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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…

Donald Trump has repeatedly encouraged or defended violent attacks on Democrats and political critics.
As just a few examples:
— In 2015, during Trump’s first primary campaign, white attendees at one of his campaign rallies tackled and beat a Black protestor.
Trump approved of the attack, telling Fox News,
“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
— In 2018, Trump praised then-US Rep. Greg Gianforte for physi…

MAGA political violence claims more victims
Trump’s movement relies on terror.

From Press Progress
Convoy founding organizer says he is seeking asylum in the US
https://pressprogress.ca/freedom-convoy-founding-organizer-says-he-is-seeking-political-asylum-in-the-united-states/

Freedom Convoy Founding Organizer Says He is Seeking Political Asylum in the United States
To avoid his upcoming criminal trial in Canada, James Bauder says he is ‘living in exile’ and enlisting support from Trump allies

'I'd talk to the Devil himself' — Belarus' opposition torn on whether to reengage with dictator Lukashenko to save political prisoners: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/id-talk-to-the-devil.html

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data gathers information on political violence worldwide.
❝These 50 [most violent] countries, ACLED says, account for 97 percent of all political violence in the world.
The United States is fiftieth—right behind Libya at 49.❞
That was in 2023.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196851/america-political-violence-terrifying-turning-point

As the week's cyber news continues to heat up, check out today's Metacurity before you fall behind on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market,
--Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims,
--Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector,
--Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China,
--$10m reward for Cybe…

Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market
Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims, Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector, Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China, $10m reward for CyberAv3ngers hackers, WhatsApp ads worry privacy experts, Yes24 apologizes for attack, much more

Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results
Amrit Poudel, Tim Weninger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13325 https://arxiv.org/p…

Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results
Search engines play a crucial role in shaping public discourse by influencing how information is accessed and framed. While prior research has extensively examined various dimensions of search bias -- such as content prioritization, indexical bias, political polarization, and sources of bias -- an important question remains underexplored: how do search engines and ideologically-motivated user queries contribute to bias in search results. This study analyzes the outputs of major search engines u…

Oof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, writing in 1995:

FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020 (John Solomon/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-gives-congress-intel-alleged-chinese-plot-create-fake-mail
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p48#a250617p48

"Labour’s economic strategy, if it can be called a strategy, is based upon growth delivering the tax income needed to fund our public services, with limited tax increases and the hope of ‘trickle down’ from wide-ranging deregulation of finance and planning."
John McDonnell still hanging in there it seems. A forlorn hope? Or a careful programmatic tactic?
Wasting a glorious political opportunity – 1 year of Labour in Government. John McDonnell exclusive

Wasting a glorious political opportunity – 1 year of Labour in Government. John McDonnell exclusive.
"There is no way the Chancellor’s existing economic strategy will be able to address the scale of the deep-seated problems our society faces."

The political neutral Red Cross about the situation in Gaza.
"Gaza worse than hell on Earth"
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg5vyp33j1t?post=asset:09e08599-9e3d-4878-a965-ff0fd0054fe1#post

Gaza worse than hell on Earth, Red Cross chief tells BBC as aid centres close for day
The president of the ICRC tells the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen Palestinians have been stripped of human dignity.

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…

A United States senator forced to the floor and handcuffed by federal agents for interrupting a news conference.
A mayor taken into custody by masked officials in military-style fatigues.
A political candidate pushed against a wall and handcuffed in a dispute at an immigration courthouse.
A government crackdown is extending to the political opposition.
“This is executive authority, especially in the Department of Homeland Security, running out of control,” said Senator …

Images of Handcuffed Democrats Are Piling Up in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Federal agents have arrested a growing number of the party’s elected officials, fueling liberal outrage and conservative accusations that Democrats are carrying out publicity stunts.

"Trump is furious with the WSJ owner, Rupert Murdoch, and threatening to “sue his ass off”. Oh please don’t, Mr President! His ass is 94 years old and incredibly wrinkled. Also, half of Britain’s political class still lives up it"
One shouldn't read Marina Hyde. It's a bad habit. But she is sometimes witty.

Some conservative authors are turning to podcasts to promote their books; publishers say Joe Rogan can boost book sales by 3,000 to 4,000 copies immediately (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/books/conservative-books-podca…

Trying to Sell a Conservative Book? Go on a Podcast.
Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.

