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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-…

Trump slams Musk’s third party plan as ‘ridiculous,’ calls Musk ‘train wreck’: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/trump-slams-musks-third-party.html

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...

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…

Elon is as fragile as the orange turd? Shocker.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/elon-musk-new-party-poll-trump

Musk floats new party in signal he could torch GOP
"Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?"

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

Musk Tweets Call For New Political Party To Sink GOP And Claims That Trump Is "Named In The Epstein Files" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/musk-tweets-call-for-new-political-party-to-sink-gop-and-claims-that-trump-is-named-in-the-epstein-files/

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

"Reform UK backs plan to put swift bricks in every new home in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds #Animals

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

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.

"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…

The British left is coming for the Government
Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green P

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Shreyansh Padarha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02004 https://

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Post-World War II armed conflicts have often been viewed with higher scrutiny in order to avoid a full-scale global war. This scrutiny has led to the establishment of determinants of war such as poverty, inequalities, literacy, and many more. There is a gap that exists in probing countries in the Global South for political party fragmentation and examining ideology-driven polarization's effect on armed conflicts. This paper fills this gap by asking the question: How does political identity-indu…

To my mind, the struggle for liberty is too great and the few steps we have gained have been won at too great a sacrifice, for the great mass of the people of this 20th century to consent to turn over to any political party the management of our social and industrial affairs.
---- - Lucy Parsons - ----

“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.”…

6 of the biggest challenges facing Musk's new political party (Maegan Vazquez/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/05/msuk-america-party/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p19#a250706p19

@… @… Political parties in an electoral system that enables a party to win a majority is the traditional means of overcoming this. The US currently has a system of one disciplined political party and one party composed of individual…

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.

Why do I even watch this YouTube spectacle about 20 FRP voters and one Red politician?
No state or party can grasp my needs better than I do. All political systems serve only to chain freedom and divide society.
This is why YouTube is a tool of domination, spreading the lies that keep us enslaved.
https://www.

Interesting that while Abundant SF's head is taking shots at Zohran, Abundance New York endorsed him.
(Fifth, but they still favored him over Cuomo. They said "Zohran Mamdani is more likely to prioritize the central crises facing New Yorkers.")

"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."
The announcement from Musk comes after Trump signed a tax-cut and spending bill into law on Friday, which the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla fiercely opposed.
Musk said previously that he would start a new political party and spend money to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill.

Nombre Effectif de Partis Politiques en Afrique: Une Nouvelle M\'ethode pour un Calcul Objectif et Institutionnellement Neutre
Adama Nouboukpo, Kodzo Michel Aladji, Muktar Bappa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04279

Nombre Effectif de Partis Politiques en Afrique: Une Nouvelle Méthode pour un Calcul Objectif et Institutionnellement Neutre
Political fragmentation in Africa poses to a significant challenge to effective governance and stability. Traditional measures of party system fragmentation, such as the Effective Number of Parties (ENP) index, often fail to capture the nuanced realities of African political landscapes, particularly the influence of dominant parties, fluid party affiliations, and the impact of ethnic and regional cleavages. To address these limitations, this paper introduces two novel "apolitical" or "instituti…

This is what a real President sounds like. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, President Barack Obama showed care and respect for all Americans—not just one political party. Happy 4th of July! : r/usa
https://www.reddit.com/r/usa/comments/1lru8pa/this_is_what_a_real_president_sounds_like_unlike/

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/30/supreme-court-campaign-finance-party-donor-limits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p70#a250630p70

Does the Democratic Party need to register a $45 million in-kind political donation for today’s fiasco?
#ArmyParade #TrumpParade

Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul
and raided opposition-run municipalities on Saturday, state media said,
part of a widening legal crackdown against the opposition and city's jailed mayor.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is also President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and leads him in some polls, was jailed in March pending trial over charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, all of which h…

Turkish authorities order detention of dozens of opposition officials in widening crackdown
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul and raided opposition-run municipalities on...

A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party (Liam Stack/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/democratic-party-zohran-mamdani.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p4#a250625p4

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11512 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Beyond the Median Voter: A Model of How the Ideological Dimension Shapes Party Polarization
Defying the median voter theorem, party polarization has spread globally, especially in the United States. As concerns grow over its risks to democracy, political science has probed its causes, revealing two paradoxes: while polarization between U.S. political parties has undeniably increased since the 1970s, the corresponding rise in issue polarization among voters remains contested; moreover, the growing number of politically relevant issues would be expected to counteract party polarization …

The biggest political row over the heat erupted in France, where the National Rally figurehead, Marine Le Pen, called for a “major” air conditioning plan – one week after the party failed in its parliamentary push to halt new wind and solar projects. In an opinion article in Le Figaro on Thursday, the interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, a conservative, called to stop support for renewable energy and expand France’s nuclear energy sector.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/europe-heatwaves-failing-support-climate-action?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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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At some point I expect Canada’s Liberal Party to regress like Labour is doing in the UK. Our political class still look to both the UK and USA for direction, like meek children.
#canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #transrights #lgbtq2s
https://tech.lgbt/@grayface_ghost/114772720087665845

Elon Musk Promises a New Political Party if Republicans Pass Trump's Policy Bill (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p162#a250630p162

Hours after Trump's Tax and Spending bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty
went viral on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.
“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – a…

"Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" (Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-copelovitch-interview-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p17#a250621p17

If you want to know why a Democratic Senator and Representative in Minnesota were shot...
It might have something to do with the fact that their deaths would end the Democratic majorities in both chambers.

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.