Tootfinder

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.

😵 Rigid and negative thought patterns linked to increasing political polarization online
#psychology

Rigid and negative thought patterns linked to increasing political polarization online
The ideological divide between opposing political groups has been drastically increasing in various countries worldwide. This phenomenon, known as political polarization, can lead to greater social division, extremism and political violence.

'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.

Trump's IRS says churches can now endorse political candidates from the pulpit (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-political-candidates-pulpit-rcna217495
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p87#a250708p87

"The Seven Mountain Mandate calls on Christians to gain influence, or “take dominion,” over seven key areas of culture: religion, family, education, government, media, business and the arts."
**The Christian mandate that's fueling American political extremism** - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/what-is-the-seven-mountains-mandate-and-how-is-it-linked-to-political-extremis/

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

I guess in practice we're already seeing the equivalents of Lysenkoism happening in US "science", but if anything this will give that trend a big boost.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/

Deliberative democracy.
Podcast worth listening to:
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/political-philosophy-podcast/id1365725211?l=en-GB&i=1000725384670

Can Deliberation Save Democracy? with James S. Fishkin
Podcast Episode · Political Philosophy Podcast · 07/09/2025 · 54m

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…

Conversational AI increases political knowledge as effectively as self-directed internet search
Lennart Luettgau, Hannah Rose Kirk, Kobi Hackenburg, Jessica Bergs, Henry Davidson, Henry Ogden, Divya Siddarth, Saffron Huang, Christopher Summerfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05219

Conversational AI increases political knowledge as effectively as self-directed internet search
Conversational AI systems are increasingly being used in place of traditional search engines to help users complete information-seeking tasks. This has raised concerns in the political domain, where biased or hallucinated outputs could misinform voters or distort public opinion. However, in spite of these concerns, the extent to which conversational AI is used for political information-seeking, as well the potential impact of this use on users' political knowledge, remains uncertain. Here, we a…

Sources: OpenAI execs fear rising political scrutiny in California could hinder its for-profit plans and have discussed moving out of the state as a last resort (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-for-profit-conversion-opposition-0…

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order
🆘 asserting political control over grant funding,
-- including all federally supported research.
The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate,
💥which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds.
Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appo…

New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

High political drama unfolding in France as Macron's Prime Minister is facing a confidence vote!
Will there be new elections?
How will this affect the Ukraine War?
#France #EU #Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqgnzw759t

“This is the politicisation of the armed forces,” said Maj Gen Paul Eaton. “It casts the military in a terrible light – it’s that man on horseback ... out in front of American citizens. We are headed towards the invocation of the Insurrection Act.”
Veterans Warn That Trump LA Response Could Turn Military Into Political Force | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-09/veterans-warn-trump-la-response-could-turn-military-political-force

"It has long been understood that the capitalist class has numerous means of functioning as a ruling class via the state, even in the case of a liberal democratic order. On the one hand, this takes the form of fairly direct investiture in the political apparatus through various mechanisms, such as economic and political control of political party machines and the direct occupation by capitalists and their representatives of key posts in the political command structure."

Monthly Review | The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime
John Bellamy Foster revisits and critiques the contention that the U.S. capitalist class is not a “governing” class, or indeed a class-conscious bloc in any sense. However, he writes…

Man is by nature a political animal.
-- Aristotle

"Greenwashing at #Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7482

It strikes me that a podcast about #Labour politics should be renamed "Politics Weakly".
Politics Weekly UK: One year of Labour - Politics Weekly live at Crossed Wires festival
Episode webpage: https://www.

writing a piece for Jacobin magazine about how political violence is never okay

Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/10/…

Isn’t it great that Swiss institutions have made themselves completely dependent on Microsoft?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/exwhite_house_cyber_and_counterterrorism/

Tell your Senators to vote NO on massive cuts to public media:
https://www.marketplace.org/action
This is a blatant attack on the only part of the media ecosystem that is resilient against political influence and control. That makes it the most valuable part. That's why the Rep…