'This is not acceptable': Political stalker forced top PA Dem to wear a bulletproof vest - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/political-stalker/

Omg. I thought this was satire. It's not.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

Hamburg police have understood what “defensive #democracy” means:
“Does flying the 🏳️‍🌈 flag violate the neutrality requirement? No! Our neutrality means political impartiality – but not neutrality in value. The flag represents values like diversity, tolerance & equality of rights, which are deeply embedded in our constitution.
Positioning ourselves against hate & discrimi…

Andreas Froese (@Andreas_Froese@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Im Bundestag geht die Polizei auf Anordnung der Präsidentin und der Verwaltung gegen die #Regenbogenfahne vor. Die Hamburger Polizei hat dagegen dieses stabile Statement offiziell veröffentlicht. Klare Worte zur #Neutralität mit einer klaren #Haltung! #LGBTQIA+ #Regenbogenflagge #Queer

The Israeli Sociological Society was suspended from cooperation w/ the International Sociological Association. #ISS #Sociology This sends “a problematic signal by isolating academic organizations under political pressure instead of protecting them.”
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I can't help but think that all this #Iran stuff is Wagging The Dog - the term for when a - usually foreign, military - diversion is concocted to take attention away from embarrassing domestic political scandal. https://en.wikipedia.o…

Calamus 37 A leaf for hand in hand!
I continue to have little patience for these Whitman entreaties to American unity. The recitation of place names does little for me. But I do appreciate that he's talking more about loving unity between men than some abstract political message.
You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs! ...
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
That's the gay part there. It's pretty mild, but still seems striking of talking about two boatmen or mechanics walking holding hands. One might even see an appeal to rough trade.
I am beginning to understand this Whitman concept of "adhesiveness", a brotherly love that could unify a nation. I still prefer a more sexual gay reading but I think his poems work in both ways.

The workers' freedom must be the work of their own hands, the emancipation and liberation of the working class cannot be granted or imposed by external political parties or authorities, but must be achieved through autonomous, collective action and self-organization.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

Pretty interesting piece on how the #NASA proposed butget cuts (and the overall political mess in the US) affects #ESA.

What happens to Europe’s space ambitions if NASA cuts joint missions
Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be able to go back to the way it was.

🧵 https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/114864376228330562

Remember working on their early website and socials - great show.
Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success - ABC News https://share.google/8XHCttXqe84T9Rpo0

Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success
Heather Ewart was a powerhouse political reporter when she was asked to create a show about regional Australia. A decade later, and with her final season going to air, Ewart admits that getting the idea off the ground was no easy feat.

President Trump's spending bill could limit local control over zoning and environmental regulations for AI data centers, worrying state lawmakers (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-political-battle-is-brewing-over-data-centers/…

A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.

“The society said any judgments it issued that were potentially seen as political would do ‘more harm than good.’”
The Royal Society has already made a political announcement: that it is perfectly fine with fascism and having fascists as fellows. As far as political statements go, it doesn’t get any stronger than that. The only thing they could do to make their point clearer is if they hang a “Nazi Bar” sign above their headquarters.

Passing the Turing Test in Political Discourse: Fine-Tuning LLMs to Mimic Polarized Social Media Comments
. Pazzaglia, V. Vendetti, L. D. Comencini, F. Deriu, V. Modugno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14645

Passing the Turing Test in Political Discourse: Fine-Tuning LLMs to Mimic Polarized Social Media Comments
The increasing sophistication of large language models (LLMs) has sparked growing concerns regarding their potential role in exacerbating ideological polarization through the automated generation of persuasive and biased content. This study explores the extent to which fine-tuned LLMs can replicate and amplify polarizing discourse within online environments. Using a curated dataset of politically charged discussions extracted from Reddit, we fine-tune an open-source LLM to produce context-aware…

MAGA political violence claims more victims (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hortman-hoffman-maga-political-violence
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p23#a250616p23

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Please join us for another conversation for possibility about how we might live effectively in these times, with courage, grace, and power. 
Our topic this month? Well, it’s a moving target—just like the world these days! You’ll have to attend to find out. ;-)  
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Mit Gruß an alle, die weiterhin in die Welt tröten, es läge allein an der Hamas, dass der Gaza-Krieg nicht beendet ist.
How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power - The New York Times
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/17/clive-palmer-united-australia-party-trumpet-of-patriots-data-breach-documents/
I don’t know enough about Australian politics but it sounds like the country’s version of the MAG…

Clive Palmer’s political parties suffer data breach affecting ‘all emails … documents and records’
Identical statements from both parties say a ransomware attack has obtained ‘email address, phone number, identity records, banking records, employment history, documents (including those provided subject to confidentiality arrangements)'.

