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  • Trump Is Getting Tired of Losing Election Cases | Even the judges he appointed aren’t buying the arguments.

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  • This is not to say that Trump has not had success influencing America’s electoral system, particularly in the past year. The president has elevated MAGA-friendly election deniers into the federal government, sicced the Justice Department on his political enemies, and drafted multiple agencies into his relentless hunt to substantiate his broad claims of voter fraud. The Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling in April gutted the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for several Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps and eliminate Democrat-leaning districts with large portions of minority voters. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rolled back campaign-finance restrictions on political parties, which Trump hailed as “A BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS.” At the state level, pro-Trump lawmakers have implemented miniature versions of the SAVE America Act or found other ways to support the president’s vision for voting. At least 10 states have voluntarily turned over the personal information of millions of voters to the Justice Department.

    Unfortunately, here's the paragraph that reveals this article to be hopium/copium.

    I am holding out my own hope that voter anger will be impossible to gerrymander away. But the Supreme Court rubber-stamping racial gerrymandering will very likely result in an insurmountable bias towards the GOP in the House. With Virginia striking down the democratic gerrymander to counteract GOP's huge gains in Texas, Florida and the deep south states, although I haven't seen a detailed analysis yet, I assume democrats will now need +5-7% at least in general ballots to overcome new built-in right bias.

    That's the thing about fascists who want to tear down a system. We need to win every fight to uphold our institutions; they just need to win once or twice. As Trump plans to do, they attack the chain at its weakest links, suppressing or invalidating votes and voter will in a few key left-leaning districts. Like most sociopaths Trump and his strategists - Miller, Bannon and Stone before that - know that compliance may not happen the first time they attempt to break their victims, so they keep trying things until they find what does.

    The DOJ losing so many cases is great, sure, but we absolutely cannot take lightly how harder their few victories have made it for us through gerrymandering, infinite PAC spending, and all the usual GOP suppression tactics. We will need to work as hard as we can this fall to make sure they do not subvert the will of voters.

  • Ex-Olympian who touched Reflecting Pool charged with felony destruction of property by Trump’s DOJ

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  • Hearn “forcefully and violently” pulled the pool’s lining, she said.

    But asked whether the pool’s lining was already damaged when Hearn touched it, Pirro said she was “not going to get into the evidence.”

    “What I told you is what our witnesses saw and experienced,” she said. “Irrespective of whether or not we think there is some situation that preceded it, we can state and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he caused damage.”

    I swear, these people somehow seem to be addicted to the sounds of their own voices and yet can't even hear themselves talk.

  • U.S home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs | Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.

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  • I hope you aren't putting wrecked EV batteries anywhere there may be flammable anything, such as near your house, your neighbor's house, a forest...

  • Trump Hosts Convicted Election Fraudster at White House

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  • “Tina Peters just came to the White House to thank me for getting her released from prison in Colorado,” the president wrote. “She was put there because she found Election Fraud, but instead of arresting the people that committed the Fraud, they arrested her!”

    Trump posted a photograph of the two of them smiling from behind his desk in the Oval Office.

    See, Jared? You went out of your way to try to score points with one convicted fraudster by releasing another convicted fraudster, and of course after you've debased yourself and justice, and now breathed new life into their denialism by showing none of them have to suffer any consequences, none of these people will even give you credit for any of what you did.

    Do you see how much you've owned yourself, Jared? Will you learn anything from it?

  • Trump Pulled In at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House

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  • I don't disagree, but thatsthejoke.jpg

  • As Supreme Court expands Trump's immigration power, experts warn of steeper U.S. population decline

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  • The immigration decline under Trump is dramatic. In 2024, roughly 2.7 million foreign migrants entered the U.S., according to the Census Bureau. This year, census experts predict that number could drop as low as 300,000. Some demographers believe the U.S. may be reaching a point where more migrants are leaving than entering.

    This is the only paragraph Stephen Miller cares about (to be clear, I'm confident Trump does not have the capacity or planning ability to be responsible for any immigration steps over both presidencies. Stephen Miller is the only person that matters on this issue).

    He will happily destroy the economic foundation of the country if it means the borders are closed. He was an absolute un-self-reflecting racist, xenophobic bully twat since at least high school, and at this point it's the most unalterable part of his psyche left.

  • US Rep. Julia Letlow, endorsed by Trump, wins the GOP primary for Senate in Louisiana

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  • “Trump’s lady all the way,” said Barbara Dufrene, 67, of Marrero. She added that she knew little about Letlow but was counting on the president to lower her healthcare costs and increase her social safety net. “I always vote whatever Trump wants.”

    Sorry, I planned to write an insightful comment here, but my head seems to have just exploded.

  • Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to Normal

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  • Yes, that's of course fair. Even if it's not perfect compliance, though, the more people hold out, the faster and lower prices drop, so there's still value in it.

    But short of regulation, is there anything else within our power to do?

  • ‘Thinking He Can Fool Everyone,’ Newsom Backs One Billionaires Tax But Not Another | “The misdirect here is that Newsom is opposing a WEALTH tax on billionaires in his own state and insisting he supp…

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  • Yup. These stories about Newsom just stress me out because all signs are that he is going to be the corporate Dem primary candidate in 2028, getting massive finding and unearned support.

