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Trump’s threat to impose fresh tariffs on eight European countries
– UK, Norway and six EU member states
– is a wrecking ball to the carefully stitched deals he concluded with those countries last summer.
The two biggest voting blocs in the European parliament,
🔸the European People’s Party (EPP) and
🔸the Socialists & Democrats (S&Ds),
said on Saturday night the deal with the EU cannot be approved in the present circumstances.
Trump’s threat a…

before anyone says Elon's cancer-inducing data center in Tennessee is "conservatives getting what they deserve", remember that it's in *Memphis*, Tennessee, a large city with a 60% BIPOC and mostly politically liberal population, in general the privileged *never* get what they deserve and the the idea that they do is used to divide the working class against the supposed "backwards" populations who "deserve" right-wing policies

What do you call it when you order a pizza that's completely naked on one side, beef on the other, and it triggers a divide-by-zero in the ordering website?
NaN pizza with left beef.

🪓 Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-27/algorithms-do-widen-the-divide-social-media-feeds-shape-political-polarizati…

Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ideological groups

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Greasy Bear:
🎵 Across the Great Divide
#GreasyBear

What Is an American? -- There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible. (Vivek Ramaswamy/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/republican-identity-divide.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p21#a251217p21

A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-

Global AI Adoption in 2025 – AI Economy Institute | Microsoft
Global adoption of AI continued to rise in the second half of 2025 as the digital divide between the Global South and Global North widens.

"The last hit song of Belgian singer Stromae, called “Santé”, is a tribute to all those workers behind the scenes in our modern world; the ones growing or catching the food we eat; the ones transporting us; the ones building and cleaning our facilities; those who more often than not, we simply do not see.
How long until Stromae releases an update to this song including software workers among those groups? Not very long."

Divide Et Impera
Divide and Conquer is a common technique for algorithm design: quicksort, discrete Fourier transforms, and even MapReduce are common examples of such a technique. It consists in breaking down a problem into smaller parts, so as to solve the whole of the problem. It is also a common technique in politics, known and applied since before the times of the Roman Empire. It consists in breaking down society into smaller parts, so as to rule the whole of society.

They told the poor white man:
"You may be starving,
you may be broke,
but at least you aren't one of Them."
It worked.
The poor whites stopped fighting the rich.
They started guarding the rich.
They accepted their poverty -- because they had been given a false sense of superiority.
The "Divide and Rule" algorithm was born.
350 years later, the campaign is still running.
The Elite are still terrified of Unity…

MikeDunnAuthor (@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image Andre Gonsalves The most effective marketing campaign in history was launched in 1676. The product was Racism. Before that year, the Elites in America had a massive problem. In the colony of Virginia, poor white indentured servants and black slaves were friends. They worked the same fields. They lived in the same shacks. They even married each other. They realized they had the same enemy: The rich plantation owners. So, they united. Led by a man named Nathaniel Bacon, this…

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…

The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.

"In the wealthiest country on Earth, it’s normal for people who are diagnosed with cancer to set up a web page to beg their friends and family for money. It’s normal for those people to go bankrupt. Getting sick is the most normal reason to go bankrupt...
At a time when billionaires compete to launch rockets into space, it’s normal—completely normal—for construction workers to die of heat and thirst"

How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

Sounds like divide-and-conquer to me.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-trade-us-canada-mexico-cusma-usmca-jamieson-greer-9.7010300

from my link log —
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/reconstruction-after-covid-votes-for-children-age-six-david-runciman

Trump's 'flexible' abortion stance frustrates key GOP bloc (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5685363-trump-anti-abortion-movement-divide/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p14#a260113p14

Should Eagles' tush push be banned? Reader poll shows narrow divide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6862534/2025/12/04/eagles-tush-push-ban/

There is a divide in the world centered around privilege. For many, the cries of people suffering terrible injustice and abuse are comfortably removed.
For others, the sight of privileged people deliberately tuning out the suffering that surrounds them so they can better enjoy their privilege is like getting kicked in the teeth after being knocked down by a bully.
Our society is a monstrous abomination of cruelty, greed, and self-absorption.
Consider Ukraine, and how the we…

Raiders DE Maxx Crosby Gives Update on Recent Divide https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-gives-update-recent-divide

Political operative Stuart Stevens spoke about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers.
Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project,
a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser,
is working to stop Trump’s anti-democratic agenda.

Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser
“The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement.” Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where…

"How do we find space for grace when we are so at odds that we cannot recognize humanity on the other side of the divide?”
—YDS professor Miroslav Volf reflecting on responses to Erika Kirk's gesture of forgiveness https://apnews.com/article/erik…

The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide (Colin Woodard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/13/woodard-immigration-00679254
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p15#a251213p15

#Mark #Zuckerberg’s decision to cut off funding to the pro‑immigration group FWD.us
marks a sharp turn away from the high-profile social advocacy that once defined his philanthropy...
even as #MacKenzie

Billionaire philanthropy’s growing divide: Mark Zuckerberg stops funding immigration reform as MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI
Two models for tech wealth are emerging, as notable billionaire donors reveal their priorities.

Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
After Trump presented Zelenskyy with a “peace plan” that was just Putin’s wish list,
Trump is trying it again.
Here’s the problem,
Putin has zero interest in peace.
His goal is to take Ukraine, divide Europe, and weaken the United States.
And worse, we now know that Trump’s objective is not freedom and security for Ukraine
but personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.
There’s no other wa…

"The Wrong Side of the #genai_slop Divide: High Adoption, Low Transformation"
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ai_report_2025.pdf

So incredibly angry at Mark Carney, who I thought, with all his UN "climate tzar" cred, would be able to bridge the divide between industry and co2 emissions.
Turns out, he is just an oily vassal for complete climate and carbon capitulation.
Alberta's oil industry is "very happy" acording to Alberta Premier Smith's Chief of Staff.
It's full steam ahead for carbon emissions. They have what they believe is a green light for massive growth.
#canpoli #climateEmergency #endfossilfuels #climateTraitor #co2 #trudeau #abpoli