Radio stuff is regarded as wizardry, and sometimes it still feels like that (especially when you get into at atmospheric effects), but it’s rewarding to learn about electromagnetic waves and how they interact with the world around us, plus you can call Elon a poser when he talks about Maxwell’s Laws
The complaint added obstruction counts against Floris and Benavides...
But, weirdly, the affidavit was unsworn.
And it was by a different FBI agent.
And the case is in DC, with the predicate acts all occurring in DC, but the agent is based in Phoenix
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Donald Trump Jr. went hunting with Russian oligarch Kremlyov in Mongolia, — FT
The US President's son spent 2 days in the company of Umar Kremlyov
The US Secret Service provided security for Trump Jr. in Mongolia, and the embassy paid over $18k for hotel rooms during this trip
Ian Brinksman, 42, a Washington, DC-based government contractor arrested by the FBI today for allegedly leaking TOP SECRET national defense information to a romantic partner. You'll never guess why!
Even though I don't subscribe, I glanced at Boston Globe headlines to see if they included anything about the House Judiciary report released yesterday. Didn't see anything, but did see an Op-Ed by Freddie DeBoer that looks... bad.
In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.
Yeah start insinuating he has morning chai rather than coffee, say that he knocks things for 6 rather than hits a home run, allege that he is generally a clean living good boy who loves his mother and prays every Friday (pejorative).
The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag
Something happened in the 70's that crystallized politics (and many other topics) into a new set of assumptions and priors. It gave rise to Reaganism and completely crushed New Deal Socialism; Dems that eventually reemerged were and still are centrists scared of their own shadows.
the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go
"Guys like Obama don't see it. They don't see dirt, they don't see filth. He doesn't see broken ornaments...The White House, President Obama is a symbol of America. It has to be clean."
Feels like the focus on hygiene and cleanliness might be standing in for something here!
Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"
Big if we can do it because the NC GOP control the statehouse through pretty wild gerrymanders that normally give them super-majorities when the state is evenly split.
If you break those permanently, NC government gets really competitive, really fast in a way that will be good for the state.
this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy
this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy
Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government.
They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.
Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that.
If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!
I’m guessing the results from the first batch of GPUs in space are bad because instead of hearing about how wonderful orbital data centers are Elon has pivoted hard towards “only I can break regulations fast enough to build regular earth based data centers, unlike those losers at Coreweave”
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face "death and consolidation" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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Austrian presidential election in 2016 was all about preventing a win for right-wing candidate, too:
68.50% (first round)
72.65% (second round)
74.21% (second round re-run)
Sadly it’s a cycle and we’re at a point where we’ll again need a right-wing government fucking shit up for a couple years. 😔
So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro?
In short, turnout.
Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes.
A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.
Oh my god @nytpitchbot.bsky.social he did the thing.
"Republicans are about to lose the midterms by 12 points. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats."
So I don't want to oversell this but our 2024 EV percentage after day 2 was R+2.5.
Right now it's D+17.7
So a 20 point swing in the largest suburban county in the country that had resisted some previous blue waves.
Wasn’t the Albanian hotel deal also hit with allegations of forged documents?
Boy, you forge a couple of Electoral College votes and get away with it, and then I guess you just can’t stop.
Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff