It's September 5th!
Hey US people, please remember to check your voter registration every *5th* between now and November!
✅ July 5th
✅ August 5th
✅ September 5th
⬜ October 5th
⬜ November 5th
Check your voter registration for free online here:
You can also request your mail in ballot, so that you don't have to stand in line for hours or miss work on voting day.
Why check every month? Because some of y'all have been de-registered.😮
Re-register!
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Kamala Harris Accuses Donald Trump of Trying to Muzzle Her in TV Debate (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)
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from Jason Jay Smart
Ukraine’s Heroes
Drôle: Carole Delga salue la nomination de Barnier, "un élu soucieux du dialogue et du travail partenarial" dans un communiqué des Régions de France, le lobby dont elle est présidente, tout en fustigeant son arrivée à Matignon sur les réseaux sociaux, pour ses électeurs. Qui dit vrai?
#Politique #PS #Delga #Barnier #Gouvernement #Macron #LOL
Nanmé c'est quoi cette deuxième capture ? On dirait un sketch de Franck Lepage. Je compte au moins 12 concepts opérationnels en 4 phrases.
#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
Democracy Now speaks with journalist, author and academic Steven Thrasher, the chair of social justice reporting at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
He was singled out by name during a congressional hearing about pro-Palestine protests on college campuses earlier this year, with one Republican lawmaker calling him a "goon" for protecting students in an encampment from violent arrest.
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Lenovo’s concept laptop can unfold itself and turn to face you
The Auto Twist AI PC has a motorized hinge and will transform between laptop and tablet with voice commands. It can also turn its display to follow you around the room.
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming royalty heist
Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming.
arstechnica.com/information-te…
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New Galileo satellites operational after successful in-orbit testing
The two new Galileo satellites launched in April have entered service, completing the second of three constellation planes. With every addition to the constellation, the precision, availability and robustness of the Galileo signal is improved.****The next launch is planned in the coming weeks and the remaining six Galileo First Generation satellites will join the constellation in the next years.
#navigaton #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Lenovo’s Lunar Lake laptops have a new “Aura.”
Good news: Lenovo’s 14-inch ThinkPad X1 Carbon and 15-inch Yoga Slim 7i now have Intel Lunar Lake chips alongside 2.8K OLED screens and twin Thunderbolt 4 ports. Lenovo says the 2.16-pound Carbon is its lightest ever.
Weird news: They’re both now “Aura Edition” laptops, which apparently means software like focus modes, posture alerts, and “Smart Share” — tap an iPhone or Android to your laptop to share photos.
At $749, Lenovo’s ThinkBook 16 is the cheapest Qualcomm Copilot Plus PC yet.
It features Qualcomm’s new budget 8-core chip underneath a 16-inch 2K 60Hz, 300-nit IPS display — with “up to” 32GB RAM and 1TB storage. It does come standard with an big 84Wh battery.
Lenovo’s other new Qualcomm is the $850 IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1. It has a brighter 14-inch 400-nit OLED display, but a smaller 57Wh battery and only one USB-C.
phys.org/news/2024-09-wild-wea…
Lenovo’s new AMD laptops are skipping the US and Canada — save this one.
The ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, which launched as a Snapdragon laptop, will get a $1,699 AMD Zen 5 variant in October with an undisclosed Ryzen AI Pro chip.
North America won’t get: €699 IdeaPad Slim 5 with AMD Ryzen 7000; €1699 Yoga Pro 7 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 and a 14.5-inch 600-nit OLED; €999 ThinkBook 16 Gen7+ with Ryzen AI 9 365.
Someone shot and killed an extremely rare California condor near McPhee Reservoir in southwestern Colorado this spring
Janne Ojaniemi
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Unknown parent • • •Paul-Vincent Roll (he/him)
Unknown parent • • •@bhawthorne @janneoksanen Germany is made up of 16 states and we are also a federal government. Not the same as in the US but I don’t think your comparison with the EU is completely accurate.
I also get why it made sense historically but today it does seems strange to an outside perspective but I get it is hard / nearly impossible to change.
mekka okereke
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Racism. The only reason the US clings to this foolishness, is racism.
It's not that hard to organize Federal elections. The us having 50 states is not a real obstacle.
It's intentionally made more complicated for "states rights" until you ask the obvious question, "States' right to do what?" The answer is almost always, "To be way more racist to Black people than the federal government allows."
Stu
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Good points.
But unfortunately, we live in a country where the official government websites often provide *less reliable info* than sites made by voting rights advocates.🤔
Because gov sites are often administered by the people that want to suppress the votes.😮
Eg, it's not clear on the TX mail in ballot form, that if the signature on the ballot application and voter registration card don't "match," your vote will be thrown out. 1 in 8 mail-in ballots in TX was thrown out.