#ProtectMyPublicMedia

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. IG Farben initially wasn’t keen on working with the Nazis, but it just made business sense to adapt to the new political environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. IG Farben initially wasn’t keen on working with the Nazis, but it just made business sense to adapt to the new political environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon

"Hello! I am an American syndicalist, and I study political science. If you're interested in international political history, philosophy or a rare dose of contemporary political analysis from a pro-Western perspective, this is the place for you."
—@thejaylino
https://www.youtube.com/@thejaylino

@… I don't buy this argument. It assumes the means-tested service is used involuntarily. You can't equivalently tax eg a library user fee or a bus fare because use is unpredictable & even depends on the fee.
The political argument (which goes back way before 1998) is the real one. It also guides you in cases like bus fares where it's not …

The proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences changes proposes to merge the School of Music, School of Art and Design and the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies.
It’s also been proposed major degrees such as political science, international relations and public policies would be merged into one degree.
Staff would be expected to re-apply for their jobs and essentially compete for remaining positions.

We won't be silent: ANU students decry proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences 'bloodbath' | Region Canberra
ANU students have described the proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences changes as a

Everything you already knew about MAGA voters... now with more scientific research to back it up.
✅ Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
https://www.psypost.org/trump-supporters-r…

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lower benevolence, suggesting personality may shape how people engage with politics and ideology.

Patrick Harvie added: "There is no way that Donald Trump should be welcomed to Scotland. He is a convicted felon and political extremist who has shown a complete lack of respect for human rights and democracy in America and around the world."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20xv

Police preparing for Donald Trump to visit Scotland
The US President is expected to visit his new golf course in Aberdeenshire when it opens later this month.

RooseBERT: A New Deal For Political Language Modelling
Deborah Dore, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03250 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

RooseBERT: A New Deal For Political Language Modelling
The increasing amount of political debates and politics-related discussions calls for the definition of novel computational methods to automatically analyse such content with the final goal of lightening up political deliberation to citizens. However, the specificity of the political language and the argumentative form of these debates (employing hidden communication strategies and leveraging implicit arguments) make this task very challenging, even for current general-purpose pre-trained Langu…

Now, more than ever, we need an alternative to the "like" or "favorite" (🤍,⭐) options. Something that encapsulates #Shock #Horror #Dismay

Now, more than ever, we need an alternative to the "like" or "favorite" (🤍,⭐) options. Something that encapsulates #Shock #Horror #Dismay

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It’s a political timebomb
"While housing lies at the heart of political disillusionment today, it is for the same reason becoming a primary trigger for mobilisation across Europe. In October 2024, 150,000 protesters marched through the streets of Madrid demanding action. Some governments, including Denmark and the Netherlands, are introducing policies to deter speculators. But real estate capital continues to hold the…

Vance #Boelter, who shot Democratic Minnesota state representative Melissa #Hortman and her husband, Mark #Hortman, on June 14, 2025,
studied at "Christ for the Nations Institute" in Dallas.
The group is a Bible …

What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism in the US?
The Seven Mountain Mandate calls on Christians to gain influence, or ‘take dominion,’ over seven key areas of culture: religion, family, education, government, media, business and the arts.

Begin oktober kennelijk geen politieke advertenties meer op Facebook, interessant, ook voor de Nederlandse verkiezingen eind oktober, welke partij zou hier het meest last van hebben? (Of maakt het niets uit)
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/07/endi

Ending Political, Electoral and Social Issue Advertising in the EU in Response to Incoming European Regulation
From early October 2025, we will no longer allow political, electoral and social issue ads on our platforms in the EU. This is a difficult decision - one

The Bible Says So…or Does It? - Reveal #religion

New executive order puts all grants under political control (John Timmer/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p155#a250807p155

1/2 Neil Young, outdoor show, 2025/09/06. Setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-and-the-chrome-hearts/2025/deer-lake-park-burnaby-bc-canada-2b5bc4de.html
Show was super political, e.g.

Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts Setlist at Deer Lake Park, Burnaby
Get the Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts Setlist of the concert at Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC, Canada on September 6, 2025 from the Love Earth World Tour and other Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

@… Two other things come to mind:
The use of snowflake as an insult to me implies something about the person's political allegiances.
1. I wonder if he realizes that FOSS is itself a political movement, one that may be incongruent with his other views.
2. If not for the fact that they're an active threat to life, it would be hilarious that the p…

Zelensky arrives at Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/zelensky-arrives-at-ukraine-recovery.html

VOTER: “West Virginia has 4 members of Congress…
none of them are willing to come here and do what you’re doing.
What can we do?”
BERNIE: “We need a political revolution.
We need to elect people accountable to the working class
rather than raising money from billionaires.”
https://

LoRAShield: Data-Free Editing Alignment for Secure Personalized LoRA Sharing
Jiahao Chen, junhao li, Yiming Wang, Zhe Ma, Yi Jiang, Chunyi Zhou, Qingming Li, Tianyu Du, Shouling Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07056

LoRAShield: Data-Free Editing Alignment for Secure Personalized LoRA Sharing
The proliferation of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) models has democratized personalized text-to-image generation, enabling users to share lightweight models (e.g., personal portraits) on platforms like Civitai and Liblib. However, this "share-and-play" ecosystem introduces critical risks: benign LoRAs can be weaponized by adversaries to generate harmful content (e.g., political, defamatory imagery), undermining creator rights and platform safety. Existing defenses like concept-erasure methods focu…

Identity isn't everything -- how far do demographics take us towards self-identified party ID?
Sabina Tomkins, David Rothschild, Alex Liu, Alexander Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06193

Identity isn't everything -- how far do demographics take us towards self-identified party ID?
How well do demographics explain party identification? Demographics are related to party identification in political polls, news articles, and academic publications. Yet, there is a diversity of party identification even within demographic groups which have historically been attached to one party. And some groups lack a clear connection to either party. It may be that demographics on their own fail to account for the fact that people generally belong to a variety of groups. They must select the…

@… https://collectedephemera.substack.com

Collected Ephemera | Jay Hinman | Substack
A deep dive into the paper, magazines and marginal collectables I've accumulated over the years, especially 60s & 70s political rabble-rousing, underground music, smut, hippy/biker stuff, postcards and much else. Click to read Collected Ephemera, by Jay Hinman, a Substack publication. Launched 2 hours ago.

A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy: Analysing the impact of political trends and the interaction across age and education groups in the USA
Wajid Ali (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK), Javad Mohamadichamgavi (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland), Juan Ramirez (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain), Jose Aguilar (IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain, Universidad de Los Andes, M\'erida, Venezuela), Antonio Fern\'…

A mathematical model of vaccine hesitancy: Analysing the impact of political trends and the interaction across age and education groups in the USA
Vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 disease has significantly reduced its mortality rate and spread. However, despite its availability, a considerable proportion of the public has either refused or delayed getting vaccinated. This reluctance is known as vaccine hesitancy. The aim of this paper is to present a mathematical model to investigate how social interaction can impact vaccine hesitancy. The model describes the temporal transitions between different vaccination classes of the population (…

D4 is a mess because of incoherent alliances.
Engardio won by courting both urbanists (who skew progressive) and conservatives (who are car-brained). Now conservatives feel betrayed because he backed car-free space, while progressive urbanists who like car-free spaces still aren't wild about *him*.
Thus, he's likely toast in the recall. 1/

Recalls now ‘a thing we live with,’ political insiders say at Mission Local event
The insiders said Engardio is in big trouble. They added that new money, especially from tech, fueling city politics is behind recent recalls.

