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The San Francisco Standard hires Elizabeth Ralph to oversee its Opinion section; Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and Politico managing editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/sf-standard-hires-politico-me-ralph/

SF Standard hires Politico ME Ralph - Talking Biz News
Elizabeth Ralph is joining the San Francisco Standard newsroom leadership team to oversee the Opinion section. Ralph is currently editor of Politico Magazine and a managing editor at Politico, where she oversees its publication of features, essays, and opinion pieces profiling the people and ideas disrupting politics and power. She helped found the magazine, which […]

Trump says oil companies pledge to spend $100B in Venezuela (James Bikales/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/oil-companies-pledge-to-spend-100b-in-venezuela-trump-says-00718452
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p70#a260109p70

Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials (Wojciech Kość/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-pre

Polish president aligns with Trump to block Brussels’ Big Tech law
Nawrocki called EU social media law “Orwellian,” echoing Washington’s main line of attack.

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 customs union is a sensible, pragmatic measure, not because of "going for growth", which is a) unattainable anyway and b) ecocidal, but to make life easier for small businesses who send goods to our neighbours.
Davey claims ‘historic victory’ for Lib Dems after tokenistic vote in favour of customs union with EU – UK politics live | Politics | The Guardian

Whee! #BanCars

Dieser Hass, dieses Ausmaß an Bigotterie ...
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-12/marco-rubio-aussenministerium-schrift-diversitaet-inklusion-calibri-times-new-roman-gxe

Willkommen USA (und allen anderen & Co. etc.) in der veralteten Realität, sprich in der 20ern Technokratie:
»Renaissance einer politischen Bewegung:
Wenn Krisen Demokratie und Markt erschüttern, feiern Technokratie-Visionen ihr Comeback. Zwischen TechBros, Elon Musk und Silicon-Valley-Utopien zeigt sich - Die Sehnsucht nach Expertenherrschaft ist so aktuell wie gefährlich.«
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Technokratie - Renaissance einer politischen Bewegung
Wenn Krisen Demokratie und Markt erschüttern, feiern Technokratie-Visionen ihr Comeback. Zwischen TechBros, Elon Musk und Silicon-Valley-Utopien zeigt sich: Die Sehnsucht nach Expertenherrschaft ist so aktuell wie gefährlich.

Members of Congress are routinely escorted through airport security,
but the process does not normally result in profanity-laced airport tirades
Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for testy exchanges

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade  
A report found Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) turned a “minor miscommunication” by police into a “spectacle” during a recent encounter at Charleston International Airport.

Amazon will invest $35B in India's cloud and AI sector by 2030, adding to the ~$40B it has invested in the country, and says the plan will create 1M more jobs (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/amazon-ple

Amazon pledges a massive $35 billion worth of investments in India’s AI space through 2030
Amazon has committed to investing $$35 billion in India’s cloud and AI space by 2030, as hyperscalers race to get a foothold in the market.