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Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities Blaise Ingoglia was handpicked by the Republican Florida governor to lead an assault on municipal spending

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida.

This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed Lawmakers just advanced a constitutional amendment to drastically raise the bar for approving citizen ballot measures. Voters get to weigh in on the scheme next year.

Voting advocates have launched a campaign to protect direct democracy in Missouri. “We have to proactively lock in the people’s power to have a check on the government when it goes off the rails.”

Ukrainian forces advanced up to 3.5 km near the village of Mali Shcherbaky in the Orikhiv direction, improving their tactical position. The General Staff reports significant Russian losses and captured prisoners in the operation.

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting tale...

“Tech Executives [From Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI] Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings” 6/27/25 www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs, Now Up $27M - How Did He Know? Satoshi-era whale shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump tariffs, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B.

In a huge coincidence, a Bitcoin billionaire just-so-happened to put up massive leveraged bets against Bitcoin and Ethereum right before Trump posted about new tariffs on China, prompting a market crash.

$200m in profits instantly. $200m we know about, because they likely used many accounts.

This is all starting to sound like a NYTimes satire account.

Putin: Warum ignorierte Deutschland so lange die Gefahr? Mit Georg Mascolo & Katja Gloger Podcast Episode · RONZHEIMER. · 12/10/2025 · 1h 48m

For German speakers, a must-listen on Berlin’s disastrous misreading of Vladimir Putin’s Russia over many years - from Schröder to Merkel, with Gabriel & Steinmeier in prominent supporting roles. Based on a new book by Katja Gloger & Georg Mascolo

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I think billionaires buying a remote island to create their own state and government is a great idea. Let's send them all there and get them out of our hair.

Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese semiconductor giant's chipmaker Nexperia Wingtech, the Shanghai-listed parent, denounces what it essentially calls a boardroom coup involving the Dutch government and local executives

A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world

The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Don't you just make it harder to return to the US?

That's of course in DC.

Just saw an announcement from a kids soccer group that ICE agents have been spotted in the area, so it’s OK to skip today’s games if people are scared.
The MAGA assault on our community is intolerable and has nothing to do with making people’s lives better.

2/ We have abundant data abt a price shock after a 40 yr period of very low inflation. We also have copious data about electoral sensitivity about inflation. It requires a big argument to set all that aside. And again, I'm agst seeing inflation as some big monocausal driver of the 2024 election.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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I'm hoping much of this growth reflects increased public interest.

Fabulous! How much reflects increased public interest/action and how much is driven by improvements in your posts as you've learned, or growth in different media?

Blue26.org Dem fundraising project over time compared with 2022 & 2024 cycles

Your occasional reminder that I've raised nearly 5x as much *directly* for Democrats so far this year than I had at the same point in 2021, and nearly 3x as much as I had at the same point in 2023 (and that was a POTUS cycle).

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That sounds like young men are confusing sensitivity to others emotions with focusing on their own emotions and needs.
Emotional sensitivity is not wallowing in your own emotions.

Researchers discover groundbreaking solution to growing food in deserts: 'My biggest hope' By adding relatively small amounts of pineapple fibers to sandy soil, researchers increased retention of both water and fertilizers.

Lots of expensive stuff going on so people can live where they shouldn't

Researchers discover groundbreaking solution to growing food in deserts: 'My biggest hope' share.google/3n3l6uAdAqm2...

Let's be clear - Trump is an extremist revolutionary, who is actively trying to overthrow our system of democracy and install a dictatorship that uses threats of state power and violence as well as bribery to keep power.
It's UnAmerican.

Yep. Historically extremists move faster than moderates who are using a system of negotiation to get and exercise power. Extremists want to overthrow that system and replace it with threats of violence, or actual violence. The French and Russian Revolutions both overthrew democratic legislatures.

What is everything else you'd expect to see?
The question is what did voters who supported Trump, especially those who switched, believe? Or more to the point, which narratives changed minds?
(People vote on emotion, not fact. People often don't even know why they voted, what drove their actions.)

Inflation was first caused by Covid impacts on the supply chain which took more than a year to unravel. But half of inflation was caused by corporations raising prices far past their costs and making huge profits.
Biden's failure was not to call out these greedy corporations and use antitrust laws.

The core tactic of the far right is to create an "other" group who is a threat, then invent attacks by that group. They can be a minority religion or race or culture.
By making people fearful, they want a "strong" leader to protect them. It's been used for a hundred years because it works.

You learn early in your marketing career that people do not respond to facts. They respond to emotion.
Messaging filled with facts (policies, numbers) fail. Messaging with emotional narratives win.
That's why states long ruled by Republicans with crap wages, schools, healthcare still reelect them.

The NYTimes is forever stained by these kinds of propaganda.
We can't trust the NYTimes anymore.