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Electric cars outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time in August. Battery-electric vehicles hit 27,078 sales, or 24.9% of the new-car market, ahead of both petrol (25,824) and diesel (23,608).

The Tesla Model Y topped every model on sale. But look past it, and Australia’s EV record is almost entirely a Chinese one.

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The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

The Republican Party as a whole is already painfully aware that they're almost guaranteed to get their asses handed to them on a silver platter in the upcoming midterm elections -- but, apparently, they don't seem to think that Donald Trump's help in that matter is worth a ...

The country has finally found something to unite them - no, it is not Dolly Parton. It is their hatred of giant, energy sucking, water draining DATA CENTERS. And politicians are finally wising up to it...well, most of them. One councilman in Missouri learned the hard way th...

Once again, Republicans are trying to win elections not by making constituents’ lives better but by rigging elections to stay in power. In this case, Texas’ Tarrant County commissioners voted to close 92 voting locations. That’s a roughly 30% reduction since the 2022 midterms.

It's easy to see why. “Historically a Republican stronghold, Tarrant County has emerged as a key battleground as voters narrowly supported Democratic candidates at the top of the statewide ballot in recent elections,” The Texas Tribune reported.

It also happens to be a crucial county for Democrats to win. Reporter Abby Livingston told MS Now Tuesday night, “It’s impossible for a Democrat to win Texas without winning Tarrant County.”

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When we look back at this time and history words like “courage,” “integrity,” and “ethics” aren’t words you’re going to be associating with U.S. tech industry leadership. Everywhere you look you have tech sector executives either openly embracing fascism and the frontal assault on representative democracy, or too feckless and timid to take any sort […]

The Economist: “Any future, freely elected government of Venezuela might question a deal which gives America so much control of the country’s oil. That fact will make investors hesitate. Oil majors remain wary, though Chevron, which was already in Venezuela, has just announced a separate $7bn investment.” “Worse, cash and tax revenue from the deal […]

“As public backlash erupts against data centers, AI companies have found themselves in a race with state lawmakers,” the Washington Post reports. ”Companies are rushing to construct facilities for the servers that power their platforms. Legislators, across the country and the political spectrum, are increasingly racing to limit them.”

She supported the TWLF 1969 strike for Ethnic Studies as a high school student. Later she was a labor activist during the 1974 Jung Sai strike and was elected to the executive board of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

California scored a win for clean air today, as a DC court blocked a republican attempt to end the state’s clean air standards. It’s not the first time California has prevailed in a similar case, against similar illegal attacks meant to impose more pollution.

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Republicans Remind Everyone That Number of Supreme Court Justices Is Not in Constitution Amid signs Democrats may be more seriously...

New York has just been named one of the best places in the country for fun. Continue reading…

Original air date: January 30, 2026 President Trump and the GOP are in a growing panic over ICE. Trump’s advisers are sinking into recriminations. Republican officials are publicly admitting that his immigration agenda “seems to be not working” and that ...

The big news for a long time hasn’t been the corruption and incompetence of the Repubs, it’s been the unwillingness of the Dems to do anything about it, and it’s simply not true that theres nothing they can do.

The generals are sounding the alarm about Pete Hegseth

Above, The Carpenters perform, Please Mr. Postman. Today we look at the mail-in ballot scheme. Lick it and stamp it, Hair Füror.

The Moderate Voice says that the mail voting rules are a shitshow.

Mock, Paper, Scissors says that their incompetence is our secret weapon.

Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the case that John Roberts is the worst Chief Justice in the history in the entire disreputable history of the Supreme Court.

Platypus Economics grades THAT MAN's tariff policies based upon their stated objectives.

Bonus Track: Notions Capital warns slatternly housekeepers! Atomic bombs will destroy you!

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More than six months after starting an illegal war with Iran, President Donald Trump is now threatening to rename the Strait of Hormuz, whose closure at the start of the conflict led to a global spike in energy prices. In a Wednesday social media post, Trump falsely claimed...

Well, this is a bit surprising. Media Matters’ Matt Gertz writes, “Pete Hegseth hasn’t been on Fox News in 11 months.” It’s surprising for two reasons. First, Fox News is […]

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