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The political party that’s been battered and bloodied in America’s culture wars since the end of the 1960s by not even really knowing how to fight them, finally decided to stop worrying about churning out policy papers and pleasing newspaper nitpickers and instead start playing to win — and on their terms.

And this is one traditional media outlet that isn't afraid to post a positive story about Democrats. Nice to see some small change happening in the media.

Microsoft attempted to remove the false entries but only succeeded temporarily. They reappeared after a few days, SWR reports. The company's terms of service disclaim liability for generated responses.

It's almost like they're trying to say "generated responses" aren't the product. Every company should just add "we’re not responsible for the products we sell” to their TOS to avoid all liability. Genius!

The initial elevation of Kennedy’s campaign on the right — including by Trump ally Stephen K. Bannon and House Republicans at a hearing last year — is now looking even more like a real potential blunder.

Finding out what happens when you run a 2nd Republican. Everyone looks like a "radical leftist" when you’re inside the Trump cult, but Kennedy isn’t even close to a centrist.

Update (8/23): Fin.

“If you’re not on board with helping implement a dramatic course correction because you’re afraid it’ll damage your future employment prospects, it’ll harm you socially — look, I get it,” Huff says. “That’s a real danger. It’s a real thing. But please: Do us all a favor and sit this one out.”

Good advice from Project 2025 training videos. If you don’t want to be ostracized from normal society, instead of secretly undermining the US government from within, sit this one out. Everyone else, please vote for people who care about other people so we don’t get all this garbage.

Being chill about menstruation is crucial if men want to be fathers of daughters, friends of women, or just people who wish to navigate the world comfortably, as it's heavily populated with people who get periods.

I guess we’re at a time in our culture when this has to be said out loud. Men are having trouble right now and Tim Walz seems like the kind of guy who can sit them down and gently explain things.

"We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war," Musk wrote today, a little over eight months after telling boycotting advertisers to "go fuck yourself."

You see, the web is a customer service medium.

It's true! This is anticompetitive. But the answer isn't to preserve the universal power of tech companies large and small to violate our human rights – it's to ban everyone, especially Google from spying on us!

Cory asks us to keep our eye on the real villain of the Google monopoly case: constant surveillance.

Walz also says maps help implement the nitty-gritty details of otherwise abstract policy. “You have to have a plan” for “how we’re doing power and economic justice and environmental justice,” he said. “The tools for that plan are GIS.” Those tools “transfer a vision of a fair society into one that actually has results.”

VP candidate also a map nerd.

X is now an app that forcibly puts abhorrent content into users’ feeds and then rewards financially the people who were the most successful in producing it, egging them on to do it again and again and make it part of their living.

PSA: misinformation and outrage bait is ramping up at Twitter. We have good alternatives now. Fly, you fools!

Congress can determine the size of the Supreme Court; it has already added and removed seats on the Court seven times throughout its history. At a time when the American people’s confidence in the nation’s highest court has fallen to a record low and Congressional Republicans have already employed their far-right judicial playbook by disregarding norms and precedent in the confirmations process, Congress must take action by once again expanding the Court.

It's way past time for this to happen. We need a Democratic congress now.

The Democrats’ use of “weird” turns the Republicans’ self-image on its head. For years, the GOP has positioned itself as the party of “real Americans,” fighting to reestablish “real” American values. “Weird” points out how many of their positions, including but not limited to their antiabortion stance and historic refusal to support broader access to health- and childcare, put them at odds with a majority of Americans.

Weird is a good way to call out "minority rule" without using technical jargon like "minority rule". Also, on a gut level, have you heard unedited speeches from these folks? Deeply weird.

State Democratic party chairs on Sunday threw their weight behind Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party's new presidential nominee to run against Republican nominee and former president, Donald Trump.

Bracing for the "Dems in Disarray" stories but so far impressed by the support and donations for Harris. I thought this path was too risky but it's good to see this solid start.