Not sure if I should make merch for this party, but it does seem really popular.
#FaceEatingLeopards #FaceEatingLeopardsParty #politics

Our brain-dead political reporting. Progressive endorsed by Bernie & AOC wins primary in landslide. NYT reports result as "Mamdani momentum withers."
Lazy media, please tell us where candidates stand on issues. Stop fixating on their age & identity.

A Scion of Democratic Politics Defeats the Upstarts in an Arizona Primary
Adelita Grijalva beat back charges of “legacy” and embraced the memory of her father, Raúl Grijalva, to win the Democratic primary for the House seat opened by his death.

How does a movement demonstrate political strength? Some thoughts and measures as the anti-Trump resistance kicks into gear.
https://wp.me/pcFxY-1jo

No Kings protests were extraordinary. How exactly?
Americans, citizens and immigrants alike, protested on Saturday, June 14, in exceptional numbers as a wave of No Kings protests became the most widespread public repudiation of the second Donald Tr…

Military AI Cyber Agents (MAICAs) Constitute a Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure
Timothy Dubber, Seth Lazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12094 https:/…

Military AI Cyber Agents (MAICAs) Constitute a Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure
This paper argues that autonomous AI cyber-weapons - Military-AI Cyber Agents (MAICAs) - create a credible pathway to catastrophic risk. It sets out the technical feasibility of MAICAs, explains why geopolitics and the nature of cyberspace make MAICAs a catastrophic risk, and proposes political, defensive-AI and analogue-resilience measures to blunt the threat.

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…

Meta investors, Zuckerberg settle $8 billion privacy lawsuit tied to Cambridge Analytica scandal https://therecord.media/meta-investors-zuckerberg-settle-privacy-lawsuit

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

Trump "honors" the military.
Trump executive order ‘extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients…

We had to leave the protest early yesterday due to another political commitment but people there commented on our signs so we handed them off so they could get more use.
A few people asked to take photos of my signs. I like making signs. I’ll make more.

Horrifying:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Horrifying:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Language bubbles in online social networks
Alessandro Bellina, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Fabio Saracco, Pietro Gravino, Vittorio Loreto, Gabriele Di Bona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13068

Language bubbles in online social networks
Social media platforms have become essential spaces for public discourse. While political polarisation and limited communication across different groups are widely acknowledged, the connection between social network fragmentation and the language features and quality used by various communities has received insufficient attention. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the social structure and linguistic richness of the Italian debate on Twitter/X. We analyse tweets and retweets from Ita…

International Conference Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Political Thought and Social Theory
https://ift.tt/PuobTd0
updated: Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:55amfull name / name of organization: CEAUL/ULICES, School of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Newsflash: Game developer confident that their joke that relies on political knowledge is in no way political. He'll return now to making apolitical games about having the freedom to shoot people.
https://www.

'I'm not here to apologize but I am here to clarify': Splitgate 2 boss says his Make FPS Great Again hat is 'not a political statement'
The 1047 Games CEO wore the Trump slogan-parody hat on stage at Summer Game Fest.

“It is likely that Ukraine will suffer the greatest military and political damage in this situation,
apart from Iran itself, of course.
A new war in the Middle East will not only distract the world’s attention from the [conflict in Ukraine]
but will also, apparently, contribute to the final reorientation of the US towards providing military assistance to Israel.”
But while these may offer short-term gains, the long-term picture is far more precarious for Russia, anal…

Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire https://phys.org/news/2025-07-plastics-threaten-ecosystems-human-health.html

Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire
Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations Environment Program announcing that the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution will reconvene in August.

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

Obama Steps Back Into Public Eye at a Stormy Political Moment (Lisa Lerer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/obama-speech-heather-cox-richardson-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.bObq.KcKDqFB8ZQS1&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p66#a250618p66

Resistance and The Courts work. Keep resisting.
#Resist
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-14-2025

May 14, 2025
On May 8, political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York Times reminding readers that most modern authoritarian leaders are elected.

""Thousands of demonstrators turned out to protest the trump Administration in St.Paul on Saturday, even as dozens of other "No Kings" events across Minnesota were canceled after two lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight in what Gov. Tim Waltz called "targeted political violence."

‘No Kings’ rally held in St. Paul; other MN events canceled after lawmaker shootings
The event at the State Capitol in St. Paul appeared to be going ahead as planned.