After four years as SAG-AFTRA president, Fran Drescher will not seek another term; ballots for new candidates will be collected from August 13 to September 12 (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Fran Drescher Won’t Run for SAG-AFTRA President As Candidates Line Up for Race
A list of national political candidates at the union, released Friday, confirmed that the labor group’s erstwhile strike leader is not seeking reelection.

#WritersCoffeeClub 10 Aug
How much of your world-building extends beyond what's shown in the text?
I don't know much about the cities on the northern coast of the continent, beyond what they import or export. I don't know how many there are, or what their political systems and religions are. I suspect that there are in fact other continents, but the people on '…

After Elon Musk announced a US political party called the America Party, Donald Trump called Musk a "TRAIN WRECK" fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/elon-musk-…

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. IG Farben initially wasn’t keen on working with the Nazis, but it just made business sense to adapt to the new political environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon

New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-visa-applicants-social-media-political.html

Scalable Sample-to-Population Estimation of Hyperbolic Space Models for Hypergraphs
Cornelius Fritz, Yubai Yuan, Michael Schweinberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07031 https://

Scalable Sample-to-Population Estimation of Hyperbolic Space Models for Hypergraphs
Hypergraphs are useful mathematical representations of overlapping and nested subsets of interacting units, including groups of genes or brain regions, economic cartels, political or military coalitions, and groups of products that are purchased together. Despite the vast range of applications, the statistical analysis of hypergraphs is challenging: There are many hyperedges of small and large sizes, and hyperedges can overlap or be nested. We develop a novel statistical approach to hypergraphs…

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…

"…the long arc of history has never been kind to those who rule by force rather than persuasion."
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/court-victory-masks-political-freefall

Court Victory Masks Political Freefall
As the President basks in Supreme Court victories and executive power grabs, his core supporters are peeling away—and the consequences may be deeper than he thinks.

Shut Down Andgar Piggery and Demand Justice for the Surviving Pigs #AnimalRights

Shut Down Andgar Piggery and Demand Justice for the Surviving Pigs
The Animal Justice Party has been formed as a response to growing public concern about the neglect of animals and animal protection issues by political parties. It gives a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.

One of the main archetypes of lies for political gain are those where you pretend one group of people is actually a different, more criminal group, so that you can frame your subjugation of them as justice.
All the protestors at the No Kings rally are actually invaders, so sending the national guard is justified.
All Mexicans are actually rapists, so “border security”, deportations and now concentration camps are actually just protection.
All of the pro Palestine protestors…

Harvard Crimson on Closure of RPL
A Divinity School Program Became a Political Liability. In One Semester, Harvard Took It Apart.
 The report on combating anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian bias raised concerns about the recent leadership changes within the program, referencing Rashid’s accusations of bias within the Univer

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
AVON: Approximately six million. It was colonized in the last century of the Old Calendar. At first they resisted political affiliation, but then they joined the Federation, and they have remained unswervingly loyal.
VILA: Then they're not likely to welcome us with open arms.
https://

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

😶‍🌫️ When politicians gain power, their language becomes garbled
#politics…

When politicians gain power, their language becomes garbled
It's well known that governing parties often lose voters over time—the so-called cost of governing. But a new study from Frederik Hjorth, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, documents a lesser-known but potentially crucial side effect of being in government: politicians begin to speak less simply and understandably.

