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I've now foutered my way through sendgrid and for 100 days on the free plan I've got a way to sign into my localhost copy of rss chat.

I am going to try my Raspberry Pi next, probably at the weekend.

“The Democrats’ main Senate super PAC is booking another $54 million in TV ads for the midterm campaign’s final stretch, targeting four Republican-held seats,” Axios reports. “The new reservations offer a roadmap to where Democrats think they can flip seats.” The four states: Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina and Alaska.

A new Emerson College survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53% to 42%. President Trump holds a 39% job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57%.

“When President Dwight D. Eisenhower went to the United Nations in 1953 to offer countries nuclear technology and know-how in return for a promise to use them peacefully, the policy went by a memorable shorthand, ‘Atoms for Peace.’ Seven decades later, it could go by a less idealistic name: nuclear hedging,” the New York Times […]

“Prime Minister Mark Carney swept to power promising an ‘elbows out’ stance against President Trump’s tariff threats and rhetoric, vowing he would never accept a bad trade deal,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Sixteen months later, Carney says he has avoided making a bad deal but critics say it has come at a cost: a […]

“Oil prices are racing back toward $100 this morning after Tehran-backed Houthi militants claimed attacks on two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, threatening another important route for oil flows and stoking fears that the U.S.-Iran conflict could escalate further,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“A little-known court tasked with handling highly sensitive deportation cases against alleged alien terrorists has laid dormant since its 1996 creation, lacking even a website for tracking any proceedings before it,” CNN reports. “But this month, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court sprung to life with a first-of-its-kind case filed by the Trump administration as it […]

A second Cities Church defendant, Thomas Tier, has complained about the use of Customs summonses to get communication records and other evidence in violation of the law.

The post More Concerns about the Investigative Misconduct by Harmeet Dhillon’s Team appeared first on emptywheel.

Last month I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring how Republicans had hijacked the Biden-era infrastructure bill to redirect billions of dollars away from next-generation fiber, and instead funnel it into the pockets of billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — in exchange for congested, expensive, satellite broadband service they’d already planned to deploy. […]

Hunter Biden didn't hold back when asked about his feelings for Jake Tapper during an interview with Tapper's former colleague, Don Lemon.

Who can blame Biden after the hit job Tapper did on his father while he continually allows Republicans to walk all over him?

Via Mediaite: Hunter Biden Calls Jake Tapper ‘A Complete and Utter A**hole’ Who Is ‘Full of F*cking Sh*t’:

“Were you friends with Jake Tapper?” Lemon asked the younger Biden on Wednesday.

“No,” he responded, while acknowledging he’s known Tapper “for 25 years.”

When Lemon questioned his feelings about Original Sin, Biden didn’t mince words, explaining:

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Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu is having none of the Trump administration’s efforts to hide the cost of his needless Iran war or President Draft Dodger’s boast about the number of troop casualties. On Wednesday, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Lieu laid into Mik...

Imagine this scenario. You're on your way to a meeting with some movie money people you're not looking forward to. They want the "fresh idea" you've been teasing them about for weeks, but now that the day has arrived, you've got nothing. So now you're in an elevator in a...

To distract from all of the Republican shitshows, Trump and company have been squealing about the invasion of smoke from the Canadian wildfires. Never mind that half of the United States is currently on fire; the Republicans are trying to put all of the blame on Canada. In...

Thank you Dave, not sure how the markdown thing happened, luckily I can edit the post ;-)

“The number of Senate-confirmed officials who have left their roles in the Trump administration is more than double the amount of departures at this point of President Trump’s first term,” NewsNation reports.

The Maiden and the vase of flowers or pink nude, 1921 #henrimatisse #expressionism

Georgia O'Keeffe, Dark Abstraction, 1924 #americanart #museumarchive

An aggressive fox that attacked a woman, tried to bite another resident, and later charged at a father and his two young children has an Upstate New York neighborhood on edge. Continue reading…

I stood alone in my new cell nearly naked, covered only by a thin smock. I felt raw, exposed.
Mentally, I was at a new low.

The post Surviving Suicide Watch in a Missouri Prison appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

Prisons across the country have suffered from severe staffing shortages — including South Woods State Prison in New Jersey, where I was housed until February. That prison detains over 3,000 people, from minimum to maximum custody.

The post In New Jersey, Prison Staff Shortages Hurt All of Us appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.