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Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.

The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled against Trump and the Republicans' plot to further gerrymander the Congressional districts for the 2026 midterm elections despite their best efforts to run out the clock. As we already discussed, they heard oral arguments this Wednesday...

A new Beacon Center poll in Tennessee finds President Trump has fallen out of favor with a majority of Tennessee voters. Only 48 percent said they approved of the way the president is handling his job, and 51 percent disapproved, the first time those numbers have skewed that way.

Just so we’re clear: pre-merger promises (especially in the media and telecom sectors) are absolutely worthless. There’s fifty years of indisputable evidence that all of the “synergies” and innovative improvements promised on the front end of major media mergers mean absolutely nothing. Especially in a country dead-set on defanging its labor and consumer protection regulators. […]

‘Years’ to Send Out Mail-in Ballots Election experts are examining the new U.S. Postal Service rules for mailed ballots, and...

“Early last month, more than three dozen people gathered in a conference room at former Attorney General Eric Holder’s law offices in Washington,” NBC News reports. “Organizers asked them to keep the day’s speakers anonymous. Then came remarks from the person who convened them: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.” “The purpose of the Aug. […]

Jim Comey's reply memo in his selective and vindictive prosecution claim makes it clear that nothing happened to explain why EDNC revisited the seashells prosecution in a rush last April, except Todd Blanche's audition to become Attorney General.

The post Flyspeck! DOJ Has Nothing to Explain — Except Todd Blanche’s Audition — Why They Sold Seashells by the Seashore appeared first on emptywheel.

Trump is targeting mail-in voting. Don’t give his government custody of your ballot

Ruth Marcus: “In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks.”

Donald Trump just erupted at MAGA allies for opposing his war. In one tirade, he attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others as “FAKE MAGA.” In another, he slammed them as “Low IQ.” Similarly, his pollster, John McLaughlin, claimed the MAGA base “does...

Apparently, Cancun's favorite Texas senator is hoping to give the presidency another shot. This won't be Texas Senator Ted Cruz's first shot at the Oval Office, as no one will soon forget the embarrassing fiasco that was his 2016 run against Donald Trump, who cinched the R...

The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.

Interior with Two Women and a Child, 1861 #cezanne #romanticism

Horses in the Water, 1883 #seurat #georgesseurat

“Republican strategist Karl Rove expressed his doubts about Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton’s chances in his November race,” The Hill reports. Said Rove: “So, time is running out. If the president wants to have Paxton win, he needs to be tossing a lot of money Paxton’s way so that ads can be run that […]

“Argentina’s President Javier Milei has ramped up a long-running dispute over the Falkland Islands, reasserting the country’s claims over the self-governing British overseas territory and threatening to impose sanctions on oil companies working off the archipelago,” CNBC reports.

A feminist icon, journalist and magazine co-founder died yesterday. Gloria Steinem was 92.  Steinem was best known as a spokeswoman for second-wave feminism, but she also paved a path for […]

The post The Athletic investigated Dianna Russini’s work. What it found — and what it didn’t find. appeared first on Poynter.

“A new poll suggests that if Sen. Marsha Blackburn becomes Tennessee’s next governor, Republican voters want her successor to be Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN),” the Tennessean reports.

“Russia’s failed drone attack on a German airport was part of a dangerous pattern of escalation that, experts and officials said, risks sparking an open confrontation with NATO — whether the Kremlin wants it or not,” the New York Times reports. “German officials declared this week that the Russian state was behind the attack, in […]

TMZ caught up to Rep Drunken Van Orden and asked him about insider trading. His comments were a bit odd, to say the least. Rep. Derrick Van Orden told @hicharliecotton that a bunch of members of Congress shamefully use insider trading to make loads of cash, but he says Pre...