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MOREOVER, DHS cut $20,000,000 from the DC security budget last week, a 44% reduction!

The budget was allocated based on the “current threat landscape.” Five other blue state cities got cuts as well.

Added to original story; source, ironically, is FOX News.

This is not "liberation day" for DC; Trump has declared war on blue cities – The Moderate Voice Authoritarians rule with fear, force and lies. That mindset underscores President Donald Trump’s social media rants about Washington, DC: crime and punishment. It explains Monday’s executive order fed...

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 “𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐲” 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐂; 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
Authoritarians rule with fear, force and lies. That mindset underscores President Donald Trump’s social media rants and explains Monday’s executive order federalizing DC.
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Any reason D.C. or the Eastern Shore should be worried about Tropical Storm Erin, which formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Monday and will likely become a hurricane this week?

The short answer is "not for now, but..."

We explain at cwg.live

Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease Nature - Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the...

Brain lithium levels drop early in AD before symptoms fully emerge

It’s “part of an unusual arrangement with the Trump administration to obtain export licenses for the semiconductors.”

“Unusual”? Ya think? Mob boss extortion.

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Payment for the export licenses. Mob boss mentality.

Not free read but in free read list. (Not your fault, it’s the feed.)

Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in targeted Israeli strike on Gaza The IDF has admitted killing Anas al-Sharif, one of the news site’s star reporters, claiming he was a ‘terrorist’ in disguise

Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in targeted Israeli strike on Gaza

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Not helpful.

How common is mid-decade congressional redistricting shenanigans? Not just rare. Damn rare. – The Moderate Voice The only state to successfully executive partisan gerrymanderinig mid-decade is Texas, in 2003. Why don't media say so?

The only state to successfully execute partisan gerrymanderinig mid-decade is Texas, in 2003. Why don't media say so?

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True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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Judge Henderson, joined by Judge Wilkins, does not mince words — even as she treads carefully.

“[N]o Congress should be made to wait while the Executive intrudes on its plenary power over appropriations and disclosure thereof.”

Too true. Remember that Trump says — and news orgs transcribe — whatever he feels at the moment. The NYT got the Harvard story wrong.

States aren’t voters and the EC is an artifact of slavery.

The current cancellation of mRNA vaccines and that rhetoric has not helped. We have an executive branch full on unqualified sociopaths.

RE TX: some news has a hand-waving graph that a few states have made mid-decade apportioning map changes.

Here’s where changes happened for 2024, & all were legally required:
AL, GA (on appeal), NC, NY
SCOTUS: LA

Where’s example of late, optional redrawing like TX?

cc @marcelias.bsky.social

Six IRS commissioners in less than seven months. A record to be ashamed of.

a woman says it just seems counter-productive in a real housewives ad ALT: a woman says it just seems counter-productive in a real housewives ad

So many sites force you into a newsletter signup or log in and then have an ad that overlays the log in/sign up field

Some credit must rest with speechwriter Ted Sorenson.

Microsoft Copilot response to prompt in post

Google Gemini response to prompt in post

Okay. I’ll play! This is Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, failing rather spectacularly.

Prompt: Show me a photorealistic chart of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos

Better than mine.

ChatGPT image from "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos"

😂😂😂
Not sure why your dates and names are so screwy. My list was accurate but my image not quite.

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

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Much of the funds being held are payable to local governments. 🙁

RE TX: some news has a hand-waving graph that a few states have made mid-decade apportioning map changes.

Here’s where changes happened for 2024, & all were legally required:
AL, GA (on appeal), NC, NY
SCOTUS: LA

Where’s example of late, optional redrawing like TX?

cc @marcelias.bsky.social

if you're reporting on the UCLA shakedown, you should ask the gov. what the legal basis for the $1 billion demand is. if they point to title VI, ask how a billion dollar demand squares with the limited remedies available by law. if they say the False Claims Act, ask which specific contracts.

How is this different from when a Communist government confiscates private property?