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  Top Democratic Leader in Redistricting Fight Arrested In a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lucas and six co-defendants were charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money, and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijuana under the auspices of her legal medical cannabis business. Lucas, an 82-year-old great-grandmother, has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992. She faces fi...

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  'Vote him out!': Town hall erupts in anger at Nebraska GOP congressman over Trump megabill, policies “We have a state where our infrastructure is going to be supported, is going to be funded, and is going to be available for the people that need it. If you are able to work, and you’re 28 years old and you choose not to work, you don’t get free health care in America. If you are in this country illegally, you do not get free health care in America.” Audience members repeatedly shouted,...

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  What's 26 + 6 in Cyrillic?

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  Trump says he asked Google CEO to rename Atlantic Ocean on Maps Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday, the president said he had called Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, to ask whether the company could “handle” his proposal. “I only like two oceans: the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. I’m not going to put either Trump or America on any other ocean but these two. So we seriously looked at the Atlantic Ocean, and I called Google Maps, who were really great with the lake … They’re...

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  Why Is Israel Running TV Ads in Iowa Ahead of the Midterms? Now, the state of Israel – not AIPAC, to be clear – is running television ads in Iowa, a key Senate battleground state that may only be in play for Democrats thanks to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. In one TV ad, Israel specifically touts its willingness to wage war. “Israel confronts Iran and its network of proxies directly, addressing those dangers at their source,” the ad says, claiming that this helps “deter aggression” and “stop...

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  Idk about that. Musk and Zuck seem like very careless people.

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  Abbott, Hinojosa cast ballots as Elon Musk takes center stage in Texas governor’s race on first day of early voting “We have anticipated shenanigans in this election because we always experience shenanigans in elections in Texas,” Hinojosa said. “But change is coming. They cannot stop it. We need everybody to be vigilant and be extra proactive in getting their vote in on time.” On Monday, Hinojosa also announced a new lawsuit as part of an effort to view documents related to communications be...

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  A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for it cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/53250107 Police confirmed they had responded to a report of “criminal mischief involving a robot” on the 1200 block of Filbert Street around 1:16 p.m. on Wednesday. A woman on the scene ignored “multiple commands” to move, they said, resulting in a criminal violation notice for disorderly conduct. Uber declined to comment. Marvin, who plans to co...

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  Young, Dumb, and Full of Press Releases

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  Texas trans rights group says it didn’t send disputed texts The texts, sent from at least three numbers Monday and Tuesday evening, advertised guides on “bathrooms and beyond for trans kids at school” or offered to answer questions about gender-affirming care in Texas. The texts linked to TENT guides on how to respond to certain state laws and information about its advocacy work. Although the messages linked to TENT’s website, the group said in a statement that it did not send them and didn’t...

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  Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients The White Rose Resistance (WRR), where Zacharia sat on the board until February, is best known for its anti-abortion disinformation, harassment campaigns against providers, and for collecting the country’s worst extremists. The group’s national outreach director AJ Hurley, for example, was charged with felony stalking of an abortion provider in San Francisco in 2022. Per his own bio, Hurley is also connected to the wom...

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  Sinema boosting Republican Jay Feely for Arizona House seat Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) has told business and political leaders in Arizona that she chose to vote in the Republican primary — for House candidate Jay Feely, Axios has learned. In multiple casual meetings over the past month, Sinema has told people she has gotten to know Feely and his wife and likes him, describing him as “commonsense” and a “fiscal conservative,” two sources who were present when Sinema made the comments...

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  This Is The Ideal Swing Voter. You May Not Like Her. But She's What Democracy Looks Like. bsky.app/profile/…/3mxm3thmxo224

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  Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally Trump said he wanted to “see a tremendous victory” in the November election, “’cause it verifies all the things we did. And again, remember, with the war it’s just artificial, it’s a little bit high.” “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” he continued. “They can take out a city, let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small pri...

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  The radical Left is coming for the nuclear football. Trump must lock the codes now

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  Hard Out There For A Woman

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  I'm tired of being mocked and hated because I'm a conservative woman Drag queens are cool. Conservative women are gross. And that is what passes for journalism in 2025.

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  Get Maced

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  Innuendo

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  Dog Love

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  This Far and No Further

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  Mo' Money, Mo' Problems

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  Yo yo yo unemployment nearing 25% in U.S. Where do you people get this stuff?

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  Trump says he’s made ‘Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks’ for the U.S., in stream of AI posts The 80-year-old commander in chief spent more than 10 hours on Sunday posting dozens of apparently AI-generated images on his social media platform. The posts included a depiction of Iran’s defeat, Trump on horseback with George Washington, and an apparently AI-generated image of Robert De Niro holding a shirt that read, “Trump is my president.” One AI image appears to show the president sitti...

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  Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI “Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,” Stokes writes. (He’s not the first thinker to suggest bombings to stop powerful AI; in 2023, AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky suggested that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue data center by airstrike.”) Of course, the China hawk isn’t numb to what such an attack would mean for the world. “Bom...

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  Machine Rights Will Give Us A Harder Fight

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  FBI Lowers Hiring Standards To Approve Applicants Who Admit To Having Sex With Animals cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51417122 The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer — or engaging in acts of bestiality. […] In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel. According to multiple sources briefed on the matter, t...

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  Evil Bisexuals

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  Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials

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  Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China Here, using high-resolution satellite-retrieved data and interpretable machine learning techniques, this study quantified the impact of NEVs on atmospheric pollution, specifically particulate matter particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 μm or less, and evaluates the corresponding health benefi...