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Protester to Trump: “Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!”

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Meet Joseph Bell, the real-life 19th century Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes. Historian Lindsey Fitzharris chats with Ars Technica about her new book, "Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes." arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

I spend all day worrying about what to cover and making sure that important stories don’t get left behind, and Politico is assigning three reporters to write a story to keep the police union happy? What a fucking joke.

#1 strip contracts, find the cracks & stall payments - stop money from leaving the US taxpayer & going to Musk #2 require in-house ownership of critical national infrastructure, goes well beyond Musk #3 fund & re-build real national infrastructure #4 if that fuckhead gets in the way take his shit

Most U.S. adults want doctors to disclose AI use, a Pew survey finds qz.com/ai-healthcar...

Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The "protection" narrative promoted by Trump and far-right groups like Heritage is a dangerous fallacy. Trump's DOE has abandoned sexual assault investigations under Title IX. It has set rules that effectively put the survivors of rape on trial and that favor the men accused of victimizing them.

Thomas Phillips, the former Republican chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, announces he's backing Democrat James Talarico for Senate. "Paxton’s longstanding reputation will embarrass Texas in ways our state simply cannot afford." www.beaumontenterprise.com/opinions/art...

say what you want about our society, we're producing nightmare blunt rotations at world historical levels

hm. lula succeeded by out-shouting the right and not begging for the press to do the lift for him and his supporters? wow, wonder who has been saying something like that in america for almost 20 years?

...and NYPD downgraded the shooter's charges from murder to manslaughter & we have no idea why oh uh...yeah we do, but they're not admitting it yet

I mean, I am assuming France would veto, but who the fuck knows anymore

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Check out how easy this is.

Woah. It appears that the anti-abortion “Ethics and Public Policy Center”—whose board includes Catholic Right SCOTUS “puppet master” Leonard Leo—is spearheading the push to strip the American Bar Association of its accreditation authority. 1/

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"Put together, these actions suggest a far more sophisticated legal strategy to overturn elections than we saw in 2020." Get ready. Start by reading this:

The United States has halted funding for finding and destroying chemical weapons. @gregkoblentz.bsky.social explains what’s at risk if the OPCW can’t do their work. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/chem...

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

This piece does a great job making the point that, our bankrupt jurisprudence around police use if force not withstanding, the cops should not be allowed to create the circumstances that create danger, and then kill people because of they very danger they created.

Megacorps* are an existential threat to civil society, as is the conspiracy of billionaires. Every available legal mechanism should be used to deal with this. That's the moderate solution.

Monkey brain alight Cannot be still, cannot stop On into the night

A quick check of court records establishes that all of the claims made by Amy Acton's estranged mother and aired by Ramaswamy are false. But then it appears she was simply reading a script that a Ramaswamy campaign staffer wrote for her. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Giving criminal immunity to the person with unfettered pardon power is a recipe for criminal government. And that's exactly what has happened.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging. Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education. 🧵

The El Paso firefighters are back in their 👠! Yesterday, they completed the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event to stand against violence toward women. What an amazing group of men, and they looked great doing it! 👏🏽 #SheShed