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Donald Trump and Republican senators are dividing over politics, personal dynamics, and policy
— drama that’s built up for weeks before culminating in a public flop on Thursday.
A party-line vote on $72 billion in immigration enforcement money that should have been easy for the GOP Congress got pulled from consideration as lawmakers left Washington until June.
Trump and Republican lawmakers agreed on a June 1 deadline for passing the immigration bill that they will now mis…

How Trump lost Senate Republicans
The president’s sway with them is lower than i at any point in his second term — even as his influence in party primaries peaks.

The reputation of supremacy’s story rises and falls,
which suggests to me that when supremacy loses reputation,
it has been very good at finding new stories to give its adherents to tell itself,
which allows supremacy to remain popular even while its systems are disreputable,
to maintain its sway over hearts and minds and its grip on power
even as it engages in the most unpopular and disreputable actions,
while casting as disreputable those who would engag…

Winning the Story Game
When we need radical change, we should all be radicals. Negotiating the discomforts and costs of disrepute.

Canal says it will no longer work with 600 cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the influence of its right-wing owner Vincent Bolloré (Nadia Khomami/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/…

FYI: If you used `gdmflexiserver` to launch a new session from something like `sway`, *this no longer exists upstream*.
Remedy: I switched to `lightdm`, which has `dm-tool` (which lets you switch to the greeter).
#Linux #Gnome

The morally bankrupt, culturally bankrupt, intellectually bankrupt Supreme Leader in Bad Taste ruins yet another piece of prime real estate. He hires only the "best people" to indulge his ego.
#RefliectingPool #WashingtonDC

Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients Who Spent Millions Seeking Sway (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-14/jared-kushner-s-dual-role-trump-peace-envoy-and-6-billion-fund-manager
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p54#a260514p54

Sonnet 128 - CXXVIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
To be so tickled, they would change their state
…

Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/11/trump-ai…

In Trump administration battle over AI, U.S. spy agencies seek more power
As the White House grapples with cybersecurity threats from artificial intelligence models, intelligence officials want sway in AI policy overseen by Commerce.

Ain't Catholic, but this guy does have a lot of sway over a lot of folks so I'm always interested in the poop from the Pope...
One year in, here’s what is on Pope Leo XIV’s to-do list and what has he done so far | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-one-year-trump-b2972800.html

I've set up my Sway bar to include BC time, depicted by the 🇨🇦 Canadian flag.

Sources: US DOJ antitrust regulators appear ready to approve Paramount's $110B WBD takeover after a two-hour meeting Tuesday; DOJ staff grilled David Ellison (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/26/2026/paramount-…

Exclusive: Paramount appears to sway DOJ staff on Warner Bros. takeover
US antitrust regulators appear to approve Paramount’s $110 billion studio deal after a two-hour meeting at the Justice Department Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Caroline Davis:
🎵 Flower Sway
#CarolineDavis

A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’
One is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence the midterms, and they’re leaving a trail of fearful candidates and canceled ads in their wake.

As cities and states sue big oil for billions in damages
over allegations that it covered up the dangers of its products,
rightwing organizations are attempting to discredit the wave of litigation.
They claim the lawyers behind it are teaming up with an environmentally focused legal education non-profit to bias federal judges against oil companies.
But it is actually fossil fuel-backed organizations that are attempting to sway the judiciary in their favor,
one …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bic Runga:
🎵 Haere Mai Rā / Sway
#BicRunga
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DkCQTl2MFQadHLsWwShKA

Sonnet 128 - CXXVIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
To be so tickled, they would change their state
…

Wikipedia editors vote to bar co-founder Larry Sanger from editing articles for canvassing outside users to sway internal votes, per the Wikipedia Foundation (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/business/media/wikipedia-larry-s…

Larry Sanger, a Wikipedia Founder, Is Barred From Editing on the Site
A vote to bar Larry Sanger indefinitely from the volunteer community of Wikipedia came days after he submitted a proposal on “intellectual diversity.”

Sonnet 066 - LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And…

Sonnet 150 - CL
O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With insufficiency my heart to sway?
To make me give the lie to my true sight,
And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?
Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and warrantise of skill,
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,
The more I hear a…