensible dog whistling plus a weird ad comparing Labor to leftists in Iran, from the perspective of an Iranian-Australian man. Has anyone else seen the Iran-focused ad? WTF was that all about?! #auspol

While still partial and unofficial, the results for the Senate and party-list representatives are very surprising.
Based on months of polling, Bam and Kiko barely made it into the winning 12 circle, but now they are already in the top 5 with 3/4 of election returns counted.
And Akbayan is the top party list? They didn’t win any seat in 2019 and narrowly lost in 2022 but are now poised to get 3 seats?

Australian Green Party crushed in election after running hard on anti-Israel platform & attacking Labor govt as "complicit in genocide." 1st-choice vote (AU has ranked-vote system) drops from 12.25% to 11.75%, despite gains from Muslim voters. In races where final choice is Green vs Labor, more conservative voters overcome their past distaste for union-dominated Labor & transfers run massively against Greens.
Result: Greens lose at least 2 and maybe all 4 of their seat…

The Greens bet on Gaza and may have lost the House
Greens leader Adam Bandt has suffered a devastating verdict. The party of protest has just discovered it protested far too much.

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1). In the May election round they gained 677 more councillors, took control of 8 councils, landed a regional Mayor and gained another MP, in a formerly safe Labour seat.

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

Just leaving the Nicusor Dan rally in #Bucharest. Turnout was massive. Really feels like we're turning a corner. I'm much more hopeful about the #election results than I was even a few days ago. Polls, while of course not reliable, are showing a positive trend as well.

Following the election of Robert Prevost as the new Pope today, YDS asked professor Teresa Berger for perspective. Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology.
Here is our brief exchange:
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/new-pop

I'm in a #youtube comment section about the #Romania election, and see the classic "Better a shitty Romanian than UDMR!", so I prod a little on what exactly they mean. Essentially, Szeklers aren't "real Romanians" in their eyes.
Pro: I have now exposed the rac…