On The Political Roots of Academic Freedom — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/

Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-mer…

FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

There is a fundraiser for Minnesota State Senator Hoffman and his wife Yvette. They have survived being shot multiple times in a political assassination attempt.
Fundraiser at https://gofund.me/0e1c4783
Coverage of how they are doing archived at

Moldova's pro-Russian political bloc to participate in upcoming elections: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/moldovas-prorussian-political-bloc-to.html

I don’t want to dwell •too• much on the shadenfreude of Trump’s pitiful parade, but I do think it’s worth just taking this in:
Trump’s political success has always hinged on him knowing how to be a reality TV star, knowing better than the news orgs themselves that political “news” is in fact reality TV, knowing how to manipulate that reality TV show.
And today, he failed at that completely. His reality show sucked. The news of the day just ran right over him. https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/114685755430626127

The Johnson Amendment is not exactly a difficult law to parse.
To keep their sweet tax-exempt status, religious groups can’t endorse political candidates.
But evangelicals want to have their cake and eat it too. -- They don’t want to pay taxes, but they do want ministers to be able to climb into the pulpit and tell their flock who to vote for.
The "Alliance Defending Freedom", the hard-right law firm with a truly staggering track record of getting the United St…

Goodbye, separation of church and state
Churches now have extra special speech rights, thanks to Trump.

They make a good point.
#USpol

Our brain-dead political reporting. Progressive endorsed by Bernie & AOC wins primary in landslide. NYT reports result as "Mamdani momentum withers."
Lazy media, please tell us where candidates stand on issues. Stop fixating on their age & identity.

WTF.....
"Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

Starmer Picks Up Trump's Papers, and 2 Small Political Wins (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/europe/trump-starmer-trade-uk-g7-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p45#a250617p45

polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata

"So this isn't something that goes away," she continued. "I don't love Donald Trump just in the political sense. I love Donald Trump as a human being. But I cannot stand down on this. I can't. And I think that's the way a lot of MAGA feels."
'Can't fit it in my brain': MAGA hosts implode as Trump calls them 'bad people' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-epstein-bad-people/

Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
https://www.

FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

For a moment last week, Donald Trump’s Justice Department appeared to throw a metaphorical life vest to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s public relations team.
As search and rescue operations continued, the Republican governor was under fire for suggesting that
survivors and the media were using the “word choice of losers”
when asking him who was to blame for the state’s handling of the flash flood that claimed at least 134 lives over the July 4 weekend.
Abbott also compared…

Texas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump
Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.

University of Edinburgh School of Political Science graduates stage mass walk out at graduation ceremony to protest university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlJazeera/s/G9teVzIYZJ

International Conference Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Political Thought and Social Theory
https://ift.tt/PuobTd0
updated: Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:55amfull name / name of organization: CEAUL/ULICES, School of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Political Violence Came to Minnesota. It Didn't Start There. (Barbara McQuade/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/opinion/political-violence-minnesota.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p50#a250615p50

Suddenly the political outlook looks very grim in Spain as the majority coalition party, Sšnchez's PSOE is mired in a corruption scandal.
Sšnchez himself not implicated but his judgement in appointing ministers is.
Minority parties could withdraw.
Election not due til 2027 but how long can he hold on?
Alliance of post Franco PP and neofascist Vox is the nightmare scenario.
El día en que colapsó la legislatura

El día en que colapsó la legislatura
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FCC Chair Accused of 'Political Theater' to Please Net Neutrality's Foes - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/12/0559241/fcc-chair-accused-of-political-theater-to-please-net-neutralitys-foes

#humor #politics #political #MadKingDonald

Jeeeez.
❝One unit-level message bluntly said "no fat soldiers."❞
Read this story. Get it out. This is important.
❝“If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,” another note to troops said.❞
In a country where the military is one of the more respected institutions, people need — NEED — to hear this:
They engineered the audience. They faked the appearance of soldiers’ support.
They staged it like reality TV.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html

For Trump, Domestic Adversaries Are Not Just Wrong, They Are 'Evil' (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/politics/trump-political-enemies-evil.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W08.VWYV.0XSEaYk8CXGN&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p90#a250716p90

Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old political content creator who has over 395,000 followers on TikTok, is running for Democratic nomination in Arizona’s 7th District after only turning the minimum age to serve in Congress in April.
Fifty-four-year-old former Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late Rep. Raul Grijalva, was widely seen as the frontrunner in the race to replace her father,
but recent internal polling from Foxx’s campaign first published by Politico su…

Arizona Special Election: 25-Year-Old Deja Foxx Seeks To Go From TikTok Activist To Congress
Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old political content creator, is a contender for an Arizona congressional seat.

