Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13024669...
Top Republican says party base "infected" by Russian propaganda ( www.newsweek.com )
Russian propaganda pushed by the Kremlin has “infected” part of the Republican base, a senior GOP congressman has said, as indications grow that a vital U.S. military package for Ukraine will come up for a vote with U.S. lawmakers this month....
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests ( www.theguardian.com )
Meet Richard Grenell, vocal tribune of Trump’s America First credo on the international stage and the man hotly tipped to become secretary of state if the presumed Republican nominee beats Joe Biden in November’s presidential election....
An earthquake just rocked NYC, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas ( www.theverge.com )
Jackson, Mississippi, residents now get a voice in city’s water crisis ( prismreports.org )
‘You have imprisoned our democracy’: inside Republicans’ domination of Tennessee ( www.theguardian.com )
Conservative domination – maintained by gerrymandered districts, disenfranchised voters and an increasing sense of political despair – insulates Tennessee Republicans from political consequences for unpopular decisions. Challenged in public by increasing activism on the left and apocalyptic rhetoric on the right, Tennessee...
Are American progressives making themselves sad? ( www.economist.com )
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As the t-shirt says: ‘If it’s Boeing, I’m not going’ ( www.bostonglobe.com )
How media’s money woes threaten democracy ( www.inquirer.com )
How investment firms shield the ultrawealthy from the IRS ( www.icij.org )
An investigation examining hundreds of leaked IRS forms offers a glimpse into the often-hidden challenges the U.S. tax agency faces in tackling the favorite new global investment vehicles of the ultrawealthy. That review and interviews with more than a dozen former tax officials show an agency struggling with not only a shortage...
Voters reject stadium tax for Royals and Chiefs ( www.espn.com )
How dare voters not want to pay 75 basis points on every purchase for decades to fund private enterprise!
Let Me Rewrite That For You: NY Times Misinforms Readers About RFK & Biden ( www.techdirt.com )
In Alabama, abortion and IVF helped flip a red set in a special election ( www.motherjones.com )
Democrat Marilyn Lands won a special election for an Alabama state House seat, flipping a Republican-held seat by campaigning on abortion rights in the deep-red state that bans abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. Lands won 62 percent of the nearly 6,000 votes cast, while her challenger, Republican Teddy Powell, won...
A new kind of activist journalism: Hunterbrook investigates corporations (and hopes to make bank trading off its reporting) ( www.niemanlab.org )
Ben Gurion, founder of Israel, admits having stolen land from Arabs and that's there's no reason for arabs to make peace. See more of his behaviour on this article ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13965815...
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit ( www.washingtonpost.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14006087...
Washington Strippers Win Bill of Rights ( inthesetimes.com )
The campaign’s primary focus for the new law has been on improving dancers’ working conditions especially around expanded safety regulations. Strip clubs in Washington will now be required to hire full-time security guards, add keypad locks to dressing room doors, and conduct sexual harassment training for all employees....
China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms ( www.nytimes.com )
Bird flu detected in person who had contact with infected dairy cattle in Texas ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.5 Billion Conditional Commitment to Holtec Palisades to Support Recommission of Michigan Nuclear Power Plant ( www.energy.gov )
if this happens, i believe this would be the first nuclear plant to be recommissioned in the US after previously shutting down
Alabama town that hasn’t held elections in decades sued to allow voting ( www.theguardian.com )
An update to this post beehaw.org/post/6717143
Texas man changes his name to ‘Literally Anybody Else’ and launches presidential bid ( www.independent.co.uk )
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/22330173...
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law ( www.thecity.nyc )
He didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead ( apnews.com )
Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted ( www.theguardian.com )
