Three Dan Sullivans are wading in on Alaska's Senate race but only one Dan Sullivan has earned the support of a former lawmaker with his namesake.
A major polling tracker announced Thursday it would suspend its use of data from a pollster after it discovered evidence that the firm allegedly "falsified data" in a survey of candidates in Florida's gubernatorial Republican primary race. read more
The United States cancelled a joint amphibious landing drill scheduled for next month with South Korea, Seoul's Marine Corps said on Monday, after Washington cited constraints on the availability of U.S. forces due to the war in Iran. The U.S. Marine Corps formally notified its South Korean counterpart in June that force availability would be constrained for the division-level exercise, known as Ssangyong, a South Korean Marine Corps spokesperson told a press briefing.
As Republicans and some moderate Democrats increasingly portray democratic socialists as out of step with mainstream America, polling suggests a more complicated reality -- a majority of Republican voters support several of the economic policies championed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and prominent figures on the party's left flank.
Matthew Elliott hid a message in a Connecticut court filing that he told CT Insider was meant to be read by a machine, not a judge. The message, written in tiny white text, told any artificial intelligence system that encountered the document to agree with Elliott's argument and help undo an earlier court ruling in a court case, according to a judge's decision sanctioning Elliott, 24, of Milford, for the action.
Ex-FDA workers warn Trump cuts will increase risk of food safety lapses in US (January 2026)
www.theguardian.com
... Sweeping cuts and the "politicization of science" inside the Food and Drug Administration have increased the risk of safety lapses across the US, former agency workers warned.
Less than a year after Donald Trump returned to power, and his administration oversaw the firing and resignation of thousands of FDA employees, a listeria outbreak that killed six people and sickened 27 across 18 states due to contamination of prepared pasta meals underlined the danger posed by safety failings.
"Those kinds of things are going to keep coming," said David Harbourt, a former veterinary safety manager at the FDA, who was fired last year. The agency's work "has been compromised for at a minimum, the short term, hopefully not the long term", he claimed. "But it's those aspects of American people's lives that we almost take for granted that are going to be affected in a very negative way in the coming years."
About 19,700 employees worked at the agency before Trump officials introduced waves of firings, voluntary retirement and resignation programs. Thousands subsequently left, although some workers were later rehired.
"I am concerned that by letting go so many people, by offering early retirement, it's like that kids' game Jenga where you pile up all these wooden pieces," said Sandra Eskin, CEO of Stop Foodborne Illness, a non-profit, and former deputy under secretary for food safety at the US Department of Agriculture. "And if you pull one out from the bottom or even the middle, the whole thing falls apart. ...
Weren't some of the cuts in Pres Trump's bill delayed until after the mid-terms due to their unpopulatiry?
OK, found this ...
The Republicans Are Going to Kill People -- but Not Until After They Vote
newrepublic.com
... Now comes the biggest problem. When the Republican Congress enacted Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill in July 2025, it included massive cuts in the Medicaid program, totaling around $1 trillion over 10 years"but made sure to postpone them until 2027, conveniently after the midterm elections.
The cuts focused on adding onerous work and paperwork requirements, all designed to force recipients off the rolls, and will remove somewhere between 10 and 15 million people from the program, leaving them without any health coverage. That is in addition to the millions losing coverage or facing huge premium increases with the erasure of subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.
But the impact will go far beyond those directly losing their health insurance. Medicaid money does not go to Medicaid recipients. It goes to the providers. The loss of a major chunk of the money going out to them will have big reverberations.
The American health care system, unlike in most advanced countries, was jerry-built, a combination of public and private entities, and state and federal involvement. But the public and private are not separate. They are like the organs in the human body"if one declines or fails, it has huge impact on the others. And these cuts are going to reverberate in many catastrophic ways. ...
U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org
...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."[emphasis mine]
The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."
The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....
@#2
Along those lines ...
OpenAI 'temporarily slows' scaling efforts, also promises zero data retention for select frontier model customers
www.computerworld.com
... Analysts said the moves may be nothing more than positioning the company for its IPO, but that both changes are welcome news nonetheless. ...
Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust
www.theguardian.com
... A series of moves by Donald Trump's administration to sow doubt in the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts -- and sparked hope among election deniers -- that it could declare a national emergency.
The White House and US federal agencies have released a string of documents this summer -- including disputed analyses of alleged voting by noncitzens and historical intelligence memos -- stoking expectations that the US president could move to exert greater control over November's US midterm elections.
Trump used a primetime television address in July to claim -- again -- that US elections were vulnerable to foreign manipulation, and repeat the lie that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was stolen.
Trump's speech prompted Steve Bannon, his former political strategist, to predict the US president will declare a state of emergency on national security grounds to "protect" elections. ...
Perhaps, this may be how Pres Trump views Ms Harp ...
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (1994)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
I've never known a girl like you before
Now, just like in a song from days of yore
Here you come a-knocking, knocking on my door
And I've never met a girl like you before
You give me just a taste so I want more
Now my hands are bleeding and my knees are raw
'Cause now you got me crawling, crawling on the floor
And I've never known a girl like you before
You made me acknowledge the devil in me
I hope to God I'm talking metaphorically
Hope that I'm talking allegorically
Know that I'm talking 'bout the way I feel
And I've never known a girl like you before
Never, never, never, never
Never known a girl like you before
...
As I cited in another thread ...
Gen Z turns against capitalism as DSA takes off
thehill.com
... Only 9 percent of Americans younger than 30 have a "very positive" view of capitalism, according to a new CBS/YouGov poll.
That shows a stark generation between Generation Z and older generations.
Thirty-three percent of people older than 65, or those in the baby boomer generation, said they have a very positive view of capitalism, while 23 percent of people aged 45-64, a group that includes Generation Xers and older millennials, view capitalism very positively.
Millennials in the 30-44 age range were closer to Gen Z, with just 15 percent saying they had a very positive view of capitalism.
Forty-one percent of respondents younger than 30 had a very negative or somewhat negative view of capitalism. That compares with 27 percent of those 65 and older, 32 percent of those aged 45-64 and 37 percent of those aged 30-44.
The data arrives amid a surge in democratic socialist victories across the U.S. -- and not just in progressive corners of the country. Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (D) on Tuesday beat out the more moderate Alex Vindman (D) in the Democratic Senate primary in Florida, a state known for its sunshine, not socialism. ...
Ugly Americans - Boom Boom Baby (1998)
www.youtube.com
This seems to be the uncensored NSFW version. So I will defer the posting of lyrics.
@#16
Wow, Taj Mahal.
I've not heard that group's name in years.
Digging into my music library, I find ...
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band - She Caught The Katy (1997)
From the album ... Tibetan Freedom Concert 1997
Lemme see if I can find an online version ...
OK, found this ...
Taj Mahal - She Caught The Katy (Live)
www.youtube.com
Good tune.
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