New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-visa-applicants-social-media-political.html

IRS says churches should be allowed to make political endorsements (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/08/irs-church-endorsements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p128#a250708p128

Impending federal overhaul means Trump will soon have de facto political army to attack Palestine activism – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/impending-federal-overhaul-means-trump-will-soon-have-de-facto-political-army-to-attack-palestine-activism/

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
Zsolt Alm\'asi (P\'azm\'any P\'eter Catholic University, Hungary), Hannah Bleher (University of Bonn, Germany), Johannes Bleher (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Rozanne Tuesday Flores (Bukidnon State University, Philippines), Guo Xuanyang (Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China), Pawe{\l} Pujszo (College of Europe, Natolin, Poland), Rapha\&q…

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems permeate critical sectors, the need for professionals who can address ethical, legal and governance challenges has become urgent. Current AI ethics education remains fragmented, often siloed by discipline and disconnected from practice. This paper synthesizes literature and regulatory developments to propose a modular, interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates technical foundations with ethics, law and policy. We highlight recurring operational failure…

Ukrainian refugee killed in North Carolina gets dragged into political messaging war (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/trump-blames-democrats-murder-ukrainian-refugee-00551419
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p6#a250909p6

Correcting Misperceptions at a Glance: Using Data Visualizations to Reduce Political Sectarianism
Douglas Markant, Subham Sah, Alireza Karduni, Milad Rogha, My Thai, Wenwen Dou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00233

Correcting Misperceptions at a Glance: Using Data Visualizations to Reduce Political Sectarianism
Political sectarianism is fueled in part by misperceptions of political opponents: People commonly overestimate the support for extreme policies among members of the other party. Research suggests that correcting partisan misperceptions by informing people about the actual views of outparty members may reduce one's own expressed support for political extremism, including partisan violence and anti-democratic actions. The present study investigated how correction effects depend on different repr…

Little more than a year ago,
Kristi Noem’s political prospects appeared to be in freefall.
The then South Dakota governor was criss-crossing the country on an ill-fated book tour,
widely seen, at least initially, as an audition to be Donald Trump’s running mate.
Instead, Noem found herself on the defensive – a position Trump never likes to be in – after revealing in her memoir that she had shot the family’s “untrainable” hunting dog,
a 14-month-old wirehair poi…

Nexstar reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $1.23B, primarily due to reduced political ad revenue in a US non-election year, and net income down 14% YoY to $91M (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/nexstar-q2-2025-financial-earnings/

Nexstar Q2 revenue impacted by soft ad market
Nexstar reported $1.23 billion in Q2 revenue, down 3 percent due to lower political ad spending in a non-election year.

Voting Republican means voting for lower wages. I mean, why pay America's workers when you can enrich billionaires, amirite? 🙄
From: @…
https://www.

The Intellectualist (@the_intellectualist_official) on Threads
In 2025, 21 states—mostly Democrat-led—raised their minimum wage, while 20 Republican-led states kept the $7.25 federal rate. Washington leads at $16.66, followed by California ($16.50) and Connecticut ($15.69), highlighting sharp political and regional divides.

"Palestine Action is not arming the genocide and Israel — that’s Keir Starmer and the British government, who should be proscribed,”
'A clear example of political censorship' | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clear-e…

Harvard Crimson on Closure of RPL
A Divinity School Program Became a Political Liability. In One Semester, Harvard Took It Apart.  The report on combating anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian bias raised concerns about the recent leadership changes within the program, referencing Rashid’s accusations of bias within the University.

“You can’t begin to understand why one party would pass a bill that is unbelievably unpopular for stripping health care from poor people unless you understand Citizens United,”
said Robert Weissman, co-president of the watchdog group Public Citizen, in an interview.
The case that the Supreme Court agreed to hear calls on the First Amendment in an attempt to dismantle one of the last remaining pillars of campaign finance law.
With Trump appointees among a solid conservative …

A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power
A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”…

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…

Summers: No economist 'without a strong political agenda' says Trump bill good for economy (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/economy/5387158-summers-no-economist-without-a-strong-political-agenda-says-trump-bill-good-for-economy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p44#a250706p44

Influence of Stakeholder Involvement in M&E on the Performance of Donor-Funded Projects in Informal Settlements in Kisumu Central Sub-County, Kisumu County, Kenya
Brighton Savayi Amuni, Stella Silas Karimi, Felistus Mwikali Patrick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05369