    There needs to be a better Dem primary candidate to back to avoid another status quo Biden break from Trump that just ends up accelerating a pendulum swing back. AOC is the best possibility at the moment but Trump and co, and the mainstream media either by bias or recklessness, have effectively denied any other left politicians a national platform or name recognition (apart from Mamdani who they thought they could strangle in the crib, which thankfully backfired on them spectacularly).

    So if the primary were held right now, Newsom would win, and it makes me ill to think about it. Something has to change.

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  • I've for years known a little about it, but still felt like it's magic.

    I took 10 seconds looking at this image and thought, "Oh, that makes sense."

  • I won a Pulitzer for explaining the Great Depression. The AI spending boom terrifies me

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  • OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs +2-4 weeks is my best guess for when the market starts sliding. Investor money is already drying up, but too many rich people haven't cashed out yet, helping themselves (like SpaceX) to our index retirement funds to countersign withdrawals at the inflated valuations.

    I'm on the fence after that if it'll happen slow or fast. Possible we'll get a Bear Stearns/Lehman type failure that brings down the world's markets, after a major player no longer has a blank check at multi-billion/quarter burn rates, and hits insolvency like a freight train. But also likely it could unravel more slowly like a sweater, as de-escalating levels of market access pull on the thread in turn.

  • Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to Normal

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  • Don't doom too much about this headline. HBM contracts represent artificial AI demand. When the bubble pops (and it will pop), the HBM demand evaporates and it's back to competing for consumers. That said, there will be a very slow ratchet to get back to consumer-competitive prices, because as component costs go down, additional companies will be "priced in" to speculative AI business models, even if hyperscalers and other AI-drunk multinationals are backing off.

    Regardless of whether there is a bubble, though, AI spending is ludicriously, unsustainably inflated even from existing memory customers. They are purchasing one-time AI infrastructure that needs to last a decade to even have a remote chance of paying off the hardware investments. There are only a few companies that can afford current AI pricing, those companies have already played their hands and paid for allocations, and they will not keep purchasing at this pace even in their own best case scenarios.

    Regulation could keep consumer prices down, but of course we're in the bad Trump timeline and that won't happen until at least 2028. Assuming the bubble pops before then, the key to resetting this "new normal" is to NOT purchase anything you do not need to until we're back to $80-130 / 64GB or cheaper, like it was in 2025. Hold out, make them desperate to lower prices.

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    Jeffries says he hopes Democrats remember after primaries ‘enemy is Donald Trump’

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  • This is it. He's calculated that there aren't enough true progressives to oust him as minority (possibly soon majority) leader, so he's superficially making a neutral statement but really telling the progressives he expects them to fall in line.

  • I won a Pulitzer for explaining the Great Depression. The AI spending boom terrifies me

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  • The fear is that, if the past is anything to go by, the AI boom will follow a similar arc to these other technology-driven infrastructure booms: a flood of speculative capital will flow in, leading to massive overinvestment, asset price bubbles and ultimately a crash as euphoria collides with a disappointing reality.

    Shocking.

  • Meta is considering partnerships with betting platforms Polymarket and Kalshi as it continues to develop its own betting service

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  • Next up: Meta plans rural backyard wrestling league. Analysts expect a healthy side business selling whippits.

  • D.C. Settles Suit With Protester Arrested After Playing ‘Star Wars’ Song Near Deployed Troops

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  • The chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington filed a notice in federal court saying that city officials had agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to the plaintiff, Sam O’Hara, in exchange for being released from the lawsuit. Scott Michelman, the legal director of the A.C.L.U. chapter, said that the settlement “was a significant amount Mr. O’Hara is pleased with but that we are not disclosing to respect Mr. O’Hara’s privacy.”

    I wish they hadn't settled, since unfortunately an unconstitutional arrest to generate a speech-chilling headline, followed by buying-off a settlement, is just a take-rights-now-pay-layer strategy that still leads to fascism.

  • Mike Johnson tells conservatives ‘I run the protection program’ to protect Trump

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  • Apart from the obvious implication they are engaged in crime, even the term "protection" is just comedically accurate on-the-nose mafia terminology for what is happening - a subtle threat of punishment to "supporters" unless they comply.

    Once again, it's hard to think of a better insult than what they openly admit to. It's another confirmation they are psychopaths, because if they were at all capable of shame, they'd feel nothing else.

  • Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

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  • All fair points, thank you for sharing. I guess in a crazy overvalued property market, the huge mortgage down payment does make the biggest difference since compound returns on that same investment could be huge in the stock market (until of course an AI crash wipes out all our investments and retirement accounts). In a less overvalued market property may make more sense.

  • Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

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  • I'd be curious to know your logic why renting is cheaper than buying.

    To explain: Even disregarding that a later sale price is an intrinsic inflation recoup, paying a mortgage also means any principle is recouped on sale, meaning only interest is the actual monthly "rent" after a sale, maybe decades later. Finally it's rare property value doesn't go up, which also reduces the costs. Despite all these benefits, you still found renting and investing the difference gave better returns?