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More than a quarter of U.S. voters -- including the majority of Democrats --identify as supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
New polling finds left-wing ideology surges in popularity despite the Trump administration’s attempts to quash it.
Quinnipiac University finds that 26 percent of registered voters say they consider themselves supporters of DSA -- the largest socialist group in the U.S.
This includes 59 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of independ…

Over a Quarter of Voters Say They’re Supporters of DSA, Polling Finds
Nearly 6 in 10 Democrats said they back the socialist group.

Folks, am I real? @… https://infosec.exchange/@Epic_Null/116913940973597376

Stanford study finds 5% of IP addresses send 55% of all web requests
Fewer than 0.2% of domains in the .com, .net and .org zones resolve to an address of their own, and 5% of client addresses generate more than half of the world's web requests, according to a Stanford-led measurement study that reached wide circulation this week, eight days after Google switched on IP-based ad personalization across the European Economic Area.
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Stanford study finds 5% of IP addresses send 55% of all web requests
Fewer than 0.2% of domains hold a unique IPv4 address, and 44% of client IPs carry two or more user agents. Frequency caps and fraud filters read that signal.

This remarkable essay documents the direct personal responsibility of Steve Baker, Sajid Javid, and Rishi Sunak for the global financial crash of 2008. Of course, they all personally profited hugely from it.
Baker, of course, was later the architect of the hard Brexit deal.
If we had sent them all to prison, as any rational state would have done, #Brexit would probably never have happen…

The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.

In responding to one of two lawsuits challenging the legality of the Homeland Security Department propaganda ads praising Donald Trump
the Justice Department on Saturday night did not defend the legality of the decision to run the ads
— instead arguing that the ads are set to end on Sunday, so there will be no irreparable harm justifying an order blocking them.

DOJ does not defend legality of DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads in fed’l court in N.Y.
Instead, admin lawyers stated that the ads are ending Sunday. Update: In a second challenge, in D.C., DOJ argued the challenge is unlikely to succeed on the merits.

There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative.
Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person.
German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.
And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment.
It means buying books and letting them pile up unread.
The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the M…

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.

One person was reportedly shot and killed during an ICE operation in Biddeford, Maine,
according to the state’s speaker of the house, Ryan Fecteau.
“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford. A person was killed.
ICE was involved.
State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well,” he said.
Police confirmed to local newsthat the area where the shooting was reported has been clos…

Person reported killed during ICE operation in Maine, state house speaker says – US politics live
Ryan Fecteau says person was reportedly shot in Biddeford, with authorities on the scene to investigate

While calls to “abolish ICE”
have exploded during the second Trump presidency,
critics have been calling out the threats the agency poses to immigrants,
US citizens, and democracy itself
since it was created just over 20 years ago.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars,
host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia about the origins of ICE
and what it will take to abolish it and the new …

ICE: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the war on us
“Every president across party lines has poured money into ICE,” author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.

The court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications
was a win not only for the nonpartisan civil service,
but also for the communities public employees serve, said one labor leader whose union was among the plaintiffs in the case against the Office of Personnel Management.
Patrick Moran, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, said Friday that
the …

Federal Court Blocks Trump's 'Loyalty Question' on Civil Service Job Applications | Common Dreams
Court blocks Trump admin's loyalty question on job apps, a win for nonpartisan civil service & communities served. Was it right to prioritize loyalty over qualifications? Should public servants be hired based on allegiance to an administration or merit alone? #ProtectTheConstitution