@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialOklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact;
State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/…
@blaise@mastodon.cloudAre you a head of state who doesn't want to release the evidence that you are a sexual predator? Try Throwshitatthewall, by Pfizer!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/tulsi-gabbard-obama-2016-election-russia
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Senate passes the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/genius-stablecoin-bill-crypto.html
@gratianriter@bildung.socialMöglicherweise sind die US Amerikaner gar nicht kollektiv verrückt geworden:
„She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.“
„The U.S. election wasn’t their endgame. It was their litmus test.“
https://substack.com/inbox/post/165658
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election,
has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature
https://www.scmp.com/wee…
@jrm4@mastodon.socialI supported Bernie Sanders against Clinton.
Just posting because I believe it's good to admit one's mistakes.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-kamala-harris…
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Comparison of Precinct and District Voting Data Using Persistent Homology to Identify Gerrymandering in North Carolina
Ananya Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13997
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI think that events are showing us that we can anticipate that the only way FFOTUS will ever leave the White House is on a gurney. (Or, as his acolytes like to think, he ascends.)
The D-party is doing its best to self-destruct and assure that it does not win seats in the 2026 mid terms. And I seriously doubt that we will have a true election in 2028.
@servelan@newsie.socialJustice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/justice-department-election-data.html
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/11/hsbc-leaves-net-zero-banking-alliance-climate-crisis
-> Now's a good time to leave
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyTrump uses tariff threat to undermine the rule of law in Brazil. For those who still treat Trump tariffs as some kind of economic policy: the US has a trade surplus with Brazil.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/10/trump-
@scott@carfree.city"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!
@cdarwin@c.imTrump demands Brazil drop charges against Bolsonaro, former president who tried to stay in office after election loss
Donald Trump’s enraged letterto his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inšcio Lula da Silva, announcing that
the US would impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil,
said that the move was motivated in part by the treatment of former president Jair Bolsonaro,
who was barred from running for office until 2030 and is on trial for allegedly plotting to remain in…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialShare of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThom Tillis, Republican Senator, Won't Seek Re-election Amid Trump's Primary Threats (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/politics/thom-tillis-retirement.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p53#a250629p53
@StephenRees@mas.toDonald Trump recently said Canada could freely participate in his Golden Dome in exchange for annexation. The US president’s post came on the heels of Mark Carney expressing interest in the missile ‘defense’ initiative, betraying his election promise to distance Canada from the US.
Take a minute to email Carney and defence minister David McGuinty to reject Canadian participation in Trump’s Golden Dome.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay
@erk709@social.linux.pizza @servelan@newsie.social"the new review of the earlier assessment does not dispute the conclusion that Russia favored the election of Donald J. Trump." #GiftLink
C.I.A. Says Its Leaders Rushed Report on Russia Interference in 2016 Vote - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/russia-trump-2016-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.1oh0.obRdrVnArZxp&smid=url-share
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShare of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
@pre@boing.worldDear Emily Thornberry,
I don't usually bother to write to you on most issues because I figure there is pretty much no point communicating with a whipped MP in a safe seat under first past the post. Such an MP has no reason to listen to their constituents at all, and is entirely a tool of the party leadership.
I make an exception today since I hear your government is about to classify Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Despite them being peaceful, non-violent, and dedicated entirely to preventing the greater crime of the ongoing genocide of Gazan Palestinians.
This is obviously a gross overreaction and a completely unjustifiable act designed not to prevent domestic terrorism but to cover up British forces and UK government involvement and collaboration with the genocide in Gaza.
If we are taking suggestions for groups to ban as terrorists even though they aren't terrorists, I would like to suggest the Labour Party! The party has helped facilitate a genocide abroad, and continues to supply the perpetrators with arms and intelligence to aid their actions.
I don't expect you to take that suggestion seriously, but maybe Reform will take it seriously when they get elected in a few years and I suggest it again to them. After all, a precedent will have been set that groups which aren't terrorists can be banned under anti-terror legislation anyway. Democracy will have already been eroded.
I was ready to be disappointed by this Labour government, but I confess that the level of gut-wrenching visceral disgust I am experiencing at them surpassed all my wildest expectations. Taking money from the disabled to buy new war-planes from a fascist US president while abetting a genocide in Gaza makes me wonder if Reform wouldn't be better in the end anyway. At least they might do electoral reform and nationalize the water companies.
Labour's only hope, the country's only hope, is to remove Starmer. I wish you had won that leadership election instead of him.
Anyway, as I say, I don't expect it to make any difference at all because under this election system even MPs in safe seats are nothing but tools of the party leadership and the party leadership seems determined. But I thought I'd let you know that I see you. I see what you are doing.
I support Palestine Action more than I support this government. Let me know where I should hand myself in for my "crime".
Yours sincerely,
Adam
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaChris Volpe is running for the US Senate in Ohio. This is the seat vacated by JD Vance, currently held by Republican Jon Husted.
It might seem early, but now it's a good time to start thinking about that 2026 election and trying to rebalance the scales. I like what Chris has to say so far. Not an endorsement per se, just a "hey, you should check him out, and then check out the other candidates, too."
@cdarwin@c.imTrump took a victory lap during an event in Des Moines, Iowa,
that was officially billed as the start of a year-long celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, in 2026.
But Trump turned the potentially unifying moment into a campaign-style rally,
mocking Joe Biden’s speaking style,
repeating his lie of a stolen election
and lambasting the “fake news” media.
In a policy shift, he said he is willing to let migrant labourers stay in the US if the farmers the…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialAvengers: Infinity War, Losing an Election, and What Comes After
https://ift.tt/UJj5qBY
By Matthew Brake “I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDon Bacon, House Republican Who Often Criticizes Trump, Won't Seek Re-election (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/don-bacon-retiring.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p68#a250628p68
@primonatura@mstdn.social"HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HSBC #Banks
@cdarwin@c.imDuring the election campaign, Trump and his cronies declared they would deport the allegedly massive numbers of “criminal aliens.”
When Trump came into office, however, he faced a problem:
The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are law abiding.
But Trumpists came up with an answer:
Create fake crimes and thereby turn the law abiding into criminals.
Trump announced the US is
“under invasion” by a foreign power
in order to invoke the rarely us…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialIt's been 7 months since the D-party lost the easiest-to-win election the US has ever had. And it's been 4 months since FFOTUS took office and became a modern Caligula.
And what has the D-party done?
Nada. Nada. Nada. The old faction is spinning in useless circles defending Biden's inexcusable decision to continue to run until too late. The younger element still shows no sign of engaging in the voting part of politics. Our middle-age element still looks first at t…
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.pagePersonalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks
Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, Sean Kelty, Gourab Ghoshal, James N. Druckman, Ehsan Hoque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06153
@cdarwin@c.imTax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later:
The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
👉 Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm election
To pay for the tax policies,
which confer their greatest benefits on the wealthy,
Republican lawmakers have looked to slash programs that are both popular and widely used,
discomfiting even some within their own ranks.
💥The savings from the safety net cuts still are not enough to of…
@buercher@tooting.ch“What’s happening in NYC is a loud message to those in the Dem establishment who still cling to old politics, recite focus-grouped talking points, and are too afraid to say what needs to be said.” It was a campaign that triangulated ground game, digital style and policy substance. Mamdani was a shoe leather candidate who put himself all over the city, talked to countless voters, projected optimism without sounding preachy and had thousands of volunteers knocking on doors.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-election-democrats?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
