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  Stephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration Really just for the headline. Take note, American corporate news sewers.

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  Petition Calling for House Speaker Other Than Hakeem Jeffries Hits 1 Million Signatures | Common Dreams Make It So

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  Trump replaces Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff

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  Couldn’t Qanon Themselves Out of It

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  AI backlash threatens trillion-dollar data centre boom, say tech leaders archive.ph/…/32fd4450-5880-437d-9bd9-df13289ada24 The US midterm elections — in which voters elected anti-data centre governors in Texas, Georgia and Ohio and passed 38 local votes in favour of restrictions on their development — have forced the tech industry to reflect on its failure to connect with the public. “The reason is not that people are Luddites . . . it’s much like the protests against the masks in Covid. It...

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  A Ban on AI LIVE NOV. 6, 2026 AT 6:30AM ET Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq set for mixed start after AI carnage led to worst day for techs since 2020; jobs report on tap: live updates marketwatch.com/…/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-500-…

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  The Money Behind Hakeem Jeffries His donor list includes controversial figures like Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf and his COO Matthew Grimm, who together spent nearly $150,000 boosting Jeffries’ fundraising committees. Some might recognize Anduril as the AI weapons tech corporation co-founded by Palmer Luckey, a tech billionaire whose recent projects include a company working on genetically enhanced dogs for military purposes. Another controversial donor includes Mehdi Allhassani, current head of...

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  Democrats Need to Talk About Supreme Court Expansion Now Without control of the White House, there is of course only so much Democrats can do with their newfound power. And in the context of the myriad horrors of the first half of President Donald Trump’s second term, talking about what the party “should” do next is roughly analogous to deciding which out-of-control forest fire to fight first: There is not enough water, there are lots of worthy candidates, and all of them are getting worse....

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  Corporate America courted Trump. Now a blitz of investigations is coming. cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/corporate-america-courted-trump-n… Days after winning majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are setting sharp priorities. They are zeroing in on Apple, Meta and the companies led by Elon Musk as early targets for congressional investigations, according to two people familiar with the plans. archive.ph/…/after-courting-trump-corporate-ameri…

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  Probably Time

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  How Black Women Won in Georgia cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/13410908 From Atlanta Capital B News Atlanta school teacher Elizabeth Soreng immediately knew the significance of Keisha Lance Bottoms’ landmark win Tuesday night as she shed tears of joy watching the returns.  “She is the first,” an emotional Soreng told Capital B Atlanta at the Marriott Marquis election night watch party. “I’m feeling so happy because this is something that every […]The post How Black Women Won in...

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  Newsom commutes all 548 California death sentences in historic move cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/54033752 No archive.is link provided because Hearst.

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  Newly Discovered Brittle Star Species Found Beside a 9.5-Million-Year-Old Whale Fall cross-posted from: feddit.online/…/newly-discovered-brittle-star-spe… Learn more about a new species of brittle star found beside a 9.5-million-year-old whale carcass in Denmark.

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  Democrats Could Nuke the Electoral College - TPM – Talking Points Memo With their new trifectas in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada, Democrats could sign onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states give their electoral votes to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote. All five of those states haven’t yet signed; the 19 that have possess 222 of the 270 votes needed to win the presidency. The additional states would activate the Compact. Some states mi...

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  Maine Has Finally Had Enough of Susan Collins Big Suze was such a class act that she didn’t even bother to deliver a concession speech. The second she lost, she fuckity-byed it out of there. BANGOR, Maine — Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) greeted supporters at her election party throughout the night but was a no-show after losing her bid for a sixth term. Her campaign played Semisonic’s “Closing Time” and began packing up the room without any concession speech from Collins.

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  Pentagon watchdog declines bipartisan request to investigate Starshield slowdowns in Ukraine | CNN Politics Shaheen said in a statement Wednesday that “it is concerning that the inspector general has apparently decided not to investigate satellite communication disruptions that Ukraine relies on to protect its civilians.” “The Trump Administration and SpaceX have provided conflicting accounts of what led to those disruptions, which weakened Ukraine’s defenses and put American personnel in Ukr...

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  New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report Beatrice Keul, a model and former Miss Switzerland, alleged to Judiciary Committee staff that she was raped by Trump in a Plaza Hotel suite in Manhattan when she was 24. Keul said that while attending the American Dream Pageant, which had a partnership with Trump, she met with Trump at a press luncheon at the event.  Trump, according to Keul, promised to arrange her visa in the U.S. and ensure her accepta...

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  Flavio Bolsonaro flees to U.S. after losing Brazil election, sources say

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  Trump officials asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine — and not disclose any vulnerabilities they found cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/53434160

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  No mention of Epstein either via

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  WTF Was Trump’s New Press Secretary Doing in China? Zacharia’s LinkedIn work history places her at Zhong Lun, an elite Chinese multinational law firm, between 2011 and 2013. She worked at the Beijing-based firm as an associate on the international practice team, months after she obtained her J.D. from Pepperdine Caruso Law. Zacharia’s LinkedIn also notes that she spoke Chinese at an “elementary proficiency.” Like many major Chinese businesses, Zhong Lung operates in an environment in which it...

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  “Demonic Stuff”: Kansas GOP Accuses Democrat of Being a Witch Witch hunts are back in vogue with Kansas Republicans—literally. Ty Masterson, the Republican candidate in the Kansas gubernatorial race, accused his Democratic opponent, Cindy Holscher, of being an actual witch capable of “demonic” magic, while speaking at the Praise Chapel in Wichita on Sunday. Masterson introduced the dubious portion of his pseudo-sermon by suggesting that God wanted him to run for Kansas’s top political offic...

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  Master of Puppet

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  A group of 31 Democratic members of the US Congress has sent a letter to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, criticising the Trump administration over “an apparent effort to interfere with, and potentially undermine” Brazil’s elections. Latin America’s largest country will hold the first round of its presidential election on 4 October, with polls showing a technical tie between the incumbent leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro. In the let...

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  Carefully Contained

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  It’s a Bad Case

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  Elon Musk quietly boosts Republican Ken Paxton in tight Texas Senate race cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52242639

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  Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’ cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/71988239

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  It’s the Correct Pluraluzation

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  Kamala Harris campaigns with Abdul El-Sayed to unify Democratic voters cross-posted from: …piefed.social/…/kamala-harris-campaigns-with-abd… The former vice president joins Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit to bolster Democratic unity in swing-state Michigan.