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the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23
Trump s exactly who Alexander Hamilton warned about in 1792:
The racism is of course always the point ever since he and his racist dad Fred (who was arrested at a 1927 KKK rally) were sued by the Justice Department for racial housing discrimination in 1973: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...
‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias (Published 2016)
www.nytimes.com
Guy who couldn't make money in the casino business in Atlantic City set to make money in the casino business in New York City
Drunkseth loves the smell of napalm in the morning
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“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?”

Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:
180. The Roberts Court Turns 20
The Supreme Court is much less popular and much more divisive today than it was when John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice on September 29, 2005. And at least much of that is his fault.
www.stevevladeck.com
The Seychelles presidential election heads to round two as no candidate obtained a 50% absolute majority: r1.mu/aux-seychell...
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Good to see these concerns about environmental damage done by fireworks in #Tibet; better still to also see it about mega-dams like #YarlungTsangpo, mines, roads, and other infrastructure projects causing serious harms.
It's also highly unusual for a head of state to visit another country and to directly criticize that country for failing to keep election promises just ahead of that head of state's own elections. But that's exactly what Ramakalawan did in Mauritius earlier this month: newsmoris.com/2025/09/02/s...
Seychelles’ President Criticizes Mauritius Over Broken Election Pledges
Wavel Ramkalawan, the President of Seychelles, has launched a direct attack on the Mauritian government, accusing it of failing to deliver on election promises. Speaking at a political rally in Beau V...
newsmoris.com
Additionally helpful for us to recall the largest voting bloc: the non-voters. Of the 245 million eligible voters roughly 90 million did not vote in 2024. Accordingly far more than half the country did not vote Trump.
www.usnews.com/news/nationa...
www.usnews.com
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At a major "anti-hate" conference a few years ago I was on a panel where I lightly suggested big tech companies were faking their concerns about hate/misinfo. It didn't go over too well.

But let the record show that once again I was right. They only care about money.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
YouTube reversing bans on creators flagged for COVID and election misinformation
YouTube will allow creators banned under its old COVID-19 and election misinformation policies to return, Alphabet said in a letter to Congress.
www.yahoo.com
Fantastic post and for further study on the-then fashionable fetishization of dwellers in the Himalayan foothills I highly recommend Earl of Ronaldshay's "Lands of the Thunderbolt: Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan" (1923) and H. H. Risley's "The Gazeteer of Sikhim" (1896), downloadable at Internet Archive:
Nobody cares what Bessent thinks about it just as nobody thinks he's a serious person when he wants to waste gobs of taxpayer money propping up politically-dead Javier Milei of Argentina:
Bessent conveniently overlooked Milei's political obituary due to his soybean myopia: www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...
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Instead of worrying that TikTok could carry Chinese government propaganda — which the Supreme Court declined to even consider — "people can now be concerned that TikTok could be a conduit for US government propaganda," EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social and @evacide.bsky.social said.
TikTok’s Future: U.S. Owners To Control Algorithm And Data In Proposed Deal
TikTok’s U.S. operations could soon be run by Oracle, Silver Lake Partners and the Murdochs under a proposed $100 billion deal.
www.forbes.com
From the vast nation that could have elected Al Gore a quarter century ago
Many people have been shouting from the rooftops for three decades about the kidnapping of the young Panchen Lama — the world's youngest political prisoner brutally abducted by Beijing:
What remarkable Xi Jinping timing to meet his fake Panchen Lama roughly 30 years after Beijing abducted the actual six-year-old Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who to this day decades after being the world's youngest political prisoner has never been seen again. Still crickets from global media.
China/Tibet: Panchen Lama Forcibly Disappeared for 30 Years
China’s government should free the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choki Nyima and his parents, whom Chinese authorities forcibly disappeared on May 17, 1995, and who have not been seen for 30 years
www.hrw.org