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Or, how about 1000 x median family income of nation (or some such equation)?

“Every American should be deeply disturbed by the ‘holy war’ rhetoric that Secretary Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu and even some U.S. military commanders are reportedly using to justify the war on Iran,”...

"...a majority of Republicans polled, 62%, said there is the right amount or too little federal land in Montana. About 96% of Democrats and 81% of independents also said they feel that way."

BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.

A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

Important piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Blood Boiling. Monsters All.

Waste! Fraud! Abuse!

Daines says: "I support President Trump’s actions to keep our nation safe and aid the people of Iran in their fight for liberty." I hope that the good people of Montana see fit to give him a hard boot this fall.

Ryan Zinke voted to block the release of the Epstein files because they didn’t exist. Three million documents later, and Zinke is still protecting the billionaire predator class. #mtpol

"The salon played yenta to billionaire money and alpha-male minds, and together, over decades, they all converged on a master philosophy: they were apex predators ordained by nature to exploit and subjugate others. "

"At a time when public sentiment of billionaires has become increasingly negative, people are questioning just how much influence the ultra-wealthy should have on our society."

Oh? I think people are asking if ultra-wealthy should even be a thing. And what is ultra-wealthy without undue influence?

We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.

"Election administration belongs with states and counties, and Montana’s county election offices are the backbone of trust. Concentrating election power in Washington should worry every voter, regardless of party."

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.

Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.

We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.

This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

Generative Modeling via Drifting Generative modeling can be formulated as learning a mapping f such that its pushforward distribution matches the data distribution. The pushforward behavior can be carried out iteratively at inference...

imo the original paper (arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770) is well written, but there are already some implementations/blog posts about it (github.com/Algomancer/M...)

YouTube video by Democracy Docket DESPERATE Trump Plans Hostile Election Takeover

NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is more desperate than ever — and now he’s saying the quiet part out loud about taking over elections ahead of the 2026 midterms. I break down Trump’s plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. youtu.be/ODU-tIrb4iA?...

POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The now or soon to be famous refrain, "Its the billionaires, stupid." We can have a functional democracy, and solve/address our shared problems, or we can have severe income and wealth inequality.

Yes, it should.

"However, new reporting shows that Jacobsen has also turned over voter data, including personally identifying information, to the federal government."

"Its the billionaires, stupid." I didn't invent that line, but it sure seems to hit the mark.

How about this. Community-based economic system, deeply democratic, income equality, eliminate poverty, and more. www.ijccr.net/article/view...

"It's the billionaires, stupid." Kinda captures the moment (and decade), doesn't it.

'Flunking': Audit of Secretary of State's Office shows misstatements, lack of management • Daily Montanan A new report by the Montana Legislative Auditor shows serious problems with the Montana Secretary of State's financial audit for 2023, 2024.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that she gleefully handed over everything, despite a clear violation of our privacy.

She has been nothing but another gop/maga shitshow.

dailymontanan.com/2026/01/15/f...

Christi has been pretty quiet about this lately…..

dailymontanan.com/2026/02/01/l...

Legislators have questions for the Secretary of State about postcards, voter data - NewsBreak Members of the Legislative Audit Committee including Republican Chairman Jerry Schillinger have requested more information from Montana Secretary of State

Legislators have questions for the Secretary of State about postcards, voter data
Source: Daily Montanan #mtpol

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hhhm. Is it true? What do people think? "It’s time to accept the Democratic Party [leadership] enables fascism so ... we [should] ... start fighting for ourselves."

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.

He's got to go.