Influence of Stakeholder Involvement in M&E on the Performance of Donor-Funded Projects in Informal Settlements in Kisumu Central Sub-County, Kisumu County, Kenya
Stakeholder engagement and participatory approaches influence the effectiveness of donor-funded projects. Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) methodologies ensure that local communities play an active role in decision-making, leading to more sustainable outcomes. Given the complex socio-political landscape of Kisumu Central Sub-County, there is a critical need for inclusive and context-responsive project monitoring strategies. Initiatives that have integrated local leaders, youth gro…

Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month.
Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province,
losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted …

Milei's party crushed in Argentine local elections
The party of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has suffered a sweeping setback in the Buenos Aires provincial election that is viewed as a barometer of the party's performance in congressional midterms next month. Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province while the left-leaning Peronist opposition secured 47%, with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday. With Milei’s close associates embroiled by a gr…

⏰ New study challenges assumptions linking racial attitudes and political identity in U.S. cities
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-assumptions-linking-racial-attitudes-political.html

New study challenges assumptions linking racial attitudes and political identity in U.S. cities
Nearly 40% of U.S. cities analyzed in a study in NPJ Complexity diverge from the common narrative that Republican-dominated areas have high levels of implicit racial bias while Democratic strongholds are more tolerant.

MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau cheers on Trump for lying about crime statistics for blatantly political purposes:
"He's saying it is and that's all that matters."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/lan…

Lance Wallnau Cheers On Trump For Lying About Crime Statistics For Political Gain
MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau cheers on Trump for lying about crime statistics for blatantly political purposes: "He's saying it is and that's all that matters."

Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo plans to launch a newsletter written from a progressive perspective this month, and has hired several political reporters from Rolling Stone (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2025/me…

Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left
The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.

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…

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Sabina Tomkins, Chang Ge, David Rothschild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05310 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0…

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Social media platforms are increasingly central to campaign communication, with both paid (advertising) and earned (organic) posts used for fundraising, mobilization, and persuasion. TikTok, and other short-form video platforms, with its short-video format and content-driven algorithms, demand unique content. We examine the final six months before the 2024 US Presidential Election to understand how major campaigns used TikTok. We frame our analysis around two political science theories. The fir…

Tammy Bruce is a former radio host who was a commentator on Fox News for more than 20 years,
where she also served as an occasional guest host of Trump favorite Sean Hannity’s show.
Before her political conversion to conservatism, she hosted a radio show where her outspoken views were broadcast widely on Los Angeles station KFI, and she was one of the few radio commentators representing the progressive movement at that time.
Bruce was fired from her radio job after she voc…

Musk forms new political party after split with Trump over president's signature tax cuts law (Michelle L. Price/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-political-party-92353942308fee929a937b17113e077e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p35#a250706p35

Forthcoming book
by Bernie Sanders:
Fight Oligarchy.
“Sanders explains how the United States today is an oligarchic society in which a small handful of multibillionaires exercise enormous economic and political power.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/fight-oli

Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles at a time when state and local officials said they had protests there under control.

The move reflects an increasingly evident pattern of his presidency:
Trump declares an emergency or crisis where many others do not see one,
enabling him to take sweeping actions,
rally supporters and fight on political terrain he finds favorable.

Trump’s declaration of an economic emergency in April enabled sweeping tariffs.
…

For Trump, seizing emergency powers has become central to governing
President Donald Trump has declared emergencies in various areas. He says strong action is needed; critics say the emergencies don’t exist.

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…

Elon Musk floats strategy for new political party (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/04/elon-musk-new-political-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p49#a250704p49

"The Internal Revenue Service promulgated a set of new rules on Monday that allow churches to endorse and donate to political candidates"
'Time to recruit some churches': Experts blast new rules on pulpit politics - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/time-to-recruit-some-churches-irs/

GB News launches a bureau in Washington, DC, and hires its first US political editor, with plans to broadcast two hours of daily live programming from September (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/gb-new

GB News to broadcast nightly from US in 'huge moment' for channel
GB News is launching a bureau in Washington DC and hiring its first US political editor in a "huge moment" for the broadcaster.