“Using this tragedy to push your own political agenda is disgraceful, people are dead,” Democratic activist Nina Turner replied on X.
“Even for MikeLee, this is beyond disgusting,” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote on X. “Disinformation, beneath contempt.”
“What the hell is Mike Lee doing? Has he completely lost it?” conservative journalist Brad Polumbo also wrote on X.
“It’s Father’s Day, and you’re spending your time tweeting lies about a tragedy to run cover for …

MAGA Sen. Mocked for Absurdly Calling Dem Assassin ‘Marxist’
Senator Mike Lee joined Elon Musk in portraying the suspect in attacks on Minnesota lawmakers as a leftist.

The Sun appoints Jack Elsom as political editor, replacing Harry Cole, who is relocating to the US to become editor at large, and drops its business page (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Sun names new political editor and drops business page
Jack Elsom replaces Harry Cole who has new US-based role on TV and Youtube.

Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine (Lisa Lerer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/minnesota-political-violence.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p92#a250614p92

Why Calling the Texas Flooding ‘An Act of God’ Is a Dangerous Form of Political Denial - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072025/why-calling-the-texas-flooding-an-act-of-god-is-a-dangerous-form-of-political-denial/

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

David Gergen, a frequent political commentator on CNN and PBS who helped shape the public images of four US presidents, has died at 83 from Lewy body dementia (Clyde Haberman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/politics/david-gergen-dead.html

David Gergen, Adviser to Presidents and Political Commentator, Dies at 83
He served under Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton before becoming a top editor and a familiar TV pundit. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said.

Minnesota Shootings Shake Capitol Hill, Spark Security Fears (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/minnesota-lawmakers-shooting-response-political-violence-958959d4
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p11#a250615p11

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…

Minnesota shootings spotlight growing safety risks facing lawmakers (Kyle Stokes/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/06/15/minnesota-melissa-hortman-shootings-political-threats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p77#a250615p77

The IRS said in a new court filing that clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements,
-- abandoning an 71-year-old tax policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.

Nonprofits should be allowed to make political endorsements and not lose their tax exemption,
the IRS said in the court filing.
Religious congregations, the filing said, are like families and communication between them should not be deemed “participation” in a ca…

IRS: Churches should be allowed to make political endorsements
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency now says political endorsements by churches should be allowed.

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…

Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed in home
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.
https://www.startribune.com…

Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.

Abortion providers devastated by political killings, hit list (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5353386-abortion-providers-targeted-missouri-shooting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p135#a250616p135

A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting
– the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists
– hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.
The four days of transatlantic talks are taking place at the swanky Grand hotel,
which is owned, like so much else in Sweden, by the Wallenbergs.
The Swedis…

It is the fight Trump had been dreaming about,
a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his political agenda.
In bypassing the authority of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat,
to call in the National Guard to quell protests in the Los Angeles area over his administration’s efforts to deport more migrants,
Trump is now pushing the boundaries of presidential authority and stoking criticism that he is inflaming the situation…

Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Confrontation in California Over Immigration
The situation has all the elements that the president seeks: a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his agenda.

'Political Theater!' Kristi Noem Blames Senator Padilla for Getting Himself Manhandled By Agents in Stunning Fox News Interview (Joe DePaolo/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/political-theater-kristi-noem-blames-senator-padilla-for-getting-himself-manhandled-by-agents-in-stunning-fox-news-interview/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p119#a250612p119

New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress
— a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years.

Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril
A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang
said he’s reached out to Elon Musk
in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party,
Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders. ($$$$)
When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”

Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party...

Trump appears eager to create optics that support his claim that public dissent constitutes an existential threat to the nation.
He also apparently seeks to get the American public used to seeing our armed forces in a new light.
In the president’s version of America, the military should be seen less as an apolitical body loyal to the Constitution.
-- Rather, it should be viewed as an institution that serves at the behest of a leader and his ideological and political agen…

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
The president wants to get Americans used to seeing the armed forces in a new light.

Minnesota political assassin
57-year-old Vance Boelter,
was twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council

-- in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton
and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz.
His most recent term expired in January 2023.

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence:
the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/magazin

How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7.