It’s not a change of heart on white christian nationalist policymaking, so her rhetoric means fuck all.

It’ll be taken care of by the new Microsoft CEO: Miguel Sanchez.

the question of why?

It protects their investments for them and their families. Political tidal shifts on corporate ownership of critical infrastructure like housing is unacceptable for their economy. And their electability?

they’re all people who have announced that they will retire after this term.

They are expressly the ones that can afford this action: explicitly burning goodwill to secure wealth. They’re spending currency that has no value to them.

It doesn’t even have to be backdoor dealings. It is all very front door.

I am willing to bet this was on some level retaliatory for Mamdani’s election. All these senators represent a faction that’s currently sundowning. For them, this kind of action is a message.

Schumer has zero control over his party when even the party whip pledges to defect. But he apparently refused to vote for the Democratic candidate for NYC mayor, so this is entirely expected and precedented.

She is just running circles around media establishments. Speaker Greene is going to be wild. Or at least that’s what she’s after. Every House GOPer is going to need a pivot and she will be that for them.

Thanks, though it is a username I have used variously for probably 20+ years.

One of the more interesting polls out of this was whether voters were casting in support of or against a candidate.

86% of Mamdani voters were voting out of support of their candidate.

Half of Cuomo voters were voting against another candidate. (Mamdani.)

Voting against a candidate is a losing strategy.

It’s based on users sending in reports, and positive news for the left or news critical of Israel unleashes an army of rules lawyers.

Meanwhile pundits on CNN is calling this a ‘warning lesson’. Anderson Cooper and crowd fear mongering even through victory.

My understanding the media focus is about how bad it is that this was leaked and that the leakers are bad because it hurts the state of Israel.

Which is exactly what I would expect.

You’d be looking at some early 20th century interpretations of leftism though, which is an important nuance. Lenin was a member of the Russian Social Democrats, but most people probably wouldn’t attribute his legacy to Social Democracy.

Windows can automount USB drives, so a flash drive can get inadvertently formatted, (or something to do with the bootloader, i don’t know the technical details that well.) Point is the automounting can break a flash drive that isn’t formatted for windows.

Switched everything to Bazzite as a start. Easiest switch after figuring out Windows sabotages boot drives.

I may have pirated all my Windows but man it feels good to be off that ride. Spoofing corporate licenses for the authenticator was such a hassle.

Before reading the article: “They’re just going to start directly donating to the Heritage Foundation, aren’t they?”

After reading the article: “They’re juet going to help their local church which will then directly support the Heritage Foundation, aren’t they…”

I am guessing Monday will have more dedicated articles coming out from larger orgs. It is usually the way of these weekend events.

I wonder how much is just a definitional conversion of ‘through friends’ to ‘online’ because friends are now online as well.

I thought it was George Santos in the thumbnail for a moment. And was not surprised.

It appears those are specifically problems China is on the trajectory of solving/improving for itself.

The American CEOs going to China are returning to find those issues getting worse everyday with no solution in sight.

It felt a bit implied and would seem really contrived to reassure the reader China has those problems.

Her creeping through AOC’s mailbox before she was a politician keeps her well in the ‘nope’ camp for me. She’s proving herself more dangerous right now IMO.