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In the Northeast, Midwest and West, it’s almost all upside for Democrats. But redistricting will hand Republicans some seats in the South.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada was “at war” over trade with the U.S. after President Trump “miscalculated” by escalating his tariff attack,” the Financial Times reports. Said Carney: “You’re at war when you’re attacked, and we got attacked.”

“The U.S. Postal Service finalized a rule that would add extra hurdles to mail-in voting, pressing ahead with one of President Donald Trump’s priorities even as court orders keep the push on hold,” Bloomberg reports. “The new rules deviate slightly from Trump’s original plan. The Supreme Court is still weighing a lawsuit challenging the order […]

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Republicans are losing because they can't run on their record.

They can't run on covering up the Epstein files.
They can't run on cutting Medicaid.
They can't run on stripping SNAP or imposing tariffs.

Americans see what is happening - and we are hungry for change.

Henri Matisse, [Untitled] (Illustration for the Poem "Feuillets D'Album"), 1932 #henrimatisse #europeanart

You’ve probably seen that Canadian PM Mark Carney has walked away from trade talks with the US. That has led...

A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s pause on issuing visas to immigrants from 75 countries. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas found the policy was “contrary to law” and went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.657161/gov.uscourts.nysd.657161.83.0.pdf

A wild river otter has been spotted in a river in New York for the first time in more than a hundred years. Continue reading…

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who's hoping to become the next Governor of Tennessee, served up a big heaping helping of Biden Tourette syndrome when she was asked by Hannity guest host Kellyanne Conway about her party's message to voters for the midterms. Never mind that Dear Lead...

Henri Matisse, A Faun in the Afternoon, plate fifteen from Poesies de Mallarmé, 1932 #henrimatisse #museumarchive

Whether it's a trade war with Canada or an actual war with Iran, the pattern is the same: Americans are paying the price for the President's choices.

Natalie Harp is the gatekeeper with no boss.

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I'm watching it an really like it. Holds your interest.

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What happens when humans run out of things they want to do with AIs. When everything has been done and it takes ten tokens to do what used to cost ten million. What will we do with the data centers? Will they be empty shells like the old shopping malls that were so popular before the web and Covid?

Wind turbine blade going up I-35. I’m always amazed at these, seeing them up close.

Reading a lot of replies on Mastodon, Bluesky, and even some on X to take the state of things. My blog post from last month is relevant this week. I don’t expect everyone on Mastodon to agree, but I hope those who care about safety will at least consider it.

Ian Austen, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked away, calling the U.S...

Chauvel, 1910 #duchamp #marcelduchamp

In the first article in this series, I discussed how the Open Mainframe Project (OMP) and its open-source framework, Zowe,

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