Democrats and opposition groups call the bill the Trump Tax Scam,
and with solid majorities turning against it in poll after poll, they are preparing to hammer Republicans for supporting cuts that will harm their constituents ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Republicans are repeating falsehoods about the bill’s impacts,
especially on health care, and lashing out in response — or calling it quits altogether.

The Political Blowback to GOP’s Medicaid Cuts Has Already Begun
Senate Republicans passed a budget package with the deepest cuts to health care in decades on Tuesday.

Trump-backed redistricting push turns Midwestern state into next political battleground (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-backed-redistricting-push-turns-midwestern-state-next-political-battleground
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p61#a250904p61

The useful political lesson from Zohran Mamdani's college application (Philip Bump/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/07/mamdani-america-racial-categorization/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUxODYwODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzMjQzMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTE4NjA4MDAsImp0aSI6ImU0ZDNhNGE0LTA5YmUtNDc0Mi05YmI0LTkzOGNhMjQ4YjJmNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA3LzA3L21hbWRhbmktYW1lcmljYS1yYWNpYWwtY2F0ZWdvcml6YXRpb24vIn0.7HxcDPo8eJksWwMGjvk4jde_RSMaA_63qz49YbSavDE&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p36#a250707p36

Trump began putting the federal government to work for him within hours of taking office in January,
and he’s been collecting and using power in novel ways ever since.
It’s a high-velocity push to carry out his political agendas and grudges.
This past month, hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops fanned out across Washington
after Trump drew on a never-used law that allows him to take control of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
He’s thre…

How Donald Trump is weaponizing the government in his second term
President Donald Trump has been using his second term to amass and wield unprecedented power. His supporters, who once criticized government overreach, now back his actions. Trump has targeted universities, media companies, and individuals he dislikes, using executive orders and other means to push his agendas and grievances. Trump has threatened or acted against various entities. He's blocked stadium plans, revoked security clearances and dropped corruption charges for political leverage, amon…

DeSantis offers Musk his own political advice amid Trump feud (Gary Fineout/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/trump-musk-feud-desantis-advice-00441519
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p102#a250707p102

John Burton, 92, Dies; California Political Boss Who Staged a Comeback (Alex Traub/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/john-burton-dead.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p73#a250907p73

Trump to crack down on banks over alleged political bias (Michael Stratford/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/trump-banks-crackdown-debanking-00497145
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p58#a250807p58

By “accusing powerful people of doing things in secret for their own benefit, against the common good,”
RFK Jr is trafficking in conspiracy theories,
according to Joseph E. Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who studies the phenomenon.
Having a top government official contradicting science is
“a serious, serious problem,”
Professor Uscinkski said,
“because the hope is that,
in a free society,
you develop expertise and me…

RFK Jr., Rejecting Vaccine Data, Fuels Distrust of Public Health Agencies
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term
that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates.

The national Republican senatorial and congressional committees,
then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)
and then-Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) filed suit over the limits…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Republicans who sued are asking the Supreme Court to lift restrictions on how much political parties can spend on candidates, saying they violate free-speech protections.

After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it's transition time (Dan Balz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/03/washington-post-dan-balz-political-column-final-sunday-take/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p6#a250803p6

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.
The gold standard peer-reviewed process used by the NSF to support cutting-edge, high-impact science is being undermined by the chaotic cuts to staff, programs a…

If by American democracy we mean a pluralistic, multiracial society of political and social equals, then American democracy as we know it began with the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 60 years ago today.
Under the current Supreme Court’s vision of a rigidly colorblind Constitution
— indifferent to either racial inequality or the mechanisms of color caste
— the Voting Rights Act is very likely toast.
There is also the matter of Chief Justice John Roberts, wh…

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.