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I try not to be alarmist, but I think we should be paying very, very close attention to how the president and the MAGAsphere are talking about the California elections: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The contrast with the genuine magic coming from renewable energy innovation is just mocking us.
Bari Weiss gets a lot of hate, but this woman is a PT Barnum level grifter. She's a generational talent at bilking rich idiots out of their money and reputations.
So proud to organize with some of these fols
The problem for them being, of course, isn't that he's a deranged sexual predator & rapist but that people might find that out
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Far right pogroms targeting black and brown people and burning families out of their homes.
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Other countries should be boycotting everything American at this point. No one should be coming here or supporting any of this or anything we do tbh.
But some of those same countries hate black and brown people too while loving money more soooooo~~~~
Hey remember when Modi had Canadians killed inside Canada?
As Democratic candidates surge, the president and his allies baselessly cry fraud.
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Think about how many stories about AI inevitability and testimonials masquerading as op-eds there are. How AI is being jammed into everything where no one asks for it, or making you opt out around every turn. These are signs of an overleveraged company/product sending a PR corps to every paper & pub
The ultimate boss of failing upward.
Incredible news and hats off to the Palestine solidarity organizers, including the Bundists among them, for making this happen
SCALISE: We've delivered. Remember that 2 years ago, we were paying almost $6 a gallon. Right now it's in the $3s
KERNEN: When were we paying $6?
SCALISE: 2.5 years ago
K: That's not right
S: We are lowering inflation
K: We're actually above where we were then. 2 years ago the average was $3.65
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report that sheer panic over sordid facts surrounding the conduct of both Donald and Melania Trump have left the White House in a state of complete panic for over half a year. Suppressing the files and diverting attention from them led to commencement of a war.
CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report.
How a campaign to change the city’s investment policies will affect its financial portfolio, and the companies the city won’t drop for now.
www.sacbee.com
Tariq Panja
The last big "go humans" moment I had with breakthrough earth-shaking tech was mRNA research and the Covid vaccine.
Today we have idiots ooo-ing and ahh-ing at LLMs and Waymo as some big tech breakthrough when they're being championed by the biggest hucksters and dumbest tech reporters around
